#127: Prepared release 7.1.0 (#128)

fixes #127

Author: tomuben

DESCRIPTION

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Package: exasol
 Type: Package
 Title: R Interface & SDK for the EXASOL Database
 Version: 7.1.0
-Date: 2021-10-07
+Date: 2022-07-12
 Author: Ian Formanek, Marcel Boldt, Mathias Golombek, Muhammet Orazov, Pieterjan Spoelders, Sebastian Baer, Szilard Barany, Thomas Ubensee, Torsten Kilias, Valerie Wiedemann, Viliam Simko
 Maintainer: Thomas Ubensee <ext.Thomas.Uebensee@exasol.com>
 Contact: Exasol <opensource@exasol.com>

README.md

@@ -20,12 +20,14 @@ Leading the TPC-H benchmark, it is considered the fastest analytical data wareho
 
 ## Status
 
-The package gets tested in Github against R 3.5, 3.6, 4.0 and 4.1, but it also worked on R 3.3 and R 3.4 in the past. For R 3.6 and earlier, an older RODBC package is necessary, the newer versions (1.3-17 and upwards) only support R 4.0. You can use the [remotes package](https://remotes.r-lib.org/) to install specific versions of RODBC. The packages DBI 0.3.1 and a fork of DBItest 1.0-1 are not the current versions. The Exasol R package may however work with DBI 0.4.1, but until this is resolved the fitting older packages can be loaded from here:
+The package gets tested in Github against 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2 (and 3.5/3.6 for Linux!). For R 3.6 and earlier, an older RODBC package is necessary, the newer versions (1.3-17 and upwards) only support R 4.0. You can use the [remotes package](https://remotes.r-lib.org/) to install specific versions of RODBC. The packages DBI 0.3.1 and a fork of DBItest 1.0-1 are not the current versions. The Exasol R package may however work with DBI 0.4.1, but until this is resolved the fitting older packages can be loaded from here:
 
 - https://github.com/marcelboldt/DBI
 - https://github.com/marcelboldt/DBItest
 
-For Windows only: As this package uses C++14 code, it needs at least RTools >= 4.0.0. Hence, it works only on R >= 4.0.0.
+For Windows only: 
+  * As this package uses C++14 code, it needs at least RTools >= 4.0.0. Hence, it works only on R >= 4.0.0.
+  * Please note that the version of RTools must match the installed version of R (RTools 4.2 for R >= 4.2, RTools 4.0 for R4.0/4.1), check https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/ for further information
 
 The low-level methods such as regards `exa.readData`, `exa.writeData` and `exa.createScript` may work as expected, so
 should the DBI connection methods (`dbConnect`, etc.; all tests passed). DBI querying methods also get close to being production ready.

doc/changes/changes_7.1.0.md

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-# r-exasol 7.1.0, released t.b.d.
+# r-exasol 7.1.0, released 2022-07-12
 
-Code name: t.b.d.
+Code name: Fix for R4.2 on Windows
 
 ## Summary 
 
-t.b.d.
+This release fixes several bugs, mainly a linker error which occurred on R 4.2 under Windows. Also, there were some improvements in the documentation and the Github action for the release job was changed, so that the binary R packages for all supported platforms (Windows/Linux/MacOsX) is now stored in the Github release. 
 
 ## Features / Enhancements
 
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ t.b.d.
 
  - #52: Cleaned up README
  - #105: Changed install documentation for Linux
+ - #127: Prepared release 7.1.0
 
 ### Compile Dependency Updates