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 == Credits
 
-REST Client Team:: Matthew Manning, Lawrence Leonard Gilbert
+REST Client Team:: Matthew Manning, Lawrence Leonard Gilbert, Andy Brody
 
 Creator:: Adam Wiggins
 
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+# 1.6.8
+
+- The 1.6.x series will be the last to support Ruby 1.8.7
+- Pin mime-types to < 2.0 to maintain Ruby 1.8.7 support
+- Add Gemfile, AUTHORS, add license to gemspec
+- Point homepage at https://github.com/rest-client/rest-client
+- Clean up and fix various tests and ruby warnings
+- Backport `ssl_verify_callback` functionality from 1.7.0
+
 # 1.6.7
 
 - rebuild with 1.8.7 to avoid https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/57
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 All changes exept the last one should be fully compatible with the previous version.
 
-NOTE: due to a dependency problem and to the last change, heroku users should update their heroku gem to >= 1.5.3 to be able to use this version.
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+NOTE: due to a dependency problem and to the last change, heroku users should update their heroku gem to >= 1.5.3 to be able to use this version.