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 Current release
 ---------------
 
+What's new in psycopg 2.8.6
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+- Fixed memory leak changing connection encoding to the current one
+  (:ticket:`#1101`).
+
+
 What's new in psycopg 2.8.5
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^