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+This document is intended to keep track of the changes that are made to the solution in each release.
+Rather than a summary of work items fixed or the actual commit messages; these should be high level, user-facing 
+statements that describe what each commit/block of work actually changed with respect to the user.
+For example (fake): Fixes work item #1234 is not as good as "Changes the behaviour of NodeFactory so GetProperty doesn't access the database"
+Please group your changes into versions and tag them with your name so we know who to contact for code reviews etc.
+These notes will form the release notes that go out with each public release
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+[Version 4.8]
+GE 11/06/2012: 
+	Fixed deep linking to Content,Media,DocumentType,MediaType,DataType,Css,Javascript,Razor,XSLT and 
+	added a umbraco.cms.helpers.DeepLink.get class to return valid links based on type and 
+	id (or file path in the case of js/xslt/razor)
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