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+2014-12-10  Dirk Eddelbuettel  <edd@debian.org>
+
+ 	* DESCRIPTION (Version): Release 0.4.2
+
 2014-12-10  Jeroen Ooms  <jeroenooms@gmail.com>
 
 	* src/Makevars.win: Use new ProtoBuf 2.6.1 builds on Windows
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 Package: RProtoBuf
-Version: 0.4.1.2
-Date: $Date$
+Version: 0.4.2
+Date: 2014-12-10
 Author: Romain Francois, Dirk Eddelbuettel, Murray Stokely and Jeroen Ooms
 Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
 Title: R Interface to the Protocol Buffers API