NEWS in package ‘progress’

Changes in version 1.2.2

Fix two bugs in the C++ API that can potentially cause irregular behavior (#94, @jimhester).

Add the message_class argument, to add extra classes to the messages thrown by progress.
Add support for RKWard, running interactive session (#76, @devillemereuil).
Add support for unicode characters and a right to left progress bar (#86, @jimhester).
Fix a potential crash in the C++ API (#91, @jimhester).

Option to change the 'current' character in the progress bar. #47
New :tick_rate token, similar to :rate, but units are not assumed to be bytes. #45
Total number of ticks can be set to NA now, if unknown. #48
All progress bars (including the ones from the C++ API) can be turned off via the progress_enabled option #44
The stream argument is deprecated and the progress bar is always printed with message() calls.
Total number of iterations can be zero, to support special cases better.
Add finished variable, which can be queried to see if a progress bar is finished. #54 @jimhester.
Add a terminate() method, which can be called to explicitly remove the progress bar, #53 @jimhester.
Outputs greater than the bar width are automatically trimmed, @jimhester.
Add a message() method to print a message line(s) above the progress bar, @jimhester.
:elapsedfull token: elapsed time in hh:mm:ss format.
Fix C++ compiler warnings. #43
Fix C++ API on Windows. #56
Pass self to the callback function. #55 @jimhester

First version on CRAN.