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Changelog

Source: NEWS.md

BLASTr 0.1.5 2025-08-27

Breaking Changes

  • The internal environments used by BLASTr have been renamed to blastr-blast-env and blastr-entrez-env.

  • Remove of the furrr based functions in favor of the new purrr native parallel.

  • All options() based parameters have been removed in favor of explicit arguments in the functions.

New features

  • New parallel framework based on native purrr functions, using mirai and carrier in the background.

  • New make_blast_db() function to create custom BLAST databases.

Minor improvements and fixes

  • Internal entrez-direct version bump to 24.0.

BLASTr 0.1.3

  • Refactor handling of internal errors.

  • shell_exec is not available anymore.

BLASTr 0.1.2

  • New install_dependencies() automatically create environments.

  • Initial support for condathis for managing dependency installation.