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 Package: Maaslin2
 Title: "Multivariable Association Discovery in Population-scale Meta-omics Studies"
 Year: 2021
-Version: 1.7.2
+Version: 1.7.3
 Authors@R: c(
   person("Himel", "Mallick", email = "himel.stat.iitk@gmail.com", role = "aut"), 
   person("Ali", "Rahnavard", email = "gholamali.rahnavard@gmail.com", role = "aut"),
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+Changes in version 1.7.3 (11-02-2021):
+* Update sourcing R scripts 
+* Update reference level handling
+* Update example files
+* Fix saved plots to allow for runs with less then N plots per metadata
+* Convert strings to numeric when needed for metadata
+* Fix actions to build with latest version of dependencies
 
 Changes in version 1.7.1 (07-27-2021):
 * Update tutorial data files
 * Update knitr dependency for bioconductor tests
-* Update sourcing R scripts 
 
 Changes in version 1.5.1 (12-02-2020):
 * Update log from base 10 to base 2.