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 Package: knitr
 Type: Package
 Title: A General-Purpose Package for Dynamic Report Generation in R
-Version: 1.18.10
-Date: 2017-11-26
+Version: 1.19
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Yihui", "Xie", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "xie@yihui.name", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-0645-5666")),
     person("Adam", "Vogt", role = "ctb"),
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-# CHANGES IN knitr VERSION 1.19 (unreleased)
+# CHANGES IN knitr VERSION 1.19
 
 ## MAJOR CHANGES