Distributed as rtools43-5958-5975.exe.
This is a correction release which fixes a problem in the build of the Msys2 part of release 5948.
A typical symptom of the problem in 5948 is that Msys2 packages cannot be installed or upgraded using pacman.
Users who have already upgraded to 5948 and wish to avoid another upgrade may choose to fix the problem by running update-ca-trust in the Rtools (Msys2) shell, this will allow installation/upgrading of packages.
A more complete fixup is to run:
for F in /var/lib/pacman/local/*/install ; do
bash -c "cd / ; . $F ; [[ \$(type -t post_install) == function ]] && post_install"
doneAt the time of this correction release, the corresponding experimental build for aarch64 has been updated. It has several improvements allowing more of CRAN packages to be built for aarch64 than with 5948.
Distributed as rtools43-5948-5818.exe.
A problem was found in this release, see the description of 5958 above.
gRPC and dependencies re2, abseil and c-ares have been added. Protobuf has been updated to 25.2. Rtools now include also the native protocol buffer compiler (protoc).
A batch-file wrapper has been created for pkg-config to simplify use in some github action runners. See the documentation for more details (for R 4.3, for R-devel).
The pkg-config configuration has been fixed to allow detection of expanded absolute paths, which improves output for some libraries (MXE packages).
Packages linking httpuv now also need to link dbghelp, uuid and ole32. This affects one CRAN package, httpuv.
Packages linking protobuf now also need to link the abseil libraries. The number of abseil libraries is large, but one may avoid the need for specifying them individually by using pkg-config.
Code using xml2 may have to be updated to follow changes in the API. This required changes in one CRAN package, XML.
Upstream MXE changes have been merged from fca881fdf19405f80252967c97590976f2c2b570, with numerous additional updates to selected MXE packages as detailed below.
GCC has been patched to avoid a size limit for pre-compiled headers (PCH), back-porting a change from a later version. This change does not make static libraries incompatible.
An experimental build of this version of Rtools43 for aarch64 is available from here and unstable experimental snapshots from here. See this blog post for initial information on the R on Windows/aarch64 (ARM64) efforts. No assumptions should be made on that the aarch64 Rtools (or R support) will stay in the current form. The links for the builds should be considered as temporary and currently the content replaces that from previous version of Rtools. The aarch64 support is only part of R-devel (not R 4.3).
These packages have been updated:
armadillo 12.0.1 to 12.6.7
blas 3.11.0 to 3.12.0
boost 1.81.0 to 1.84.0
brotli 1.0.9 to 1.1.0
cblas 3.11.0 to 3.12.0
cmake-host 3.24.3 to 3.28.1
curl 7.88.1 to 8.5.0
fontconfig 2.14.2 to 2.15.0
gdal 3.7.2 to 3.8.2
gpgme 1.22.0 to 1.23.2
harfbuzz 8.2.0 to 8.3.0
icu4c 73.2 to 74.1
imagemagick 7.1.1-15 to 7.1.1-25
intel-tbb 2021.10.0 to 2021.11.0
isl 0.16.1 to 0.24
jasper 4.0.0 to 4.1.1
kealib 1.5.1 to 1.5.3
lapack 3.11.0 to 3.12.0
lcms 2.15 to 2.16
libarchive 3.6.2 to 3.7.2
libgcrypt 1.10.2 to 1.10.3
libgsf 1.14.50 to 1.14.51
libraw 0.21.1 to 0.21.2
libsndfile 1.2.0 to 1.2.2
libssh 0.10.5 to 0.10.6
libssh2 1.10.0 to 1.11.0
libuv 1.44.2 to 1.47.0
libvpx 1.13.0 to 1.13.1
libxml2 2.10.4 to 2.12.3
libxslt 1.1.38 to 1.1.39
libzmq de5ee18 to 959a133
minizip 4.0.1 to 4.0.4
openblas 0.3.24 to 0.3.26
opencv 4.8.0 to 4.9.0
openssl 3.1.2 to 3.1.4
pango 1.50.14 to 1.51.0
postgresql 13.12 to 13.13
proj 9.3.0 to 9.3.1
protobuf 21.12 to 25.2
sdl2 2.28.3 to 2.28.5
sqlite 3430100 to 3440200
tiff 4.5.1 to 4.6.0
xz 5.4.4 to 5.4.5
zlib 1.3 to 1.3.1These packages have been added:
abseil-cpp 20230802.1
c-ares 1_25_0
grpc 1.60.0
re2 2023-11-01Distributed as rtools43-5863-5818.exe.
R packages able to read files using libwebp should be rebuilt and reinstalled due to a security vulnerability (CVE-2023-2863): this could also be indirect via libtiff, proj or gdal. These Rtools libraries use libwebp: av*, gdal, Magick*, mfuuid, opencv*, sharpyuv, spatialite, tiff, urlmon, uuid and vpx.
Gdal now supports LERC compression. R packages linking to gdal need to be rebuilt/reinstalled to use the feature.
GCC has been updated from 12.2.0 to 12.3.0. This update only includes bug-fixes, but does not make static libraries incompatible. The update allowed e.g. to build latest version of openTBB, building of which crashed with the previous version.
A fix to bug PR30079 has been back-ported to binutils. Due to the bug, linking against an import library could fail with an error, but import libraries are normally not used with R.
Pkg-config has been added and allows R packages to specify the libraries to link (linking orders) via MXE packages names, instead of listing them individually. This can be useful for packages where recent Rtools updates required changes in linking orders (even though patches for those changes were provided to package maintainers by the Rtools maintainer). For example, tiff Makevars file can now do:
ifeq (,$(shell pkg-config --version 2>/dev/null))
LIBSHARPYUV = $(or $(and $(wildcard $(R_TOOLS_SOFT)/lib/libsharpyuv.a),-lsharpyuv),)
PKG_LIBS = -ltiff -ljpeg -lz -lzstd -lwebp $(LIBSHARPYUV) -llzma
else
PKG_LIBS = $(shell pkg-config --libs libtiff-4)
endifassuming that there is no pkg-config on PATH other than in Rtools (that is not always the case for github actions). See the documentation for more details (for R 4.3, for R-devel). The documentation includes hints on the issue with github actions.
Pkg-config files have been improved and added in Rtools to make this possible. Testing of these included building CRAN packages that are still downloading pre-compiled static libraries, even when they are in Rtools (which is in violation of CRAN repository policy, and although patches had been provided already with Rtools42 for most of these). These packages can use pkg-config files for libraries and C flags (headers) as follows:
apcf (geos), av (libavfilter), clustermq (libzmq), curl (curl), eaf (gsl), gdtools (cairo, freetype2), gert (libgit2), ggiraph (libpng), gpg (gpgme), gslnls (gsl), hdf5r (hdf5_hl, WRAP = 1_12_0, -DH5_USE_110_API), ijtiff (libtiff-4), image.textlinedetector (opencv4), jqr (jq), magick (Magick++), opencv (opencv4), openssl (libssh2), pdftools (poppler-cpp), QF (gsl), ragg (freetype2, libtiff-4, libjpeg), rcontroll (gsl), redland (redland), redux (hiredis), RMariaDB (libmariadbclient), RMySQL (libmariadbclient), RPostgres (libpq), rsvg (librsvg-2.0), rvg (libpng), rzmq (libzmq), sodium (libsodium), ssh (libssh), strawr (libcurl), surveyvoi (mpfr), svglite (libpng), systemfonts (freetype2), textshaping (freetype2, harfbuzz, fribidi), V8 (libv8), vdiffr (libpng), webp (libwebp), websocket (openssl), xml2 (libxml-2.0), xslt (libexslt). With some, it is necessary to also set PKG_CPPFLAGS using pkg-config, not just PKG_LIBS.
This Rtools update does not require any changes in linking orders of CRAN packages, but it can be expected that some of the future releases will require some. While it may be easier for package authors to use pkg-config rather than specify the linking orders directly, there is no need to switch at the moment (for packages using libraries from Rtools).
The cross-compilers are now built on Ubuntu 22.04 (previously Ubuntu 20.04) and link to some libraries available in that distribution. Users of the cross-compilers may hence have to update their systems.
Upstream MXE changes have been merged from 6b9e861453bc81fde71810336a064e418cf4eac0, with numerous additional updates to selected MXE packages as detailed below.
An experimental build of Rtools43 for aarch64 has been created and is supported by the same Rtools code base. A number of package updates in Rtools was triggered by these efforts: in some cases, newer versions build with LLVM (for aarch64) while the older do not. The experimental builds are now available from here and unstable experimental snapshots from here. See this blog post for initial information on the R on Windows/aarch64 (ARM64) efforts. No assumptions should be made on that the aarch64 Rtools (or R support) will stay in the current form. The links for the builds should be considered as temporary. The aarch64 support is only part of R-devel (not R 4.3). R packages downloading pre-compiled static libraries are a significant source of pain and additional effort for Rtools developments, including the LLVM/aarch64 support.
These packages have been updated:
blosc 1.21.2 to 1.21.5
dbus 1.15.4 to 1.15.8
dlfcn-win32 1.3.1 to 1.4.1
file 5.44 to 5.45
flac 1.4.2 to 1.4.3
freetype 2.13.0 to 2.13.2
freetype-bootstrap 2.13.0 to 2.13.2
freexl 1.0.6 to 2.0.0
fribidi 1.0.12 to 1.0.13
gcc 12.2.0 to 12.3.0
gcc-host 12.2.0 to 12.3.0
gdal 3.6.2 to 3.7.2
glib 2.76.0 to 2.76.5
gmp 6.2.1 to 6.3.0
gnutls 3.6.16 to 3.8.0
gpgme 1.18.0 to 1.22.0
harfbuzz 7.1.0 to 8.2.0
hdf5 1.12.0 to 1.12.1
hiredis 1.1.0 to 1.2.0
icu4c 72.1 to 73.2
ilmbase 2.2.0 to 2.2.1
imagemagick 7.1.1-3 to 7.1.1-15
intel-tbb 9e219e2 to 2021.10.0
json-c 0.16 to 0.17
kealib 1.5.0 to 1.5.1
libassuan 2.5.5 to 2.5.6
libgcrypt 1.10.1 to 1.10.2
libgit2 1.6.2 to 1.7.1
libgpg_error 1.46 to 1.47
libpng 1.6.39 to 1.6.40
libsbml 5.19.0 to 5.20.2
libssh 0.10.4 to 0.10.5
libwebp 1.3.0 to 1.3.2
libxml2 2.10.3 to 2.10.4
libxslt 1.1.37 to 1.1.38
libzmq c59104a to de5ee18
minizip 3.0.8 to 4.0.1
mpfr 4.2.0 to 4.2.1
netcdf 4.9.1 to 4.9.2
nettle 3.8.1 to 3.9.1
openblas 0.3.21 to 0.3.24
opencv 4.7.0 to 4.8.0
openssl 3.0.8 to 3.1.2
pixman 0.33.6 to 0.42.2
poppler 23.03.0 to 23.09.0
postgresql 13.10 to 13.12
proj 9.2.0 to 9.3.0
raptor2 2.0.15 to 2.0.16
sdl2 2.26.4 to 2.28.3
spatialite 5.0.1 to 5.1.0
sqlite 3410100 to 3430100
tiff 4.5.0 to 4.5.1
x264 20180806-2245 to a8b68ebf
xz 5.4.1 to 5.4.4
zlib 1.2.13 to 1.3
zstd 1.5.4 to 1.5.5These packages have been added:
brotli 1.0.9
pkgconf-host 1.8.0These packages have been removed:
freetds
mesa
qt6-qtbase
qtbaseDistributed as rtools43-5550-5548.exe.
The default _WIN32_WINNT has been set to Windows 7 (0x0601, which is also the MXE default). Windows Vista is no longer supported by R-devel (to become R 4.3). Previously, _WIN32_WINNT has been set to the MinGW-W64 default (Windows 10 in MinGW-W64 10.0.0). The change is to reduce the risks that unconditional dependency on Windows newer than 7 would be accidentally introduced. Most existing code will be unaffected by this.
Upstream MXE changes have been merged from e560bd25a53b15f4899f290e1fc8193a4aa7a2a6, with additional updates to binutils, curl, openssl and other libraries.
The new version of curl requires also linking of -lbcrypt. This can be done unconditionally also for packages meant to work with Rtools42/R 4.2, because the library existed there as well. Packages linking to curl may have to be updated to build.
The new version of libwebp requires also linking of -lsharpyuv. Rtools42 did not have that library, so packages meant to work also with R 4.2 should link it conditionally. Packages linking to libwebp may have to be updated. One possible way to do it in GNU make files (e.g. Makevars.ucrt) is
LIBSHARPYUV = $(or $(and $(wildcard $(R_TOOLS_SOFT)/lib/libsharpyuv.a),-lsharpyuv),)
PKG_LIBS = ... -lwebp $(LIBSHARPYUV) ... The Rtools installer meta-data have been extended to use 3-column product version, where the last element is the svn revision (now 4.3.5550). Hence, the svn revision of Rtools43 is displayed in the Add/Remove Programs list in Windows. The change may impact and should help improve behavior of third-party tools for installing external software on Windows, such as winget. The file version in the meta-data is now 4-column (4.3.5555.5548). The original installer file name is now included in the meta-data.
These packages have been updated:
armadillo 11.4.3 to 12.0.1
binutils 2.39 to 2.40
binutils-host 2.39 to 2.40
curl 7.84.0 to 7.88.1
dbus 1.15.2 to 1.15.4
file 5.43 to 5.44
fontconfig 2.14.1 to 2.14.2
freetds 1.3.16 to 1.3.17
freetype 2.12.1 to 2.13.0
freetype-bootstrap 2.12.1 to 2.13.0
freexl 1.0.5 to 1.0.6
geos 3.11.1 to 3.11.2
glib 2.75.1 to 2.76.0
harfbuzz 6.0.0 to 7.1.0
imagemagick 7.1.0-57 to 7.1.1-3
lcms 2.14 to 2.15
libarchive 3.6.1 to 3.6.2
libass 0.17.0 to 0.17.1
libgit2 1.5.0 to 1.6.2
libraw 0.20.2 to 0.21.1
libvpx 1.12.0 to 1.13.0
libwebp 1.2.4 to 1.3.0
mesa 22.3.0 to 23.0.0
mpfr 4.1.1 to 4.2.0
netcdf 4.9.0 to 4.9.1
opencv 4.6.0 to 4.7.0
openssl 3.0.7 to 3.0.8
pango 1.50.12 to 1.50.14
poppler 22.11.0 to 23.03.0
postgresql 13.9 to 13.10
proj 9.1.1 to 9.2.0
protobuf 21.10 to 21.12
qt6-qtbase 6.4.1 to 6.4.2
qtbase 5.15.7 to 5.15.8
sdl2 2.26.2 to 2.26.4
sqlite 3400000 to 3410100
vidstab 1.1.0 to 1.1.1
xz 5.4.0 to 5.4.1
zstd 1.5.2 to 1.5.4Distributed as rtools43-5493-5475.exe.
This minor update is important for users of gdal, which has been upgraded from version 3.6.0 to 3.6.2. Gdal 3.6.0 has been officially retracted, because of a regression which could cause data corruption. Users who need to build from source any of the following CRAN packages should upgrade Rtools43: gdalcubes, rgdal, sf, terra, vapour.
Geos has been updated from 3.9.4 to 3.11.1.
A minor bug in MinGW-W64 causing compiler warnings with string_s.h (-Wpedantic) has been fixed.
These packages have been updated:
armadillo 11.4.2 to 11.4.3
blosc 1.21.1 to 1.21.2
boost 1.80.0 to 1.81.0
gdal 3.6.0 to 3.6.2
geos 3.9.4 to 3.11.1
glib 2.75.0 to 2.75.1
harfbuzz 5.3.1 to 6.0.0
imagemagick 7.1.0-52 to 7.1.0-57
libsndfile 1.1.0 to 1.2.0
minizip 3.0.7 to 3.0.8
mpc 1.2.1 to 1.3.1
pcre2 10.41 to 10.42
sdl2 2.26.0 to 2.26.2
tiff 4.4.0 to 4.5.0
xz 5.2.8 to 5.4.0Distributed as rtools43-5448-5475.exe.
Compared to rtools42 (release 5355), the core components have been updated: GCC 12.2, MinGW-W64 10.0, binutils 2.39. In addition to that, libraries were updated to their current versions as detailed below.
Upstream MXE changes have been merged from b11aaa7123c59cde7bb5e9ff794c672f54b706c3, with additional updates to geospatial and other libraries.
These packages have been updated:
armadillo 8.200.2 to 11.4.2
binutils 2.37 to 2.39
binutils-host 2.37 to 2.39
blas 3.10.1 to 3.11.0
cblas 3.10.1 to 3.11.0
cfitsio 3410 to 3450
cmake-host 3.24.1 to 3.24.3
curl 7.83.1 to 7.84.0
dbus 1.13.22 to 1.15.2
dlfcn-win32 1.3.0 to 1.3.1
expat 2.4.8 to 2.5.0
ffmpeg 4.2.3 to 4.2.8
fftw 3.3.8 to 3.3.10
file 5.42 to 5.43
flac 1.4.0 to 1.4.2
fontconfig 2.14.0 to 2.14.1
freeglut 3.2.1 to 3.4.0
freetds 1.3.12 to 1.3.16
fribidi 1.0.11 to 1.0.12
gcc 10.4.0 to 12.2.0
gcc-host 10.4.0 to 12.2.0
gdal 3.5.2 to 3.6.0
gdk-pixbuf 2.42.6 to 2.42.10
geos 3.9.3 to 3.9.4
gettext 0.21 to 0.21.1
giflib 5.1.4 to 5.1.9
glib 2.70.2 to 2.75.0
glpk 4.65 to 5.0
gpgme 1.14.0 to 1.18.0
gsl 2.6 to 2.7.1
harfbuzz 5.1.0 to 5.3.1
hdf4 4.2.10 to 4.2.13
hiredis 1.0.2 to 1.1.0
icu4c 71.1 to 72.1
imagemagick 7.0.8-63 to 7.1.0-52
intel-tbb c28c8be to 9e219e2
jasper 3.0.6 to 4.0.0
json-c 0.13.1 to 0.16
jsoncpp 1.9.1 to 1.9.5
kealib 1.4.15 to 1.5.0
lapack 3.10.1 to 3.11.0
lcms 2.13 to 2.14
libarchive 3.3.3 to 3.6.1
libass 0.14.0 to 0.17.0
libassuan 2.5.3 to 2.5.5
libbluray 0.9.2 to 1.3.4
libffi 3.3 to 3.4.3
libgeotiff 1.5.1 to 1.6.0
libgit2 1.3.0 to 1.5.0
libgpg_error 1.45 to 1.46
libgsf 1.14.47 to 1.14.50
libpng 1.6.37 to 1.6.39
libraw 0.19.5 to 0.20.2
librtmp fa8646d to f1b83c1
libsndfile 1.0.30 to 1.1.0
libssh 0.9.1 to 0.10.4
libunistring 0.9.10 to 1.1
libuv 1.30.1 to 1.44.2
libvpx 1.8.2 to 1.12.0
libwebp 1.2.2 to 1.2.4
libxml2 2.9.12 to 2.10.3
libxslt 1.1.35 to 1.1.37
libzmq c89390f to c59104a
mesa 22.1.4 to 22.3.0
mingw-w64 9.0.0 to 10.0.0
minizip 2aa369c to 3.0.7
mpfr 4.1.0 to 4.1.1
msmpi 91080f2 to 72e0ee2
netcdf 4.8.1 to 4.9.0
openblas 0.3.20 to 0.3.21
opencore-amr 0.1.3 to 0.1.6
opencv 4.5.1 to 4.6.0
openssl 1.1.1q to 3.0.7
pango 1.50.0 to 1.50.12
pcre2 10.40 to 10.41
poppler 22.09.0 to 22.11.0
postgresql 13.6 to 13.9
proj 8.2.1 to 9.1.1
protobuf 3.9.0 to 21.10
qt6-qtbase 6.3.2 to 6.4.1
qtbase 5.15.6 to 5.15.7
readline 8.1 to 8.2
sdl2 2.0.20 to 2.26.0
sqlite 3390300 to 3400000
tidy-html5 5.8.0 to 5.9.14-next
wavpack 5.5.0 to 5.6.0
xvidcore 1.3.4 to 1.3.7
xz 5.2.6 to 5.2.8
yaml-cpp 0.6.2 to 0.7.0
zlib 1.2.12 to 1.2.13