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 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.15)
 
-project(DaVinci VERSION 63.4
+project(DaVinci VERSION 63.5
         LANGUAGES CXX)
 
 # Enable testing with CTest/CDash
diff --git a/ReleaseNotes/v63r5.md b/ReleaseNotes/v63r5.md
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+2023-03-03 DaVinci v63r5
+===
+
+This version uses
+Analysis [v41r5](../../../../Analysis/-/tags/v41r5),
+Moore [v54r5](../../../../Moore/-/tags/v54r5),
+Allen [v3r5](../../../../Allen/-/tags/v3r5),
+Rec [v35r5](../../../../Rec/-/tags/v35r5),
+Lbcom [v34r5](../../../../Lbcom/-/tags/v34r5),
+LHCb [v54r5](../../../../LHCb/-/tags/v54r5),
+Detector [v1r9](../../../../Detector/-/tags/v1r9),
+Gaudi [v36r11](../../../../Gaudi/-/tags/v36r11) and
+LCG [103](http://lcginfo.cern.ch/release/103/) with ROOT 6.28.00.
+
+This version is released on the `master` branch.
+Built relative to DaVinci [v63r4](/../../tags/v63r4), with the following changes:
+
+### New features ~"new feature"
+
+- Upstream project highlights :star:
+
+
+### Fixes ~"bug fix" ~workaround
+
+- Upstream project highlights :star:
+
+
+### Enhancements ~enhancement
+
+- ~Tuples | DaVinciTutorials tests - add ntuple content checks, !842 (@erodrigu)
+- ~Tuples | Test for FunTupleEvent, !838 (@amathad)
+- DaVinci tests - enhance ntuple content checks and please QMTest, !847 (@erodrigu)
+- Helper module to check for NaN values in produced ntuples, !820 (@erodrigu)
+- Upstream project highlights :star:
+
+
+### Code cleanups and changes to tests ~modernisation ~cleanup ~testing
+
+- ~Functors ~Tuples | Update of test of all functors, !823 (@pkoppenb)
+- ~Conditions | Update tag to include mat contraction conditions files, !843 (@isanders)
+- ~Tuples | DaVinciTutorials and DaVinciExamples - checks on NaNs in produced ntuples, !822 (@pkoppenb)
+- Use raw bank size filter, !852 (@sesen)
+- Update References for: Rec!3320 based on lhcb-master-mr/7096, !846 (@lhcbsoft)
+- Fix example job on 2022 data commissioning, !840 (@erodrigu)
+- Remove calls to non-thread safe code from Python, !825 (@erodrigu)
+- Make sure there is no collision of name between histo and ntuple root files, !809 (@sponce)
+- Update option file for lhcb integration tests, !805 (@dfazzini)
+- Upstream project highlights :star:
+
+
+### Documentation ~Documentation
+
+- Automatic documentation of DaVinciExamples and DaVinciTutorials, !814 (@mamartin)
+- Make sure there is no collision of name between histo and ntuple root files, !809 (@sponce)
+### Other
+
+- ~Configuration | Set correctly geometry and conditions versions in tests, !829 (@clemenci)
+- ~Tuples | Add more functors to access neutral CALO information, !836 (@jzhuo)
+- ~Tuples | Add array input support for the thor functor grammar, !817 (@jzhuo) [gitlab.cern.ch/lhcb/Rec/-/merge_requests/3283/diffs#95429]
+- Update References for: LHCb!3970 based on lhcb-master-mr/7100, !845 (@lhcbsoft)
+- Cleanup DV example exploiting isolation variables, !837 (@tfulghes)
+- Update References for: LHCb!3953, Moore!2053, DaVinci!809 based on lhcb-master-mr/6955, !835 (@lhcbsoft)
+- Update References for: Rec!3304 based on lhcb-master-mr/6938, !831 (@lhcbsoft)
+- More detdesc ref files, plus fixed names, !830 (@sponce)
+- Added detdesc specific ref files where dd4hep is failing, !828 (@sponce)
+- Release notes updated for v63r4, !824 (@pkoppenb) [[#80,[#93,[gitlab.cern.ch/lhcb/Rec/-/merge_requests/3283/diffs#95429]