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 Package: spatialLIBD
 Title: spatialLIBD: an R/Bioconductor package to visualize spatially-resolved
     transcriptomics data
-Version: 1.18.0
+Version: 1.19.0
 Date: 2024-10-22
 Authors@R:
     c(