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+Vector is written mainly by the Vector team, building upon the Matrix React
+SDK. Vector also welcomes external contributions. Third party contributors
+include:
+
+* Nolan Darilek (https://github.com/ndarilek)
+  Accessibility and semantic markup contributions
+
+* https://github.com/neko259
+  Improved scrollbar CSS
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+Changes in vector v0.1.0 (2015-08-10)
+======================================
+
+ * Support logging in with an email address
+ * Use the Vector identity server
+ * Fix a bug where the client was not stopped properly on logout
+ * Fix bugs where field values would be forgotten if login or registration failed
+ * Improve URL bar navigation
+ * Add explanatory help text on advanced server options
+ * Fix a bug which caused execptions on malformed VoIP invitations
+ * Remove superfluous scrollbars on Firefox
+ * Numerous CSS fixes
+ * Improved accessibility
+ * Support command-click / middle click to open image in a new tab
+ * Improved room directory
+ * Fix display of text with many combining unicode points
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+Contributing code to Vector
+===========================
+
+Vector follows the same pattern as https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.rst