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 Package: gridpattern
 Type: Package
 Title: 'grid' Pattern Grobs
-Version: 0.5.2-2
+Version: 0.5.3
 Authors@R: c(person("Mike", "FC", role = "aut", comment = "Code/docs adapted from ggpattern"),
         person("Trevor L", "Davis", role=c("aut", "cre"), email="trevor.l.davis@gmail.com"),
         person("Thomas Lin", "Pedersen", role = "ctb", comment = "new_data_frame() copied from ggplot2"))
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-gridpattern v0.5.2
+gridpattern v0.5.3
 ==================
 
 Bug Fixes and minor improvements
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
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 ## Test environments
 
 * win-builder (windows, R devel)
-* local (linux, R 4.1.2)
+* local (linux, R 4.1.3)
+* local (linux, R devel)
 * github actions (windows, R release)
 * github actions (osx, R release)
 * github actions (linux, R oldrel)