This NEWS file mainly serves as a changelog file, i.e. a list of new features / bugfixes by version number.

References to pull requests (or issues) created on https://github.com/MS-Quality-Hub/rmzqc are marked with ‘#’, e.g. ‘(#25)’ refers to https://github.com/MS-Quality-Hub/rmzqc/pull/25

Versions uploaded to CRAN are marked with [CRAN].

[CRAN] version 0.6.0 (2025/06/02)

• fix MzQCbaseQuality$getMetric() function (#25)
• extend basic guide vignette to showcase different value types for a QualityMetric (single value, n-tuple, table, matrix)
• check and warn for extraneous data in mzQC files which are not part of the specification

[CRAN] version 0.5.6 (2025/05/22)

• improved error messages when attempting to write invalid mzQC files
• runQuality/setQuality classes now have a getMetric() member function for easier extraction of metrics
• fixed MzQCDateTime to contain a ‘Z’ at the end of the time to indicate UTC time for full ISO8601 compliance
• update local psi-ms-cv to version 4.1.193

[CRAN] version 0.5.5 (2025/03/22)

• improved api documentation
• more robust handling of units

[CRAN] version 0.5.4 (2024/04/15)

• more robust handling of faulty internet connection when retrieving the latest PSI-MS CV

[CRAN] version 0.5.3 (2023/08/24)

• some convenience functions to create an mzQC document, e.g. ‘localFileToURI()’

[CRAN] version 0.5.2 (2023/08/05)

• Loads the PSI-MS CV only when required (not when the package is loaded, but only when running certain functions which depend on the CV).
• Some documentation fixes (mostly CV related)

[CRAN] version 0.5.1 (2023/07/10)

• fixes a bug in 0.5.0 when internet connection is missing

[CRAN] version 0.5.0 (2023/07/04)

• support the latest PSI-MS controlled vocabulary (via automatic download)

[CRAN] version 0.4.2 (2023/04/23)

• bugfix release (CV_ member not found when rmzqc is not attached)

[CRAN] version 0.4.1 (2023/04/11)

• Feature: support validation of mzQC files (via validateFrom…() functions, see Vignettes)

version 0.3.0 (2022/10/11)

• Feature: support reading mzQC files (via readMZQC(), see Vignettes)

version 0.2.2 (2022/08/21)

• Fix: make the CV singleton object available outside the package (via ‘getCVSingleton()’)

version 0.2.1 (2022/09/28)

• Update documentation

version 0.2.0 (2022/09/26)

• Add jupyter notebook with links to Google Colab
• Add a pkgdown website
• Update documentation

[CRAN] version 0.1.0 (2022/08/18)

• initial release (core mzQC data structures; writing mzQC JSON; tests)
• Versions uploaded to CRAN are marked with [CRAN].