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+# v1.0 Release (2020-12-17)
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+Initial release of cookiecutter-cpp-project with the following features:
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+* License Selection
+* Github Actions and Gitlab CI ready to use
+* Sphinx-based documentation ready to deploy to Readthedocs
+* Local building of Doxygen documentation
+* Python bindings with Pybind11
+* CI-based deployment of Python bindings to PyPI
+* Coverage Testing from codecov.io
+* Code Quality Analysis from SonarCloud