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 ## News
 
+###### 07/04/2017 - Release 0.8.7
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+We have released Version 0.8.7 as a Maven artifact to our Bintray repository (see [Setting Up A Schedoscope Project](https://github.com/ottogroup/schedoscope/wiki/Setting-up-a-Schedoscope-Project) for an example pom).
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+This version contains a critical Metascope bugfix introduced with the last version preventing startup. Also, finally Metascope field lineage documentation has been provided in the [View DSL Primer](https://github.com/ottogroup/schedoscope/wiki/Schedoscope-View-DSL-Primer) and the [Metascope Primer](https://github.com/ottogroup/schedoscope/wiki/Metascope-Primer).
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 ###### 06/23/2017 - Release 0.8.6
 
 We have released Version 0.8.6 as a Maven artifact to our Bintray repository (see [Setting Up A Schedoscope Project](https://github.com/ottogroup/schedoscope/wiki/Setting-up-a-Schedoscope-Project) for an example pom).