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 Package: tiledb
 Type: Package
-Version: 0.28.0
+Version: 0.28.0.1
 Title: Modern Database Engine for Complex Data Based on Multi-Dimensional Arrays
 Authors@R: c(person("TileDB, Inc.", role = c("aut", "cph")),
   person("Dirk", "Eddelbuettel", email = "dirk@tiledb.com", role = "cre"))
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+# Ongoing development
+
+## Improvements
+
+* When creating arrays with `fromDataFrame`, start and/or end timestamps can now be specified (#719)
+
+
 # tiledb 0.28.0
 
 * This release of the R package builds against [TileDB 2.24.0](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB/releases/tag/2.24.0), and has also been tested against earlier releases as well as the development version (#714, #715, #717)