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 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.15)
 
-project(DaVinci VERSION 63.0
+project(DaVinci VERSION 63.1
         LANGUAGES CXX)
 
 # Enable testing with CTest/CDash
diff --git a/ReleaseNotes/v63r1.md b/ReleaseNotes/v63r1.md
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+2022-11-11 DaVinci v63r1
+===
+
+This version uses
+Analysis [v41r1](../../../../Analysis/-/tags/v41r1),
+Moore [v54r1p1](../../../../Moore/-/tags/v54r1p1),
+Rec [v35r1p1](../../../../Rec/-/tags/v35r1p1),
+Lbcom [v34r1p1](../../../../Lbcom/-/tags/v34r1p1),
+LHCb [v54r1p1](../../../../LHCb/-/tags/v54r1p1),
+Gaudi [v36r8](../../../../Gaudi/-/tags/v36r8),
+Detector [v1r5p1](../../../../Detector/-/tags/v1r5p1) and
+This version uses LCG [101a](http://lcginfo.cern.ch/release/101a_LHCB_7/) with ROOT 6.24.08.
+
+This version is released on `master` branch.
+Built relative to DaVinci [v63r0](/../../tags/v63r0), with the following changes:
+
+### New features ~"new feature"
+
+- ~"MC checking" | Add new input support to MCHierarchy functorcollection, !770 (@jzhuo)
+- Test on EMTF data, !782 (@pkoppenb)
+- Upstream project highlights :star:
+
+
+### Enhancements ~enhancement
+
+- ~Configuration | Make "process" a required input and configure pyconf functions globally once with user input, !731 (@amathad)
+- ~"MC checking" | Fix the relation location in MCReconstructed tool, !769 (@jzhuo)
+- Update tagging array qmtest including mctruth infos, !762 (@dfazzini)
+- Upstream project highlights :star:
+
+
+### Code cleanups and changes to tests ~modernisation ~cleanup ~testing
+
+- Move composite creation test to DaVinciExamples, !773 (@pkoppenb)
+- Remove mention of obsolete, unnecessary enable_unpack option, !772 (@graven)
+- Upstream project highlights :star:
+
+
+### Documentation ~Documentation
+
+- Updated ganga workaround for DaVinci, !780 (@jagoodin)
+- Section about running over old files produced using Brunel, !779 (@amathad)
+
+### Other
+
+- Update References for: LHCb!3848 based on lhcb-master-mr/6112, !777 (@lhcbsoft)
+- Update References for: LHCb!3805, Moore!1808 based on lhcb-master-mr/6005, !775 (@lhcbsoft)