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 Package: gDRutils
 Type: Package
 Title: A package with helper functions for processing drug response data
-Version: 1.9.8
-Date: 2026-04-18
+Version: 1.11.1
+Date: 2026-04-29
 Authors@R: c(person("Bartosz", "Czech", role=c("aut"),
                    comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-9908-3007")),
              person("Arkadiusz", "Gladki", role=c("cre", "aut"), email="gladki.arkadiusz@gmail.com",
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+## gDRutils 1.11.1 - 2026-04-29
+* synchronize Bioconductor and GitHub versioning
+
 ## gDRutils 1.9.8 - 2026-04-18
 * migrate from `qs` to `qs2` package (`qs::qread` → `qs2::qs_read`, `qs::qsave` → `qs2::qs_save`)
 * update batch file extension from `.qs` to `.qs2`