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 Issues closed in the 7.x development cycle
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+Issues closed in 7.17
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+
+GitHub stats for 2020/06/26 - 2020/07/31 (tag: 7.16.1)
+
+These lists are automatically generated, and may be incomplete or contain duplicates.
+
+We closed 2 issues and merged 19 pull requests.
+The full list can be seen `on GitHub <https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues?q=milestone%3A7.17>`__
+
+The following 3 authors contributed 31 commits.
+
+* Maor Kleinberger
+* Matthias Bussonnier
+* Quentin Peter
+
+
 
 Issues closed in 7.16
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