Posit Package Manager Offline Downloader Release Notes

Please contact Posit customer support (support@posit.co) with questions about the described changes.

2025.09.0

September 09, 2025

New

• (#15652): Adds support for ARM64 Linux binary packages. ARM64 Linux binaries will be downloaded by default unless the --architectures flag is specified, so set --architectures=x86_64 to limit downloads to only the x86_64 architecture if you are not using ARM64.

2025.04.4

July 07, 2025

This release includes no changes to the Offline Downloader.

2025.04.2

May 30, 2025

This release includes no changes to the Offline Downloader.

2025.04.0

April 10, 2025

This release includes no changes to the Offline Downloader.

2024.11.0

December 4, 2024

New

• (#14528): Adds support for filtering Python package versions specified in the requirements.txt file.

2024.08.2

September 20, 2024

This release includes no changes to the Offline Downloader.

2024.08.0

August 9, 2024

Breaking

• Air-gapped customers are required to redownload the Bioconductor data after upgrading before syncing the Bioconductor source. See the Admin Guide for more information.

2024.04.4

June 26, 2024

This release includes no changes to the Offline Downloader.

2024.04.2

June 14, 2024

New

• (#12841): PyPI packages can now be downloaded using the new get pypi command. See the Air-Gapped Package Manager documentation for instructions on how to set up an offline PyPI repository.

• (#11105): Concurrent downloaders up to the --concurrency setting will automatically be spawned based on network and hardware factors. The default is now 500.

• (#11105): Allow higher concurrent downloads on rspm-offline-downloader get bioconductor.

Breaking

• Air-gapped customers are required to redownload the CRAN data after upgrading before syncing the CRAN source. See the Admin Guide for more information.

• The offline downloader version must now correspond with the Package Manager version.

2023.12.0

December 18, 2023

New

• The Offline Downloader now supports downloading vulnerabilities.

2023.08.4

October 30, 2023

This release includes no changes to the Offline Downloader.

2023.08.2

October 19, 2023

This release includes no changes to the Offline Downloader.

2023.08.0

September 12, 2023

New

• Adds the ability to specify architecture to download binaries for.

Breaking

• The --linux-distros and --windows flags are deprecated in favor of --distributions. Use get cran --distributions=macos --architectures=x86_64 to only download x86_64 binaries for macOS, and exclude arm64. Use get cran --distributions=windows to download binaries for Windows.

2023.04.0

April 28, 2023

This release includes no changes to the Offline Downloader.

2022.11.4

December 05, 2022

This release includes no changes to the Offline Downloader.

2022.11.2

November 18, 2022

This release includes no changes to the Offline Downloader.

2022.11.0

November 14, 2022

Fixed

• (#8088): The Offline Downloader now supports downloading binary packages for R versions that have reached end of support.

• (#9197): The Offline Downloader no longer fails when downloading binary packages for deprecated R versions and distributions without binary packages.

2022.07.2

August 2, 2022

New

• Introduce new standalone NEWS page to capture changes to the RSPM Offline Downloader.

Fixed

• (#6454): The Offline Downloader now supports downloading binary packages for newly released R versions and operating systems without requiring an upgrade of the tool.

• (#5271): The general performance of the Offline Downloader’s get cran command has been improved.