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diff --git a/python-cftime.changes b/python-cftime.changes
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@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Oct 27 22:15:54 UTC 2022 - Yogalakshmi Arunachalam <yarunachalam@suse.com>
+
+- Update to version 1.6.2 
+  * num2date should not fail on an empty integer array (issue #287).
+  * longdouble keyword in date2num so that a roundtrip from a time to a date
+    and back again does not lose microsecond precision when the units require
+    the times be encoded as floating point values (PR #284)
+  * added strptime method (issue #277).
+  * cibuildwheel wheel-building workflow added to github actions by @ocefpaf (triggers binary
+    wheel builds and uploads to pypi automatically when GH release created). PR #290.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Sep 26 19:50:01 UTC 2022 - Yogalakshmi Arunachalam <yarunachalam@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/python-cftime.spec b/python-cftime.spec
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 # no numpy for Python 3.6
 %define skip_python36 1
 Name:           python-cftime
-Version:        1.6.1
+Version:        1.6.2
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Time-handling functionality from netcdf4-python
 License:        MIT