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 # farver (development version)
 
+* `encode_colour()` and `encode_native()` also accept a list of channel vectors.
+  If you compute your channels independently you don't need to `cbind()` them into
+  a contiguous matrix anymore, but rather you can `list()` them (#36, @zeehio).
+
 # farver 2.1.1
 
 * Added input checking to a range of functions to guard against segfaults with