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+---
+name: Bump dependencies
+about: Bump vendor dependencies for release
+title: 'Bump vendor dependencies for release 0.0.0'
+labels: dependencies
+assignees: ''
+
+---
+
+<!-- Add appropriate release number to title! -->
+
+Update `nwaku` "vendor" dependencies.
+
+### Items to bump
+- [ ] dnsclient.nim ( update to the latest tag version )
+- [ ] nim-bearssl
+- [ ] nimbus-build-system
+- [ ] nim-chronicles
+- [ ] nim-chronos
+- [ ] nim-confutils
+- [ ] nimcrypto
+- [ ] nim-dnsdisc
+- [ ] nim-eth
+- [ ] nim-faststreams
+- [ ] nim-http-utils
+- [ ] nim-json-rpc
+- [ ] nim-json-serialization
+- [ ] nim-libbacktrace
+- [ ] nim-libp2p ( update to the unstable branch )
+- [ ] nim-metrics
+- [ ] nim-nat-traversal
+- [ ] nim-presto
+- [ ] nim-regex ( update to the latest tag version )
+- [ ] nim-secp256k1
+- [ ] nim-serialization
+- [ ] nim-sqlite3-abi ( update to the latest tag version )
+- [ ] nim-stew
+- [ ] nim-stint
+- [ ] nim-taskpools
+- [ ] nim-testutils
+- [ ] nim-toml-serialization
+- [ ] nim-unicodedb
+- [ ] nim-unittest2
+- [ ] nim-web3
+- [ ] nim-websock
+- [ ] nim-zlib
+- [ ] zerokit ( this should be kept in version `v0.3.4` )