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+Issues closed in 7.9
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+
+GitHub stats for 2019/08/30 - 2019/10/25 (tag: 7.8.0)
+
+These lists are automatically generated, and may be incomplete or contain duplicates.
+
+We closed 1 issues and merged 9 pull requests.
+The full list can be seen `on GitHub <https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues?q=milestone%3A7.9>`__
+
+The following 8 authors contributed 20 commits.
+
+* Benjamin Ragan-Kelley
+* Hugo
+* Matthias Bussonnier
+* mfh92
+* Mohammad Hossein Sekhavat
+* Niclas
+* Vidar Tonaas Fauske
+* Георгий Фролов
+
 Issues closed in 7.8
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