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+# DIscBIO 1.2.2
+
+* Fixed calculation of Jaccard index (issue #44)
+
+# DIscBIO 1.2.1
+
+* Fixed integration and unit tests (issue #22, #37)
+* Improved coding style (issue #38)
+* Removed dependency on `boot` (issue 26)
+
+# DIscBIO 1.2.0
+
+* Added support for retrying to retrieve URLs (issue #29)
+* Removed use of duplicated (legacy) function _on unit tests only_
+* Improved detection of duplicated data on `NetAnalysis()`
+* Improved I/O behavior
+* Improved validation
+* Bug fixes
+
+# DIscBIO 1.1.0
+
+* Added support for more gene types
+* Improved I/O behavior
+* Updated Binder notebooks
+
+# DIscBIO 1.0.1
+
+* Bug fixes
+* Updated Binder notebook
+
+# DIscBIO 1.0.0
+
+Contains several changes from the [original work](https://github.com/SystemsBiologist/PSCAN), the most relevant of which are listed below:
+
+* Several functions have been enhanced with a `quiet` argument to suppress intermediate output (essential to obtain cleaner output in batch scripts and unit tests)
+* Functions have been isolated into their own R files
+* Function and package documentation were added
+* Test datasets were compressed to occupy less disk space
+* Bugs have been fixed