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 ## next release
 
+### Features
+### Improvements
+### Bugfix
+
+## v7.0.0
 ### Breaking
 
 * removed metric file target
@@ -30,7 +35,6 @@ It contains the time at which a pre-detection was created by the processor.
 * add `prometheus` and `grafana` to the quickstart setup to support development
 * provide confluent kafka test setup to run tests against a real kafka cluster
 
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 ### Bugfix
 
 * fix CVE-2023-37920 Removal of e-Tugra root certificate