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The limit of 500 ‘S3method’ entries in a ‘NAMESPACE’ file has been removed.
(Windows) ‘system2()’ now respects specifying ‘stdout’ and ‘stderr’ as files if called from ‘Rgui’. (PR#15393)
Closing an ‘x11()’ device whilst ‘locator()’ or ‘identify()’ is in progress no longer hangs R. (PR#15253)
‘list.dirs(full.names = FALSE)’ was not implemented. (PR#15170)
‘file.show()’ and ‘edit()’ are now more likely to work on file paths containing spaces. (Where external utilities are used, not the norm on Windows nor in ‘R.app’ which should previously have worked.)
Packages using the ‘methods’ package are more likely to work when they import it but it is not attached. (Several parts of its C code were looking for its R functions on the search path rather than in its namespace.)