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 Type: Package
 Package: sdmTMB
 Title: Spatial and Spatiotemporal SPDE-Based GLMMs with 'TMB'
-Version: 0.4.3.9000
+Version: 0.4.3.9001
 Authors@R: c(
     person(c("Sean", "C."), "Anderson", , "sean@seananderson.ca",
            role = c("aut", "cre"),
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 # sdmTMB (development version)
 
+* Set `intern = FALSE` within index bias correction, which seems to be
+  considerably faster when testing with most models.
+
 # sdmTMB 0.4.3
 
 * Fix a bug likely introduced in July 2023 that caused issues when