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+#4.4.0
+ -- bugfix for wrong observations marked as imputed in the hotdeck function
+ -- random sorting is now used in hotdeck if no ord_var is defined
 #4.2.3
  -- bugfix for the computation of distances for ordered variables
 #4.2.1