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 Type: Package
 Package: mvMAPIT
 Title: Multivariate Genome Wide Marginal Epistasis Test
-Version: 2.0.2
+Version: 2.0.3
 URL: https://github.com/lcrawlab/mvMAPIT, https://lcrawlab.github.io/mvMAPIT/
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Julian", "Stamp", email = "julian_stamp@brown.edu",
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 # mvMAPIT (development version)
 
+
+# mvMAPIT 2.0.3 release
+
+* Fix LTO issues again. The R dev automation generates RcppExport.cpp files 
+  that cause LTO issues in this package on CRAN.
+
 # mvMAPIT 2.0.2 release
 
 * Added Cauchy combination test `cauchy_combined` including vignette that compares combination methods