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 Package: mlr3filters
 Title: Filter Based Feature Selection for 'mlr3'
-Version: 0.8.1
+Version: 0.8.1.9000
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Marc", "Becker", , "marcbecker@posteo.de", role = c("cre", "aut"),
         comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-8115-0400")),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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+# mlr3filters (development version)
+
 # mlr3filters 0.8.1
 
 * compatibility: mlr3 0.22.0