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 Package: r2rtf
 Title: Easily Create Production-Ready Rich Text Format (RTF) Tables and Figures
-Version: 1.2.0
+Version: 1.3.0
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Yilong", "Zhang", role = "aut"),
     person("Siruo", "Wang", role = "aut"),
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-# r2rtf 1.2.0.9000
+# r2rtf 1.3.0
+
+## New features
+
+- Add `write_docx()` and `write_html()` to output encoded RTF to DOCX/HTML
+  via LibreOffice (@elong0527, #281).
+- Add `\\pagenumber_hardcoding` control word for table-relative page numbering
+  in multi-page tables (@wangben718, #283).
 
 ## Bug fixes
 
-- `strwidth()` and `par()` calls no longer leak a graphics device when
-  no device is active, preventing unwanted `Rplots.pdf` output (#285).
+- Remove trailing whitespace after `\\totalpage` to avoid emitting extra spaces
+  and support page-aware substitution (@elong0527, #280).
+- `strwidth()` and `par()` calls no longer leak a graphics device when no device
+  is active, preventing unwanted `Rplots.pdf` output (@nanxstats, #285).
+
+## Improvements
+
+- Update vignette examples to avoid misleading footer/source labels (@wangben718, #286).
+
+## Maintenance
+
+- Include `tests/testthat/_snaps/` in the built package to satisfy testthat
+  snapshot requirements and fix `R CMD check` with testthat >= 3.3.0
+  (@elong0527, #282).
 
 # r2rtf 1.2.0