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 API and build change  and fixe summaries. Doc correctsions
 and/or changes are not mentioned here; see the commit messages.
 
+2019 August 13; version 1.2.0 (API change, non-breaking)
+	The function rmr_get_xact() was added to proide a convenient
+	way to extract the transaction field from a message.
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 2019 August 8; version 1.1.0 (API change)
 	This change should be backward compatable/non-breaking
 	A new field has been added to the message buffer (rmr_mbuf_t).