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 # pkgbuild (development version)
 
+* pkgbuild now does not need the crayon, rprojroot and prettyunits
+  packages.
+
 # pkgbuild 1.4.2
 
 * Running `bootstrap.R` now works with `pkgbuild_process`, so it also works