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 Package: mlr3
 Title: Machine Learning in R - Next Generation
-Version: 0.22.1.9000
+Version: 0.23.0
 Authors@R:
   c(
     person("Michel", "Lang", , "michellang@gmail.com", role = "aut",
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-# mlr3 (development version)
+# mlr3 0.23.0
 
-* feat: add new `col_role` offset in `Task` and offset `Learner` property.
-A warning is produced if a learner that doesn't support offsets is trained with a task that has an offset column.
-* fix: the `$predict_newdata()` method of `Learner` now automatically conducts type conversions (#685)
-* BREAKING_CHANGE: Predicting on a `task` with the wrong column information is now an error and not a warning.
+* feat: Add new `col_role` offset in `Task` and offset `Learner` property.
+  A warning is produced if a learner that doesn't support offsets is trained with a task that has an offset column.
+* fix: The `$predict_newdata()` method of `Learner` now automatically conducts type conversions (#685).
+* BREAKING_CHANGE: Predicting on a `Task` with the wrong column information is now an error and not a warning.
 * Column names with UTF-8 characters are now allowed by default.
   The option `mlr3.allow_utf8_names` is removed.
 * BREAKING CHANGE: `Learner$predict_types` is read-only now.
 * docs: Clear up behavior of `Learner$predict_type` after training.
 * feat: Add callbacks to `resample()` and `benchmark()`.
-* fix: Internal tuning and validation now works when the model requires marshaling (#1256)
+* fix: Internal tuning and validation now works when the model requires marshaling (#1256).
 
 # mlr3 0.22.1