CRAN submission 1.17.4

TysonStanley · TysonStanley · commit 0b387b3094ab · 2025-05-26T17:27:07.000-06:00
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Package: data.table
-Version: 1.17.3
+Version: 1.17.4
 Title: Extension of `data.frame`
 Depends: R (>= 3.3.0)
 Imports: methods
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 **If you are viewing this file on CRAN, please check [latest news on GitHub](https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/blob/master/NEWS.md) where the formatting is also better.**
 
-# data.table [v1.17.3](https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/milestone/39)
+# data.table [v1.17.4](https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/milestone/39) (25 May 2025)
 
 1. The C code now avoids passing invalid data pointers from 0-length vectors to `memcpy()`, which previously caused undefined behaviour. Thanks to Prof. Brian D. Ripley for the report and Michael Chirico for the fix, [#6911](https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/pull/6911).
 
diff --git a/src/init.c b/src/init.c
@@ -426,5 +426,5 @@ SEXP initLastUpdated(SEXP var)
 SEXP dllVersion(void)
 {
   // .onLoad calls this and checks the same as packageVersion() to ensure no R/C version mismatch, #3056
-  return (ScalarString(mkChar("1.17.3")));
+  return (ScalarString(mkChar("1.17.4")));
 }

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`@@ -426,5 +426,5 @@ SEXP initLastUpdated(SEXP var)`
`426`	`426`	`SEXP dllVersion(void)`
`427`	`427`	`{`
`428`	`428`	`// .onLoad calls this and checks the same as packageVersion() to ensure no R/C version mismatch, #3056`
`429`		`- return (ScalarString(mkChar("1.17.3")));`
	`429`	`+ return (ScalarString(mkChar("1.17.4")));`
`430`	`430`	`}`