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+**************************************************************************************************************
+8.6.2 (2022/11/28)
+
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ganga/ganga/GangaCore
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+*  Implement variable monitoring poll rate for each backend #2066 
+*  Fix udocker #2078 #2083
+*  Remove numParalellJobs option and move it to DIRAC only #2086 
+*  Handle monitoring service autostart #2089 
+*  Shut down monitoring thread explicitly #2088 
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ganga/ganga/GangaDirac
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+*  New DIRAC concurrency model #2069 
+*  Add DIRAC executor process tear down #2075 
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ganga/ganga/GangaLHCb
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+* Add check for empty BKQuery #2063
+* Bugfix to add missing credential decorator #2071 
+* Make python 3 explicit in GaudiExec run-time handler #2091 
+
+**************************************************************************************************************