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 Package: spatialLIBD
 Title: spatialLIBD: an R/Bioconductor package to visualize spatially-resolved
     transcriptomics data
-Version: 1.17.3
-Date: 2024-07-02
+Version: 1.17.4
+Date: 2024-07-03
 Authors@R:
     c(
     person("Leonardo", "Collado-Torres", role = c("aut", "cre"),