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 Package: startR
 Title: Automatically Retrieve Multidimensional Distributed Data Sets
-Version: 2.2.0
+Version: 2.2.0-1
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Nicolau", "Manubens", , "nicolau.manubens@bsc.es", role = c("aut")),
     person("An-Chi", "Ho", , "an.ho@bsc.es", role = c("aut", "cre")), 
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+# startR v2.2.0-1 (Release date: 2022-04-19)
+- Bugfix for the case that the variable has units like time, e.g., "days".  
+- Development of metadata reshaping. The metadata should correspond to data if data are reshaped by parameter "merge_across_dims" and "split_multiselected_dims", as well as if data selectors are not continuous indices.  
+- Development of multiple dependency by array selector. An inner dimension indices can vary with multiple file dimensions.  
+
 # startR v2.2.0 (Release date: 2022-02-11)  
 - License changes to Apache License 2.0  
 - R version dependency changes to >= 3.6.0