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 # Deadline for next release
 
-Deadline for contributions to DecFiles v30r12 is Friday 9th February 2018 at 14:00. Merge requests created after deadline are not guaranteed to be accepted for this release.
+Deadline for contributions to DecFiles v30r12 is Friday 23rd February 2018 at 14:00. Merge requests created after deadline are not guaranteed to be accepted for this release.
 
 # Steps to add decay file
 1. Find if a DecFile you want (or similar enough so you can use it) already exists