The release should be fairly non-disruptive for the users, bringing some minor bug-fixes and modest portion of enhancements. Nevertheless, distribution maintainers may be somewhat disturbed. Time-proven buildsystem is ditched, documentation location has changed. Please consult bundled packaging templates for RPM, deb and snap for new build description and file locations.
Release highlights
Removals
- autotools-based buildsystem
- server functionality
- Java applet (Java engine and Java console application remain intact)
- documentation in an in-house, proprietary format
Enhancements
- printing expressions in R-compatible form
- improved printing of arrays and associations
- access to keys and head of associations
- improved unicode support
Miscellaneous
- hand-crafted templates for building deb, rpm and snap packages are provided
- tests are shipped with binary packages
Altogether, over 30 issues were closed in this release.