                 Changes in version 2.8.0 (2026-08-20)                  

  - Refreshed the built-in indicator and country metadata using
    WDIcache(), and clarified the cache update instructions in the
    README and documentation.
  - wdi.dl() stops requesting pages once the World Bank API reports that
    the final page has been received. This reduces the number of
    requests from ten per indicator to the number of pages that actually
    exist. Thanks to @dshkol for PR #71.
  - wdi.dl() warns when fewer pages are retrieved than the World Bank
    API announced, instead of silently returning incomplete data.
  - Updated cache. Motivation: Pakistan and Afghanistan new region
    names.

                 Changes in version 2.7.10 (2026-04-05)                 

  - Updated cache.
  - Allowed more than 25000 indicators. Thanks to @universal for PR #70.

                 Changes in version 2.7.9 (2025-03-22)                  

  - The bulk download URL has changed. The package now uses the new URL.
    Thanks to @mjantti for issue #66.
  - Fix a bug where ISO3 codes were wrongly attributed to column iso2c
    (#54).
  - wdi.dl() and wdi.query() are not exported anymore. Those were
    undocumented anyway (#65).
  - Update the series search cache.

                 Changes in version 2.7.8 (2022-09-25)                  

  - Move to jsonlite
  - end is NULL by default

                 Changes in version 2.7.7 (2022-07-16)                  

  - Update the cache

                 Changes in version 2.7.6 (2022-02-25)                  

  - WDI(extra = TRUE) includes a new lastupdated column.

                 Changes in version 2.7.5 (2022-02-02)                  

  - Add the observation status (whether an observation is a forecast)
    when extra = TRUE in WDI() (#48)
  - Updated cache

                 Changes in version 2.7.4 (2021-04-06)                  

  - Bug fix for on-the-fly rename

                 Changes in version 2.7.3 (2021-03-30)                  

  - Better error message
  - Bug fixes

                 Changes in version 2.7.2 (2021-01-22)                  

  - Add support for several languages with the "language" argument in
    WDI() (#15)
  - Add "latest" argument in WDI(), to fetch the most recent non-NA
    values (#29, #43)
  - Speed improvement in WDIbulk (Thanks to @etiennebacher)
  - WDIbulk gets a timeout argument

                 Changes in version 2.7.1 (2020-07-05)                  

  - Bug: did not download all countries
  - WDIcache did not retrieve regions

                 Changes in version 2.7.0 (2020-06-23)                  

  - API v2
  - Fix a breaking change after API v2
  - per_page not large enough when dataset is big
  - Monthly and quarterly data

                 Changes in version 2.6.0 (2019-03-03)                  

  - start and end are NULL as default and download all available years.
  - label attribute to the return data.frame includes descriptive labels
    for each
  - WDIbulk function to download all of WDI
  - WDIcache and data trim whitespace from region names

                 Changes in version 2.5.1 (2018-12-07)                  

  - New # WDI numbering scheme
  - Updated country and indicator data

                        Changes in version 2.5.0                        

  - Namespace issues (thanks to Jan Dietrich)
  - Updated the list of available indicators
  - Allow iso3c or iso2c as input for country argument
  - Rolled-back indicator input clean up because too aggressive (Thanks
    to Geoff Wright)
  - Rename columns automatically when using a named vector

                        Changes in version 2.4.0                        

  - Call RJSONIO::fromJSON explicitly to avoid conflict with JSON
    package (Thanks to Richard Cotton)

                        Changes in version 2.3.0                        

  - Change default start/end date per user request

                        Changes in version 2.2.0                        

  - Bug: country names were stripped of digits

                        Changes in version 2.1.0                        

  - Fixed various issues (thanks to Matthieu Stigler for bug reports and
    patches)
  - Faster downloads when requesting multiple countries (leveraging the
    US;BR;CA API syntax)

                        Changes in version 2.0.0                        

  - Now uses JSON instead of XML (Faster, easier)
  - WDIcache function now allows users to update the locally stored
    database of available WDI series
  - Fixed doc examples
  - Documentation now uses roxygen2
  - Moved development to github
  - Series and country info now in a single data list. utf-8 encoding
    fixed
