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 What's New
 ----------
 
-v0.4.1 (unreleased)
+v0.5.0 (Feb 24, 2021)
 ===================
 
 - Replace ``cf.describe()`` with :py:meth:`Dataset.cf.__repr__`. By `Mattia Almansi`_.