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 We do not include break-fix version release in this file.
 
+### v2.9.0
+- Add better support for [unix domain socket](https://github.com/brianc/node-postgres/pull/487) connections
+
 ### v2.8.0
 - Add support for parsing JSON[] and UUID[] result types