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-v0.8.95
+v0.8.96
diff --git a/content/en/cloud/reference/releases/v0.8.96.md b/content/en/cloud/reference/releases/v0.8.96.md
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+---
+title: v0.8.96
+date: 2024-11-22T08:48:25Z
+tag: v0.8.96
+prerelease: false
+---
+
+## What's New
+## 🔤 General
+## 🖥 Cloud UI
+
+- Fix bug for author filter in catalog to get Users @sudhanshutech (#3015)
+
+## 👨🏽‍💻 Contributors
+
+Thank you to our contributors for making this release possible:
+@l5io and @sudhanshutech
+