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-All releases made prior to 2016-02-09 can be found on
-[Shout's CHANGELOG](https://github.com/erming/shout/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md).
+## v1.0.0 - 2016-02-12
+
+[See the full changelog](https://github.com/thelounge/lounge/compare/baadc3df3534fb22515a8c2ea29218fbbc1228b4...v1.0.0)
+
+This is the first release of **The Lounge**, picking up where Shout `v0.53.0` left off!
+
+### Added
+
+- Enable notifications on all messages, which can be disabled in the settings ([#540](https://github.com/erming/shout/pull/540) by [@nickel715](https://github.com/nickel715))
+- Add Travis CI and David DM badges on the README ([#465](https://github.com/erming/shout/pull/465) by [@astorije](https://github.com/astorije))
+- Add a configurable limit for inline image sizes during prefetching
+- Emit sent notice back to the user ([#590](https://github.com/erming/shout/pull/590) by [@xPaw](https://github.com/xPaw)) ([#598](https://github.com/erming/shout/pull/598) by [@xPaw](https://github.com/xPaw))
+- Send user agent with link expander requests ([#608](https://github.com/erming/shout/pull/608) by [@xPaw](https://github.com/xPaw))
+- Add a `.gitattributes` file to normalize line endings ([#610](https://github.com/erming/shout/pull/610) by [@xPaw](https://github.com/xPaw))
+- Style scrollbars (WebKit only) ([#593](https://github.com/erming/shout/pull/593) by [@xPaw](https://github.com/xPaw))
+- Add a badge to display the IRC channel at the top ([#599](https://github.com/erming/shout/pull/599) by [@astorije](https://github.com/astorije))
+- Rotate `part`/`quit` icon for new action display ([#617](https://github.com/erming/shout/pull/617) by [@MaxLeiter](https://github.com/MaxLeiter))
+
+### Changed
+
+- Update slate-irc to v0.8.1 ([#597](https://github.com/erming/shout/pull/597) by [@xPaw](https://github.com/xPaw))
+- Use a single function to process and render messages ([#596](https://github.com/erming/shout/pull/596) by [@xPaw](https://github.com/xPaw))
+- Render user actions separately ([#588](https://github.com/erming/shout/pull/588) by [@xPaw](https://github.com/xPaw))
+- Simply parse all 0-99 IRC colors ([#609](https://github.com/erming/shout/pull/609) by [@xPaw](https://github.com/xPaw))
+- Tag notifications to reduce notification spam ([#418](https://github.com/erming/shout/pull/418) by [@williamboman](https://github.com/williamboman))
+- Change all mentions of Shout to the new name: The Lounge ([#2](https://github.com/thelounge/lounge/pull/2) by [@astorije](https://github.com/astorije))
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Fix initial copyright year in the LICENSE notice ([#591](https://github.com/erming/shout/pull/591) by [@pra85](https://github.com/pra85))
+- Fix wrong color class on Zenburn style ([#595](https://github.com/erming/shout/pull/595) by [@astorije](https://github.com/astorije))
+- Run new topic through parser when it is updated ([#587](https://github.com/erming/shout/pull/587) by [@xPaw](https://github.com/xPaw))
+- Fix several things on Morning and Zenburn themes ([#605](https://github.com/erming/shout/pull/605) by [@xPaw](https://github.com/xPaw))
+- Fix word wrap on firefox ([#570](https://github.com/erming/shout/pull/570) by [@YaManicKill](https://github.com/YaManicKill))
+- Change user buttons to `a` links, allowing highlighting on Firefox ([#571](https://github.com/erming/shout/pull/571) and [#574](https://github.com/erming/shout/pull/574) by [@YaManicKill](https://github.com/YaManicKill))
+
+---
+
+All previous changes can be found on
+[Shout's CHANGELOG, starting at `v0.53.0`](https://github.com/erming/shout/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#0530--2016-01-07
+).