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 Package: EML
 Type: Package
 Title: Read and Write Ecological Metadata Language Files
-Version: 1.0.2
+Version: 1.0.3
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Carl", "Boettiger", role = c("aut", "cre"),
            email = "cboettig@gmail.com"),
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+# EML 1.0.3
+
+* Avoid vignette build errors on machines that lack pandoc (e.g. Solaris) using conditional checks
+
 # EML 1.0.2
 
 * Migrate dependency from XML to xml2
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 ## Corrections
 
-* Migrates from XML dependency to xml2 for improved efficiency (see NEWS)
-* Improves performance in serializing EML to XML
-* Fixes the Warning that emerged on R-devel (now on) R-3.4.0 release
+* Avoid vignette error when testing on platforms that lack access to pandoc
 
 ## Test environments