[R-pkg-devel] Matrix 1.7-0 to be released in March with ABI-breaking SuiteSparse update

[Tim Taylor]

On Wed, 10 Apr 2024, at 11:52 AM, Martin Maechler wrote:
>>>>>> Tim Taylor 
>>>>>>     on Wed, 10 Apr 2024 10:37:00 +0100 writes:
>
>     > Hi Mikael Revisiting this. Have the plans changed for
>     > 1.7-0 release?
>
>     > Tim
>
> Yes.  Matrix 1.7-0 *has* been on CRAN now for while
> (i.e. 'March' has remained as announced), *but*
> -- because of the ABI change and the problem it can cause for
>    *some* users --
>
> we have made it  'Depends: R (>= 4.4.0)'
> i.e., you *see* the new Matrix only once you use R 4.4.0
> which has been available as "alpha" already and is now in
> "beta" already, e.g.,
>
>   R version 4.4.0 beta (2024-04-10 r86393) -- "Puppy Cup"
>
>
> Best regards,
> Martin
>
> --
> Martin Maechler
> ETH Zurich  and  R Core Team

Thank you Martin.

Indeed, I should have dug further.

Rdevel> packageVersion("Matrix")
[1] '1.7.0'

Cheers

Tim