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 ## Next release (main branch)
 
+## v1.9.6
+
 - Added View::setVsmShadowOptions (experimental)
 - Add anisotropic shadow map sampling with VSM (experimental)
 - matc: fixed bug where some compilation failures still exited with code 0
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 ## v1.9.5
 
 - Added a new Live Wallpaper Android sample
-- `UiHelper` now supports managing a `SurfaceHolder`.
+- `UiHelper` now supports managing a `SurfaceHolder`
 - Fix: an internal texture resource was never destroyed
+- Fix: hang on 2-CPU machines
+- Fix: Vulkan crash when using shadow cascades
+- Linux fixes for headless SwiftShader
+- Fix null pointer dereference in `FIndirectLight`
+- Fix Windows build by avoiding nested initializers
+- Vulkan: support readPixels and headless swap chains
+- VSM improvements
 
 ## v1.9.4