diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index aaddf6e367f2e97bc0b634ec3f50f744e8ed0b2d..df13e4ca97a848af32d716970f4a2dd6b658ef3e 100755
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Package: hydroPSO
 Type: Package
 Title: Model-Independent Particle Swarm Optimisation for Environmental Models
 Version: 0.1-56
-Date: 2012-06-13
+Date: 2012-06-14
 Author: Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini [aut, cre] and Rodrigo Rojas [ctb]
 Author@R: c(person("Mauricio", "Zambrano-Bigiarini", email = "mzb.devel@gmail.com", role=c("aut", "cre") ), person("Rodrigo", "Rojas", email = "Rodrigo.RojasMujica@gmail.com", role=c("ctb") ) )
 Maintainer: Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini <mzb.devel@gmail.com>
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Description: This package implements a state-of-the-art version of the Particle
 License: GPL (>=2)
 Depends: R (>= 2.10.0)
 Imports: Hmisc, sp, lattice, grid
-Suggests: hydroGOF, hydroTSM, lhs, zoo, multicore, scatterplot3d, vioplot
+Suggests: hydroGOF(>= 0.3-3), hydroTSM(>= 0.3-0), zoo(>= 1.7-2), xts(>= 0.8-2), lhs, scatterplot3d, vioplot, multicore
 URL: http://www.rforge.net/hydroPSO, http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/hydroPSO
 Classification: optimisation, optimization, calibration, environment, environmental sciences, hydrology, PSO
 LazyLoad: yes
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 1f70c0c6f718cb9b5bf9ee5bc75c73218d7b6dc5..edd5428ec3024fbe629786d4505d27aabe57965b 100755
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,12 +1,11 @@
 NEWS/ChangeLog for hydroPSO
 --------------------------
 
-
-0.1-56	13-Jun-2012
+0.1-56	14-Jun-2012
         o 'hydroPSO'    : -) much less memory consumption for large values of 'maxit' and/or 'npart'.
                              The files 'BestParamPerIter.txt', 'PbestPerIter.txt', 'LocalBestPerIter.txt', 'Velocities.txt' are now written at the end of 
                              each iteration, and not at the end of the main algorithm (so the corresponding local variables were removed)
-                          -) the convergence of the algorithm controlled by 'reltol' is now defined by : reltol <= normalised swarm radius, 
+                          -) the convergence of the algorithm controlled by 'reltol' is now defined by : abs(reltol) <= abs(best.pbest[iter] - best.pbest[iter-1]), 
                              instead of reltol <= [ gbest(iter) / ( gbest(iter-1) +reltol ) ]
                           -) 'PbestPerIter.txt' output file: now it has an additional first column labelled "Iter", with the iteration number
                           -) 'LocalBestPartPerIter.txt' output file: now it has an additional first column labelled "Iter", with the iteration number
@@ -15,7 +14,9 @@ NEWS/ChangeLog for hydroPSO
                              (just after the new 'Iter' column)
                           -) minor change: 'gbest.fit.prior' is now initialized in 'gbest.fit' instead of 'gbest.fit + 10*reltol'
         o 'plot_results': -) 'drty.out' is now checked for existence before reading the results.
-        
+        o  Specific version numbers were added for the following suggested packages: 
+           hydroGOF(>=0.3-3), hydroTSM(>= 0.3-0), zoo(>=1.7-2), xts(>=0.8-2)
+               
 
 0.1-55	11-May-2012
         o 'hydromod'     : -) 'sim' and 'obs' are now checked for time attributes when 'gof.Ini' and/or 'gof.Fin' is/are used 
diff --git a/R/PSO_v2012.R b/R/PSO_v2012.R
index 9effe9c4afbc7aa45486fbbb7b66bcadd49769e0..4be491e23e0ed205de394ce994555b6040ced10c 100755
--- a/R/PSO_v2012.R
+++ b/R/PSO_v2012.R
@@ -1104,7 +1104,7 @@ Random.Topology.Generation <- function(npart, K,
 # Updates: Dec-2010                                                            #
 #          May-2011    ; 28-Oct-2011 ; 14-Nov-2011 ; 23-Nov-2011 ;             #
 #          15-Jan-2012 ; 23-Jan-2012 ; 30-Jan-2012 ; 23-Feb-2012 ; 23-Mar-2012 #
-#          13-Jun-2012                                                         #
+#          14-Jun-2012                                                         #
 ################################################################################
 # 'lower'           : minimum possible value for each parameter
 # 'upper'           : maximum possible value for each parameter
@@ -2126,10 +2126,10 @@ hydroPSO <- function(
 				       x.best= X.best.part
 				       )                               
 
-	    pbest.fit                   <- tmp[["pbest"]]
-	    X.best.part                 <- tmp[["x.best"]]
-	    gbest.fit                   <- tmp[["gbest.fit"]]
-	    gbest.pos                   <- tmp[["gbest.pos"]]
+	    pbest.fit   <- tmp[["pbest"]]
+	    X.best.part <- tmp[["x.best"]]
+	    gbest.fit   <- tmp[["gbest.fit"]]
+	    gbest.pos   <- tmp[["gbest.pos"]]
 
       } # IF end
 
@@ -2388,7 +2388,12 @@ hydroPSO <- function(
       ifelse(MinMax=="max", abstol.conv <- gbest.fit >= abstol, 
 			    abstol.conv <- gbest.fit <= abstol )
                      
-      reltol.conv <- ( NormSwarmRadius <= reltol )
+      if (reltol==0) {
+        reltol.conv <- FALSE
+      } else {
+        tmp <- abs(pbest.fit.iter.prior - pbest.fit.iter)
+        ifelse(tmp==0, reltol.conv <- FALSE, reltol.conv <- tmp <= abs(reltol) )
+      } # ELSE end
                      
       pbest.fit.iter.prior <- pbest.fit.iter
 
diff --git a/man/hydroPSO-package.Rd b/man/hydroPSO-package.Rd
index e532f7a1151bdbc4735e5a9120e4df79c1ae518e..7d41ad7b24fe260db232c000bf05c786c3a5c382 100755
--- a/man/hydroPSO-package.Rd
+++ b/man/hydroPSO-package.Rd
@@ -23,11 +23,11 @@ The default control arguments in hydroPSO implements the Standard PSO 2007 - SPS
 \tabular{ll}{
 Package: \tab hydroPSO\cr
 Type: \tab Package\cr
-Version: \tab 0.1-55\cr
-Date: \tab 2012-05-11\cr
+Version: \tab 0.1-56\cr
+Date: \tab 2012-06-14\cr
 License: \tab GPL (>=2)\cr
 LazyLoad: \tab yes\cr
-Packaged: \tab Fri May 11 13:57:44 CEST 2012; MZB \cr
+Packaged: \tab Thu Jun 14 09:43:49 CEST 2012; MZB \cr
 BuiltUnder: \tab R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30); x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu (64-bit) \cr
 }
 %%~~ An overview of how to use the package, including the most important functions ~~