Automated release blog post simulist - v0.6.0

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+---
+title: "simulist v0.6.0"
+author:
+  - name: "The Epiverse-TRACE development team"
+date: "2025-08-28"
+categories: [new-release]
+code-link: true
+---
+
+<!-- markdownlint-disable-next-line -->
+We are very excited to announce the release of a new [simulist](https://epiverse-trace.github.io/simulist) version v0.6.0.
+Here is an automatically generated summary of the changes in this version.
+
+```{r}
+library(simulist)
+```
+
+In this minor version release we have continued to make a range of improvements across the package. A new line list post-processing function, `censor_linelist()`, makes it easy to group dates into various intervals, `messy_linelist()` introduced in v0.5.0 is enhanced, and the package documentation is expanded to cover under-reporting in outbreak data and censoring dates. There are also a couple of minor bug fixes.
+
+The development status of the package is updated to _stable_ from _experimental_ to reflect the long term stability and low probability of major changes.
+
+## New features
+
+* A new `censor_linelist()` function is added to the package. This is a new post-processing function for line list data to censor `<Date>` to daily, weekly and other user-defined time periods. The `censor_linelist()` also has a weekend-effect option to replicate the low reporting over weekends. This new feature also adds the {grates} package as a dependency (#240).
+
+* `messy_linelist()` can now accept a vector with multiple `missing_value`s to allow different values to represent missing data (#241).
+
+* A demonstration of how to replicate under-reporting of line list and contact tracing data is added to the `wrangling-linelist.Rmd` vignette. The demo contains examples for multiple types of under-reporting data found in real-world outbreaks (#244).
+
+## Breaking changes
+
+* The `$was_case` column in contact tracing data simulated by `sim_contacts()` now contains `logical` boolean values instead of `"Y"` and `"N"` `character` strings (#243).
+
+* The minimum R version required by the package is incremented to v4.2.0 due to a recursive dependency on {fastymd} (#235).
+
+## Minor changes
+
+* Documentation on censoring dates is added to `wrangling-linelist.Rmd` (#240).
+
+* Documentation on interoperability between {simulist} and {incidence2} for double precision `<Date>`s and warning for not specifying `interval` in `incidence2::incidence()` is added to `vis-linelist.Rmd` (#232).
+
+* The lifecycle of the package has been updated from _experimental_ to _stable_ (#229).
+
+* `@return` function documentation for exported functions is improved (#235).
+
+## Bug fixes
+
+* `truncate_linelist()` sets `$outcome` to `NA` if they are more recent than truncation time. This matches the way `$date_outcome` was handled in `truncate_linelist()` in v0.5.0 (#228).
+
+* Alt-text in vignettes is fixed to render correctly on pkgdown website (#230).
+
+## Deprecated and defunct
+
+* None
+
+## Acknowledgements
+
+[&#x0040;joshwlambert](https://github.com/joshwlambert) [&#x0040;avallecam](https://github.com/avallecam) [&#x0040;TimTaylor](https://github.com/TimTaylor) [&#x0040;sbfnk](https://github.com/sbfnk) [&#x0040;seabbs](https://github.com/seabbs)