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In port4me: Get the Same, Personal, Free 'TCP' Port over and over

Version 0.7.1 [2023-02-29]

Bug Fixes

• Version 0.7.0 would not install on FreeBSD.

• The package gave compilation errors on some macOS platforms.

Version 0.7.0 [2023-01-15]

Significant Changes

• Now package works also on R (< 4.0.0).

Miscellaneous

• Add unit test asserting that a bound port is detected as such.

• Remove unnecessary whitespace prefix from the CLI help output.

Bug Fixes

• port4me() would only verify that it was possible to listen to port. Now it also verifies that the port can be bound.

• The command-line interface gave an error if special R option --args was used as in Rscript -e port4me::port4me --args --list=5.

• Now port4me(list = n) gives an error for n < 1.

Version 0.6.0 [2023-07-13]

New Features

• Add command-line interface for R, e.g. Rscript -e port4me::port4me, Rscript -e port4me::port4me --list=5, Rscript -e port4me::port4me --test=8087.

Miscellaneous

• Two of the examples for excluding ports had the wrong output.

Bug Fixes

• If argument prepend was a numeric, but not an integer, then the return port, or ports, would also be numeric. Now port4me() returns integer ports also when prepend is numeric.

• The R port4me::port4me() function did not default to environment variable PORT4ME_LIST, if argument list was not specified.

• The R port4me::port4me() function did not default to environment variable PORT4ME_TEST, if argument test was not specified.

Version 0.5.1 [2023-03-23]

Miscellaneous

• Fix incorrect static output in vignette by generating it dynamically, e.g. some ports listed are not the ones expected.

Version 0.5.0 [2022-10-25]

New Features

• Added environment variable PORT4ME_EXCLUDE_UNSAFE, which defaults to {chrome},{firefox}. The token {chrome} expands to the value of PORT4ME_EXCLUDE_UNSAFE_CHROME, which defaults to the set of ports that are considered unsafe by the Chrome web browser and therefore also blocked by it. Similarly, {firefox} expands to the value of PORT4ME_EXCLUDE_UNSAFE_FIXEFOX, which defaults to the set of ports that are blocked by the Mozilla Firefox web browser.

Version 0.4.0 [2022-08-25]

Significant Changes

• Created R package based on a set of prototypical R scripts.

port4me documentation built on May 29, 2024, 3:23 a.m.