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-# 5.6.dev7 (December 2019)
 
+# 5.6.0 (January 2020)
+
+- Use BytesIO for default Thumbnail (#104)
+- omero-web requires OMERODIR (#100)
+- Ignore OMERO_HOME in settings.py (#98)
 - Better exception handling of custom settings (#94)
 - Add support for extra NGINX server configuration (#90)
 - Fix ROI maks and thumbnails (#92)
 - Fix script result failures (#87)
 - Fix download of multiple images in a zip (#76)
 - Fix race condition while closing tables (#25)
-
-# 5.6.dev6 (November 2019)
-
 - Fix `omero_ext.path` import (#77)
 - Add `omero.web.nginx_server_extra_config` property (#80)
 - Use cached config.xml in `omero.webgateway.getClientSettings` (#83)
 - Fix dialogs for thumbnail figure and split-view figure scripts (#73)
+- Loosen version checks to support 5.5 with 5.6 (#32)
 
 ## API changes
 
 - OMERO.web now fails to start when `<app>.urls` fails to import (#79)
-
-# 5.6.dev5 (November 2019)
-
-- Moving to production bug fixes
-
-# 5.6.dev4 (November 2019)
-
-- Upgrade minimum requirement to omero-py 5.6.dev4
-- Numerous test fixes
-
-# 5.6.dev3 (November 2019)
-
-- Loosen version checks to support 5.5 with 5.6 (#32)
-- Numerous test fixes
-
-## API Changes
-
-- OMERO.web now uses Django 1.11, upgraded from Django 1.9.
+- OMERO.web uses Django 1.11, upgraded from Django 1.8.
 - omeroweb.http renamed to omeroweb.httprsp to avoid import name
   clashes with Django http.
-
-# 5.6.dev2 (October 2019)
-
-## API Changes
-
-- OMERO.web now uses Django 1.9, upgraded from Django 1.8.
 - URLs must be referenced by `name` not path.to.view.method (previously
   some webgateway URLS lacked a name). For example, instead of
   `{% url 'webgateway.views.render_image' image_id theZ theT %}`, use
   `{% url 'webgateway_render_image' image_id theZ theT %}`.
 
-# 5.6.dev1 (October 2019)
-
-- First version of python3 support
-- Focus on getting unit tests passing
-- Instructions for dev installation
 
 # 5.5.dev2 (August 2019)
 
@@ -60,8 +34,5 @@
 - Add omeroweb.version
 - Move templates to omeroweb/
 - Bump to omero-py 5.5.1.dev1
-
-# 5.5.dev1 (August 2019)
-
 - Extract code from ome/openmicroscopy
 - Make minimal changes for a functioning `python setup.py` (#1)