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 Package: nanoparquet
 Title: Read and Write 'Parquet' Files
-Version: 0.1.2.9000
+Version: 0.2.0
 Authors@R: c(
 	person("Gábor", "Csárdi", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "csardi.gabor@gmail.com"),
 	person("Hannes", "Mühleisen", role = c("aut", "cph"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-8552-0029")),
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+
+# nanoparquet 0.2.0
+
+* First release on CRAN. It container the Parquet reader from
+  https://github.com/hannes/miniparquet, a Parquet writer,
+  functions to read Parquet metadata, and many improvements.