- upstream release 0.7.2
- New features and improvements
* Script preview keeps vertical scroll position when updating
* Add function rk.home() for retrieving application paths, similar to R.home()
* Add menu option to switch application language
* Remove direct dependency on libintl
* Add "Check installation" wizard to test for several common basic installation issues all in one place
* Add rkward internal package location to end of library search path, to make it accessible to help.search()
* Add menu action to open any supported file type, directly
* Support using QWebEngine instead of QtWebKit (still supported)
* <text> elements in plugins may now also contain clickable links, including rkward://-scheme links
* The new code hinting features from version 0.7.1 are now also available in the console
* On unix-systems, RKWard can now be run without installation
* Kate addons are now supported within RKWard. Intially, search-in-files, snippets, and projects are loaded by default
* Python development scripts have been ported to python3
- Bug fixes
* Fix some problems with plot preview in wizard-type plugins
* Fix several small memory leaks
* Clean some logged warnings and potential issues during R backend shutdown
* Fixed: Avoid shortcut clash with kate part by removing conflicting (default) shortcuts, automatically
- Recommend kate-plugins that are usable in rkward now
- Build with QtWebEngine (instead of QtWebKit) on architectures
and distributions where it is available (in a new enough version)
- Remove no longer available NO_R_XML cmake option (forwarded request 843268 from wolfi323)