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 Package: map2tidy
 Title: Map Spatio-temporal NetCDF Stacks Along Time
-Version: 1.0.0.9001
+Version: 2.0.0
 Authors@R: 
     person(
       given = "Benjamin",
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+# map2tidy v2.0
+
+* Public release after refactored code
+
+New sine previous version:
+* Improve robustness:
+    - `map2tidy` can now handle hourly data (using pkg `CFtime`)
+    - generally more automatic handling of NetCDF files.
+* Streamline API:
+    - function calls require less user input. Since more information is robustly derived from the data itself, the use of various data sets is facilitated.
+    - Namely: get rid of input arguments: `timedimnam`, `noleap`, `res_time`
+* Improve Verbosity:
+    - `map2tidy` now reports what it is doing
+    - `map2tidy` now suggests alternatives if user input is wrong, e.g. typos or wrong names of ‘longituded’ etc…
+    - [ ] unsolved: when `ncores > 1` verbosity remains low, since `message()` does not get printed from within `multidplyr`
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