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 ## Releasenotes
 
+- 0.8  - Fixed XST packet parsing.
 - 0.7. - Partial rework of DTS outside code, still many possible improvements.
 - 0.6. - Correctly transpose XST blocks in `XSTCollector`.
 - 0.5. - Swapped [x][y] for [y][x] dimensionality in `get_attribute_history`
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-0.7.0
+0.8.0