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+Add `tokio-style broadcast channels
+<https://docs.rs/tokio/1.11.0/tokio/sync/broadcast/index.html>`_ as
+a solution for `#204 <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/pull/204>`_ and
+discussed thoroughly in `trio/#987
+<https://github.com/python-trio/trio/issues/987>`_.
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+This gives us local task broadcast functionality using a new
+``BroadcastReceiver`` type which can wrap ``trio.ReceiveChannel``  and
+provide fan-out copies of a stream of data to every subscribed consumer.
+We use this new machinery to provide a ``ReceiveMsgStream.subscribe()``
+async context manager which can be used by actor-local concumers tasks
+to easily pull from a shared and dynamic IPC stream.