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 **Benchmarks are regularly updated: [here](https://h2oai.github.io/db-benchmark/)**
 
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-17. `update.dev.pkg()` has been renamed `update_dev_pkg()` to get out of the way of the `stats::update` generic function, [#5421](https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/pull/5421). This is a utility function which upgrades the version of `data.table` to the latest commit in development which has also passed all tests. As such we don't expect any backwards compatibility concerns. 
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 # data.table [v1.14.4](https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/milestone/26?closed=1)
 
 ## NOTES
 
+2. `update.dev.pkg()` has been renamed `update_dev_pkg()` to get out of the way of the `stats::update` generic function, [#5421](https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/pull/5421). This is a utility function which upgrades the version of `data.table` to the latest commit in development which has passed all tests. As such we don't expect any backwards compatibility concerns. Its manual page was causing an intermittent hang/crash from `R CMD check` on Windows-only on CRAN which we hope will be worked around by changing its name.
 
 
 # data.table [v1.14.2](https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/milestone/24?closed=1)  (27 Sep 2021)