The future package celebrates ten years on CRAN as of June 19, 2025. I got a bit stalled over the holidays and going to the fantastic useR! 2025 conference, but, as promised, here is the third in a series of blog posts highlighting recent improvements to the futureverse ecosystem.
doFuture 1.10.0 is on CRAN as of May 2025 followed by two bug-fix releases in June and July. It comes with several improvements, but here I would like to focus on two new features:
doFuture 1.0.0 is on CRAN since March 2023. It introduces a new foreach operator %dofuture%, which makes it even easier to use foreach() to parallelize via the future ecosystem. This new operator is designed to be an alternative to the existing %dopar% operator for foreach() - an alternative that works in similar ways but better. If you already use foreach() together with futures, or plan on doing so, I recommend using %dofuture% instead of %dopar%.
