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 DD4hep  ----  Release Notes
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+2016-01-07 A.Sailer
+  DDG4
+  - Fix the logic for skipping of events at the start of input files: LCIO, HepMC, stdhep and HepEvt
+  - Event number in lcio outputfile takes skipped events into account now
+
 2015-12-09 N.Nikiforou
   UtilityApps/teveDisplay
   - Modified teveDisplay to have three separate collections of surface vectors (u,v,n)