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 0.12.1 (unreleased)
 ------------
 
-Maintenance release. Contains couple improvements of ``TemplateProcessor`` and several fixes.
+Maintenance release. Contains several improvements in ``TemplateProcessor`` and delivers some fixes.
 
 ### Changes
 - Changed visibility of all private properties and methods of ``TemplateProcessor`` to ``protected``. - @RomanSyroeshko #498
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-0.12.0
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+0.12.1
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