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 Package: hubAdmin
 Title: Utilities for Administering Hubverse Hubs
-Version: 1.4.0.9000
+Version: 1.5.0
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Anna", "Krystalli", , "annakrystalli@googlemail.com", role = c("aut", "cre"),
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-2378-4915")),
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-# hubAdmin (development version)
+# hubAdmin 1.5.0
 
 * Use options to set `schema_version` and `branch` arguments in `download_tasks_schema()` and the `create_*()` family of functions for creating config files programmatically. This allows for setting the schema version and branch globally for the session (#85).
 * Make validation of `round_id` patterns explicit. This ties in with schema version v4.0.1 where the pattern the `round_id` property must match if `round_id_from_variable` is `false` is now specified as a regular expression in the schema. This check is also now implemented dynamically on values of the `round_id` variable if `round_id_from_variable` is `true` when validating tasks.json config files. Checks on `round_id` patterns are also now implemented in `create_round()` when creating rounds programmatically.