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 Apache Tez Change Log
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-Release 0.8.3: 2016-04-14 
+Release 0.8.3: 2016-04-16 
 
 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
   TEZ-3180. Update master docs to declare hadoop-2.6.x as a minimum requirement.