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 # EpiNow2 (development version)
 
+## Package changes
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+- Users are now informed that `NA` observations (if present implicitly or explicitly) will be treated as missing instead of zero when using the default `obs_opts()`. Options to treat `NA` as zeros or accumulate them are also provided in the message. By @jamesmbaazam in #774 and reviewed by @sbfnk.
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 # EpiNow2 1.6.0
 
 A release that introduces model improvements to the Gaussian Process models, alongside a number of other improvements and bug fixes.
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 - Switch to broadcasting the day of the week effect. By @seabbs in #746 and reviewed by @jamesmbaazam.
 - A warning is now thrown if nonparametric PMFs passed to delay options have consecutive tail values that are below a certain low threshold as these lead to loss in speed with little gain in accuracy. By @jamesmbaazam in #752 and reviewed by @seabbs, with a subsequent bug fix in #802.
 - `dist_fit()` can now accept any number of `samples` without throwing a warning when `samples` < 1000 in #751 by @jamesmbaazam and reviewed by @seabbs and @sbfnk.
-- `obs_opts()` now informs users about how NA observations are treated to help them decide on existing alternatives. By @jamesmbaazam in #774 and reviewed by @sbfnk. 
-- Users are now informed that `NA` observations will be treated as missing instead of zero when using the default `obs_opts()`. Options to treat `NA` as zeros or accumulate them are also provided. By @jamesmbaazam in #774 and reviewed by @sbfnk.
 
 ## Package changes