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 Type: Package
 Package: sdmTMB
 Title: Spatial and Spatiotemporal SPDE-Based GLMMs with 'TMB'
-Version: 0.4.3.9006
+Version: 0.4.3.9007
 Authors@R: c(
     person(c("Sean", "C."), "Anderson", , "sean@seananderson.ca",
            role = c("aut", "cre"),
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 # sdmTMB (development version)
 
+* Improved re-initialization of saved fitted model objects in new sessions.
+
 * Fix important bug in `simulate.sdmTMB()` method for delta families where
   the positive linear predictor was only getting simulated for observations
   present in the fitted data.