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 Package: cli
 Title: Helpers for Developing Command Line Interfaces
-Version: 3.6.0.9000
+Version: 3.6.1
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Gábor", "Csárdi", , "csardi.gabor@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cre")),
     person("Hadley", "Wickham", role = "ctb"),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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-# cli (development version)
+# cli 3.6.1
 
 * ANSI hyperlinks are now turned off on the RStudio render plane (#581).