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+What's New in 0.14.3
+====================
+
+Release 0.14.3 brings many incremental improvements over 0.14.2.  It does not
+break consensus; 0.14, 0.14.1, and 0.14.2 nodes are compatible with 0.14.3 nodes.
+
+This marks the beginning of a per-sprint release cycle.  Release notes will be
+shorter between releases, since new releases will be scheduled every two to
+three weeks.
+
+Release Highlights (Anticipated)
+--------------------------------
+
+* **Multi-player Storage**.  This release includes an improved release of Gaia,
+which now allows multi-user applications to share state.  Gaia was limited to
+single-user applications in the previous release.  With Gaia, one user can store
+data to their storage providers, and other users can read it.  This further
+removes the need for developer-hosted data, and opens Blockstack up to a lot
+more conventional types of applications.
+
+* **Gaia Performance Improvements.**  The read and write paths of Gaia have been
+refactored to run many I/O operations in parallel.  This leads to faster data
+interaction times, even for indexed storage systems like Dropbox.
+
+* **Initial subdomain support.**  This release allows users to register
+subdomains of existing blockchain IDs, such that _subdomains are independently
+owned_.  A user Bob can register `bob.alice.id`, where `alice.id` is owned by
+Alice.  Queries on `bob.alice.id` resolve to Bob's signed profile and data, and
+Alice cannot change Bob's public key.
+
+* **Better Packaging for Test Mode.**  This release makes it easier to get
+started testing Blockstack Core and Blockstack Browser alongside a Bitcoin
+node in `regtest` mode.  Developers can register names and interact with storage
+without having to spend Bitcoin or wait hours for names to be registered.
+
+Selected Bugfixes and Fixes
+---------------------------
+