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 Package: hubValidations
 Title: Testing framework for hubverse hub validations
-Version: 0.7.0.9000
+Version: 0.7.1
 Authors@R: c(
     person(
         given = "Anna", 
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-# hubValidations (development version)
+# hubValidations 0.7.1
 
-* Added:
+* Updated documentation for custom validations:
   - new vignette on how to create custom validation checks for hub validations (#121) 
   - new section on how to manage additional dependencies required by custom validation functions (#22).
-* Bolstered parsing of file names in `parse_file_name()` to ensure they match the specific pattern required rather than just checking patterns of interest are extracted successfully and added more fine-grained check error messages  (#132).
+* Bolstered parsing of file names in`parse_file_name()`:
+  - ensure filenames are composed of letters, numbers, and underscores (#132).
+  - added more fine-grained check error messages to identify portion of file name that errored.
 
 # hubValidations 0.7.0