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 Next release
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-- Fix the nexus/cooling function and adding test for checking some input data (:pull:`236`).
+- Make setup of constraints for cooling technologies flexible (:pull:`242`). 
+- Fix the nexus/cooling function and add test for checking some input data (:pull:`236`).
 - Add :doc:`/project/circeular` project code and documentation (:pull:`232`).
 - Update water availability data and major code editing to allow a new test suite for the water module (:pull:`106`).
 - Expand :doc:`repro` with sections on :ref:`repro-doc` and :ref:`versioning`, including :ref:`a list of external model names and ‘versions’ <model-names>` like “MESSAGEix-GLOBIOM 2.0” (:issue:`224`, :pull:`226`).