Changes in version 0.4.0                        

  - Improved GenBank file read performance by ~25% compared to v0.3.0:
      - Moved feature location parsing and validation to Rust for better
        performance and more consistent error handling.
  - Added dependency-free format: format = "base".
      - This means that rgbio can now be used without any additional
        dependencies if needed, though the tidy (requires tibble) and
        bioconductor (requires Biostrings, S4Vectors, IRanges,
        GenomicRanges) formats are still recommended for most users.

                        Changes in version 0.3.0                        

  - Improved GenBank file read performance by ~25%:
      - Improved feature location handling internals with vectorized
        validation and parsing paths.
      - Reduced overhead in read_gbk() feature and sequence extraction
        by reusing vectorized intermediates.
      - Updated write-path validation to validate location vectors in
        one pass for better performance and consistent errors.
      - Expanded internal test coverage for vectorized location
        validation, including scalar/vector error parity checks.

                        Changes in version 0.2.0                        

  - Initial full release
  - Complete rewrite of high-level R functions
      - Added new primary GenBank I/O API: read_gbk() and write_gbk().
      - Added format = "tidy" and format = "bioconductor" output modes
        for reading.
      - Added selective read controls (sequences, features, metadata)
        and record selectors (records).
      - Added write support for named character vectors and DNAStringSet
        sequence inputs.
      - Added multi-record write orchestration and append-mode writing.
      - Kept read_genbank() and write_genbank() as deprecated
        compatibility wrappers.
  - Added more extensive testing with test files from gb-io.py, gb-io,
    and biopython

                        Changes in version 0.1.0                        

  - intermediate release for r-universe

                     Changes in version 0.0.0.9000                      

  - Initial development version with read/write support for GenBank
    files.
  - R bindings to the Rust gb-io crate via extendr.
  - Test coverage includes NCBI example GenBank files.