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+# paws.common 0.3.3
+
+* Decode base64-encoded blobs to raw vectors. Previously, Paws decoded them to
+  UTF-8 inappropriately, which would fail for any data other than text.
+* In some cases, httr/curl do not decompress the response body. In these cases,
+  check whether it looks compressed and try decompressing it.
+
 # paws.common 0.3.2
 
 * Support the S3 operation SelectObjectContent in `s3$select_object_content`.