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+- [colorLib] Fixed regression in 4.17.0 when building COLR v0 table; when color
+  layers are stored in UFO lib plist, we can't distinguish tuples from lists so
+  we need to accept either types (e5439eb9, googlefonts/ufo2ft/issues#426).
+
 4.17.0 (released 2020-11-12)
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