diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
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+List of CodeMirror contributors. Updated before every release.
+
+4r2r
+Aaron Brooks
+Adam King
+adanlobato
+Adán Lobato
+aeroson
+Ahmad Amireh
+Ahmad M. Zawawi
+ahoward
+Akeksandr Motsjonov
+Albert Xing
+Alexander Pavlov
+Alexander Schepanovski
+alexey-k
+Alex Piggott
+Amy
+Ananya Sen
+Andre von Houck
+Andrey Lushnikov
+Andy Kimball
+Andy Li
+angelo.zerr@gmail.com
+Ankit Ahuja
+Ansel Santosa
+Anthony Grimes
+areos
+Atul Bhouraskar
+Aurelian Oancea
+Bastian Müller
+benbro
+Ben Keen
+boomyjee
+borawjm
+Brandon Frohs
+Brian Sletten
+Bruce Mitchener
+Chandra Sekhar Pydi
+Charles Skelton
+Chris Coyier
+Chris Granger
+Chris Morgan
+Christopher Brown
+CodeAnimal
+ComFreek
+dagsta
+Dan Heberden
+Daniel, Dao Quang Minh
+Daniel Faust
+Daniel Huigens
+Daniel Neel
+Daniel Parnell
+Danny Yoo
+David Mignot
+David Pathakjee
+deebugger
+Deep Thought
+Dominator008
+Domizio Demichelis
+Drew Bratcher
+Drew Hintz
+Drew Khoury
+Dror BG
+duralog
+edsharp
+ekhaled
+Eric Allam
+eustas
+Fauntleroy
+fbuchinger
+feizhang365
+Felipe Lalanne
+Felix Raab
+Filip Noetzel
+flack
+Ford_Lawnmower
+galambalazs
+Gautam Mehta
+Glenn Ruehle
+Golevka
+Gordon Smith
+greengiant
+Guillaume Massé
+Hans Engel
+Hardest
+Hasan Karahan
+Hocdoc
+Ian Beck
+Ian Wehrman
+Ian Wetherbee
+Ice White
+ICHIKAWA, Yuji
+Irakli Gozalishvili
+Ivan Kurnosov
+Jacob Lee
+Jakub Vrana
+James Campos
+James Thorne
+Jamie Hill
+Jan Jongboom
+jankeromnes
+Jan Keromnes
+Jan T. Sott
+Jason
+Jason Grout
+Jason Johnston
+Jason San Jose
+Jason Siefken
+Jean Boussier
+jeffkenton
+Jeff Pickhardt
+jem (graphite)
+Jochen Berger
+John Connor
+John Lees-Miller
+John Snelson
+jongalloway
+Joost-Wim Boekesteijn
+Joseph Pecoraro
+Joshua Newman
+jots
+Juan Benavides Romero
+Jucovschi Constantin
+jwallers@gmail.com
+kaniga
+Ken Newman
+Ken Rockot
+Kevin Sawicki
+Klaus Silveira
+Koh Zi Han, Cliff
+komakino
+Konstantin Lopuhin
+koops
+ks-ifware
+Lanny
+leaf corcoran
+Leonya Khachaturov
+Liam Newman
+List of contributors. Updated before every release.
+LM
+Lorenzo Stoakes
+lynschinzer
+Maksim Lin
+Maksym Taran
+Marat Dreizin
+Marco Aurélio
+Marijn Haverbeke
+Mario Pietsch
+Mark Lentczner
+Mason Malone
+Mateusz Paprocki
+mats cronqvist
+Matthew Beale
+Matthias BUSSONNIER
+Matt McDonald
+Matt Pass
+Matt Sacks
+Maximilian Hils
+Max Kirsch
+mbarkhau
+Metatheos
+Micah Dubinko
+Michael Lehenbauer
+Michael Zhou
+Mighty Guava
+Miguel Castillo
+Mike
+Mike Brevoort
+Mike Diaz
+Mike Ivanov
+Mike Kadin
+MinRK
+misfo
+mps
+Narciso Jaramillo
+Nathan Williams
+nerbert
+nguillaumin
+Niels van Groningen
+Nikita Beloglazov
+Nikita Vasilyev
+nlwillia
+pablo
+Page
+Patrick Strawderman
+Paul Garvin
+Paul Ivanov
+Pavel Feldman
+Paweł Bartkiewicz
+peteguhl
+peterkroon
+Peter Kroon
+prasanthj
+Prasanth J
+Rahul
+Randy Edmunds
+Richard Z.H. Wang
+robertop23
+Robert Plummer
+Ruslan Osmanov
+sabaca
+Samuel Ainsworth
+sandeepshetty
+santec
+Sascha Peilicke
+satchmorun
+sathyamoorthi
+shaund
+shaun gilchrist
+Shmuel Englard
+sonson
+spastorelli
+Stas Kobzar
+Stefan Borsje
+Steffen Beyer
+Steve O'Hara
+Tarmil
+tfjgeorge
+Thaddee Tyl
+think
+Thomas Dvornik
+Thomas Schmid
+Tim Baumann
+Timothy Farrell
+Timothy Hatcher
+Tomas Varaneckas
+Tom MacWright
+Tony Jian
+Vestimir Markov
+vf
+Volker Mische
+William Jamieson
+Wojtek Ptak
+Xavier Mendez
+Yunchi Luo
+Yuvi Panda
+Zachary Dremann
diff --git a/bin/authors.sh b/bin/authors.sh
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+# Combine existing list of authors with everyone known in git, sort, add header.
+tail --lines=+3 AUTHORS > AUTHORS.tmp
+git log --format='%aN' >> AUTHORS.tmp
+echo -e "List of CodeMirror contributors. Updated before every release.\n" > AUTHORS
+sort -u AUTHORS.tmp >> AUTHORS
+rm -f AUTHORS.tmp