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   change any API behavior on the outside, though
 * generateHyperParsEffectData and plotHyperParsEffect now support more than 2
   hyperparameters
+* linear.correlation, rank.correlation, anova.test: use Rfast instead of
+  FSelector/custom implementation now, performance should be much better
 
 ## functions - new
 * filter: randomForest.importance