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 Package: spatialLIBD
 Title: spatialLIBD: an R/Bioconductor package to visualize spatially-resolved
     transcriptomics data
-Version: 1.17.9
+Version: 1.17.10
 Date: 2024-10-22
 Authors@R:
     c(
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+# spatialLIBD 1.17.10
+
+BUG FIXES
+
+* `registration_wrapper()` now automatically handles the scenario where `k = 2`
+by not using `registration_stats_anova()` and providing an apporpriate warning.
+Implemented by @lahuuki at 
+<https://github.com/LieberInstitute/spatialLIBD/pull/86>.
+
 # spatialLIBD 1.17.9
 
 BUG FIXES