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 Type: Package
 Package: valr
 Title: Genome Interval Arithmetic
-Version: 0.8.3
+Version: 0.8.3.9000
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Jay", "Hesselberth", , "jay.hesselberth@cuanschutz.edu", role = c("aut"),
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-6299-179X")),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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+# valr (development version)
+
 # valr 0.8.3
 
 * `read_bigwig()` now uses cpp11bigwig on CRAN. The `set_strand` param was removed to be