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watcher 0.2.1

CRAN release: 2026-09-25

  • Fixes installation failing on systems with a partial or broken system ‘libfswatch’, now falling back to the bundled build (#48).
  • Updates bundled ‘libfswatch’ source to 1.22.0 release. On Linux, this fixes ‘Renamed’ events reporting only the watched directory path when a file is moved in from an unwatched location.

watcher 0.2.0

CRAN release: 2026-06-22

  • Building the bundled ‘libfswatch’ from source no longer requires ‘cmake’, now directly using the R C/C++ toolchain. A system ‘libfswatch’ is still used when available.

watcher 0.1.6

CRAN release: 2026-05-09

  • Updates bundled ‘libfswatch’ source to 1.20.1 release.

watcher 0.1.5

CRAN release: 2025-12-01

  • Fixed issue on Windows where watching with a latency < 1 caused high CPU usage (#32, thanks @RichardHooijmaijers).

watcher 0.1.4

CRAN release: 2025-07-16

  • Watcher can now use a system ‘libfswatch’ installed in a non-standard location (#28).

watcher 0.1.3

CRAN release: 2025-04-09

  • watcher() now accepts a vector for the path argument to monitor multiple files or directories (#16).

  • Fixes Windows bi-arch source builds for R <= 4.1 using rtools40 and earlier (#19).

watcher 0.1.2

CRAN release: 2025-02-25

  • Adds $get_path() and $is_running() methods to the Watcher R6 class.
    • Use these rather than the fields path and running, as they have been made private.

watcher 0.1.1

CRAN release: 2025-02-10

  • Updates bundled ‘libfswatch’ source package to 1.19.0-dev.

watcher 0.1.0

CRAN release: 2025-02-06

  • Initial CRAN release.