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 Pandoc
-Copyright (C) 2006-2015 John MacFarlane <jgm at berkeley dot edu>
+Copyright (C) 2006-2016 John MacFarlane <jgm at berkeley dot edu>
 
 This code is released under the [GPL], version 2 or later: