\name{NEWS}
\title{News for Package \pkg{RcppMsgPack}}
\newcommand{\ghpr}{\href{https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rcppmsgpack/pull/#1}{##1}} 
\newcommand{\ghit}{\href{https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rcppmsgpack/issues/#1}{##1}} 

\section{Changes in version 0.2.4 (2025-01-19)}{
  \itemize{
    \item Use \code{Rcpp::RawVector} instead of \code{std::vector<unsigned
      char>} saving extra copy (Travers in \ghpr{16})
    \item Several updates to README.md with R Journal paper, add badges, add
    Authors@R, add CITATION file, add repo info to DESCRIPTION
    \item Update continuous integration via r-ci
    \item Update to no longer require compilation standard
  }
}

\section{Changes in version 0.2.3 (2018-11-18)}{
  \itemize{
    \item New functions \code{msgpack_read} and \code{msgpack_write} for
    efficient direct access to MessagePackage content from files
    (\ghpr{13}).
    \item Several internal code polishes to smooth compilation (\ghpr{14}
    and \ghpr{15}).
  }
}

\section{Changes in version 0.2.2 (2018-05-06)}{
  \itemize{
    \item Apply a \code{static_cast} from upstream to suppress a warning
    from \code{g++-8.1} as requested by CRAN.
  }
}

\section{Changes in version 0.2.1 (2018-01-15)}{
  \itemize{
    \item Some corrections and update to DESCRIPTION, README.md,
    msgpack.org.md and vignette (\ghpr{6}).
    \item Update to \code{c_pack.cpp} and tests (\ghpr{7}).
    \item More efficient packing of vectors (\ghpr{8}).
    \item Support for timestamps and NAs (\ghpr{9}).
    \item Conditional use of \pkg{microbenchmark} in \code{tests/} 
    as required for Suggests: package [CRAN request] (\ghpr{10}).
    \item Minor polish to tests relaxing comparison of timestamp, and
    avoiding a few \code{g++} warnings (\ghpr{12} addressing \ghit{11}).
  }
}

\section{Changes in version 0.2.0 (2017-09-07)}{
  \itemize{
    \item Added support for building on Windows
    \item Upgraded to MsgPack 2.1.5 (\ghpr{3})
    \item New R functions to manipulate MsgPack objects: msgpack_format,
    msgpack_map, msgpack_pack, msgpack_simplify, mgspack_unpack (\ghpr{4})
    \item New R functions also available as msgpackFormat, msgpackMap,
    msgpackPack, msgpackSimplify, mgspackUnpack (\ghpr{4})
    \item New vignette and new tests (\ghpr{4}).
    \item Some post-processing and polishing (\ghpr{5}).
  }
}

\section{Changes in version 0.1.1 (2017-06-12)}{
  \itemize{
    \item Updated included MsgPack headers to version 1.4.2
    \item Updated RcppExports, README.md, DESCRIPTION.
  }
}

\section{Changes in version 0.1.0 (2016-04-24)}{
  \itemize{
    \item First Version, released only to drat repository
  }
}

