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 # enlighted-thunder
 A first project to explore the possiblities of GitHub. Please ignore.
+
+This is version 0.1 of ethunder with the following features:
+ - shows a configurable message (yeah!)
diff --git a/ethunder/_version.py b/ethunder/_version.py
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-__version__ = "0.2.0"
+__version__ = "0.1.0"