NEWS

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blob 1.3.0.9006

Continuous integration

• Update ccache-action reference.

• Bump action version.

blob 1.3.0.9005

• Ci: Unify fledge.yaml across cynkratemplate and fledge (#86).

blob 1.3.0.9004

Chore

• Add ccache to .gitignore and .Rbuildignore.

Continuous integration

• Create snapshot update PR against correct branch.

• Add reference to /apply-patch workflow in commit message.

• Clarify rationale for not deploying on schedule.

blob 1.3.0.9003

Continuous integration

• Only run fledge on pushes to main.

blob 1.3.0.9002

Continuous integration

• Tweak fledge workflow and ccache action.

blob 1.3.0.9001

Chore

• Auto-update from GitHub Actions.

  Run: https://github.com/tidyverse/blob/actions/runs/25394358417

Continuous integration

• Cosmetics.

• Bump action versions.

• Install clang-format-21.

• Align fledge workflow.

• Harmonize.

Documentation

• Update Plausible analytics snippet (@jeroenjanssens, #71).

blob 1.3.0.9000

fledge

• CRAN release v1.3.0 (#70).

blob 1.3.0 (2026-01-14)

Testing

• The upcoming vctrs update changes details on how subset assignment with NULL works. This motivated the minor version bump (@DavisVaughan, #65).

Bug fixes

• Fix argument consistency between S3 generics and methods.

Chore

• Upkeep (@MikeJohnPage, #55).

blob 1.2.4 (2023-03-17)

Bug fixes

• Fix argument consistency between S3 generics and methods.

blob 1.2.3 (2022-04-10)

• as_blob(NA_character_) returns a missing blob instead of as_blob("NA") (#26, @michaelchirico).

blob 1.2.2 (2021-07-23)

• Moved to "stable" lifecycle stage.
• Remove is_vector_s3() (#19).

blob 1.2.1 (2020-01-20)

• Inline prettyunits.
• vec_ptype2.hms.default() forwards to vec_default_ptype2() for compatibility with vctrs 0.2.1.

blob 1.2.0 (2019-07-09)

Breaking changes

• The blob class is now based on list_of(raw()) from the vctrs package (#11). This adds support for vec_cast() and vec_ptype2(). Some operations (such as subset assignment) are now stricter. The new_blob() constructor permits safe and fast construction of blob objects from a list, and validate_blob() checks an existing object for conformity with the rules.

• The new is_blob() deprecates the existing is.blob(). as.blob() is deprecated in favor of vec_cast() or the new as_blob() (which is just a thin wrapper around vec_cast()).

• Indexing a vector of blobs out of bounds now raises an error. Use NA as index to create a NULL blob.

blob 1.1.1 (2018-03-25)

• Now suggesting pillar instead of importing tibble, and using colored formatting with the prettyunits package with B instead of b as units (#7, #9).

• The blob class can now be used for S4 dispatch.

• Calling c() on blob objects returns a blob.

blob 1.1.0 (2017-06-17)

• New maintainer: Kirill Müller.

• Added as.blob.blob()and as.data.frame.blob() methods (#3).

• Size of very large blobs is displayed correctly.

blob 1.0.0 (2016-12-28)

• Initial release.