                       Changes in version 4.21.1                        

  - support UniProt accession -> KO conversion in bitr_kegg() via KEGG
    REST and export gson_KO() for KEGG Orthology workflows (2026-06-24,
    Wed)
  - add nseGO(), nseKEGG(), nseMKEGG(), nseWP(), mnseGO(), mnseKEGG(),
    mnseMKEGG(), and mnseWP() as high-level topology-aware enrichment
    wrappers powered by enrichit, with metadata backfilling and
    lightweight wrapper tests (2026-06-24, Wed)
  - re-export aggregate_omics(), aggregate_enrichment(),
    harmonize_ids(), and select_features_for_ora() from enrichit for
    high-level multi-omics workflows (2026-06-24, Wed)
  - get_ppi_network to download and cache the full STRING PPI network
    for a specific species (2026-06-23, Tue)
      - the getPPI is now alias to get_ppi
  - fix GSEA wrappers to restore eps, forward extra arguments such as
    sampleSize to enrichit::gsea_gson(), and align the GSEA method
    documentation with the current enrichit interface (2026-06-22, Mon,
    #822)
  - re-export bayes_enrich() and bayes_summary() from enrichit
    (>= 0.1.5) for Bayesian term selection and posterior-ranked
    summaries of ORA enrichment results (2026-06-16, Tue)

                       Changes in version 4.20.0                        

  - Bioconductor RELEASE_3_23 (2026-04-29, Wed)

                       Changes in version 4.19.8                        

  - fix: map non-ENTREZID universe in enrichGO (2026-04-22, Wed)

                       Changes in version 4.19.7                        

  - interpret(), interpret_agent(), and interpret_hierarchical() now use
    aisdk's global default model when model = NULL, so users can switch
    the package-wide default with aisdk::set_model() while still
    overriding per call with an explicit model argument (2026-03-31,
    Tue)

                       Changes in version 4.19.6                        

  - update ko2name() to robustly parse KO names via KEGG REST, support
    vector input with deduplication, and return NA when NAME is missing
    (2026-02-25, Wed)
  - bug fixed for plot.interpret (2026-02-05, Thu)

                       Changes in version 4.19.5                        

  - interpret() prompt optimized with 'Comparative Analysis' and 'Rule
    of Exclusion' to better distinguish cell types with shared functions
    (e.g. NK vs CD8+ T cells) using specific marker genes (2026-01-22,
    Thu)
  - fixed a bug in interpret() where empty interpretation results were
    returned due to incorrect list structure handling in
    process_enrichment_input (2026-01-22, Thu)
  - interpret() now considers specific marker genes in cell type
    annotation to avoid key markers being overshadowed by general
    pathways (2026-01-21, Wed)
  - optimize enrichGO() to avoid memory boom when keyType is not
    ENTREZID (2026-01-21, Wed, #805)
  - gson_GO_local() to support local GO annotation by adding ancestral
    terms (2026-01-21, Wed)
  - interpret() implements a gene-based fallback mode for clusters with
    no enriched pathways, ensuring comprehensive analysis (2026-01-20,
    Tue)
  - plot() method for interpretation object to visualize the
    LLM-inferred regulatory network using ggtangle (2026-01-20, Tue)
  - interpret_agent() supports multi-agent system (Deep Mode) for
    interpretation (2026-01-20, Tue)
      - Agent Cleaner: Filters noise and selects relevant pathways
      - Agent Detective: Identifies key regulators and functional
        modules using PPI/TF data
      - Agent Synthesizer: Synthesizes findings into a coherent
        narrative
  - interpret() supports 'Knowledge-Guided Interpretation' (2026-01-20,
    Tue)
      - add_ppi parameter to integrate PPI network and identify hub
        genes
      - gene_fold_change parameter to incorporate expression levels
      - Mixed-source enrichment analysis support (e.g. Pathways + TFs)
        for causal integration
      - LLM-guided network refinement to output core regulatory networks
  - interpret_hierarchical() for hierarchical interpretation (e.g. Major
    -> Minor clusters) (2026-01-20, Tue)
  - interpret() now supports prior parameter for reference-guided
    interpretation (e.g. from SingleR/scGPT) (2026-01-20, Tue)

                       Changes in version 4.19.4                        

  - interpret() now supports task parameter to specify the task:
    'interpretation', 'annotation' and 'phenotyping' (2025-01-18, Sat)
  - interpret() supports enrichResult, gseaResult, compareClusterResult
    and list of enrichment results (2025-01-18, Sat)

                       Changes in version 4.19.3                        

  - instead of packing KEGG cache data in the package, we now download
    it from https://yulab-smu.top/clusterProfiler (2025-12-15, Mon)
  - add github action to automatically update KEGG cache data
    (2025-12-09, Tue)
  - use 'enrichit' as engine for enrichment analysis (2025-12-07, Sun)

                       Changes in version 4.19.2                        

  - use 'quarto' as vignette engine (2025-11-20, Thu)
  - update KEGG cache data (2025-11-20, Thu, #792)
      - number of KEGG pathway with category information: 582
      - Number of species: 11344

                       Changes in version 4.19.1                        

  - bug fixed in enrichPC (2025-11-01, Sat, #789)

                       Changes in version 4.18.0                        

  - Bioconductor RELEASE_3_22 (2025-10-30, Thu)

                       Changes in version 4.16.0                        

  - Bioconductor RELEASE_3_21 (2025-04-17, Thu)

                       Changes in version 4.15.2                        

  - more general regular pattern to remove species suffix in KEGG
    pathway name (2025-02-27, Thu)
  - remove input duplicated genes in groupGO() (2024-11-29, Fri, #741)

                       Changes in version 4.15.1                        

  - simplify() keeps the most informative term if there exist multiple
    terms that meets the criteria (2024-11-29, Fri, #744)
  - add 'RichFactor', 'FoldEnrichment' and 'zScore' in enrichDAVID()
    result (2024-11-12, Tue)
  - update DAVID Web Service URL to make enrichDAVID() work properly
    (2024-11-09, Sat)
      - https://davidbioinformatics.nih.gov/content.jsp?file=WS.html
  - add new citation (2024-11-07, Thu)
      - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xinn.2024.100722

                       Changes in version 4.14.0                        

  - Bioconductor RELEASE_3_20 (2024-10-30, Wed)

                       Changes in version 4.13.4                        

  - re-export DOSE::enrichDO() and DOSE::gseDO() (2024-10-01, Tue)

                       Changes in version 4.13.3                        

  - fixed bug in enrichPC() (2024-08-26, Mon)

                       Changes in version 4.13.2                        

  - fixed bug of gson_KEGG() (2024-08-19, Mon)

                       Changes in version 4.13.1                        

  - update functions to access PathwayCommons data (2024-08-11, Sun,
    gson#9)
  - use yulab.utils::yulab_msg() for startup message (2024-07-26, Fri)
  - update kegg_category information (7 categories and 572
    subcategories) (2024-07-26, Fri)
      - Cellular Processes (36)
      - Drug Development (75)
      - Environmental Information Processing (41)
      - Genetic Information Processing (39)
      - Human Diseases (99)
      - Metabolism (190)
      - Organismal Systems (92)

                       Changes in version 4.12.0                        

  - Bioconductor RELEASE_3_19 (2024-05-15, Wed)

                       Changes in version 4.10.1                        

  - bug fixed in parsing KEGG category (2024-03-07, Thu, #664)
  - update citation (#656) and wikipedia data URL (2024-01-10, Wed,
    #633)

                       Changes in version 4.10.0                        

  - Bioconductor RELEASE_3_18 (2023-10-25, Wed)

                        Changes in version 4.9.5                        

  - fixed R check (2023-10-18, Wed)

                        Changes in version 4.9.4                        

  - use check_installed() to check package dependency (2023-09-08, Fri,
    #621)
  - use yread() in WikiPathway utilities (2023-09-07, Thu)

                        Changes in version 4.9.3                        

  - enrichKEGG() and gseKEGG() now supports organism = 'cpd' to accept
    KEGG Compound ID (2023-08-31, Thu)
      - gson_cpd() and gson_ko()
  - use yulab.utils::yread() to parse file (2023-08-15, Tue)
  - supports Pathways Common (2023-08-02, Wed, #613)

                        Changes in version 4.9.2                        

  - append_kegg_category() function to add KEGG pathway category
    information to KEGG enrichment result and now it is the default
    behavior of enrichKEGG() and gseKEGG() (2023-07-12, Wed)
  - parse KEGG Pathway Category information (2023-07-11, Tue)
  - mv parse_gff() to GOSemSim::read.gaf() and re-export (2023-07-10,
    Mon)
  - mv buildGOmap() to `GOSemSim::buildGOmap() and re-export

                        Changes in version 4.9.1                        

  - getPPI() to query PPI network from 'stringdb' (2023-05-15, Mon)
  - getTaxID() and getTaxInfo() functions to query taxonomy information
    (2023-05-14, Sun)

                        Changes in version 4.8.0                        

  - Bioconductor RELEASE_3_17 (2023-05-03, Wed)

                        Changes in version 4.7.2                        

  - change wikiPathways link. (2023-03-10, Fri)
  - update get_data_from_KEGG_db() for the KEGG api changes (2023-03-05,
    Sun)
  - removing species info at the end of KEGG pathway names (2023-03-05,
    Sun)

                        Changes in version 4.7.1                        

  - update according to the KEGG api changes (2023-03-01, Wed)

                        Changes in version 4.6.0                        

  - Bioconductor 3.16 release

                        Changes in version 4.5.3                        

  - GSEA() supports GSONList object (2022-09-21, Wed)
  - enricher() supports GSONList object (2022-09-06, Tue)

                        Changes in version 4.5.2                        

  - support passing a GSON object to enricher(USER_DATA) and
    GSEA(USER_DATA) (2022-8-01, Mon)
  - gson_kegg_mapper() allows building a gson object from outputs of
    KEGG Mapper service (2022-07-29, Fri, #492)
  - fix show method for compareClusterResult (2022-06-21, Tue, #473)
  - gson_KEGG() download latest KEGG and output a GSON object
    (2022-06-08, Wed)
  - support passing a GSON object to gseKEGG(organism)
  - support passing a GSON object to enrichKEGG(organism) (2022-06-06,
    Mon)

                        Changes in version 4.5.1                        

  - follow KEGG api upgrade that change from http to https (2022-06-06,
    Mon)
  - use 'wininet' to download KEGG data when .Platform$OS.type =
    "windows" (2022-06-03, Fri)
  - mv read.gmt and read.gmt.wp to the 'gson' package and reexport these
    two functions from 'gson' (2022-04-28, Thu)
  - fix compareCluster when fun = enrichPathway(2022-4-28, Thu)

                        Changes in version 4.4.0                        

  - Bioconductor 3.15 release

                        Changes in version 4.3.4                        

  - fix enrichGO , gseGO and groupGO when keyType = 'SYMBOL' &&
    readable=TRUE(2022-4-9, Sat)

                        Changes in version 4.3.3                        

  - parse GAF file to prepare GO annotation data (esp for proteomic
    study) (2022-03-08, Tue, #397, #418, #421, #442)
  - bug fixed in compareCluster() (2022-01-27, Thu, #424)

                        Changes in version 4.3.2                        

  - bug fixed in extract_params() (2022-01-12, Wed, #392, @amcdavid)
  - make simplify() works for gseGO() in compareCluster()
  - support formula interface for GSEA methods in compareCluster()
    (2022-01-04, Tue, @altairwei, #416)

                        Changes in version 4.3.1                        

  - compareCluster() supports GSEA algorithm (2021-12-11, Sat)
  - update error message of download.KEGG.Path() and
    download.KEGG.Module()(2021-11-21, Sun)
  - update simplify() function to support ont = ALL (2021-10-27, Wed)

                        Changes in version 4.2.0                        

  - Bioconductor 3.14 release

                        Changes in version 4.1.4                        

  - import yulab.utils (2021-08-20, Fri)

                        Changes in version 4.1.3                        

  - Remove Human Gut Microbiome dataset as the functionalities are
    provided in https://github.com/YuLab-SMU/MicrobiomeProfiler
    (2021-08-15, Sun)

                        Changes in version 4.1.2                        

  - update citation and DESCRIPTION (2021-08-15, Sun)
  - update kegg_species.rda and allow online download using KEGG api
    (2021-08-14, Sat)

                        Changes in version 4.1.1                        

  - add citation (new paper published on The Innovation) (2021-07-04,
    Sun)

                        Changes in version 4.0.0                        

  - Bioconductor 3.13 release

                       Changes in version 3.99.1                        

  - Add new data set, DE_GSE8057, which contains DE genes obtained from
    GSE8057 (2020-03-08, Mon)

                       Changes in version 3.99.0                        

  - Add KEGG enrichment analysis of Human Gut Microbiome data
    (2021-02-20, Sat)

                       Changes in version 3.19.1                        

  - setting default timeout to 300 for downloads (2021-02-05, Fri)
  - fixed download method setting
  - capable of setting KEGG download method via
    options(clusterProfiler.download.method = METHOD) (2020-12-31, Thu)

                       Changes in version 3.18.0                        

  - Bioconductor 3.12 release (2020-10-28, Wed)

                       Changes in version 3.17.5                        

  - update [[.compareClusterResult (2020-10-14, Wed)

                       Changes in version 3.17.3                        

  - internal suports of enrichment analyses using WikiPathways
    (2020-09-09, Wed)
      - enrichWP for ORA analysis
      - gseWP for GSEA analysis
      - get_wp_organisms for listing supported organisms
      - read.gmt.wp for parsing gmt file downloaded from wikiPathways

                       Changes in version 3.17.2                        

  - use libcurl if capable (2020-09-08, Tue)
      - https://github.com/YuLab-SMU/clusterProfiler/pull/290

                       Changes in version 3.17.1                        

  - bug fixed of extract_params (2020-08-18, Tue)
      - https://github.com/YuLab-SMU/clusterProfiler/issues/282

                       Changes in version 3.16.0                        

  - Bioconductor 3.11 release

                       Changes in version 3.15.3                        

  - incorporate clusterProfiler.dplyr (2020-03-12, Thu)
      - arrange, filter, group_by, mutate, rename, select, slice and
        summarize

                       Changes in version 3.15.2                        

  - remove Suggests of KEGG.db as it will be deprecated in
    Bioconductor 3.11 (2020-01-14, Tue)
  - optimize enrichGO to use less memory (2019-12-13, Fri)
  - re-implement read.gmt without using GSEABase, and my own version is
    much more fasta :)

                       Changes in version 3.15.1                        

  - e.g. user can pass fun=enrichGO to compareCluster without quoting
    enrichGO (2019-12-02, Mon)
  - add keytype and readable info in compareCluster output
  - mv compareClusterResult class defintion to DOSE (2019-11-02, Sat)
  - mv fortify, barplot and dotplot for compareClusterResult to
    enrichplot.

                       Changes in version 3.14.0                        

  - Bioconductor 3.10 release

                       Changes in version 3.12.0                        

  - Bioconductor 3.9 release

                       Changes in version 3.11.1                        

  - asis parameter in [.compareClusterResult (2018-12-24, Mon)
      - https://github.com/GuangchuangYu/enrichplot/issues/17

                       Changes in version 3.10.0                        

  - Bioconductor 3.8 release

                        Changes in version 3.9.2                        

  - re-export DOSE::gsfilter and DOSE::setReadable (2018-05-25, Fri)

                        Changes in version 3.9.1                        

  - change color scheme of dotplot of compareClusterResult back to
    red->purple (2018-05-17, Thu)
      - https://support.bioconductor.org/p/108996/

                        Changes in version 3.8.0                        

  - Bioconductor 3.7 release

                        Changes in version 3.7.1                        

  - uniprot_get function (2018-01-30, Tue)
  - import enrichplot (2018-01-29, Mon)