loosen test condition so that the error message check passes regardle…

…ss of the character used to represent a decimal

update release date

update the release date

bump version back to 0.4.0, for better cohesiveness since the changes…

… previously spread between 0.4.0 and 0.4.1 really form a single block

add .flipBy and .swapBy on Tuple2

update changelog to prep for release

prep release version

bump to a stable release version number

handle assembly merge conflicts

first release