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 D-Bus 1.8.16 (UNRELEASED)
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-...
+Fixes:
+
+• fix a Windows build failure (fd.o #88009, Ralf Habacker)
+
+• on Windows, allow up to 8K connections to the dbus-daemon instead of the
+  previous 64, completing a previous fix which only worked under
+  Autotools (fd.o #71297, Ralf Habacker)
 
 D-Bus 1.8.14 (2015-01-05)
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