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NEWS.md

@@ -3,10 +3,24 @@ taxizedb 0.2.0
 
 ## NEW FEATURES
 
- * support for the NCBI taxonomy database added
- * gains ports of `taxize` functions to `taxizedb` (NCBI & ITIS supported): `children`, `classification`, `downstream`. beware when both `taxize` and `taxizedb` loaded in the same R session to namespace calls to these three functions.
- * gains mapping functions: `name2taxid` (scientific or common name to taxonomy ID); `taxid2name` (taxonomy ID to scientific name); `taxid2rank` (taxonomy ID to rank)
- * 
+* gains 3 new data sources: NCBI taxonomy, World Flora Online, Wikidata (#18) (#49) (#37)
+* gains ports of `taxize` functions to `taxizedb` (NCBI & ITIS supported): `children`, `classification`, `downstream`. beware when both `taxize` and `taxizedb` loaded in the same R session to namespace calls to these three functions (#19) (#25) (#44) (#48)
+* gains mapping functions: `name2taxid` (scientific or common name to taxonomy ID); `taxid2name` (taxonomy ID to scientific name); `taxid2rank` (taxonomy ID to rank) (#41) (#42)
+* intro vignette added (#17)
+* GBIF and COL data sources are not updated daily in the repos https://github.com/ropenscilabs/gbif-backbone-sql and https://github.com/ropenscilabs/col-sql/ via GithHub Actions. See those repos for details (#26)
+* update package level manual file (`?taxizedb-package`) with details on each data source, their update schedules, and examples
+* all data sources now use SQLite as the database storage engine. passwords/ports/usernames/etc are no longer needed! note that some `db_download*` functions download already created SQLite databases, whereas for other data sources the database is built locally on your machine from other data formats downloaded (see also #36, #46)
+* a copy of the taxonomic ranks information from taxize package was ported over for internal use to be able to make `downstream()` work for most data sources
+
+## MINOR IMPROVEMENTS
+
+* remove check for whether SQLite is installed (#5 #29)
+* all `src_*` functions now only have two paramters: `path` and `...`. where path by default figures out the path for you using the function `db_path()`, and `...` allows the user to pass on parameters to `DBI::dbConnect`
+
+## DEFUNCT
+
+* `db_load()` is now defunct. Now just use `db_download*` then `src*` for your data source (see also #43)
+
 
 taxizedb 0.1.4
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cran-comments.md

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ There are no reverse dependencies.
 
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-This version xxxx.
+This version fixes many bugs and adds additional data sources.
 
 Thanks!
 Scott Chamberlain