A new maintenance release 0.0.7 of RcppXts is now on CRAN, and has been built for r2u. The RcppXts package demonstrates how to access the export C API of xts which we contributed a looong time ago. There are by now a more example packages around this C level access to another package, but this one was an early example.

This release is strictly maintenance, updating continuous integration, the README.md file and other packaging conventions adopted since the last release four years ago.

The NEWS entries follow.

Changes in version 0.0.7 (2026-09-09)

• Corrected a docstring for the module

• Updated continuous integration setup several times

• Simplified setup by removing no-longer-needed Makevars

• Added badges to README.md

Courtesy of my CRANberries, there is also a diffstat report for this release. For questions, suggestions, or issues please use the issue tracker at the GitHub repo.

This post by Dirk Eddelbuettel originated on his Thinking inside the box blog. If you like this or other open-source work I do, you can now sponsor me at GitHub.

Debian LTS/ELTS

This was my hundred-forty-sixth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian.

Unfortunately the number of distributed working hours had been rather low this month, so the list contains much less entries than normal. During my allocated time I uploaded or worked on:

• [DLA 4713-1] sslh security update to fix one CVE in Bookworm related to a so-called “link following” vulnerability.
• [DLA 4714-1] libmodbus security update to fix one CVEs in Bookworm related to a stack-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability.
• [DLA 4715-1] kissfft security update to fix two CVEs in Bookworm related to integer overflows.

Last but not least I spent days with FD work at the beginning of the month. The last remaining hours I continued to work on cups and hplip. Unfortunately this work did not result in an upload yet.

Debian Printing

This month I did not upload any package but just worked on some bugs.

This work is generously funded by Freexian!

Debian Lomiri

This month I worked on new Lomiri Apps. Due to a broken disk, the progress was not as expected. But stay tuned!

Not really related to Lomiri, but to Debian EDU, I fixed an incus related bug in sitesummary.

This work is generously funded by Fre(i)e Software GmbH!

Debian Astro

This month I uploaded a new upstream version or a bugfix version of:

• … einsteinpy to unstable, fixing a dependency bug.
• … supernovas to unstable, sponsored upload of a new upstream version.

Debian IoT

Unfortunately I had no time to work in this category this month.

Debian Mobcom

This month I uploaded a new upstream version or a bugfix version of:

• … libosmocore to unstable.
• … osmocom-analog to unstable.
• … libosmo-netif to unstable.
• … osmo-trx to unstable.
• … libosmo-abis to unstable.
• … libosmo-sigtran to experimental.
• … osmo-mgw to unstable.
• … osmo-bsc to experimental.
• … osmo-sgsn to experimental.
• … osmo-pcu to unstable.
• … osmo-hlr to unstable.
• … osmo-tetra to unstable.

misc

This month I uploaded a new upstream version or a bugfix version of:

• … tango to unstable to fix bugs and do a soname transition.
• … pytango to unstable to fix bugs and do a soname transition.