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@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
   Thanks to [Fuzzyzilla](https://github.com/Fuzzyzilla).
 - Increase lenience of embed permissions for older OS/2 versions.
   Thanks to [Fuzzyzilla](https://github.com/Fuzzyzilla).
+- Bump MSRV to 1.51
 
 ## [0.20.0] - 2023-10-15
 ### Added
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 ![Build Status](https://github.com/RazrFalcon/ttf-parser/workflows/Rust/badge.svg)
 [![Crates.io](https://img.shields.io/crates/v/ttf-parser.svg)](https://crates.io/crates/ttf-parser)
 [![Documentation](https://docs.rs/ttf-parser/badge.svg)](https://docs.rs/ttf-parser)
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+[![Rust 1.51+](https://img.shields.io/badge/rust-1.51+-orange.svg)](https://www.rust-lang.org)
 ![](https://img.shields.io/badge/unsafe-forbidden-brightgreen.svg)
 
 A high-level, safe, zero-allocation font parser for