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+This release adds some new features.  Of note:
+* New multisocket plugin - allows CoreDNS to listen on multiple sockets
+* New automaxprocs plugin - automatically sets GOMAXPROCS to the number of CPUs
+
+## Brought to You By
+
+Ben Kochie,
+Chris O'Haver,
+Emmanuel Ferdman,
+Viktor
+
+
+## Noteworthy Changes
+
+* plugin/multisocket (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/6882)
+* plugin/automaxprocs (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/6948)