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+{
+  "type": "bugfix",
+  "category": "Credentials",
+  "description": "Fixes a bug causing cached credentials to break in the CLI on Windows. Fixes aws/aws-cli`#2978 <https://github.com/boto/botocore/issues/2978>`__"
+}