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 Package: roads
 Title: Road Network Projection
-Version: 1.1.0.9000
+Version: 1.1.1
 Authors@R: 
     c(person(given = "Sarah",
            family = "Endicott", 
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-# roads (development version)
+# roads 1.1.1
+* Fix an issue where updates to `terra` were causing roads to break
+* In the process removed `raster` and `sp` from dependencies and converted example data to `terra` and `sf` formats. This requires a new function `prepExData` to unwrap the `terra` objects that needed to be wrapped for storage
 
 # roads 1.1.0
 * converted to using `terra` throughout the package. `raster` objects are still accepted but will be converted to `terra` formats.
 * Added `getDistFromSource` function to use moving windows to quickly get a raster of the distance from the nearest source (e.g road).
-* remove `SpaDES.tools` dependency because it is archived on CRAN and there is an equivalent method in `terra` now.
+* remove `SpaDES.tools` dependency because it was archived on CRAN and there is an equivalent method in `terra` now.
 * The returned cost raster now includes the projected roads as having a cost of 0. This makes it easier to loop additional road building over time but is a change from the previous version where the input cost surface was returned. 
 
 # roads 1.0.0