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 Package: knitr
 Type: Package
 Title: A General-Purpose Package for Dynamic Report Generation in R
-Version: 1.43.3
+Version: 1.43.4
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Yihui", "Xie", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "[email protected]", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-0645-5666")),
     person("Abhraneel", "Sarma", role = "ctb"),

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 - When the chunk option `dev = 'svglite'`, the `svglite` device should be used to record plots (thanks, @Darxor, #2272).
 
+- Figure captions are no longer escaped for reStructuredText output, and the alt text can also be specified via the `fig.alt` chunk option now (thanks, @trevorld, #2023).
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 # CHANGES IN knitr VERSION 1.43
 
 ## NEW FEATURES