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 Package: mpn.scorecard
 Title: Generate a scorecard with various measures of R package quality and risk
-Version: 0.5.0
+Version: 0.5.1
 Authors@R: 
     c(person(given = "Kyle",
            family = "Barrett",
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+# mpn.scorecard 0.5.1
+
+## Bug Fixes
+
+ - Previously the traceability matrix would error out if code file,
+   documentation, and test file columns were all empty (#76).
+
 # mpn.scorecard 0.5.0
 
 ## New features and change