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 Package: sparsevctrs
 Title: Sparse Vectors for Use in Data Frames
-Version: 0.3.4.9000
+Version: 0.3.5.9000
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Emil", "Hvitfeldt", , "emil.hvitfeldt@posit.co", role = c("aut", "cre"),
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-0679-1945")),
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 # sparsevctrs (development version)
 
+# sparsevctrs 0.3.5
+
+* Fixed bug with sparse character vectors that occurred on R devel. (#122)
+
 # sparsevctrs 0.3.4
 
 ## Bug Fixes