Attempting to use a character string naming a foreign

function entry point in a foreign function call in a package will

now signal an error if the packages has called

promoting all subsequent warnings to errors.

binary GLMs.  A new method for objects of class

square root of the estimate of the dispersion parameter using the

knot construction, when some of the supposedly inner knots coincide

with boundary knots, now moves them inside (with a warning), building

on Windows now skips the site profile with

has been changed to be fully C-compliant.  This means that

to be cast to an appropriate type if they have any arguments.

identify old systems with a 32-bit type and hence a limited range

of date-times (and limited support for dates millions of years

(Windows) The default C++ standard had accidentally been

left at C++11 when it was changed to C++14 on Unix.

and their list components meant to be recycled,

far past (more than half a million years

separate processes by default (regression in

Running examples from HTML documentation now restores

Quartz: fonts are now located using Core Graphics API

instead of deprecated ATS which is no longer supported in the

the currently used font in the Quartz device context was not

(Windows) Math symbols in text drawing functions are again

no longer accidentally uses the unbalanced seconds,

Suharto Anggono's report (including patch) in

producing the error message in case of a long

Joris Vankerschaver's report (including patch) in

device it needs to open itself, it now leaves

security, but may be needed for downloads to work with

(macOS) The run-time check for libraries from

packages for greater coverage of math commands in

bundle otherwise), fulfilling the wish of

The PDF manuals (if built) can be compacted by the new

on Linux, which defaults to position-independent (PIE) executables

Many small changes to ease compilation (and suppress

when writing URLs, fixing LaTeX errors with such URLs in

names, the warning is better understandable; reported (with fix) in

restore their numerical precision (internal