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@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ I think I encountered a situation where 4-96 was not enough so I've bumped it to
 This may have been addressed at 64a308ba50b9119108e8946737460de5997b805b by adding `samples` to vcfR method `[`.
 * In issue #92 (vcfR2genlight big data #92), JimWhiting91 has documented that `extract.gt()` could be greatly improved with multithreading. While he used `mclapply()` I do not feel this is the best solution because it does not work on Windows. I think a better solution would be [RCppParallel](https://rcppcore.github.io/RcppParallel/) because this should work on all CRAN platforms.
 
+# vcfR 1.12.0
+Released on CRAN 2020-07-XX
+* Incorporated help from https://stackoverflow.com/a/62721142 to use checkbashisms
+
 # vcfR 1.11.0
 Released on CRAN 2020-06-05
 * Now compatible with R 4.0.0 and dplyr 1.0.0