The base and recommended packages are now byte-compiled

(This is safe even on 32-bit Linux systems because only the basic

installed as compressed files (as long done on Windows), saving ca

The non-screen cairo-based devices are no longer in the X11

module and so can be installed without X11.  (We have never seen a

Unix-alike system with cairographics installed but not X11, but a

Objective-C compiler (if present) to ensure that even compilers

that do not enable exceptions by default (such as vanilla gcc) can

be used.  (Objective-C is currently only used on Mac OS X.)

There is no longer support for making DVI manuals

PDF manuals are supported (to allow the use of fonts which are

purposes on Unix-alikes in a form suitable for shell execution.

Note that those are merely command-line arguments, they do not

include environment variables (one more reason to use configure

variables instead) or site configuration settings.

property in recent Oracle Java binaries.

startup on Windows: that is now done on Unix-alikes where

Reference class utilities will detect an attempt to modify

methods or fields in a locked class definition (e.g., in a

In principle, S4 classes from different packages could

have the same name.  This has not previously worked.  Changes

have now been installed that should allow such classes and

permit methods to use them.  New functions

) which prevented internet operations from

Several stack trampling and overflow issues have been fixed

classes are now consistent with slots in S4 classes:  the

assigned value must come from the declared class (if any) for the field

were lacking some essential information in the

did not handle duplicate class definitions correctly.

character code in a string, nor does it accept unterminated

strings in a file.  (Reported by Bill Dunlap.)

called on a single object, and hence used more digits than

device's cairo back-end produced incorrect

capture snapshot images on big-endian machines.

consisted of a single element of length one.

The (undocumented) inclusion of superclass objects in