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 ## New features since last version update
 
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+## v9 (6 October 2021)
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+- 6 October 2021: Remove travel exposure adjustment. This is a potentially breaking change if you had explicitly opted into this functionality (by default, it was disabled); in this case your snakefile will print an appropriate error and exit. Note that you can still define exposure metadata traits as colorings in your `auspice-config.json`, however be aware that these may not be curated in the future. See [PR 723](https://github.com/nextstrain/ncov/pull/723) for more.
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+- 6 October 2021: Change how the internal (core) nextstrain profiles are run. We now split each (GISAID, open) into a preprocessing profile and a phylogenetic build pipeline. Please see [PR 730](https://github.com/nextstrain/ncov/pull/730) for more. There should be no changes to other profiles.
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 - 19 September 2021: Include "mutational fitness" coloring based on [Obermeyer et al model](https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.07.21263228v1). This annotates each node in the tree with a `mutational_fitness` trait by summing mutational effects from Obermeyer et al Supplementary Data S2. This should provide a mechanism to flag emergence of novel variants that may have higher fitness than circulating viruses.
 
 ## v8 (19 Aug 2021)