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Installing R (creating ‘libR.pc’) no longer fails with a ‘sed’ error when the new ‘--package-metadata’ linker flag is involved; an ‘s’-command delimiter other than ‘:’ was needed (PR#19060, thanks to Jeroen Ooms and Dirk Eddelbuettel).
Data part of ‘getGenerics()’ listed package names for generic functions defined in more than one package. Now it lists generic function names, as intended. Thanks to Michael Chirico for report and patch proposal (PR#19080).
Exclude patterns from ‘.Rbuildignore’ are now processed _before_ preparing the package directory for the tarball, avoiding redundant file copies from the source directory (PR#17549). In particular, when a source package ‘foo/’ folder contains broken symlinks matching an exclude pattern, ‘R CMD build foo’ now succeeds, omitting these, thus fixing PR#18186. (Thanks to Ivan Krylov and others, notably Jenny Brian and R Dev Day @ useR! 2025 contributors.)
‘as.matrix(<POSIXlt>)’ again produces a _numeric_ matrix, thanks to Suharto Anggono's PR#19084.