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 # Changelog
 
 ## Unreleased
+* fix invalid escape sequence #1011 [janmayer]
 
 ## v1.13.2 (2024-07-21)
 * update string checks in initialization method for latent variable and put `empirical_samples` init-method on a deprecation path