x13binary 1.1.61.2 on CRAN: Micro Maintenance

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 07:34:00 CDT

The x13binary team is happy to share the availability of Release 1.1.61.2 of the x13binary package providing the X-13ARIMA-SEATS program by the US Census Bureau which arrived on CRAN earlier today, and has already been built for r2u.

This release responds to a CRAN request to display the compiler version when building. x13binary, just like three other packages there, creates and ships a local binary it interfaces with. So our build was a little outside of R CMD INSTALL ... but now signals build versions like R does. We also modernized and simplified our continuous intgegration script based on r-ci.

Courtesy of my CRANberries, there is also a diffstat report for this release showing changes to the previous release.

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