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 Package: markdown
 Type: Package
 Title: Render Markdown with 'commonmark'
-Version: 1.12
+Version: 1.12.1
 Authors@R: c(
    person("Yihui", "Xie", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "xie@yihui.name", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-0645-5666")),
    person("JJ", "Allaire", role = "aut"),
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+# CHANGES IN markdown VERSION 1.13
+
+
 # CHANGES IN markdown VERSION 1.12
 
 - Provided three internal functions `html_document`, `html_vignette`, and `pdf_document` as compatibility layers to functions of the same names in the **rmarkdown** package (thanks, @jangorecki, #108). See [the appendix](https://cran.r-project.org/package=markdown/vignettes/intro.html#for-rmarkdown-users) in `vignette('intro', package = 'markdown')` for details.