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@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ### Added
 
+* Basic functionality to establish connection to a CaosDB server and
+  retrieve its version (using the Extern C interface of caosdb-cpplib)
+
 ### Changed
 
 ### Deprecated