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 Package: blavaan
 Title: Bayesian Latent Variable Analysis
-Version: 0.5-5.1302
+Version: 0.5-6
 Authors@R: c(person(given = "Edgar", family = "Merkle",
                     role = c("aut", "cre"),
                     email = "merklee@missouri.edu",
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+# Version 0.5-6
+## New features
+* This release contains minor improvements and bug fixes.
+
 # Version 0.5-5
 ## New features
-* Minor changes to ensure compatability with lavaan 0.6-18. 
+* Minor changes to ensure compatibility with lavaan 0.6-18. 
 
 * Bugs from 0.5-4 are fixed.