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 0.18 (unreleased)
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+- :ref:`benchmarking`
 - moved persistent (on disk) queues to a separate project (queuelib_) which scrapy now depends on
 - add scrapy commands using external libraries (:issue:`260`)
 - added ``--pdb`` option to ``scrapy`` command line tool