readxl 1.4.2
This release contains no user-facing changes.
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We embed a development version of libxls (https://github.com/libxls/libxls), which is based on the most recent released version, v1.6.2.
The reason for embedding a development version is to ship a version of libxls that incorporates the fix for this CVE (#679): -
readxl no longer declares the use of C++11.
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readxl should once again compile on Alpine Linux.
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Other small readxl-specific patches have been made to the embedded libxls code to comply with CRAN requests, such as avoiding the use of
sprintf()
.