R core team releases R 3.5.3

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The R Core Team released R 3.5.3, last week. R 3.5.3 explores bug fixes to the functions writeLines, setClassUnion, and stopifnot. R 3.5.3 is a minor release and does not consist of many new changes or improvements.

What’s new in R 3.5.3?

Detection of flags has been improved for C++ 98/11/14/17.
There’s a new macro ‘F_VISIBILITY’ chosen as an alternative for ‘F77_VISIBILITY’. This new macro will now become the preferred form in R 3.6.0.
The issue in writeLines (readLines (fnam), fnam) has been fixed. It now works as expected.
setClassUnion () no longer sends warnings to its users. It instead uses message() on encountering “non local” subclasses in class members.
The failure issue in stopifnot (exprs = T) has been fixed.

R team usually use the release names that are in references to Peanuts strips/films. The code-name for this release ( R 3.5.3) has been selected as “Great Truth” by the R team, which left its users with a bit of a mystery. R core team also gave a hint to its users, saying that the clue is in the date of the release i.e. 11th March 2019.

The code-name has been debunked, with one user tweeting out the reference in one of the Peanuts strips:

For more information, check out the official R 3.5.3 release notes.