NEWS

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BOLDconnectR 1.0.1 (2026-07-23)

New features

• Added a new BOLDconnectR workflow vignette.
• Updated bold.analyze.tree to include the ape::DNAbin object in the returned results.
• Added a Barcode Core Data Model (BCDM) test data set named test.data2

Improvements

• Improved error messages in bold.public.search, including clearer handling of the 1M-record limit.
• Enhanced tryCatch handling across all steps in bold.public.search.
• Optimized bold.fetch by ensuring bold.bcdm.fields is called only once per run.
• Replaced dcast() with pivot_wider() in gen.comm.mat.
• Reformatted code using styler.

Bug fixes

• Added support for the taxon.name argument in bold.analyze.diversity.
• Added error handling for empty data frames in bold.analyze.diversity.
• Updated the start and end date error message in bold.full.search
• Fixed sequence alignment output conversion to improve compatibility with updated Bioconductor packages.

Miscellaneous

• Updated author list.
• Introduced NEWS.md to document versioned package changes.