+ o The new function compute.brtime computes and sets branching times.
+
+ o mantel.test() has a new argument 'alternative' which is
+ "two-sided" by default. Previously, this test was one-tailed
+ with no possibility to change.
+
+ o ace() can now do REML estimation with continuous characters,
+ giving better estimates of the variance of the Brownian motion
+ process.
+
+
+BUG FIXES
+
+ o Branch lengths were wrongly updated with bind.tree(, where = <tip>,
+ position = 0). (Thanks to Liam Revell for digging this bug out.)
+
+ o Simulation of OU process with rTraitCont() did not work correctly.
+ This now uses formula from Gillespie (1996) reduced to a BM
+ process when alpha = 0 to avoid division by zero. The option
+ 'linear' has been removed.
+
+ o Cross-validation in chronopl() did not work when 'age.max' was
+ used.
+
+ o consensus(, p = 0.5) could return an incorrect tree if some
+ incompatible splits occur in 50% of the trees (especially with
+ small number of trees).
+
+ o c() with "multiPhylo" did not work correctly (thanks to Klaus
+ Schliep for the fix).
+
+ o root() failed in some cases with an outgroup made of several tips.
+ The help page has been clarified a bit.