NEWS

cowsay 0.9.0 (2023-11-02)

remove multicolor temporarily as it is no longer on CRAN (#86)
use new special "sentinel" "PACKAGE" prefixed with an underscore for the package level manual file (84)
new animals alligator, goldfish, stegosaurus, whale, and wolf from @harriscw (#79)

makes sure to use a suggested package multicolor conditionally throughout the package (tests, examples, vignettes)

say() parameter what loses the fillerama options ("arresteddevelopment", "doctorwho", "dexter", "futurama", "holygrail", "simpsons", "starwars", "loremipsum") because the API is down
gains two squirrels squirrel and squirrel2 (#74) from @marionlouveaux
gains chuck norris chuck (#62) from @bgreenwell
the type parameter in say() gains new option print, the default option in non-interactive environments. type="print" will cat() output (#70) (#72)

fix to use of colors: if colors can not be used in certain computing environments, tell users that and set colors to NULL (#65) (#66)

cowsay now supports colors via the multicolor package from Amanda Dobbyn. supports coloring by the thing being said (new what_color parameter) or the thing saying it (new by_color parameter). supports more than one color. thanks Amanda! (#59) (#61)

@ateucher added support for the rmsfact package, for random facts about Richard Stallman (#45)
turkey animal added by @jeremycg , thanks Jeremy! (#46)
@LucyMcGowan added a monkey, thanks Lucy! (#47)
@GuangchuangYu added the BSD daemon, also called "beastie", thank so much! (#48) (#49)
@onertipaday added support for quotes from the http://fillerama.io/ service with quotes from Futurama, Star Wars, Dexter, Monty Python, Doctor Who, and more. Thanks Paolo! (#51)