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 Package: MDFS
 Title: MultiDimensional Feature Selection
-Version: 1.5.3.12345
-Date: 2023-05-09
+Version: 1.5.4
+Date: 2024-12-07
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Radosław", "Piliszek", email = "radek@piliszek.it", role = c("aut", "cre")),
     person("Krzysztof", "Mnich", email = "k.mnich@uwb.edu.pl", role = "aut"),
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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+1.5.4 | 2024-12-07 (R-only)
+
+* No user-visible changes. Maintenance work to stay on CRAN.
+
 1.5.3 | 2023-05-09 (R-only)
 
 * Add a function to set the number of OpenMP threads.