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Sun, 26 Jul 2026

Changes in R-devel Significant User-Visible Changes

• Fixing ‘rbinom()’, see PR#19049 below, to reproduce old results needs ‘RNGkind()’ to get a new ‘binom.kind’ argument and, e.g. ‘RNGversion("4.6")’ keeps previous behaviour.

Changes in R-devel Bug Fixes

• ‘rbinom()’'s BTPE algorithm is fixed thanks to Kate Hudson's findings and report in PR#19049. To ensure reproducibility, ‘RNGkind()’ gets new argument ‘binom.kind’.

Changes in R 4.6.1 patched Bug Fixes

• Fix long standing (Fortran compiler optimization related) bug in ‘nlminb’ with constraints, thanks to Kasper Kristensen's PR#19086 report and patch.

Changes in R 4.6.1 Bug Fixes

• Fix long standing (Fortran compiler optimization related) bug in ‘nlminb’ with constraints, thanks to Kasper Kristensen's PR#19086 report and patch.

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