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 Type: Package
 Package: pointblank
-Version: 0.12.0.9000
+Version: 0.12.1
 Title: Data Validation and Organization of Metadata for Local and Remote Tables
 Description: Validate data in data frames, 'tibble' objects, 'Spark'
     'DataFrames', and database tables. Validation pipelines can be made using
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-# pointblank (development version)
+# pointblank 0.12.1
+
+- Ensured that the column string is a symbol before constructing the expression for the `col_vals_*()` functions.
+
+- No longer resolve columns with tidyselect when the target table cannot be materialized.
+
+- Relaxed tests on tidyselect error messages.
 
 # pointblank 0.12.0