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 # Release 1.9.8
+(This release includes features initially planned for version 2.0)
 
 * Electrum servers were upgraded to version 0.9. The new server stores
   a Patrica tree of all UTXOs, an idea proposed by Alan Reiner in the
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      2. getaddressunspent <address>
      3. getutxoaddress <txid> <pos>
 
-* In addition, two commands for message encryption were added:
-     1. encrypt <pubkey> <message>
-     2. decrypt <pubkey> <message>  
-
-  The encryption algorithm is ECIES, and code was was borrowed from
-  https://github.com/jackjack-jj/jeeq.  In order to know the public
-  key corresponding to a Bitcoin address in your wallet, you can use
-  the 'getpubkeys' command. The 'decrypt' command assumes that the
-  wallet has the private key corresponding to the public key passed as
-  argument.
-
-* The encrypt and decrypt functions are available in the Qt GUI (from
-  the menubar, or right click on one of your addresses if you want to
-  use its public key).
-
 * Command-line commands that require a connection to the network spawn
   a daemon, that remains connected and handles subsequent
-  commands. The daemon terminates if it remains unused for more than
-  one minute.
-
-
+  commands. The daemon terminates itself if it remains unused for more
+  than one minute. The purpose of this is to make scripting more
+  efficient. For example, a bash script using many electrum commands
+  will open only one connection.
 
 # Release 1.9.7
 * Fix for offline signing