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 List of contributors:
 
-Andreas Heger, Tildon Grant Belgard, Kevin B. Jacobs, Florian
-Finkernagel, Leo Goodstadt, Martin Goodson all contributed code
-to pysam.
+Andreas Heger, Tildon Grant Belgard, Florian Finkernagel, Leo
+Goodstadt, Martin Goodson all contributed code to pysam.
 
-Gerton Lunter provided a VCF parser.
+Kevin B. Jacobs implemented a Cython wrapper for the VCF/BCF
+reader/writer in htslib.
+
+Gerton Lunter provided a validating VCF parser.
 
 Marcel Martin implemented python 3 compatibility.
 Ben Schiller contributed a Windows compatible clone.

diff --git a/doc/release.rst b/doc/release.rst
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    * tags is deprecated, use get_tags() and set_tags() instead.
 * FastqFile is now FastxFile to reflect that the latter permits
   iteration over both fastq- and fasta-formatted files.
+* A Cython wrapper for htslib VCF/BCF reader/writer. The wrapper
+  provides a nearly complete Pythonic interface to VCF/BCF metadata
+  with reading and writing capability. However, the interface is still
+  incomplete and preliminary and lacks capability to mutate the
+  resulting data.
 
 Release 0.8.1
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