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1. The R version dependency has been bumped from 3.5.0 (2018) to 3.6.0 (2019).

1. R Core is considering adding native support for 64-bit integer vectors. `library(bit64)` will temporarily flash a request for use cases of 64-bit integers as posed by Luke Tierney: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2026-July/084631.html.

# bit64 4.8.2 (2026-05-19)

## BUG FIXES
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# nocov end

.onAttach = function(libname, pkgname) {
packageStartupMessage(
strrep("*", .7*getOption("width")), "\n",

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"R-core is collecting use cases for 64-bit integers as they explore native support for these vectors.\n\n",
"See https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2026-July/084631.html and reach out to Luke Tierney (luke-tierney@uiowa.edu).\n",

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if (getRversion() < "4.4.0") {
# nolint next: coalesce_linter.
`%||%` = function(x, y) if (is.null(x)) y else x
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