Changes in version 3.0.0 (2026-01-07)                  

What’s new:

  - Fully aligned with the new XGBoost R API: deprecated watchlist
    removed, predictions use the standard predict(model, xgb.DMatrix)
    method, eliminating future-breaking warnings.
  - Bayesian optimization redesigned to use a pure base-R surrogate
    approach, removing GPfit-related numerical failures while preserving
    the same function signature and outputs.
  - Robust failure handling across optimization and modeling: failed
    models are safely ignored, edge cases handled explicitly, and
    searches always return valid results.
  - Reduced dependency footprint, relying mainly on base R plus xgboost
    and imputeTS, simplifying installation and maintenance.
  - Cleaner, more stable modeling core (engine, sequencer, hood) with
    safer cross-validation, early stopping, residual sampling, and base
    svd() for dimensionality reduction.
  - Output and API backward compatibility preserved: existing code using
    audrex, random_search, or bayesian_search continues to work
    unchanged.
  - Comprehensive test coverage added via testthat, validating all major
    paths (gbtree, gblinear, random search, Bayesian search, full audrex
    pipeline).

                 Changes in version 2.0.0 (2022-03-21)                  

  - Changed the whole architecture: from one-step function to
    multi-point models for each sequence
  - Added latent dimension reduction with svd
  - Added automatic differentiation via recursive F-test for de-trending
    and removed deriv
  - Added Yeo-Johson normalization and removed minmax
  - Expanded the available statistics both in predictions and pred_stats

                 Changes in version 1.0.1 (2021-08-18)                  

  - Added minmax normalization and removed shift feature
  - Expanded the available statistics both in predictions and pred_stats
  - Added cross-validation through expanding windows
  - Added two datasets
  - Added link to article in Rpubs

                 Changes in version 1.0.0 (2021-04-28)                  

  - Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.