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 ## 1.6.1 (2020-01-14)
 
+> **Update Note:** In this release we refactored the internal connection logic of ripple-lib to improve resiliency across dropped messages and reconnects. The external interface remains the same, with zero changes to public methods/properties. However, If you experience any problems around connections, requests, and request retries, please [file an issue]( https://github.com/ripple/ripple-lib/issues/new) with the repo (and be sure to test against v1.6.0 to confirm that the problem was introduced in this version).
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 * Documentation
   * Document message type 'path_find' (#1121) (thanks @r0bertz)
   * Improve documentation for address generation; functions that can be called offline; generateXAddress() (#1158, #1159, #1169) (thanks @hbergren)