sofa 0.4.2

Fixed Rd markup for the CouchDB GET /{db} reference in db_compact() (lost braces note on CRAN checks; request from Kurt Hornik, 2026-07-20).
Replaced deprecated structure(..., .Names = ) with names = in design search examples and tests.
Corrected Eduard Szöcs’s ORCID in DESCRIPTION (was accidentally duplicated from Scott Chamberlain).

sofa 0.4.1

Updated package metadata and documentation links for CRAN.
Added a GitHub Actions check workflow for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Reworked tests to use a lightweight mocked CouchDB service by default, while preserving the option to test against a real CouchDB server with SOFA_TEST_REAL_COUCHDB=true.
Expanded test coverage across the package.

Fixed db_replicate() so replication targets use the supplied remote Cushion URL rather than assuming the old Cloudant URL pattern.
Fixed db_alldocs(..., disk=) to return the output file path as documented.
Fixed stale examples and verified documented examples against the mocked CouchDB test service.
Declared the cli test dependency used by testthat.

new function doc_upsert(): updates an existing document or creates it if it doesn’t yet exist (#69) work by @critichu

CouchDB v3 related changes

made sure sofa works with v3; all examples/tests updated to use username/password (#73)
new function db_bulk_get() for the /{db}/_bulk_get route (#73)
fixed design_search_many(): in couch v2.2 and greater there’s a new route /{db}/_design/{ddoc}/_view/{view}/queries, which is used in this fxn now instead of using the /{db}/_design/{ddoc}/_view/{view} route (#75)
Cushion class gains new method $version() to get the CouchDB version you’re using as a numeric (to enable progammatic couch version checking)
db_query() changes: some new parameters added: r, bookmark, update, stable, stale, and execution_stats (#74)

added more tests (#61)
design_search() now allows more possible values for start and end keys: startkey_docid, start_key_doc_id, startkey, start_key, endkey_docid, end_key_doc_id, endkey, end_key (#62)
add title to vignettes (#71)
for docs_create() internally support using user’s setting for the R option digits to pass on to jsonlite::toJSON to control number of digits after decimal place (#66)

fixed authorization problems in $ping() method in Cushion; now separate ping() function calls $ping() method in Cushion (#72)

Gains new functions db_index, db_index_create, and db_index_delete for getting an index, creating one, and deleting one
Gains function design_search_many to do many queries at once in a POST request (#56)
design_search reworked to allow user to do a GET request or POST request depending on if they use params parameter or body parameter - many parameters removed in the function definition, and are now to be passed to params or body (#56)
db_alldocs gains new parameter disk to optionally write data to disk instead of into the R session - should help when data is very large (if disk is used fxn returns a file path) (#64)

fix minor issues in vignette, and updated for working with CouchDB v2 and greater (#53) (#54) (#47)
replace httr with crul for HTTP requests (#52)
design_copy removed temporarily (#20) (#60)
new issue and pull request template

Fix to docs for design_search (#57) thanks @michellymenezes
Fix to db_query to make a single field passed to fields parameter work (#63) thanks @gtumuluri
Fix error in doc_attach_get (#58) thanks @gtumuluri