# dbscan 1.2.5 (2026-06-08)

## Changes
* OPTICS defaults now to eps = Inf. 
* Improvement of some man pages.

# dbscan 1.2.4 (2025-12-18)

## Bugfixes
* dbscan now checks for matrices with 0 rows or 0 columns
  (reported by maldridgeepa).
* Fixed license information for the ANN library header files (reported by 
  Charles Plessy).

# dbscan 1.2.3 (2025-08-20)

## Bugfixes
* plot.hdbscan gained parameters main, ylab, and leaflab (reported by nhward).

## Changes
* Fixed  partial argument matches.

# dbscan 1.2.2 (2025-01-24)

## Changes
* Removed dependence on the /bits/stdc++.h header. 

# dbscan 1.2.1 (2025-01-23)

## Changes
* Various refactoring by m-muecke

## New Features
* HDBSCAN gained parameter cluster_selection_epsilon to implement 
  clusters selected from Malzer and Baum (2020).
* Functions ncluster() and nnoise() were added.
* hullplot now() marks noise as x.
* Added clplot().
* pointdensity now also accepts a dist object as input and has the new type
  "gaussian" to calculate a Gaussian kernel estimate.
* Added the DBCV index.

## Bugfixes
* extractFOCS: Fixed total_score.
* Rewrote minimal spanning tree code.

# dbscan 1.2-0 (2024-06-28)

## New Features
* dbscan has now tidymodels tidiers (glance, tidy, augment).
* kNNdistplot can now plot a range of k/minPts values.
* added stats::nobs methods for the clusterings.
* kNN and frNN now contains the used distance metric.

## Changes
* dbscan component dist was renamed to metric. 
* Removed redundant sort in kNNdistplot (reported by Natasza Szczypien).
* Refactoring use anyNA(x) instead of any(is.na(x))
  and many more (by m-muecke).
* Reorganized the C++ source code.
* README now uses bibtex.
* Tests use now testthat edition 3 (m-muecke).

# dbscan 1.1-12 (2023-11-28)

## Bugfixes
* point_density checks now for missing values (reported by soelderer).
* Removed C++11 specification.
* ANN.cpp: fixed Rprintf warning.

# dbscan 1.1-11 (2022-10-26)

## New Features
* kNNdistplot gained parameter minPts.
* dbscan now retains information on distance method and border points.
* HDBSCAN now supports long vectors to work with larger distance matrices. 
* conversion from dist to kNN and frNN is now more memory efficient. It does no longer 
  coerce the dist object into a matrix of double the size, but extract the distances directly
  from the dist object.
* Better description of how predict uses only Euclidean distances and more error checking.
* The package now exports a new generic for as.dendrogram().

## Bugfixes
* is.corepoint() now uses the correct epsilon value (reported by Eng Aun).
* functions now check for cluster::dissimilariy objects which have class dist 
  but missing attributes.

# dbscan 1.1-10 (2022-01-14)

## New Features
* is.corepoint() for DBSCAN.
* coredist() and mrdist() for HDBSCAN.
* find connected components with comps().

## Changes
* reachability plot now shows all undefined distances as a dashed line.

## Bugfixes
* memory leak in mrd calculation fixed.

# dbscan 1.1-9 (2022-01-10)

## Changes
* We use now roxygen2.  

## New Features
* Added predict for hdbscan (as suggested by moredatapls)

# dbscan 1.1-8 (2021-04-26)

## Bugfixes
* LOF: fixed numerical issues with k-nearest neighbor distance on Solaris.

# dbscan 1.1-7 (2021-04-21)

## Bugfixes
* Fixed description of k in knndistplot and added minPts argument.
* Fixed bug for tied distances in lof (reported by sverchkov).

## Changes
* lof: the density parameter was changes to minPts to be consistent with the original paper and dbscan. Note that minPts = k + 1.

# dbscan 1.1-6 (2021-02-24)

## Improvements 
* Improved speed of LOF for large ks (following suggestions by eduardokapp). 
* kNN: results is now not sorted again for kd-tree queries which is much faster (by a factor of 10).
* ANN library: annclose() is now only called once when the package is unloaded. This is in preparation to support persistent kd-trees using external pointers.
* hdbscan lost parameter xdist.

## Bugfixes
* removed dependence on methods.
* fixed problem in hullplot for singleton clusters (reported by Fernando Archuby).
* GLOSH now also accepts data.frames.
* GLOSH returns now 0 instead of NaN if we have k duplicate points in the data.

# dbscan 1.1-5 (2019-10-22)

## New Features
* kNN and frNN gained parameter query to query neighbors for points not in the data.
* sNN gained parameter jp to decide if the shared NN should be counted using the definition by Jarvis and Patrick.


# dbscan 1.1-4 (2019-08-05)

## New Features
* kNNdist gained parameter all to indicate if a matrix with the distance to all 
  nearest neighbors up to k should be returned.

## Bugfixes
* kNNdist now correctly returns the distances to the kth neighbor 
  (reported by zschuster).
* dbscan: check eps and minPts parameters to avoid undefined results (reported by ArthurPERE).


# dbscan 1.1-3 (2018-11-12)

## Bugfixes
* pointdensity was double counting the query point (reported by Marius Hofert).

# dbscan 1.1-2 (2018-05-18)

## New Features
* OPTICS now calculates eps if it is omitted.

## Bugfixes
* Example now only uses igraph conditionally since it is unavailable 
  on Solaris (reported by B. Ripley).

# dbscan 1.1-1 (2017-03-19)

## Bugfixes

* Fixed problem with constant name on Solaris in ANN code (reported by B. Ripley).

# dbscan 1.1-0 (2017-03-18)

## New Features

* HDBSCAN was added.
* extractFOSC (optimal selection of clusters for HDBSCAN) was added.
* GLOSH outlier score was added.
* hullplot uses now filled polygons as the default.
* hullplot now used PCA if the data has more than 2 dimensions.
* Added NN superclass for kNN and frNN with plot and with adjacencylist().
* Added shared nearest neighbor clustering as sNNclust() and sNN to calculate
  the number of shared nearest neighbors.
* Added pointdensity function.
* Unsorted kNN and frNN can now be sorted using sort().
* kNN and frNN now also accept kNN and frNN objects, respectively. This can 
  be used to create a new kNN (frNN) with a reduced k or eps.
* Datasets added: DS3 and moon.

## Interface Changes

* Improved interface for dbscan() and optics(): ... it now passed on to frNN.
* OPTICS clustering extraction methods are now called extractDBSCAN and 
  extractXi.
* kNN and frNN are now objects with a print function.
* dbscan now also accepts a frNN object as input.
* jpclust and sNNclust now return a list instead of just the 
  cluster assignments.

# dbscan 1.0-0 (2017-02-02)

## New Features

* The package has now a vignette.
* Jarvis-Patrick clustering is now available as jpclust().
* Improved interface for dbscan() and optics(): ... is now passed on to frNN.
* OPTICS clustering extraction methods are now called extractDBSCAN and 
  extractXi.
* hullplot uses now filled polygons as the default.
* hullplot now used PCA if the data has more than 2 dimensions.
* kNN and frNN are now objects with a print function.
* dbscan now also accepts a frNN object as input.


# dbscan 0.9-8 (2016-08-05)

## New Features

* Added hullplot to plot a scatter plot with added convex cluster hulls.
* OPTICS: added a predecessor correction step that is used by 
    the ELKI implementation (Matt Piekenbrock).  

## Bugfixes

* Fixed a memory problem in frNN (reported by Yilei He).

# dbscan 0.9-7 (2016-04-14)

* OPTICSXi is now implemented (thanks to Matt Piekenbrock).
* DBSCAN now also accepts MinPts (with a capital M) to be
    compatible with the fpc version.
* DBSCAN objects are now also of class db scan_fast to avoid clashes with fpc.
* DBSCAN and OPTICS have now predict functions.
* Added test for unhandled NAs.
* Fixed LOF for more than k duplicate points (reported by Samneet Singh).

# dbscan 0.9-6 (2015-12-14)

* OPTICS: fixed second bug reported by Di Pang
* all methods now also accept dist objects and have a search
    method "dist" which precomputes distances.

# dbscan 0.9-5 (2015-10-04)

* OPTICS: fixed bug with first observation reported by Di Pang
* OPTICS: clusterings can now be extracted using optics_cut

# dbscan 0.9-4 (2015-09-17)

* added tests (testthat).
* input data is now checked if it can safely be coerced into a
    numeric matrix (storage.mode double).
* fixed self matches in kNN and frNN (now returns the first NN correctly).

# dbscan 0.9-3 (2015-9-2)

* Added weights to DBSCAN.

# dbscan 0.9-2 (2015-08-11)

* Added kNN interface.
* Added frNN (fixed radius NN) interface.
* Added LOF.
* Added OPTICS.
* All algorithms check now for interrupt (CTRL-C/Esc).
* DBSCAN now returns a list instead of a numeric vector.

# dbscan 0.9-1 (2015-07-21)

* DBSCAN: Improved speed by avoiding repeated sorting of point ids.
* Added linear NN search option.
* Added fast calculation for kNN distance.
* fpc and microbenchmark are now used conditionally in the examples.

# dbscan 0.9-0 (2015-07-15)

* initial release
