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 Release Notes for Thrift 20080411
 
-.equals and .hashCode() for Java scturcts (developed by dreiss).
+.equals and .hashCode() for Java structs (developed by dreiss).
 
-Improvments to the C++ TSocketPool (developed by akhil).
+Improvements to the C++ TSocketPool (developed by akhil).
 
 PHP (de)serialization extension (developed by dweatherford).