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 ```clojure
 [com.taoensso/nippy "2.5.2"] ; Stable
-[com.taoensso/nippy "2.6.0-alpha2"] ; EXPERIMENTAL early testing release, unsuitable for production
+[com.taoensso/nippy "2.6.0-alpha4"] ; EXPERIMENTAL early testing release, unsuitable for production
 ```
 
 v2.6 will be a backwards-compatible release with: improved performance (incl. frozen data size), a new low-level DataInput/DataOuput API, improved support for headerless freezing, and 1-to-1 binary-value representation guarantees. See the [Changelog](https://github.com/ptaoussanis/nippy/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md) for details.