Changes in version 1.32.0: o New function flattenGTF() that merges overlapping features into a single interval. o New parameter for align() and subjunc(): sortReadsByCoordinates. o New parameters for featureCounts(): readShiftType, readShiftSize and additionalAttributes. o Specify strand protocol for each library individually in featureCounts(). o Much improved speed of align() and subjunc(). o align() and subjunc() return mapping statistics. o Default setting of buildindex() is changed to building a one-block full index.