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 Package: redux
 Title: R Bindings to 'hiredis'
-Version: 1.1.2
+Version: 1.2.0
 Authors@R: c(person("Rich", "FitzJohn", role = c("aut", "cre"),
     email = "rich.fitzjohn@gmail.com"))
 Description: A 'hiredis' wrapper that includes support for
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+## redux 1.2.0
+
+* Add support for most of the new features in redis 6.x
+
 ## redux 1.1.1
 
 * More relaxed, though technically incorrect, URL parsing that allows undercores in the host name - useful for docker containers (#20).