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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: remotes
 Title: R Package Installation from Remote Repositories, Including 'GitHub'
-Version: 2.5.0
+Version: 2.5.0.9000
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Gábor", "Csárdi", , "csardi.gabor@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cre")),
     person("Jim", "Hester", role = "aut"),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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+# remotes (development version)
+
 # remotes 2.5.0
 
 * `install_github()` now uses credentials from the git