rOpenSci's May 2026 monthly digest covers the organization's 15th anniversary celebrations, Champions Program updates for two active cohorts, and Maintainer Month spotlights featuring 36 maintainers from 15 countries. Software updates include ten package version bumps, a policy change in the software review process to distribute editor workload, and new social media cards for R-universe. Developer-focused highlights include the official deprecation of devtools install functions in favor of pak, the roxygen2 8.0.0 release with R6/S7 improvements, new Git history commands, the ability to comment DESCRIPTION files in R 4.6.0, and the new 'cross' R package for benchmarking code across different package versions.
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