pak 0.9.2

• No user visible changes.

pak 0.9.1

• pak is now more tolerant with extraneous whitespace in PACKAGES*
  metadata files (#785).

• pak now builds again on FreeBSD (#790).

• Installing dependencies of a package file with deps::<filename>
  works again (#784).

• pak now always uses the correct working directory in the subprocess;
  this was a common source of errors.

• New (nightly) binary builds for aarch64 Windows.

• We do not build binary builds for the release candidate of pak any
  more, only for stable and devel pak. rc is an alias to stable now.

pak 0.9.0

• pak now supports HTTP basic authentication for CRAN-like repositories.
  See 'Authenticated repositories' in the reference manual.

• New function scan_deps() to auto-detect package dependencies from
  R code. deps::. automatically uses detected dependencies now if no
  DESCRIPTION file is found.

• The dependency solver now uses better heuristics, that works better
  (=faster) with multiple repositories with large overlaps
  (r-lib/pkgdepends#392).

• pak is now much better at detecting the correct Linux distribution
  when deciding about PPM and system requirements support.

• pak now uses the use_bioconductor configuration option in meta_*() and
  repo_*() functions (#295, #726, @meztez).

pak 0.8.0.2

No changes

pak 0.8.0.1

No changes.

pak 0.8.0

• pkg_deps() now accepts a vector of package names.

• The metadata cache now does not use source URLs for packages in Archive
  on Posit Package Manager repositories. This URLs may serve a different
  package, even a source package when the main URL for the same package
  serves a binary package. The alternative URLs are not needed on PPM,
  anyway, because PPM is in a consistent state w.r.t. metadata and
  package files (#623).

• pak now supports gitlab:: package sources better, by adding
  explicit syntax to specify subdirectories (r-lib/pkgdepends#353, @dgkf).

• gitlab:: and git:: package sources now support git submodules if
  the git-submodules configuration option is set to TRUE. See
  ?"pak-config" (r-lib/pkgdepends#354).

• The new ?ignore-unavailable parameter makes it easy to ignore soft
  dependencies that are unavailable (#606).

• pak now automatically ignores soft dependencies that have an
  incompatible OS type (OS_type entry in DESCRIPTION) when installing
  packages.

• repo_add() and the ppm_*() functions, e.g. ppm_snapshots(), now
  work again after the PPM API changes
  (r-lib/pkgcache#110,
  r-lib/pkgcache#115).

pak 0.7.2

• pak now supports using parameters for all packages with the
  *=?<param> form. E.g. *=?source installs all packages from source.

• pak now supports R 4.4.0 again, and also Rtools44.

pak 0.7.1

• pak can now handle the case when Config/Needs/* dependencies
  are requested for package from a repository.

• pak uses safer *printf() format strings now.

pak 0.7.0

• pak now correctly handles the latest GitHub release with
  the @*release notation (@pawelru,
  r-lib/pkgdepends#321)

• pak now correctly handles having multiple instances of the same
  package in the metadata, with different R version requirements
  (#534, #538, r-lib/pkgdepends#331).

• git:: package references work better now for Azure DevOps
  (@jameslairdsmith, r-lib/pkgdepends#333,
  r-lib/pkgdepends#342).

• pak now does a better job at accepting installed packages, and
  avoids reinstalling more packages than needed when using a lock file
  (r-lib/actions#759,
  r-lib/pkgdepends#338).

pak 0.6.0

• pak now requires R >= 3.5.0.

• Many improvements in system requirements support:

  • New functions:
    • pkg_sysreqs(): calculate system requirements of packages.
    • sysreqs_db_list(), sysreqs_db_match(), sysreqs_db_update():
      query the system requirements database.
    • sysreqs_list_system_packages(), sysreqs_check_installed(),
      sysreqs_fix_installed(): query and install missing system packages.
    • sysreqs_platforms(): list supported platforms.
  • The installation proposal, printed before installation, now includes
    required and missing system packages, on supported platforms.
  • New sysreqs_platform configuration option to override the auto-detected
    platform.
  • Faster, asynchronous system requirements lookup.
  • pak now does not reinstall system requirements by default,
    if they are already installed. (You can force a reinstall/upgrade
    with the sysreqs_update configuration option.)

• New gitlab:: package source to install packages from GitLab
  (r-lib/pkgdepends#315).

• pak now correctly parses multiple git:: packages at once
  (r-lib/pkgdepends#318).

• git:: package sources now support version 1 of the git protocol.
  E.g. the Bioconductor git repositories now work:
  git::https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/limma
  (r-lib/pkgdepends#314).

• The platforms config parameter now works correctly with deps::
  package sources (#522).

• New include_linkingto config parameter to always include LinkingTo
  packages in the solution, even for binaries
  (https://github.com/r-lib/pkgdepends/issues/485).

• pkg_name_check() now does not include Acromine results, because the web
  site was unstable.

• In repo_add() and repo_resolve() the MRAN@ prefix is now deprecated
  and resolves to PPM, because MRAN will be retired soon. See more at
  https://posit.co/blog/migrating-from-mran-to-posit-package-manager/.

• The metadata cache now has SystemRequirements information for Bioconductor
  packages.