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 Package: caliver
 Type: Package
 Title: CALIbration and VERification of gridded model outputs
-Version: 1.1
+Version: 1.4
 Date: 2017-03-10
 Authors@R: c(person(given = "Claudia",
                     family = "Vitolo",
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+# caliver 1.4
+
+* New addition: anomaly and ranking functions.
+
+# caliver 1.2
+
+* Changes due to review on plosone.
+
+# caliver 1.0
+
+* This is the first stable release.
+
+# caliver 0.1
+
+* This is the first release of the caliver R package and contains function for the retrieval, analysis and visualisation of GEFF and RISICO forest fire model outputs.