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+Major changes in 0.12.9
+=======================
+* rename newly introduced SpiceImageCompress enum to SpiceImageCompression
+  as otherwise it was clashing with the definition used by older spice-server
+  releases, breaking QEMU build
+
 Major changes in 0.12.8
 =======================
 * add LZ4 support