NEWS

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SCIntRuler 0.99.8 (2026-09-16)

• Replaced commented-out documentation examples with executable examples that are run during package checks.
• Audited the DESCRIPTION text for CRAN's requested single-quote style for package and software names.

SCIntRuler 0.99.7

• Fixed vignette rendering with current cowplot releases.
• Updated count-layer access for SeuratObject 5 while retaining compatibility with SeuratObject 4.
• Corrected PermTest() and FindCell() so firstn selects nearest-neighbor rows, as defined in the published method, rather than sampled-cell columns.
• Corrected FindNNDist() to calculate distances for every sampled cell.
• Added validation and regression tests for firstn.
• Replaced the deprecated batchelor::cosineNorm() dependency path with an equivalent internal sparse-matrix cosine normalization.