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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Synapse 1.21.0rc3 (2020-10-08)
 Bugfixes
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-- Fix duplication of events on high traffic servers, caused by PostgresQL `could not serialize access due to concurrent update` errors. ([\#8456](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8456))
+- Fix duplication of events on high traffic servers, caused by PostgreSQL `could not serialize access due to concurrent update` errors. ([\#8456](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8456))
 
 
 Internal Changes