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@@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ Highlighted Core Changes:
 
 Other Core Changes:
 
-* ansible config file can also go in '.ansible.cfg' in cwd in addition to ~/.ansible.cfg and /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
+* ansible config file can also go in 'ansible.cfg' in cwd in addition to ~/.ansible.cfg and /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
 * fix for inventory hosts at API level when hosts spec is a list and not a colon delimited string
 * ansible-pull example now sets up logrotate for the ansible-pull cron job log
 * negative host matching (!hosts) fixed for external inventory script usage