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 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [v0.40.0-rc3](https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/releases/tag/v0.40.0-rc3) - 2020-11-06
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 ### Improvements
 * (tendermint) [\#7828](https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/pull/7828) Update tendermint dependency to v0.34.0-rc6