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 Package: PLNmodels
 Title: Poisson Lognormal Models
-Version: 1.0.1-9010
+Version: 1.0.2
 Authors@R: c(
   person("Julien", "Chiquet", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "julien.chiquet@inrae.fr",
       comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-3629-3429")),
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-# PLNmodels development version
+# PLNmodels 1.0.2 (2023-06-20)
 
-* Fix bug when using inception in PLNnetwork( 
+* changed initial value in optim for variational variance (1 -> 0.1),
+    which caused failure in some cases
+* fix bug when using inception in PLNnetwork()
 * starting handling of missing data
 * slightly faster (factorized) initialization for PCA