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 Package: iotools
-Version: 0.3-4
+Version: 0.3-5
 Title: I/O Tools for Streaming
 Author: Simon Urbanek <Simon.Urbanek@r-project.org>, Taylor Arnold <taylor.arnold@acm.org>
 Maintainer: Simon Urbanek <Simon.Urbanek@r-project.org>
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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+0.3-5	2023-11-29
+    *	add format casts
+
+
 0.3-4	2023-11-28
     *	pass max.size argument through chunk.map() (#39)