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 * Add Catalan translation (@jmaspons, #2333)
 * Set RNG seed for htmlwidgets IDs. This reduces noise in pkgdown reference HTML output when examples generate htmlwidgets (@salim-b, #2294).
 * Fix BS5 navbar template to get `navbar.type: dark` to work with bslib 0.6+ / Bootstrap 5.3+ (@tanho63, #2388)
+* Topic names that conflict with selector functions can now be listed as references in `_pkgdown.yml` (@dmurdoch, #2397).
 
 # pkgdown 2.0.7