[This article was first published on R – JAGS News, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here)Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't.View over Loch Muick, Balmoral Estate, ScotlandAfter an extended beta period, JAGS 5.0.0 is now available. The release is more of a process than a single event, but we have started by uploading the source tarball and the Windows installer to SourceForge. The macOS installer will be along hopefully next week.Thanks to Jeroen Ooms, Windows binary installers are available from the r-windows project on GitHub. This includes binaries for aarch64/Arm64.Changes since the beta releaseBetter multi-core support on macOS (More on this in a future post).Fixed a delayed rejection bug in the MNormal sampler.Added a new elliptical slice sampler contributed by Marcel Jonker. The dic.samples function could throw a logic error (See ticket #66). I am unable to reproduce this but JAGS 5.0.0 includes a workaround that should avoid triggering this bug.Fixed a reproducibility bug in BaseRNGFactory.I would not normally add a new sampler at this late stage, but the elliptical slice sampler was ready to go and performs surprisingly well for a non-adaptive sampler. If you experience any trouble with this new sampler then you can turn it of withset.factory("bugs::EllipticalSlice", type="sampler", state=FALSE)JAGS will then fall back on the adaptive random walk Metropolis-Hastings sampler MNormal.The rjags package and CRAN migrationThe current rjags package on CRAN (version 4-17) will not work with JAGS 5.0.0. You need version 5-x but for the time being this will only be available from SourceForge.Source tarballWindows binary (x86_64)macOS binaryThe reason for not uploading the rjags package to CRAN is that it currently breaks a lot of reverse dependencies. I have been quite proactive in contacting the maintainers of these package and providing patches, but we still need to give them more time.We are monitoring the reverse dependency situation and will be liaising with the CRAN maintainers.Preview of upcoming postsIn order to help users and developers with the transition to JAGS version 5, a series of “What’s new in JAGS 5.0.0” blog posts are planned covering the following topics.Initial valuesReproducibilityMulticore supportABI compatibilityNew diagnosticsThese will include guidance for package maintainers to make the transition to JAGS 5.0.0.To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: R – JAGS News.R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learning R and many other topics. Click here if you're looking to post or find an R/data-science job.Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't.Continue reading: JAGS 5.0.0 is released