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@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ External dependencies
   * OpenBLAS has been upgraded from 0.3.2 to 0.3.3 ([#29845]).
   * The source code for Pkg is no longer included in JuliaLang/julia. Pkg is instead
     downloaded during the build process ([#29615]).
+  * LLVM has been upgraded to 6.0.1 ([#28745]).
 
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