backport #5421 update.dev.pkg name change to 1.14.4

mattdowle · mattdowle · commit 0b46acc9b270 · 2022-10-05T22:20:09.000-06:00
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 16. The options `datatable.print.class` and `datatable.print.keys` are now `TRUE` by default. They have been available since v1.9.8 (Nov 2016) and v1.11.0 (May 2018) respectively.
 
-17. `update.dev.pkg()` has been renamed `update_dev_pkg()` to get out of the way of the `stats::update` generic function, [#5421](https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/pull/5421). This is a utility function which upgrades the version of `data.table` to the latest commit in development which has also passed all tests. As such we don't expect any backwards compatibility concerns.
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 # data.table [v1.14.4](https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/milestone/26?closed=1)
 
 ## NOTES
 
 1. gcc 12.1 (May 2022) now detects and warns about an always-false condition in `fread` which caused a small efficiency saving never to be invoked. Thanks to CRAN for testing latest versions of compilers.
 
+2. `update.dev.pkg()` has been renamed `update_dev_pkg()` to get out of the way of the `stats::update` generic function, [#5421](https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/pull/5421). This is a utility function which upgrades the version of `data.table` to the latest commit in development which has passed all tests. As such we don't expect any backwards compatibility concerns. Its manual page was causing an intermittent hang/crash from `R CMD check` on Windows-only on CRAN which we hope will be worked around by changing its name.
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 # data.table [v1.14.2](https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/milestone/24?closed=1)  (27 Sep 2021)
 
