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 Package: duckdbfs
 Title: High Performance Remote File System, Database and 'Geospatial' Access Using 'duckdb'
-Version: 0.0.7
+Version: 0.0.8
 Authors@R: 
   c(person("Carl", "Boettiger", , "cboettig@gmail.com", c("aut", "cre"),
          comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-1642-628X")), 
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+# duckdbfs 0.0.8
+
+* work-around for error `The file was built for DuckDB version 'v1.1.3', but we can only load extensions built for DuckDB version '19864453f7'.`
+  by using nightly repo for extensions by default. 
+
+
 # duckdbfs 0.0.7
 
 * The default `cached_connection()` helper will configure a temporary storage location by default.