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-RELEASE VERSION 1.0
-Release Notes
-
-Welcome to the first release of MCUBoot, a secure bootloader for 32-bit MCUs. It is designed to be operating 
-system-agnostic and works over any transport - wired or wireless. It is also hardware independent, and relies 
-on hardware porting layers from the operating system it works with. For the first release, we are pleased to 
-announce support for three open source operating systems - Apache Mynewt, Zephyr Project, and Riot OS.
-
-FEATURES
-
-
-
-
-KNOWN ISSUES
-
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+mcuboot 0.9 - Release Notes
+===========================
+
+Welcome to the first release of MCUBoot, a secure bootloader for 32-bit MCUs.
+It is designed to be operating system-agnostic and works over any transport -
+wired or wireless. It is also hardware independent, and relies  on hardware
+porting layers from the operating system it works with. For the first release,
+we are pleased to announce support for three open source operating systems -
+Apache Mynewt, Zephyr Project, and RIOT.
+
+About this release:
+===================
+
+* TODO
+
+Known issues:
+=============
+
+* TODO