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+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Jun  6 12:43:51 UTC 2021 - Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
+
+- update to 8.8.0:
+  * :func:`countable` (thanks to krzysieq)
+  * :func:`split_before` was updated to handle empy collections (thanks to TiunovNN)
+  * :func:`unique_everseen` got a performance boost (thanks to Numerlor)
+  * The type hint for :func:`value_chain` was corrected (thanks to vr2262)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Jun  3 11:51:31 UTC 2021 - pgajdos@suse.com
 
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 %define skip_python2 1
 Name:           python-more-itertools
-Version:        8.7.0
+Version:        8.8.0
 Release:        0
 Summary:        More routines for operating on iterables, beyond itertools
 License:        MIT