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 ## HEAD
 
+## 5.2.1
+
+Released Oct. 30, 2022
+
+### User-facing changes
+- [BUGFIX] Require `patchelf >= 0.14` to handle features from 5.2.0 properly ([#403](https://github.com/pypa/auditwheel/pull/403), [#401](https://github.com/pypa/auditwheel/issues/401))
+
 ## 5.2.0
 
 Released Oct. 22, 2022
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 ------------
 - OS: Linux
 - Python: 3.6+
-- `patchelf <https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf>`_
+- `patchelf <https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf>`_: 0.14+
 
 Only systems that use `ELF
 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable_and_Linkable_Format>`_-based linkage