Changes in version 1.1                         

  - Data for Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Scotland, and USA
    updated
  - Data for Brazil, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, and Turkey newly
    added
  - All data moved to Harvard Dataverse

                  Changes in version 1.0 (2020-04-24)                   

  - All legislative periods of Spain's Congreso de los Diputados added
    to the database (14 in total).
  - Ongoing session of the Austrian Nationalrat added to the database
    (27th) and concluded session updated (26th).
  - Ongoing session of the Canadian House of Commons added to the
    database (43th) and concluded session updated (42th).
  - Ongoing session of the Irish Dáil added to the database (33th) and
    concluded session updated (32th).
  - Ongoing session of the UK House of Commons added to the database
    (58th) and concluded session updated (57th).
  - Irish Dáil data integrated with Database of Parliamentary Speeches
    in Ireland.
  - Czech Poslanecka Snemovna data integrated with ParlSpeech V1.
  - UK House of Commons data integrated with ParlSpeech V1.
  - Spanish Congreso de los Diputados data integrated with ParlSpeech
    V2.
  - Austrian Nationalrat data integrated with ParlSpeech V2.
  - Daily Wikipedia page traffic now goes back to December 2007 (except
    for the US House, where file storage restrictions currently limit
    traffic to range back to July 2009 only).
  - New cld_content() function that offers a quick overview of the CLD's
    scope and valid three-letter country codes, and helps to
    conventiently loop/map over legislatures and sessions.
  - "Introducing legislatoR" Vignette added.
  - Now available via CRAN
  - New Logo/Hexsticker.

                        Changes in version 0.2.0                        

  - 1st to 37th legislative periods of UK's House of Commons added to
    the database (37 in total).
  - Missing legislators and services variable added to all sessions of
    the French Assemblée.
  - German Bundestag data integrated with BTVote and ParlSpeech data.
  - UK House of Commons data integrated with Eggers and Spirling british
    political development database (starting from 38th session).
  - United States House and Senate data integrated with Voteview and
    congressional bills project data.
  - Missing Twitter handles added for the Austrian Nationalrat, Czech
    Poslanecka Snemovna, French Assemblée, German Bundestag, Irish Dail,
    UK House of Commons, and United States House and Senate (841 in
    total).
  - Missing religious affilition added for United States House and
    Senate and Canada's House of Commons.
  - Missing ethnicity added for Canada and UK's House of Commons.

                        Changes in version 0.1.0                        

  - Changed some function calls: get_facial is now get_portrait and
    get_occupation is now get_profession.
  - Changed valid legislature arguments for get_ functions. Full
    legislature names are no longer accepted as legislature codes.
    Instead, three-letter country codes such as aut, can, cze, fra, deu,
    irl, sco, gbr, usa_house, usa_senate must be used.
  - All legislative periods of Canada's House of Commons added to the
    database (42 in total).
  - All legislative periods of Czech Republic's Poslanecka Snemovna
    added to the database (8 in total).
  - All legislative periods of Scotland's Parliament added to the
    database (5 in total).
  - 38th - 57th legislative periods of UK's House of Commons added to
    the database (20 in total).
  - Current session of the Austrian Nationalrat added to the database
    (26th).
  - Current session of the German Bundestag added to the database
    (19th).
  - Current session of the French Assemblée added to the database
    (15th).
  - Current session of the United States House of representatives added
    to the database (116th).
  - Current session of the United States Senate added to the database
    (116th).
  - ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 three-letter country codes added to all core
    datasets.
  - Start- and end date of sessions added to all political datasets.
  - Missing legislators and services variable added to all sessions of
    the Irish Dáil.
  - Error in United States Senate Wikipedia revision records corrected.
  - Missing religious affiliation added from 1st to 18th German
    Bundestag using official data.
  - Erroneous information on United States Senate and House members'
    period of service corrected.
  - Additional variables on government/opposition status and leader
    positions added to all sessions of the Canadian House of Commons and
    United States Congress.
  - Correction and alignment of party names across legislative periods
    for all parliaments.
  - Emotion estimates removed from the portraits dataset.