From d4990920667b3ad081135d7f18edb3c4933941c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Samuel Buis <samuel.buis@inra.fr>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 12:26:35 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Prepared DESCRIPTION and NEWS files for new release

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 DESCRIPTION |  4 ++--
 NEWS.md     | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
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 Type: Package
 Package: CroptimizR
 Title: A Package to Estimate Parameters of Crop Models
-Version: 0.6.1
-Date: 2023-12-22
+Version: 0.7.0
+Date: 2024-11-13
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Samuel", "Buis", , "samuel.buis@inrae.fr", role = c("aut", "cre"),
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-8676-5447")),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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+# CroptimizR 0.7.0(2024-11-13)
+
+## Main Changes
+
+* Enabled support for special characters in parameter names (#18).
+* Updated the bundled version of the **BayesianTools** package (#19).
+* Enhanced `is_data` function to verify that the tested data structure is not empty (#21).
+* Improved validation checks for the `weight` argument (#22).
+
+## Documentation
+
+* Added a LICENSE file (#15).
+
+## Fixes
+
+* Resolved an incompatibility between `forced_param_values` and `param_info$sit_list` (#14).
+* Fixed error message when `NA` values are detected in simulated results (#16).
+* Corrected the calculation of equality constraints when only one situation exists in `param_values` (#24).
+* Addressed various warnings (#14).
+
+## Miscellaneous
+
+* Added a unit test for `crit_wls` (#22).
+
+
 # CroptimizR 0.6.1  (2023-12-22)
 
 * Fixed check of NA/Inf in simulated results