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 Version 1.2.3
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-Maintanence release, mostly to prevent issues with rate-limiting errors when the
-package is tested in CRAN
+Maintenance release, mostly to prevent issues with rate-limiting errors when the
+package is tested in CRAN. 
+
+* The sleep commands for rate-limiting are slightly increased
+
+* As of this release, the vignette is NOT build by default (to avoid issues with
+  automated tests on CRAN). This will not affect most users, but a developers
+  may want to read a wiki page describing how to build the vignette:
+
+https://github.com/ropensci/rentrez/wiki/Building-the-rentrez-tutorial-vignette.
+
+
 
 Version 1.2.2
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