R for Windows full changelog

kappa(A, exact=TRUE) for singular A returns Inf more generally
Fixed URLs of the sun spots (sunspot.month etc) data sets and mention future changes due to recalibration.
The parser now accepts hexadecimal constants with a decimal point without an exponent (taken as p0) as documented in ?NumericConstants
rbind() now works correctly when inputs include a raw vector and a logical, integer or double vector - previously the inclusion of the latter was garbled.
smooth.spline() checks validity of its arguments df.offset and penalty: it could segfault if they were NULL.
isGeneric(<primitive>, fdef=*, getName=TRUE) now also returns the name instead of just TRUE
Jagan.
isGeneric(fdef = print) now works, fixing PR#18369 thanks to Mikael Jagan.
sort(x, method = "qsort") made illegal accesses when x has length 0.
dir.create() is protected against being passed an empty string as its path argument.
Silent integer overflow could occur in the 'exact' computations for fisher.test() for unrealistic inputs: this is now an error.
Some invalid C-level memory accesses are avoided for loglin(,margin = NULL).
loglin(, param = TRUE) no longer gives an error in corner cases such as a one-dimensional input.
dev.capabilities() $ events now reports "Idle" if the device provides it
arima(.., seasonal = <wrong-vector>) correctly errors now, ditto for arima0(), thanks to Norbert Kuder's report on the R-devel
list.
binomial(<link>)$linkinv(eta) and .. $mu.eta(eta) now also work for "logit" link when is.integer(eta).
as.roman(x) now should work platform independently, also for, e.g., x = "IIIII" (= V) and x = "IIIIII" (= VI).
R CMD Rd2pdf works again on an installed package directory containing LaTeX help (from option --latex), thanks to a report

C-LEVEL FACILITIES:
The S-compatibility macros F77_COM and F77_COMDECL defined in header R_ext/RS.h are deprecated and will be removed shortly. We could find no record of their use.
BUG FIXES:
Mathlib function lgammacor(x) no longer warns about underflow to zero for large x.
Text widths and heights were incorrectly reported by the Quartz device if the drawing context didn't exist yet (typically when drawing off-screen to a window that is yet to appear, see PR#18591).
The Quartz device could segfault in cases where paths with spaces are used in the new glyph drawing API. Thanks to Tomek Gieorgijewski (PR#18758).
On macOS in R CRAN builds, it is again possible to rea little-endian UTF-16 text with a BOM from a connection using encoding="UTF-16". Users building R from source should avoid using the system libiconv in macOS 14.1 and later. methods' internal .requirePackage() now re-enables primitive method dispatch when needed; thanks to Ivan Krylov for demystifying CRAN package check failures on the R-devel mailing list.