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 Package: visiumStitched
 Title: Enable downstream analysis of Visium capture areas stitched together with
     Fiji
-Version: 0.99.6
+Version: 0.99.7
 Date: 2024-08-19
 Authors@R: 
     c(
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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+# visiumStitched 0.99.7
+
 # visiumStitched 0.99.6
 
 # visiumStitched 0.99.5