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 Package: vitae
 Title: Curriculum Vitae for R Markdown
-Version: 0.4.1
+Version: 0.4.2
 Authors@R: c(
   person("Mitchell", "O'Hara-Wild", role=c("aut", "cre"), email = "mail@mitchelloharawild.com", comment=c(ORCID = "0000-0001-6729-7695")),
   person("Rob", "Hyndman", email="Rob.Hyndman@monash.edu", role=c("aut"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-2140-5352")),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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+# vitae 0.4.2
+
+Small patch to resolve CRAN checks.
+
 # vitae 0.4.1
 
 This patch release reduces the suggested package dependencies and adds further