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 Release Notes
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+0.56 / 2024-07-09
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+
+Two small bugfixes. One is related to how the cache works, the other is a slight modification of the NEB specification. 
+
+The fix to the caching behavior should help with a lot of unexpected behavior related to caching. See :issue:`844`.
+
+- (:pr:`841`) Remove hessian_reset keyword from NEB (:contrib:`hjnpark`)
+- (:pr:`843`) Write records to cache immediately after fetching
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+
 0.55 / 2024-05-23
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