Version 1.00.0 (2018-02-08)
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* Huge thanks to @cjyetman for his incredible work on this major release!
* Country-Year (panel) conversion dictionary
* Dictionary built from original sources
* Liechtenstein should not be in eu28
* Russia eurocontrol region fix
* CLRD country names 

Version 0.19.1 (2017-02-06)
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* Move to Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 
  http://semver.org/#semantic-versioning-specification-semver
* Fixed North Korea regex and added tests
* Fixed Sudan iso3n code
* Removed lookbehind from Ireland regex for javascript compatibility (request by plotly)
* Added nomatch argument

Version 0.19 (2017-02-06)
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New features

* "custom_dict" argument allows user-supplied dictionary data.frames
* "custom_match" argument allows a user-supplied named vector of custom
  origin->destination matches that will supercede any matching values in the
  default result (issue #107) (Thanks to @cjyetman)
* German, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, and Arabic country names as destination codes
* German regular expression to convert from German names to codes. (Thanks to @sumtxt)
* Aviation codes (Thanks to Enrico Spinielli)
* ar5 and eu28 (Thanks to Niklas Roming)
* eurostat (Thanks to @cjyetman)
* 2 and 3 character codes for the World Bank API: wb_api2c and wb_api3c (Thanks to @cjyetman)
* alpha and numeric codes for Polity IV: p4_scode and p4_ccode (Thanks to @cjyetman)
* World Values Survey numeric code (Thanks to @cjyetman)

Regex fixes and improvements:

* Improved regex for Ireland and United States of America (Thanks to @cjyetman)
* D.R. Congo (found in WVS) matches Democratic Republic of the Congo (Thanks to @cjyetman)
* Southern Africa
* Federated States of Micronesia
* Republic of China == Taiwan (Thanks to Nils Enevoldsen)
* Martinique (Thanks to Martyn Plummer)
* Tahiti country name string converts to French Polynesia

Misc:

* Major speed-up in regex conversion by using factors (Thanks to @cjyetman)
* when more than one match is found for a given string, <NA> is returned rather
  than arbitrarily choosing the last match found (Thanks to @cjyetman)
* updated tests to new testthat convention (Thanks to @cjyetman)
* English country names are now official UN versions
* Better docs, examples, and README
* Taiwan FAO code is 214 (Thanks to Matthieu Stigler)

Version 0.18 (2014-12-17)
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* Nils Enevoldsen did wonderful work refactoring most of the regex in the dictionary.
* Nils also added a bunch of tests. Thanks!
* Added Tokelau

Version 0.17 (2014-07-15)
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* Added International Olympic Committee codes (Thanks to Devon Meunier)
* Bug: fips04 -> fips104 (Thanks to Florian Hollenbach)
* Complete FIPS104 codes (Thanks to Andy Halterman)
* Generic code name validity check (Thanks to Stefan Zeugner)
* Fixed IMF codes (Thanks to Stefan Zeugner)
* Regex fix to work better with Database of Political Insitutions (Thanks to Christopher Gandrud)
* Avoids confusion with Eq Guinea (Thanks to Christopher Gandrud)

Version 0.16 (2013-08-20)
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* Bug: NA cowc -> ABW (Thanks to Jon Mellon)

Version 0.15 (2013-07-21)
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* Regex fixes
    - Guinea
    - West Bank
    - Kitts / Christopher
    - Georgia / India
    - Mali
    - Sudan nigeria
    - Belgium
    - Korea Somalia
    - Oman

Version 0.14 (2013-05-30)
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* sint maarten typo

Version 0.13 (2013-03-19)
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* add sint maartin & curacao (thanks johnb30)

Version 0.12 (2013-03-08)
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* Missing wb codes filled-in using iso3c
* Added South Sudan
* Thanks to Rod Alence!

Version 0.11 (2013-02-12)
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* Vietnam cown
* Regexes:
    - Dominica / Dominican Republic
    - New Zealand / Aland

Version 0.10 (2013-01-20)
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* De-duplicate Sudan
* Niger vs. Nigeria regex

Version 0.9 (2012-12-26)
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* Fixed regexes: Mali, Korea, Oman, Dominica

Version 0.8 (2012-06-26)
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* Added World Bank (wb) country codes. Very similar, but slightly different from iso3c.

Version 0.7 (2012-06-01)
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* Removed useless functions countrycode.nomatch and countryframe
* Fixed 2 Congo-related problems
* Added option for countrycode() to report codes for which no match was found
* Moved documentation to roxygen2
* Fixed Trinidad Tobago regex
* Added UN and FAO country codes