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@@ -9,10 +9,14 @@ HappyBase 0.8
 
 Release date: *not yet released*
 
-* Add support for retrieving sorted columns, which is possible with the
-  HBase 0.96 Thrift API. This feature uses a new `sorted_columns` argument
-  to :py:meth:`Table.scan` (`issue #39
-  <https://github.com/wbolster/happybase/issues/39>`_).
+* Add (and default to) '0.96' compatibility mode in :py:class:`Connection`.
+
+* Add support for retrieving sorted columns, which is possible with the HBase
+  0.96 Thrift API. This feature uses a new `sorted_columns` argument to
+  :py:meth:`Table.scan`. An ```OrderedDict`` implementation is required for this
+  feature; with Python 2.7 this is available from the standard library, but for
+  Python 2.6 a separate ```ordereddict``` pacakge has to be installed from PyPI.
+  (`issue #39 <https://github.com/wbolster/happybase/issues/39>`_)
 
 * Allow `None` as a valid value for the `batch_size` argument to
   :py:meth:`Table.scan`, since HBase does not support specifying a batch size
@@ -28,7 +32,7 @@ Release date: 2013-11-06
 * Added a `wal` argument to various data manipulation methods on the
   :py:class:`Table` and :py:class:`Batch` classes to determine whether to write
   the mutation to the Write-Ahead Log (WAL). (`issue #36
-  <https://github.com/wbolster/happybase/issues/36>`_).
+  <https://github.com/wbolster/happybase/issues/36>`_)
 
 * Pass batch_size to underlying Thrift Scan instance (`issue #38
   <https://github.com/wbolster/happybase/issues/38>`_).