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 Issues closed in the 5.x development cycle
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+Issues closed in 5.1
+--------------------
+
+GitHub stats for 2016/07/08 - 2016/08/13 (tag: 5.0.0)
+
+These lists are automatically generated, and may be incomplete or contain duplicates.
+
+We closed 33 issues and merged 43 pull requests.
+The full list can be seen `on GitHub <https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues?q=milestone%3A5.1+>`__
+
+The following 17 authors contributed 129 commits.
+
+* Antony Lee
+* Benjamin Ragan-Kelley
+* Carol Willing
+* Danilo J. S. Bellini
+* 小明 (`dongweiming <https://github.com/dongweiming>`__)
+* Fernando Perez
+* Gavin Cooper
+* Gil Forsyth
+* Jacob Niehus
+* Julian Kuhlmann
+* Matthias Bussonnier
+* Michael Pacer
+* Nik Nyby
+* Pavol Juhas
+* Luke Deen Taylor
+* Thomas Kluyver
+* Tamir Bahar
+
 
 Issues closed in 5.0
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