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@@ -416,10 +416,9 @@ Performance Improvements
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 - Improved performance of ``andrews_curves`` (:issue:`11534`)
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 - Improved huge ``DatetimeIndex``, ``PeriodIndex`` and ``TimedeltaIndex``'s ops performance including ``NaT`` (:issue:`10277`)
 - Improved performance of ``pandas.concat`` (:issue:`11958`)
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+- Improved performance of ``StataReader`` (PR #`11591`)
 
 
 
@@ -440,6 +439,7 @@ Bug Fixes
 - Bug in consistency of passing nested dicts to ``.groupby(...).agg(...)`` (:issue:`9052`)
 - Accept unicode in ``Timedelta`` constructor (:issue:`11995`)
 
+- Bug in value label reading for ``StataReader`` when reading incrementally (:issue:`12014`)
 
 
 - Bug in vectorized ``DateOffset`` when ``n`` parameter is ``0`` (:issue:`11370`)