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@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ Special thanks to external contributors on this release:
 - [consensus] \#7391 Use the proposed block timestamp as the proposal timestamp. Update the block validation logic to ensure that the proposed block's timestamp matches the timestamp in the proposal message. (@williambanfield)
 - [consensus] \#7415 Update proposal validation logic to Prevote nil if a proposal does not meet the conditions for Timelyness per the proposer-based timestamp specification. (@anca)
 - [consensus] \#7382 Update block validation to no longer require the block timestamp to be the median of the timestamps of the previous commit. (@anca)
+- [consensus] \#7711 Use the proposer timestamp for the first height instead of the genesis time. Chains will still start consensus at the genesis time. (@anca)
 
 ### IMPROVEMENTS
 - [internal/protoio] \#7325 Optimized `MarshalDelimited` by inlining the common case and using a `sync.Pool` in the worst case. (@odeke-em)