webR 0.6.0

Breaking changes

• Updated to R v4.6.0.

• Updated to Emscripten v4.0.8. R packages build for previous versions of webR will not be binary compatible (#603).

• Updated the base LLVM distribution, rebasing our Fortran for WebAssembly patches on v21.1.8. An additional patch new to this release fixes the Fortran allocatable arrays feature.

New Contributors

• @HenrikBengtsson made their first contribution in #586
• @lpmi-13 made their first contribution in #593

Full Changelog: v0.5.8...v0.6.0

webR 0.5.9

New features

• Update libsodium to v1.0.22 (#595)
• Update libtiff to v4.7.1 (#593)
• Add libpoppler recipe for pdftools (#593)
• Add libuv from fs package (#598)

Bug Fixes

• Follow URL redirects in downloadFileContent() under Node (#585)
• Fix WebSocket proxy on NodeJS (#594)

Full Changelog: v0.5.8...v0.5.9

webR 0.5.8

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bundling for browser with webR NPM package.

Full Changelog: v0.5.7...v0.5.8

webR 0.5.7

What's Changed

• Fixed importing webR ESM package in Node.js when running with type: "module" (#583).
• Add inline documentation for evalR methods by @AABoyles in #571

Full Changelog: v0.5.6...v0.5.7

webR 0.5.6

New features

• Added shim for requireNamespace R function (#570).

• Added CSS media query for system dark mode (#572).

• Proxy Web Worker communication through the main thread when using the SharedArrayBuffer communication channel (#576).

• The R version is now exposed at webR.versionR and as the R_VERSION environment variable (#577).

New Contributors

• @AABoyles made their first contribution in #570
• @kyleGrealis made their first contribution in #572
• @laderast made their first contribution in #573

Full Changelog: v0.5.4...v0.5.6

webR 0.5.5

New features

• Proxy WebSocket communication through the main thread when using the SharedArrayBuffer communication channel (#562).

• Added support for webr::eval_js(..., await = TRUE).

• Updated OpenSSL to version 3.5.1 (#564).

• Added a SSL cacert bundle to the Emscripten VFS (#562).

• Added support mechanism for running curl and httr2 using a WebSocket proxy + SOCKS tunnel running outside the browser (#562).

• Minor UI, favicon, and Open Graph metadata tweaks to the webR application.

Breaking changes

• Removed the service worker communication channel. This channel has been deprecated for a while now, and was never chosen in Automatic mode (#562).

Full Changelog: v0.5.4...v0.5.5

webR 0.5.4

New features

• Support sharing URLs and initial editor file population in the webR application. (#554)

Breaking changes

• Updated Fontconfig to version 2.15.0 (#544).

Bug Fixes

• (Regression, again) Fix linking to the FreeType library when building webR (See #504 for details).

Full Changelog: v0.5.3...v0.5.4

webR 0.5.3

Patch release

• Raise initial memory default (#552).

• Use the self flake input in flake.nix.

Full Changelog: v0.5.2...v0.5.3

webR 0.5.2

Patch release

Minor hotfix release to include the correct version of R in the webR Docker image.

No other changes.

Full Changelog: v0.5.1...v0.5.2

webR 0.4.4

Backports

• Upgrade @jupyterlite/contents for JupyterLite 0.6.0 (#549)

---

Full Changelog: v0.4.3...v0.4.4