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 Package: gdsfmt
 Type: Package
 Title: R Interface to CoreArray Genomic Data Structure (GDS) Files
-Version: 1.40.2
-Date: 2024-09-26
+Version: 1.42.0
+Date: 2024-11-04
 Depends: R (>= 2.15.0), methods
 Suggests: parallel, digest, Matrix, crayon, RUnit, knitr, markdown, rmarkdown,
         BiocGenerics
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 ## Bioconductor:
 
-Release Version: v1.40.1
+Release Version: v1.42.0
 
 [http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/gdsfmt.html](http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/gdsfmt.html)