NEWS

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watcher 0.1.6.9000

watcher 0.1.6 (2026-05-09)

• Updates bundled 'libfswatch' source to 1.20.1 release.

watcher 0.1.5 (2025-12-01)

• Fixed issue on Windows where watching with a latency < 1 caused high CPU usage (#32, thanks @RichardHooijmaijers).

watcher 0.1.4 (2025-07-16)

• Watcher can now use a system 'libfswatch' installed in a non-standard location (#28).

watcher 0.1.3 (2025-04-09)

• watcher() now accepts a vector for the path argument to monitor multiple files or directories (#16).

• Fixes Windows bi-arch source builds for R <= 4.1 using rtools40 and earlier (#19).

watcher 0.1.2 (2025-02-25)

• Adds $get_path() and $is_running() methods to the Watcher R6 class.
  • Use these rather than the fields path and running, as they have been made private.

watcher 0.1.1 (2025-02-10)

• Updates bundled 'libfswatch' source package to 1.19.0-dev.

watcher 0.1.0 (2025-02-06)

• Initial CRAN release.