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 # rphylopic (development version)
 
+* updated rphylopic to work with grImport2 version 0.3.0 and rsvg version 2.6.0
+* rphylopic now requires grImport2 >= 0.3.0 and rsvg >= 2.6.0
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 # rphylopic 1.2.0
 
 * added text argument to get_attribution (#56)