CHANGES IN VERSION 0.58.0
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BUG FIXES

    o Fix updateObject() on numeric_version objects.
      See https://github.com/Bioconductor/BiocGenerics/issues/23


CHANGES IN VERSION 0.56.0
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BUG FIXES

    o Fix updateObject() infinite recursion on an environment that contains
      itself.

    o Small tweak to updateObject(<data.frame>).


CHANGES IN VERSION 0.54.0
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NEW FEATURES

    o Add longForm() S4 generic.
      See https://github.com/waldronlab/MultiAssayExperiment/issues/333 for
      some context.

    o Add paste2() S4 generic, with methods defined for ordinary vectors
      and arrays. Also add add_prefix() and add_suffix(), two simple wrappers
      around paste2() provided for convenience and code readability.

    o Define setequal() S4 generic with generics::setequal as default method.

SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES

    o Add CRAN package generics to Depends field. The default methods for
      S4 generics union(), intersect(), and setdiff() now are
      generics::union(), generics::intersect(), and generics::setdiff(),
      respectively. See '?BiocGenerics::setops' for more information.


CHANGES IN VERSION 0.52.0
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NEW FEATURES

    o Define the OutOfMemoryObject class (VIRTUAL class with no slots).

    o Add S4 generic containsOutOfMemoryData() and implement various methods.
      See '?containsOutOfMemoryData' for the details.

    o Add S4 generic saveRDS() and a default method that is just a thin wrapper
      around base::saveRDS() that issues a warning if the object to serialize
      contains out-of-memory data.

