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 More details in the [CHANGELOG](https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md)
 
-## OpenJPEG 2.4.0 (December 2021)
+## OpenJPEG 2.4.0 (December 2020)
 
 No API/ABI break compared to v2.3.1, but additional symbols for subset of components decoding (hence the MINOR version bump).