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+* Release 0.18.0-beta2 (05 Jan 2022)
+
+New features:
+* Support for point precomputation for EdDSA.
+
+Maintenance:
+* Fix few typos (thanks to Tim Gates and Kian Meng Ang).
+
+Bug fix:
+* Accept private EdDSA keys that include public key in the ASN.1 structure.
+* Fix incompatibility with Python 3.3 in handling of memoryviews of empty
+  strings.
+
 * Release 0.18.0-beta1 (03 Aug 2021)
 
 New features: