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@@ -4,6 +4,12 @@ Release notes
 OCRmyPDF uses `semantic versioning <http://semver.org/>`_.
 
 
+v5.0.1
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+-   Fixed issue #169, exception due to failure to create sidecar text files on some versions of Tesseract 3.04, including the jbarlow83/ocrmypdf image
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 v5.0
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