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 Package: bcmaps
 Title: Map Layers and Spatial Utilities for British Columbia
-Version: 1.0.2.9000
+Version: 1.0.3
 Authors@R: c(person("Andy", "Teucher", email = "andy.teucher@gov.bc.ca",
   role = c("aut", "cre")), person("Stephanie", "Hazlitt", email = "stephanie.hazlitt@gov.bc.ca",
   role = "aut"), person("Sam", "Albers", email = "sam.albers@gov.bc.ca", role = "aut"),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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-# bcmaps (development version)
+# bcmaps 1.0.3
 
 * New behaviour of shortcut functions ensures that all spatial objects (`sf` or `Spatial`) returned
 are topologically valid and in the standard CRS of "EPSG:3005" (BC Albers). #96