• Removes use of .inspect_err() which wasn’t in stable until 1.76
  • Adds xz as a system requirement
  • Enables building in offline environments
  • Improves documentation
  • Adds new utility function decode_as_string() to decode base64 strings directly into a string.
  • Addresses non API changes
  • All hard dependencies were removed (#2, @etiennebacher).
  • Initial CRAN submission.