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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!-- see http://www.mojohaus.org/clirr-maven-plugin/examples/ignored-differences.html -->
+<differences>
+  <difference>
+    <differenceType>7004</differenceType>
+    <className>com/google/cloud/bigquery/storage/v1/Exceptions$SchemaMismatchedException</className>
+    <method>Exceptions$SchemaMismatchedException(java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.Throwable)</method>
+  </difference>
+  <difference>
+    <differenceType>7004</differenceType>
+    <className>com/google/cloud/bigquery/storage/v1/Exceptions$StreamFinalizedException</className>
+    <method>Exceptions$StreamFinalizedException(java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.Throwable)</method>
+  </difference>
+</differences>