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 Package: gDRutils
 Type: Package
 Title: A package with helper functions for processing drug response data
-Version: 1.3.17
-Date: 2024-10-24
+Version: 1.5.1
+Date: 2024-11-05
 Authors@R: c(person("Bartosz", "Czech", role=c("aut"),
                    comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-9908-3007")),
              person("Arkadiusz", "Gladki", role=c("cre", "aut"), email="gladki.arkadiusz@gmail.com",
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+## gDRutils 1.5.1 - 2024-11-05
+* synchronize Bioconductor and GitHub versioning
+
 ## gDRutils 1.3.17 - 2024-10-24
 * make average_biological_replicates_dt more restrictive - fewer columns to check for duplicates