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+commit: "bd19cc6ef129b15394f85091919548a5541e15e5"
+reason: "Pre-release for SSZ responses and streaming WebSocket connections"
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 ### v0.10.0
 - Accumulation of rc1-rc4
+
+### v0.11.0-rc1
+- Introduces SSZ encodings for `get_header` and `submit_block`
+- Introduces optional streaming endpoint to receive bids over WebSocket connection
+- Fix Prysm issue #17136