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+Guillaume Foret <giom at matrix.org>
+ * Core developer
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+Emmanuel Rohee <manu at matrix.org>
+ * Core developer
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+Yannick Le Collen <yannick at matrix.org>
+ * Core developer
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+Dave Baker <dave at matrix.org>
+ * General doc & housekeeping
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+Matthew Hodgson <matthew at matrix.org>
+ * General doc & housekeeping
+ * Fix Emoji keyboard crash.
+ * RoomParticipantsViewController: search bar refactoring
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