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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ architecture. It's designed to be easy to install, efficient for CPU usage and
optimised for NLP and deep learning with text – in particular, hierarchically
structured input and variable-length sequences.
-🔮 **Version 6.0 out now!** `Read the release notes here. `_
+🔮 **Version 6.1 out now!** `Read the release notes here. `_
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