NEWS

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randomForestRHF 2.1.0 (2026-09-17)

• Added coe.aggregate = "max.robust" as the default COE ensemble aggregation for new fits, with additional protection against repeated maximum tree contributions. The correction can also apply at coe.trim = 0; trimmed.mean, median, and mean remain available.
• Extended OOB trim selection and fitted hazard configuration to max.robust. Prediction reuses the fitted aggregation policy and selected trim, while restore recomputes the trim selection from OOB risk.
• Standardized coe.trim = 0.5 as an explicit exact-median endpoint for both max.robust and trimmed.mean, including fixed, adaptively selected, and inherited prediction settings, with consistent risk evaluation and selected-aggregation metadata.
• Updated auct.rhf() to use the fitted max.robust rule when reconstructing cumulative/dynamic markers and recovering incident markers from retained tree-level arrays, including repeated-maximum correction and the exact-median endpoint.

randomForestRHF 2.0.3 (2026-09-01)

• Added direct Surv(time, event) support to fitting, prediction, restore, and tree-size tuning. Ordinary right-censored data are converted internally to one interval per subject, fitted forests retain the original response map, and predict.rhf() accepts test data using the original time/event column names; the four-argument counting-process interface remains available for time-dependent covariates.
• Distinguished public prediction domains by original response format across grow, restore, and outcome-bearing prediction. Right-censored, time-static fits now return hazard and CHF over the complete forest horizon; counting-process fits keep hazards NA outside supplied paths, keep CHF flat through internal gaps, and set CHF to NA after each subject's final stop.
• Made the tree-size tuning preflight use the same normalized data, event-process classification, and event-supported bounds as rhf(), including when an explicit upper bound is supplied.
• Corrected cumulative/dynamic auct.rhf() to reconstruct common-time markers from retained tree-level hazard/CHF arrays using the fitted ensemble aggregation rule, including Nelson--Aalen mean aggregation and the exact-median endpoint, while leaving public path-domain predictions unchanged. AUC output now records marker diagnostics and reports a clear error when required raw arrays are unavailable.
• Corrected the incident-AUC tuning example to use a feasible grouped-case threshold, preventing an all-nonfinite criterion when --run-donttest examples are checked.

randomForestRHF 2.0.0 (2026-08-28)

• Added the native Conservation-of-Events (COE) terminal-node hazard estimator and robust across-tree aggregation. The default adaptive protocol selects a winsorization fraction by OOB risk; median, mean, fixed trimming, and the legacy Nelson--Aalen estimator remain available.
• Corrected OOB hazard risk, cumulative-hazard integration, and case-specific trajectory construction to use exact start--stop/grid overlap.
• Case-specific hazards are now NA outside the supplied (start, stop] paths, while cumulative hazards remain flat through gaps and after follow-up.
• Made grow, restore, and outcome-bearing prediction share the fitted hazard configuration and return coherent risk, membership, tree-level hazard/CHF, and terminal-node U, V, and COE outputs.
• Strengthened counting-process validation and event bookkeeping. Unsupported recurrent-event histories are now detected and reported explicitly.
• Reworked default tree sizing and tree-size tuning to use observed event support, preserve time-grid and aggregation settings, and reproducibly refit the selected forest.
• Improved auct.rhf() subject-level bootstrapping and expanded time-localized VarPro tools with pilot-forest predictor weights and bar-matrix, dot-matrix, and line displays.
• Renamed the survival split rules to hazard.loglik and hazard.nelson.aalen. Importance plotting arguments now use dotted names, xvar.wt.rhf() uses the pilot/cache interface, and treesize should be numeric.

randomForestRHF 1.0.1 (2026-04-28)

• Maintenance update with bug fixes and CRAN-related cleanups.
• Added explicit POSIX socket/select header includes in src/server.h for improved musl/Alpine compatibility.
• Replaced unsuppressible console output in print.rhf(), print.auct.rhf(), and RHF importance helpers with suppressible message-based output.
• Hardened prediction and native-interface handling, including more robust checks for variable-level metadata passed from R to compiled code.
• Updated native routine registration to match the current C entry-point signatures and applied minor build/source cleanups.

randomForestRHF 1.0.0 (2026-04-23)

• Initial release.