[Bioc-devel] Preparing package release notes

[Dan Tenenbaum]

Package developers --

Each Bioconductor release is accompanied by release notes that mention
new packages and other significant project developments. For the
forthcoming release we would also like to include release notes for
individual packages, so that users have an easy way to survey changes
in their favorite packages.

To have your package release notes made available in the Bioconductor
release notes, please arrange for your package to include a NEWS.Rd or
NEWS file that can be parsed by the utils::news function. We'll run
this command over all packages, using a 'query' argument that captures
all updates more recent than the start of the current release cycle.
For instance, Rsamtools in the devel branch is at version "1.11.27", so
we'll get news with

> utils::news(Version >= "1.11.0", "Rsamtools")

Changes in version 1.12.0:

NEW FEATURES

    o   BamSampler draws a random sample from BAM file records, obeying
any restriction by ScanBamParam().

USER-VISIBLE CHANGES

    o   bamPath and bamIndicies applied to BamViews returns named
 vectors.

BUG FIXES

    o   completely free razip, bgzip files when done.

    o   sortBam, indexBam fail gracefully on non-BAM input.

    o   headerTabix on an open TabixFile no longer reads the first
record

    o   scanBcfHeader provides informative error message when header
line ('#CHROM POS ...') is missing

See ?news for more detail. We will collate these files no later than Monday,
April 1.

Thanks,
Dan