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+0.8.0 (October 19, 2020)
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+
+New feature release in the 0.8.x series.
+
+This release includes a change where events that are not explicitly convolved
+are modeled with boxcar functions instead of the nistats default.
+
+* FIX: Sparse matrix should be in long format, and HRF should be None by default (https://github.com/poldracklab/fitlins/pull/259)
+
 0.7.1 (October 09, 2020)
 ========================