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 Package: cranlogs
 Title: Download Logs from the 'RStudio' 'CRAN' Mirror
-Version: 2.1.1
+Version: 2.1.1.9000
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Gábor", "Csárdi",, "csardi.gabor@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cre")),
     person("R Consortium", role = c("fnd")))
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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+
+# dev
+
 # cranlogs 2.1.1
 
 * New function cranlogs_badge() to construct the Markdown string of a badge for the README.