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 Type: Package
 Package: fafbseg
 Title: Support Functions for Analysis of FAFB EM Segmentation
-Version: 0.9.0.9000
+Version: 0.9.1
 Authors@R: 
     c(person(given = "Gregory",
              family = "Jefferis",
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-# fafbseg (development version)
+# fafbseg 0.9.1 (pre-release version)
 
+This is a pre-release without full release notes, principally to support a new 
+dependant package, fanc.
+
+* update `flywire_set_token()` to support new cave and zetta tokens 
+  (for FANC dataset) (#119)
+* expose `chunkedgraph_token()` function (#119)
 * add a number of features to allow programmatic manipulation of neuroglancer 
   scenes. This includes `ngl_segments<-()` to replace the segments in a scene
   `+.ngscene()` and `-.ngscene()` to add or remove segments from a scene and `as.character.ngscene()` to convert a scene object to a URL. See examples in `ngl_segments()` and `ngl_decode_scene()` for further details (#55, #58).