NEWS in package ‘RSclient’

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Changes in version 0.7-10 (2023-11-28)

• silence overzealous C warnings

Changes in version 0.7-9 (2022-11-28)

• suppress OpenSSL warnings, more conservative PROTECTs

Changes in version 0.7-8 (2022-03-08)

• support Windows UCRT

Changes in version 0.7-7 (2021-11-05)

• improve long vector support and get ready for R-devel

Changes in version 0.7-6 (2021-10-31)

• remove configure.win and rely on OpenSSL being part of the toolchain

Changes in version 0.7-5 (2021-09-12)

• support long vectors when encoding (needed for R 3.5.0+)
• retry SSL/TLS read and write operations when required (#5)
• add ‘verify' flag to RS.connect() to verify the server certificate when connecting using SSL. (#3) Important: note that the default has now changed to 'verify=TRUE’, such that the default is to check the server certificate and fail in case it is not valid. To restore the old bahavior use ‘verify=FALSE’.
• add 'ca' argument to RS.connect() and RS.switch() to supply any CA chain needed to verify the server certificate. Only useful in conjunction with 'verify=TRUE'.
• it is now possible to supply a client certificate using 'chain' (for client certificate and its chain) and 'key' (for the client key) in RS.connect() and RS.switch(). This allows client authentication in Rserve based on the client certificate.
• use NAMESPACE for C symbol registration

Changes in version 0.7-4 (2017-10-06)

• support RS.collect(..., qap=TRUE)

Changes in version 0.7-3 (2015-07-27)

• fix an error when handling OOB if no handlers are registered
• RS.oobCallbacks(c) would always return NULL callabcks

Changes in version 0.7-2 (2013-07-02)

• add RS.eval(..., lazy=FALSE) which evaluates the argument locally and then remotely. This allows the construction of remote calls with both remote and local symbols.
• add RS.eval.qap() which uses Rserve QAP encoding instead of native R serialization (requires Rserve 1.7-0 with DT_SEXP support in CMD_eval).
• add support for Rserve object-capability (OC) model mode. OC calls are issued using RS.eval.qap() with OCref as the function to call.
• switch the order of winsock2.h and windows.h

Changes in version 0.7-1 (2013-02-19)

• add support for asynchronous connections and OOB streaming
• add support for non-transparent proxy protocol (RSpx)
• allow queuing of asynchronous RS.eval() and RS.assign()
• add basic methods for connections such as print, == and !=
• allow convenient RS.assign(c, x) syntax

Changes in version 0.7-0 (2012-11-05)

• initial CRAN release - the R client is based on Rserve 0.6-8 The function names on this old client are in the form RSxxx() Included is a new C-based client which uses sockets directly and thus supports features that cannot be supported with an R-based client such as TLS/SSL connections, switching, RSA secure authentication, multi-client selection. The function names for the new client are of the form RS.xxx() Handles of the two clients are not interchangeable, so you can only use one or the other for one connection.