NEWS

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opencpu 2.2.13 (2024-08-17)

• Fix 'anchored' man links for CRAN
• Raise default memory limit on cloud server to 1e10 for V8

opencpu 2.2.11 (2023-08-07)

• Errors raised by R now by default include a backtrace if available. You can opt-out by setting 'error.backtrace' to false in your user.conf.
• Fix error.showcall to actually show/hide the call from errors.

opencpu 2.2.10 (2023-06-29)

• Fix getRversion type for CRAN

opencpu 2.2.9 (2023-03-02)

• Use packageStartupMessage() for loading messages

opencpu 2.2.8 (2022-05-18)

• Fixes for R-4.2 changes in R_LIBS_SITE and R_LIBS_USER
• Default platform is now Ubuntu-22.04 with R-4.2

opencpu 2.2.7 (2022-02-22)

• The 'feather' format is now provided via the 'arrow' package, which uses feather v2 by default. Use /feather?version=1 to get the old v1 format.
• Add new output formats 'arrowipc' and 'parquet' from arrow

opencpu 2.2.6 (2021-12-01)

• Fix bug for parsing JSON null values in R-4.1 and up

opencpu 2.2.4 (2021-06-20)

• As per CRAN demands, the config file for the single-user server is now stored in tools::R_user_dir('opencpu', 'config')

opencpu 2.2.3

• On MacOS the png output type is no longer hardcoded to 'cairo' to accomodate cairo-less builds.

opencpu 2.2.2 (2021-01-23)

• On R 4.0 the location where the user config file for the single-user server is stored is now changed to comply with new CRAN policies.

opencpu 2.2.1 (2020-10-10)

• Fix webhook for non-master default branch

opencpu 2.2.0 (2020-07-03)

• Bump version because we are now targeting R 4.0
• Add option to disable SSL in SMTP for webhook emails

opencpu 2.1.7 (2020-05-06)

• Workaround for broken psockcluster in RStudio on MacOS

opencpu 2.1.6 (2020-02-21)

• Added new graphics output format 'svglite'

opencpu 2.1.5 (2020-01-08)

• The /ocpu/library API now includes loaded namespaces
• Do not attempt anymore to unload preloaded packages

opencpu 2.1.4 (2019-09-26)

• Do not initiate config during check/testload to comply with CRAN policy

opencpu 2.1.3 (2019-08-07)

• Replace sendmailR with new curl::send_mail()
• Bump and stack update for R 3.6.1

opencpu 2.1.2 (2019-05-12)

• Fix parsing for length 1 matrix objects parameters
• Version bump for R 3.6.0

opencpu 2.1.1 (2019-02-24)

• Replace sys::eval_safe() with unix::eval_safe()

opencpu 2.1.0

• Replace devtools dependency with remotes
• Cloud server: always keep ocpu system lib on the path

opencpu 2.0.9

• Webhook now uses temporary folder inside destination folder #316

opencpu 2.0.8 (2018-07-27)

• Increase default key length to 13 to prevent hash collisions
• Docker: start cron daemon by default
• Cloud server: remove dependency on libcurl3 for Ubuntu Bionic
• Cloud server: update package library
• Docker / Launchpad: update rstudio-server
• Docker: workaround bug in rstudio (explicitly disable apparmor)
• rapache handler now properly closes sink() even in case of system errors
• fix regression from security patch: catch timeout errors

opencpu 2.0.7

• Internally switch to condition system to raise ocpu-success
• Move all reading of files inside the forked process
• Check for path traversal for GET requests. Note that you should really enable AppArmor in production.
• Faster serialization in sys::eval_save() in sys 1.6

opencpu 2.0.6

• Support auth_token in webhook (either set /etc/opencpu/secret.conf or GITHUB_PAT in /etc/opencpu/Renviron)
• Pass down 'rapache' option to webhook installer process to load proper config files

opencpu 2.0.5 (2017-10-12)

• Fix bug where only the first package would actually get preloaded
• The /ocpu/info API shows some additional config/system info

opencpu 2.0.4 (2017-08-17)

• Single user server: flush.console() after printing logs to the console
• Single user server: kill child process if a worker hits timeout
• Support JSON null values for rlimits in config
• Add URL parameter 'mail_owner' to webhook url (default is TRUE)
• Cloud server: automatically add libjvm path to ldpaths

opencpu 2.0.3.1

• Removed the manual call to gc() at the end of each request because it is very slow

opencpu 2.0.3 (2017-06-25)

• Much improved support for UTF-8 (requires updated 'webutils' and 'evaluate')
• Multipart requests now support binary form-data fields in 'appplication/rds', 'application/rprotobuf', or 'application/json' types. This makes it easier to push objects from client-server or server-server.
• RApache: use webutils instead of apreq to parse request body.
• Single user server: fix for empty POST requests with no 'Content-Length' header
• Ignore double slashes in URL
• Support pkg::object and session::object alias for ./R/object
• Added a 'strings' data object for testing character encodings
• Add support for 'haven' output types

opencpu 2.0.2 (2017-06-17)

• Hotfix release for performance regression in cloud server (#239)

opencpu 2.0.1 (2017-05-21)

• ocpu_start_app() now automatically checks for app updates if online
• Fix for posting scripts (empty args)
• Support figures with error messages (for invalid graphic parameters)
• linux: show informative error message when tmp dir cannot be created
• opencpu-cache: require at least version 1.12 of nginx (fixes HTTP/2 bug)
• fix year of paper in citation file
• fix link to pdf manual in test page
• Add parameter 'no_cache' to single user server for development
• HTTP OPTIONS now returns 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' header for CORS preflight
• Better email notification: to=pusher, cc=owner, bcc=archive
• Webhook: use sys pkg instead of system2 for running rscript
• Webhook: make email sending more robust
• Internal function trigger_webhook() to test webhook (should move to client pkg)
• Remove 'public.url' from server.conf
• Add 'update_apps()' function for convenience

opencpu 2.0 (2017-05-14)

• Major rewrite :)

opencpu 1.6.2

• Fix for /man/html (use tools::Rd2HTML)

opencpu 1.6.1 (2016-05-18)

• Fix bug to support non interactive: Rscript -e 'opencpu::opencpu$debug(4000)'
• Suggest: feather

opencpu 1.6.0 (2016-05-11)

• Workaround for unloadNamespace bug in R 3.3.0

opencpu 1.5.6 (2016-05-01)

• Lazy load import packages using pkg::name instead of importFrom()

opencpu 1.5.5

• Replace 'RProtoBuf' dependency with 'protolite'

opencpu 1.5.4 (2016-03-09)

• Bump version to sync with cloud server
• Workaround in eval_fork for mccollect race condition bug

opencpu 1.4.8

• Fix for case sensitive Github usernames

opencpu 1.4.7

• Support Auth over CORS

opencpu 1.4.6 (2015-01-31)

• Add a CITATION file
• Fix for new rhttpd system in R 3.2.0

opencpu 1.4.4 (2014-08-20)

• Add support for "Accept" request header
• Update /man/html stylesheet
• Add back support for URL parameters
• Only use AppArmor if available
• Add default robots.txt and favicon to cloud server
• Cloud server now sets HOME envvar to tempdir()
• Add support for x12345::foo arguments
• Remove ocpu_tmp_ prefix for session directories in tmp_library
• Bunch of internal changes to support Fedora/Redhat RPM packages

opencpu 1.4.3 (2014-06-23)

• Add support for application/json payloads for Github webhooks
• Disable forks in OSX (again) due to issues with rJava
• Disable unloading of packages in eval_current due to issues with rJavas
• Fix for eol in csv/tab output on Windows
• Fix for hash collisions with large amounts of sessions
• Add whitepaper vignette and url to package

opencpu 1.4.2 (2014-06-12)

• Bug fix for JSON input data
• Bump jsonlite depends to 0.9.8

opencpu 1.4.1 (2014-05-06)

• Make session-key lenght configurable, default to 9.

opencpu 1.4.0 (2014-04-13)

• HTTP 201 301 302 now uses absolute URL in Location header
• Don't print call for internal stop() errors
• Change vignette builder to knitr
• Update devtools and httr dependencies
• Replace CR+LF by LF before parsing code snippets
• Add support for index.html in package root dir
• Disable compression in storring sessions to gain speed
• Clean up parsing code

opencpu 1.2.3 (2014-03-10)

• Add support for private github repositories using access token authentication.
• Use ~/.opencpu.conf as primary config file for single user server.
• Disable hyperlinks in HTML man pages.
• Bug fix for rscripts on the cloud server.
• Experimental support for dot-dot-dot arguments.

opencpu 1.2.2 (2014-01-21)

• Don't send attachement header for SVG anymore.
• Upgrade rApache to 1.2.5: avoid receiveBin() when apreq alread parsed
• Start using HTTP 405 instead of 400 for invalid methods

opencpu 1.2.1 (2013-12-18)

• Use latest version of jsonlite
• Better support for lazy load data API
• Moved CRON scripts to update cran, bioc, github libraries inside the package
• Use rstudio proxy when single-user server is loaded in rstudio-server.

opencpu 1.2.0 (2013-12-13)

• Replaced dependency RJSONIO with jsonlite for all toJSON/fromJSON
• Add support for pkg/data API
• Improve CI email notifications
• add /console shortcut
• correct MIME headers for fonts

opencpu 1.0.7

• Adding Github CI stuff
• New config parameters: "public.url" and "smtp.server", "timelimit.webhook"

opencpu 1.0.6 (2013-11-09)

• Version bump for CRAN release.
• Detect /ocpu/user libraries from /etc/passwd.

opencpu 1.0.5

• Don't fork on MAC for "safe" requests (to reduce risk of fork issues)
• Temporary change fork method to psock method on OSX because of problems in Mavericks.
• Adding opencpu$view() to take advantage of Rstudio viewing panel if available
• Set quick=true for install_github
• Use bitmapType="cairo" if available
• Temporary implementation of HTTP OPTIONS for CORS in chrome.
• Adding Access-Control-Allow-Headers and Access-Control-Expose-Headers to support CORS preflighting.

opencpu 1.0.4 (2013-10-16)

• Fixed bug when timeout > 60s (reported by Jordy Coolen)
• Fixed nginx warning in the cloud server
• Upgrade evaluate to 0.5.1
• Add support for Apache 2.4 / Ubuntu Saucy in cloud server with mpm_prefork

opencpu 1.0.3

• Invisible return values are now stored but not printed
• Dependency update to evaluate 0.4.10

opencpu 1.0.2

• Capture output for install.packages, install_github and biocInstaller
• Remove rapache library change in onAttach

opencpu 1.0.1 (2013-09-12)

• Fix bugs for uploading files
• Fix bugs for storing files from a session
• Set default bitmap type to Cairo (to prevent problems with forks on MAC)