From 143971ebd96909ff7c145196aa47cfca5ce93dd5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Iannone <riannone@me.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2023 10:20:22 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Release blastula 0.3.4 (#312)

* Update DESCRIPTION

* Update NEWS.md

* Increase R version requirement

* Update DESCRIPTION

* Update README.md

* Update .Rbuildignore
---
 .Rbuildignore |  5 +----
 DESCRIPTION   |  6 +++---
 NEWS.md       | 10 ++++++++--
 README.md     | 25 +++++--------------------
 4 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index 090ce293..4d2b5763 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -4,14 +4,11 @@
 ^\.github$
 ^\.travis\.yml$
 ^_pkgdown\.yml$
-^appveyor\.yml$
 ^codecov\.yml$
 ^.*\.Rproj$
 ^\.Rproj\.user$
-^cran-comments\.md$
-^CODE_OF_CONDUCT\.md$
 ^tests/manual_tests
-^README\.Rmd$
+^README\.md$
 ^\.httr-oauth$
 ^gmail_
 ^LICENSE\.md$
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 9482b287..fc346cdc 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Type: Package
 Package: blastula
-Version: 0.3.3.9000
+Version: 0.3.4
 Title: Easily Send HTML Email Messages
 Description: Compose and send out responsive HTML email messages that render
     perfectly across a range of email clients and device sizes. Helper functions
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Authors@R: c(
 License: MIT + file LICENSE
 URL: https://github.com/rstudio/blastula
 BugReports: https://github.com/rstudio/blastula/issues
-Depends: R (>= 3.2.1)
+Depends: R (>= 3.6)
 Imports:
     base64enc (>= 0.1-3),
     commonmark (>= 1.7),
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Imports:
     jsonlite (>= 1.6),
     magrittr (>= 1.5),
     mime (>= 0.6),
-    rlang (>= 0.4.1),
+    rlang (>= 1.0),
     rmarkdown,
     stringr (>= 1.4.0),
     uuid (>= 0.1-2)
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index a98d8361..ec732cc7 100755
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,10 +1,16 @@
-# blastula (development version)
+# blastula 0.3.4
+
+* Modified tests to remove specific cases that no longer work in newer versions of R. (#310)
+
+* Fixed a problem where non-ASCII subject lines wouldn't render correctly on the Windows platform when using `smtp_send()` (#241). (#242, thanks @shrektan!)
+
+* We replaced `httr::POST()` with `httr::RETRY()` when interacting with web APIs (Mailgun and Imgur). (#176, thank you @ataustin for contributing this PR.)
 
 # blastula 0.3.3
 
 * Made a correction to a `format()` statement to comply with CRAN policy.
 
-* Updated the SMTP vignette with regard to Gmail app passwords (#282), (#283, thanks @jnolis!)
+* Updated the SMTP vignette with regard to Gmail app passwords (#282). (#283, thanks @jnolis!)
 
 # blastula 0.3.2
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 178f341c..ba9dc3ba 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 <br />
 <!-- badges: start -->
 <a href="https://cran.r-project.org/package=blastula"><img src="https://www.r-pkg.org/badges/version/blastula" alt="CRAN status" /></a>
-<a href="https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-yellow.svg" alt="License: MIT" /></a>
+<a href="https://opensource.org/license/mit/"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-yellow.svg" alt="License: MIT" /></a>
 <a href="https://github.com/rstudio/blastula/actions"><img src="https://github.com/rstudio/blastula/workflows/R-CMD-check/badge.svg" alt="R build status" /></a>
 <a href="https://app.codecov.io/gh/rstudio/blastula?branch=master"><img src="https://codecov.io/gh/rstudio/blastula/branch/master/graph/badge.svg" alt="Coverage status" /></a>
 
@@ -104,31 +104,16 @@ devtools::install_github("rstudio/blastula")
 
 If you encounter a bug, have usage questions, or want to share ideas to make this package better, feel free to file an [issue](https://github.com/rstudio/blastula/issues).
 
-## Getting help
-
-There are two main places to get help:
-
-1.  The [RStudio
-    community](https://community.rstudio.com/c/r-markdown/10) is a
-    friendly place to ask any questions about rmarkdown and the R
-    Markdown family of packages.
-
-2.  [Stack
-    Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/r-markdown) is
-    a great source of answers to common rmarkdown questions. It is also
-    a great place to get help, once you have created a reproducible
-    example that illustrates your problem.
-
-##### Code of Conduct
+#### Code of Conduct
 
 Please note that the `rstudio/blastula` project is released with a [contributor code of conduct](https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/1/code_of_conduct.html).<br>By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.
 
-##### 📄 License
+#### 📄 License
 
 **blastula** is licensed under the MIT license. See the [`LICENSE.md`](LICENSE.md) file for more details.
 
 © Posit Software, PBC.
 
-##### 🏛️ Governance
+#### 🏛️ Governance
 
-This project is primarily maintained by [Rich Iannone](https://twitter.com/riannone). Should there also be other authors, they might occasionally assist with some of these duties.
+This project is primarily maintained by **Richard Iannone**. Should there also be other authors, they might occasionally assist with some of these duties.