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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Title: A System of Soil Classification for Making and Interpreting Soil Surveys
 Description: Taxonomic dictionaries, formative element lists, and functions related to the maintenance, development and application of U.S. Soil Taxonomy. 
    Data and functionality are based on official U.S. Department of Agriculture sources including the latest edition of the Keys to Soil Taxonomy. Descriptions and metadata are obtained from the National Soil Information System or Soil Survey Geographic databases. Other sources are referenced in the data documentation. 
    Provides tools for understanding and interacting with concepts in the U.S. Soil Taxonomic System. Most of the current utilities are for working with taxonomic concepts at the "higher" taxonomic levels: Order, Suborder, Great Group, and Subgroup.
-Version: 0.2.5
+Version: 0.2.6
 Authors@R: c(person(given="Andrew", family="Brown", email="andrew.g.brown@usda.gov", role = c("aut", "cre")), person(given="Dylan", family="Beaudette", role = c("aut"), email = "dylan.beaudette@usda.gov"))
 Maintainer: Andrew Brown <andrew.g.brown@usda.gov>
 Depends: R (>= 3.5)
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+# SoilTaxonomy 0.2.6 (2024-10-01)
+
+ - Added `WRB_4th_2022` data set containing World Reference Base for Soil Resources (4th Edition, 2022) reference soil groups with primary and supplementary qualifiers.
+
+# SoilTaxonomy 0.2.5 (2024-01-08)
+ - Data set `ST_unique_list$subgroup`: fix for 12th edition "Hydric Frasiwassents" v.s. 13th edition "Humic Fluic Frasiwassents" 
+ - `explainST()` expanded acronyms in explanations
+ 
 # SoilTaxonomy 0.2.4 (2023-11-16)
  - `taxonTree()` default markup via `special.chars` argument emulates `fs::dir_tree()` output
  - `parse_family()` now returns more complete information for taxa above family
    - `taxminalogy` column for taxa with strongly contrasting control sections now use `" over "` as the separator between class names. 
-   
+
 # SoilTaxonomy 0.2.3 (2023-02-01)
  - Fix unintended case-sensitivity of `FormativeElements()`; thanks to Shawn Salley (@swsalley)
  - Fix for `extractSMR()` via fix for `FormativeElements()` applied at multiple levels (affects taxa above subgroup level)