The build system rolled up R-4.1.2.tar.gz (codename "Bird Hippie") this morning. The list below details the changes in this release. You can get the source code from https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-4/R-4.1.2.tar.gz or wait for it to be mirrored at a CRAN site nearer to you. Binaries for various platforms will appear in due course. 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A couple more usages of log() (which should have been std::log()) with an int argument are reported on Solaris. * The undocumented limit of 4095 bytes on messages from the S-compatibility macros PROBLEM and MESSAGE is now documented and longer messages will be silently truncated rather than potentially causing segfaults. * If the R_NO_SEGV_HANDLER environment variable is non-empty, the signal handler for SEGV/ILL/BUS signals (which offers recovery user interface) is not set. This allows more reliable debugging of crashes that involve the console. DEPRECATED AND DEFUNCT: * The legacy S-compatibility macros PROBLEM, MESSAGE, ERROR, WARN, WARNING, RECOVER, ... are deprecated and will be hidden in R 4.2.0. R's native interface of Rf_error and Rf_warning has long been preferred. BUG FIXES: * .mapply(F, dots, .) no longer segfaults when dots is not a list and uses match.fun(F) as always documented; reported by Andrew Simmons in PR#18164. * hist(<Date>, ...) and hist(<POSIXt>, ...) no longer pass arguments for rect() (such as col and density) to axis(). (Thanks to Sebastian Meyer's PR#18171.) * \Sexpr{ch} now preserves Encoding(ch). (Thanks to report and patch by Jeroen Ooms in PR#18152.) * Setting the RNG to "Marsaglia-Multicarry" e.g., by RNGkind(), now warns in more places, thanks to Andr'e Gillibert's report and patch in PR#18168. * gray(numeric(), alpha=1/2) no longer segfaults, fixing PR#18183, reported by Till Krenz. * Fixed dnbinom(x, size=<very_small>, .., log=TRUE) regression, reported by Martin Morgan. * as.Date.POSIXlt(x) now keeps names(x), thanks to Davis Vaughan's report and patch in PR#18188. * model.response() now strips an "AsIs" class typically, thanks to Duncan Murdoch's report and other discussants in PR#18190. * try() is considerably faster in case of an error and long call, as e.g., from some do.call(). Thanks to Alexander Kaever's suggestion posted to R-devel. * qqline(y = <object>) such as y=I(.), now works, see also PR#18190. * Non-integer mgp par() settings are now handled correctly in axis() and mtext(), thanks to Mikael Jagan and Duncan Murdoch's report and suggestion in PR#18194. * formatC(x) returns length zero character() now, rather than "" when x is of length zero, as documented, thanks to Davis Vaughan's post to R-devel. * removeSource(fn) now retains (other) attributes(fn). -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: pd.mes at cbs.dk Priv: PDalgd at gmail.com