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#  News: to package distrRmetrics
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(first two numbers of package versions do not necessarily reflect 
 package-individual development, but rather are chosen for the 
 distrXXX family as a whole in order to ease updating "depends" 
 information)
 
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v 2.8.2
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under the hood:
+ adapted reference output for new startupmsg
+ converted encoding to UTF-8
+ transformed CITATION file to new format, i.e., bibentry() instead of citEntry(),
        c(as.person( .... ), as.person( .... ), ...), instead of 
		as.personList(....) 

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v 2.8
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user-visible CHANGES:
+ DESCRIPTION tag SVNRevision changed to VCS/SVNRevision

under the hood:
+ fixed some broken URLs and changed URLs from http to https where possible

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v 2.7
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user-visible CHANGES:

under the hood:
+ wherever possible also use q.l internally instead of q to 
  provide functionality in IRKernel

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v 2.6
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user-visible CHANGES:
+ title changed to title style / capitalization
+ removed other authors from DESCRIPTION; this was an artefact by cut&paste

under the hood:
+ enhanced imports in DESCRIPTION by explicating second order imports

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v 2.5
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user-visible CHANGES:

GENERAL ENHANCEMENTS:
+ cleaned DESCRIPTION and NAMESPACE file as to Imports/Depends

under the hood:

+ added .Rbuildignore
 
BUGFIXES
+ fixed some links in html-man pages
 
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v 2.4
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package distrRmetrics created anew.