NEWS

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jsonlite 1.8.8 (2023-12-04)

• Apply libyajl patches for CVE-2022-24795, CVE-2022-24795, CVE-2023-33460
• Fix printf warnings for cran

jsonlite 1.8.7 (2023-06-29)

• toJSON(digits = NA) once again prints 15 digits max
• Fix getRversion type (requested by CRAN)

jsonlite 1.8.6

• Add method [.json such that subsetting keeps json class

jsonlite 1.8.5 (2023-06-05)

• Max digits in toJSON() raised from 15 to 17 (see #412)
• Remove online example from flaky httpbin server

jsonlite 1.8.4 (2022-12-06)

• Replace sprintf with snprintf for CRAN

jsonlite 1.8.3 (2022-10-21)

• Fix strict-prototypes warning

jsonlite 1.8.2 (2022-10-02)

• Also fix breaking change in base_r for as.character.Date

jsonlite 1.8.1 (2022-10-01)

• Use base::url instead of curl::curl for downloading URLs in fromJSON
• Fix for breaking change 82904 in base-R (changed default as.character.POSIX behavior)

jsonlite 1.8.0 (2022-02-22)

• Remove all calls to setOldClass() for R >= 4.0 (#378)

jsonlite 1.7.3 (2022-01-17)

• Fix memory bug in toJSON(pretty=TRUE) for 0-length vectors (#366)
• Ported rbind_pages() to use vctrs::vec_rbind (#352)
• Fix error serializing S4 class extending SEXPTYPE for certain types (#364)
• Fix citibike example in API vignette

jsonlite 1.7.2 (2020-12-09)

• Special case 'blob' vctrs to prevent boxing of base64 output strings
• Fix a unit test for new stricter all.equal() for environments in base-R

jsonlite 1.7.1 (2020-09-07)

• Always rename the 'sf_column' column to 'geometry' in toJSON(sf = 'geojson') because that is what the spec says.
• Add asJSON method for ITime.
• Fix toJSON() for encoding strings in multibyte locale on Windows
• serializeJSON() now supports S4 "pseudo-null" (i.e. empty slots)

jsonlite 1.7.0 (2020-06-25)

• Add support for 'sf' classes in toJSON() conform GeoJSON spec.
• Fix a unit test due to a change in rgdal

jsonlite 1.6.1 (2020-02-02)

• Fix bug in C_collapse_array_pretty_inner declarationdetected by CRAN LTO
• Better handing of NA in timestamps with POSIXt = 'mongo'
• The 'raw' parameter in toJSON gains options 'int' and 'js'

jsonlite 1.6 (2018-12-07)

• Add parse_json() wrapper that does not guess if a string is actually a file/url
• Fix a few rchk warnings (mostly false positives)
• Add asJSON method for hms
• Do not require is.vector() for unbox to support values with attributes e.g. factor or tzone
• write_json now suppresses recoding of strings on windows, fixes #226
• Hide internal libyajl symbols from shlib
• Remove C calls R connection API which are no longer allowed on CRAN. This may lead to about 5% performance decrease for parsing from connections.
• Remove deprecated rbind.pages function

jsonlite 1.5 (2017-06-01)

• Workaround for #180. fromJSON() first checks for literal json, then filename
• Rename rbind.pages to rbind_pages to fix warning in R-devel (requested by CRAN)

jsonlite 1.4 (2017-04-08)

• Properly escape control characters \x01 through \x1f in toJSON()
• Support parsing JSON prefixed with a rfc7464 ASCII Record Separator (0x1E)
• (un)serializeJSON and do not set 'attributes' and 'value' for NULL anymore
• serializeJSON() sets class="json" on output value, consistent with toJSON()
• Rewrite (un)serializeJSON() for S4 classes and added some unit tests
• Fix for simplyfing datelists, needed for mongolite

jsonlite 1.3 (2017-02-28)

• The solidus '/' is now escaped when preceded by '<' for safe html embedding (#163)
• Code for reading from connections is ported to C.
• Code for escaping strings has been rewritten
• toJSON gains internal argument no_dots for needed by mongolite
• Better support for parsing extjson date strings

jsonlite 1.2 (2016-12-30)

• Add 'read_json' and 'write_json' convenience wrappers
• Update modp_numtoa from upstream (fixes a rounding issue in #148)
• Ensure asJSON.POSIXt does not use sci notation for negative values (#155, John Greeley)
• Tweak num_to_char to properly print large negative numbers
• Performance optimization for simplyfing data frames

jsonlite 1.1 (2016-09-14)

• stream_in now passes ... arguments to fromJSON as documented
• Force ANSI_STDIO on Windows to fix -pedantic compiler warning
• Close connection even if opening fails. Fixes #145
• validate() now includes an 'offset' attribute indicating at which byte the error occured
• Refresh some example tokes for vignettes

jsonlite 1.0 (2016-07-01)

• Fix always_decimal for non-whole numbres which get rounded to whole numbers
• Rename and export base64 encoder/decoder
• Fix compiler warning on Windows: don't redefine isnan() and isinf()
• Changed targed in Makevars to libstatyajl.a to prevent conflict with system libyajl
• Bump to 1.0 because this package is basically done

jsonlite 0.9.22 (2016-06-15)

• Fix for side effects of 'always_decimal' on Date and POSIXt integer encoding
• Fixed a small memory leak in the push parser (fromJSON.connection)
• Cleaned up Makevars
• Replace base64 encoder/decoder to be in-memory
• Special case toJSON(NULL, null = "null") now returns "null"

jsonlite 0.9.21 (2016-06-04)

• Add 'always_decimal' argument in toJSON for real number notation in whole number doubles.

jsonlite 0.9.20 (2016-05-10)

• Performance optimization for toJSON on matrices and arrays
• Tweak for unboxed POSIXt = "mongo" queries

jsonlite 0.9.19 (2015-11-28)

• Remove the View() workaround because it causes issues in RStudio and because the bug in utils::View has been fixed in R-patched.

jsonlite 0.9.18 (2015-11-25)

• Removed support for the archived int64 package. Use bit64 instead.
• The stream_in function now skips over blank lines
• Remove workaround for View() in rstudio
• fromJSON now sets an 'Accept' request header for URLs.

jsonlite 0.9.17 (2015-09-06)

• Fix for 1 dimensional array objects
• Fix for unnamed data frame
• Fix for duplicate _row fields
• The 'unbox' function now accepts classed scalars such as dates
• Ignore BOM with warning in push parser

jsonlite 0.9.16 (2015-04-11)

• Performance optimizations in asJSON.data.frame by avoiding apply()
• Prettifying is now done by default in R (thanks to Yihui Xie)
• Add json_verbatim option to insert verbatim json
• Improve verbose output of streaming functions

jsonlite 0.9.15 (2015-03-26)

• Replaced RCurl dependency with the new curl package.
• Added push parser for more efficient parsing from connection interfaces (e.g. files or urls).
• The toMongo function has been removed. Use stream_out instead.
• The 'View' function will not be exposed in recent versions of rstudio that supported nested data natively.
• Add hidden bigint_as_char argument in fromJSON
• Fixed a memory leak in fromJSON.
• I() forces boxing of a scalar when 'auto_unbox = TRUE' for RJSONIO compatibility.
• toJSON now supports 'keep_vec_names=TRUE' will mimic RJSONIO legacy behavior.
• toJSON now supports 'time_format' argument to customize formatting of POSIXt strings.

jsonlite 0.9.14 (2014-12-01)

• Change license to MIT (for GPL2 compatibility).
• Add support for digits = I(n) to use significant precision.
• When 'pretty' in toJSON is numeric, it specifies the number of spaces to indent.
• Bug fix in validate() related to ScalarLogical
• Add support for dataframe = "values"
• Byte-order-marks are now ignored as suggested by rfc7159
• Add support for integer64 class (bit64 package)

jsonlite 0.9.13 (2014-10-21)

• Ported some number formatting to C
• Fix when http server gives no content-type header
• Prevent auto unboxing within a matrix
• Assume UTF8 but fall back on native encoding for files and urls in fromJSON
• Fix for 32 bit windows XP.

jsonlite 0.9.12 (2014-09-27)

• New JSON parser based on yajl. Some changes: * smaller and faster than libjson * better error messages * automatic validation * native \uXXXX unicode parsing * integer parsing * uses spaces intead of tabs for prettify
• Other functions ported to C: collapse_object, null_to_na, is_recordlist, is_scalarlist
• Expose 'flatten' function
• Row names are encoded as "_row" instead of "$row"
• Start with streaming functions
• Some internal changes to support BSON/MongoDB

jsonlite 0.9.11 (2014-09-05)

• Added toJSON null argument
• Fix bug in prettify object name escaping
• Use C code for escaping and collapsing vectors
• Several performance enhancements in fromJSON/simplify code
• The auto_unbox argument is ignored for dataframes when dataframe="column"

jsonlite 0.9.10 (2014-08-03)

• Add support for escaped (hexadecimal) unicode characters in fromJSON(unicode = TRUE)
• Exporting a wrapper for View() that flattens nested data frames
• Add print method for scalar (unbox)

jsonlite 0.9.9 (2014-07-22)

• Fix bug where 'flatten' argument wasn't passed down
• Make asJSON automatically unname any named lists within a data frame
• fromJSON(url) now sets Accept header
• Increase default to digits=4 in toJSON

jsonlite 0.9.8 (2014-06-02)

• Remove whitespace from default output of toJSON
• Split vignette in 3 documents
• Add support for simplifyMatrix within a data frame
• Add class "json" output of toJSON, simplify, minify
• Add print method for json
• Cleaned up unit tests
• Workaround for SSL handshake issues in https downloads
• Raise warnings for SSL or Content-Type abnormalities

jsonlite 0.9.7 (2014-04-18)

• formally expose 'force' argument in toJSON
• formally expose 'flatten' argument in fromJSON
• fix bug in simplifyDataframe
• fix in rlibjson code that converted empty array to AsIs object
• auto coerse mongo type dates in fromJSON

jsonlite 0.9.6 (2014-04-05)

• toJSON gains argument auto_unbox
• Minor fixes

jsonlite 0.9.5 (2014-03-27)

• Never raise error in toJSON when force=true
• Fix typo in line 2 of JSONDefs/GNU_C.h (GUN -> GNU)
• Run unit tests during R CMD check
• Update vignette

jsonlite 0.9.4 (2014-03-01)

• Added minify function
• Added unbox function
• Fixed bug where toJSON 'force' argument wasn't passed down
• Removed -DJSON_VALIDATE -DJSON_STREAM=1 from Makevars.in (already in JSONoptions.h)

jsonlite 0.9.3 (2014-01-02)

• Changes by Prof Ripley for Solaris/CRAN

jsonlite 0.9.2

• Update libjson to 7.6.1 (fixes bug in the validator)
• Generalized toJSON method 'matrix' to 'array' to work for higher dimensions.
• Add option to encode matrix either row-major or column-major.
• Set default SSL version to 3 for fromJSON("https://...")

jsonlite 0.9.1 (2013-12-12)

• Major performance improvements for toJSON.data.frame

jsonlite 0.9.0 (2013-12-03)

• Initial release