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-0.0.6
+0.0.8
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 # HPCombi   ![build status](https://api.travis-ci.org/hivert/HPCombi.svg?branch=master)
-High Performance Combinatorics in C++ using vector instructions v0.0.6
+High Performance Combinatorics in C++ using vector instructions v0.0.8
 
 SSE and AVX instruction sets allows for very fast manipulation of
 combinatorial objects such as transformations, permutations, boolean matrices