NEWS

RJSONIO 2.0.5 (2026-05-15)

Added bounds checks in the bundled UTF-8 conversion helper to avoid GCC 16 -Warray-bounds installation warnings on CRAN's r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc check flavor.

Added a native toJSON() fast path for integer, logical, and character vectors while preserving existing JSON output for supported cases.

Repositioned the package documentation around stable JSON conversion, compatibility, and extensibility rather than historical comparisons.
Added a package comparison article describing where RJSONIO fits among other R JSON packages.
Added contributor, release, and citation metadata for the GitHub repository.

Added package vignettes covering package overview, parsing, serialization, type mapping, customization, and connection/streaming workflows.
Added pkgdown Articles navigation for the vignette suite.

Refreshed the README with installation, quick-start, API stability, and development guidance.
Added pkgdown website configuration and GitHub Pages workflow support.

Audited legacy tests/*.R scripts against the testthat suite and added missing compatibility coverage for sample data, parser callbacks, bundled UTF-8 fixtures, empty-vector list behavior, and S4 setup behavior.

Added testthat unit test support for the public package API.
Added compatibility tests for parsing, serialization, round trips, simplification behavior, encodings, connections, edge cases, and string callbacks to help preserve API stability for downstream packages.

With thanks to the CRAN team for looking after RJSONIO, Yaoxiang Li offered to help maintain the package after CRAN asked downstream package maintainers for a new maintainer.
The handover followed the CRAN email thread from March 24 to April 5, 2025: CRAN asked for a new maintainer, Yaoxiang Li offered to help, CRAN accepted, and the package metadata was updated for the new release.
This release records the maintainer transition and establishes a public GitHub source repository for ongoing CRAN maintenance.