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@@ -5408,7 +5408,7 @@ Backward-incompatible changes
 - Renamed setting: ``REQUESTS_PER_DOMAIN`` to ``CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_SPIDER`` (:rev:`1830`, :rev:`1844`)
 - Renamed setting: ``CONCURRENT_DOMAINS`` to ``CONCURRENT_SPIDERS`` (:rev:`1830`)
 - Refactored HTTP Cache middleware
-- HTTP Cache middleware has been heavilty refactored, retaining the same functionality except for the domain sectorization which was removed. (:rev:`1843` )
+- HTTP Cache middleware has been heavily refactored, retaining the same functionality except for the domain sectorization which was removed. (:rev:`1843` )
 - Renamed exception: ``DontCloseDomain`` to ``DontCloseSpider`` (:rev:`1859` | #120)
 - Renamed extension: ``DelayedCloseDomain`` to ``SpiderCloseDelay`` (:rev:`1861` | #121)
 - Removed obsolete ``scrapy.utils.markup.remove_escape_chars`` function - use ``scrapy.utils.markup.replace_escape_chars`` instead (:rev:`1865`)