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 Maintainer: Jonathan Keane <jkeane@gmail.com>. License: Apache License
 (\>= 2.0)
 
-## [duckdb](https://duckdb.org/) 0.8.0 (2023-05-23) [:link:](https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb) [:bug:](https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/issues)
+## [duckdb](https://duckdb.org/) 0.8.1 (2023-06-16) [:link:](https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb) [:bug:](https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/issues)
 
 DBI Package for the DuckDB Database Management System