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 * Improved performance of constructing outgoing packets (#978) (#979) @bdraco
-* Defered parsing of incoming packets when it can be avoided (#983) @bdraco
+* Deferred parsing of incoming packets when it can be avoided (#983) @bdraco
 
 0.36.3
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