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 Package: surveydown
 Title: Markdown-Based Surveys Using 'Quarto' and 'shiny'
-Version: 0.6.0
+Version: 0.6.1
 Authors@R: c(
     person(given   = "John Paul",
            family  = "Helveston",
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 # surveydown (development version)
 
+# surveydown 0.6.1
+
+- Cookies now contain not only the `session_id` but a complete JSON object of the current page questions, answers, and latest time stamp.
+- Increased checkpoints of data updates. Now they are: upon starting, upon proceeding to the next page, upon submitting rating or clicking the exit buttion, and finally, upon abruptly quitting the survey.
+
 # surveydown 0.6.0
 
 - Cookies functionality fully working, applied to both local testing and online db.