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 Package: epidatr
 Type: Package
 Title: Client for Delphi's 'Epidata' API
-Version: 1.1.1
+Version: 1.1.3
 Authors@R:
   c(
     person("Logan", "Brooks", email = "lcbrooks@andrew.cmu.edu", role = c("aut")),
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 ## Patches
 - Fixed failure when passing `as_of` values in `Date` format to
   `pub_covidcast` while caching is enabled (#259)
+- Fix failure in `pub_covidcast` when user doesn't pass `geo_values` or `time_values`, even though those arguments have defaults (#268).
 
 # epidatr 1.1.0