Tiny bit of protective checking in `AnnotatedClass` to help with potential concurrency issue
diff --git a/release-notes/VERSION b/release-notes/VERSION
index f56dee5..83928c1 100644
--- a/release-notes/VERSION
+++ b/release-notes/VERSION
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@
=== Releases ===
------------------------------------------------------------------------
+2.7.10 (not yet released)
+
+- Minor robustification of method resolution in `AnnotatedClass`
+
2.7.9 (04-Feb-2017)
#1367: No Object Id found for an instance when using `@ConstructorProperties`