Changes in version 1.0.0 (2026-02-28)                  

Adjusts to changes in version 1.0.0 of photon geocoder

Major changes

  - structured() geocoding does not require special setups anymore
  - download_database() is adjusted for the new interface of the
    download server.
  - list_regions() provides an overview of possible regions for
    download_database()
  - Add $status() method that interfaces new /status endpoint
  - Deprecate date, exact, and section arguments in download_database()
    without replacement
  - Deprecate country argument in download_database() in favor of region
  - Deprecate structured, update, and enable_update_api arguments in
    $import(). Use photon_opts for older versions of the photon
    geocoder.

Minor changes

  - Add support for unpacking and importing JSON dumps in $import()
  - Automatically convert countries to countrycodes in .data argument of
    structured()
  - Add new API parameters dedupe, inlude, and exclude as function
    arguments
  - Fix progress bar termination condition in structured()
  - Align behavior of $import() with $start() more consistently
  - Adjust log parsing of $start() and $import() to new format
  - $is_ready() now uses new /status endpoint
  - Add new subsection on JSON dump imports to vignette

                Changes in version 0.7.4-1 (2026-01-17)                 

  - Adjusted tests and examples to be more resilient to server outages

                 Changes in version 0.7.4 (2025-10-29)                  

  - Increment photon version to 0.7.4
  - Match package version to photon version
  - Update examples to work in photon 0.7.4
  - Set photon 0.7.4 as default and add a supersede warning if version
    < 0.7.0
  - Add photon type (OpenSearch/ElasticSearch) to error message
  - Adjust geocoding error detection to OpenSearch
  - Update vignettes to OpenSearch
  - Switch from Samoa to Monaco as example country (more reliable)
  - Add mount argument to new_photon(). If FALSE, instance is created
    but not mounted.
  - Add function with_photon() to execute code using a local photon
    instance
  - Add extra info to HTTP404 when search index download does not yield
    a result
  - Add $help() method to show raw argument information from jar file
  - Add CRS checks and transformations when an sf geometry is provided
    to reverse()
  - Improve URL checker by relying on httr2::url_parse()
  - Fix $download_data() method not untaring archive and storing
    metadata
  - Fix error detection during setup when encountering an exception
    without a timestamp
  - Fix error detection not recognizing OpenSearch import errors
  - Fix path arguments defaulting to "."
  - Fix an example in new_photon()
  - Fix progress bar in reverse()
  - Purge photon instances after examples

                 Changes in version 0.3.5 (2025-02-24)                  

  - Set limit = 1 as default (#2)
  - Increment photon version number
  - Document lang = "default" (#8)
  - Allow osm_tags and layer arguments to take vectors of length > 1
    (#7)
  - Fix typos and old info in documentation (#4)
  - Add current date to metadata if search index is tagged as "latest"
    (#5)
  - Fix typo in range assertion (#9)
  - Add details to HTTP error messages (#6)
  - Improve performance by querying duplicates only once (#10)
  - Always keep number of rows from original dataset (#3)
  - Fix broken ps command on newer Linux versions
  - Made setups more stable by splitting logs (#11, #12)
  - Handle NA as argument input more elegantly
  - Added optional latinization
  - Renamed consent argument of purge_java() to ask

                 Changes in version 0.3.1 (2024-11-11)                  

  - Initial CRAN submission.