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+flux-coral2 0.17.1 - 2024-10-01
+-------------------------------
+
+### New Features
+ * dws2jgf: drop defaults for JGF simplification
+
+### Fixes
+ * dws: fix datamovement `limit` argument
+
+
 flux-coral2 0.17.0 - 2024-09-20
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