encouraging our 1.8 release automation to proceed.

.gitignore

@@ -41,4 +41,5 @@ output/
 *.log
 
 # R environment settings file
-.Renviron
+.Renviron
+.DS_Store

DESCRIPTION

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Package: Achilles
 Type: Package
 Title: Achilles Data Source Characterization
-Version: 1.8
-Date: 2025-10-10
+Version: 1.8.0
+Date: 2025-12-02
 Authors@R: c(
   person("Frank", "DeFalco", email = "fdefalco@ohdsi.org", role = c("aut","cre")),
   person("Patrick", "Ryan", email = "ryan@ohdsi.org", role = c("aut")),
@@ -24,12 +24,12 @@ Description: Automated Characterization of Health Information at Large-Scale
   variety of Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics community
   applications.
 Depends:
-  DatabaseConnector (>= 2.0.0),
+  DatabaseConnector (>= 7.0.0),
   R (>= 4.0.0)
 Imports:
-  DBI,
+  DBI (>= 1.0.0),
   duckdb,
-  SqlRender (>= 1.6.0),
+  SqlRender (>= 1.19.2),
   dplyr,
   jsonlite,
   ParallelLogger,
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ Suggests:
 VignetteBuilder: knitr
 License: Apache License
 Roxygen: list()
-RoxygenNote: 7.2.3
+RoxygenNote: 7.3.3
 Encoding: UTF-8
 URL: https://ohdsi.github.io/Achilles/, https://github.com/OHDSI/Achilles
 BugReports: https://github.com/OHDSI/Achilles/issues

NAMESPACE

@@ -41,8 +41,7 @@ import(ParallelLogger)
 import(SqlRender)
 import(dplyr)
 importFrom(data.table,fwrite)
-importFrom(dplyr,desc)
-importFrom(dplyr,ntile)
+importFrom(dplyr,rename_with)
 importFrom(rlang,.data)
 importFrom(stats,aggregate)
 importFrom(stats,cycle)

NEWS.md

@@ -1,3 +1,47 @@
+# Achilles 1.8
+
+## Improvements and New Features
+
+- **Export Enhancements**
+  - Added `unit_concept_id` to ARES export of measurement tables.
+  - Improved unit concept ID naming and handling.
+  - Added export of the location table to ARES.
+  - Added database summary reporting.
+
+- **Performance Improvements**
+  - Refactored performance logs to be captured directly (not just through console logs).
+  - Improved performance of ARES export, especially for DuckDB.
+  - Optimized analyses for better performance, including analyses 117 and 1815.
+
+- **Code Quality and Maintenance**
+  - Fixed ambiguous `dplyr::select` statements and standardized column name casing (e.g., `IS_DEFAULT` → `is_default`).
+  - Added missing SQL scripts for performance tracking.
+  - Fixed fromJSON method usage for correctness.
+  - Fixed errors when creating metadata tables with zero-length vectors.
+  - Moved repeated subqueries to temp tables in some analyses.
+  - Trimmed trailing whitespaces in export scripts.
+
+- **Bug Fixes**
+  - Fixed crash during `exportToAres` (DuckDB) related to unit concept IDs.
+  - Handled missing server values in temporal characterization functions.
+
+- **Documentation**
+  - Updated and added links in the `DESCRIPTION` file.
+
+## Notable Commits
+
+- [Fix column name case: IS_DEFAULT → is_default](https://github.com/OHDSI/Achilles/commit/134bc0a7e0159dde85653ac41c1e73d8f4123fd1)
+- [Ambiguous dplyr::select statements](https://github.com/OHDSI/Achilles/commit/889999c7a8b59476b8d4d95ee0d4d4a842db81ff)
+- [Add db summary](https://github.com/OHDSI/Achilles/commit/87790da7453f0c8c2aa6d8e5071f5fa7a0a397fe)
+- [Location table export to ARES](https://github.com/OHDSI/Achilles/commit/d5199716fca61bf4b45ab38ee8c1c441633743bc)
+- [Improve performance of analysis 117](https://github.com/OHDSI/Achilles/commit/f9405e4a3b1a03ba4e4603db5774de96c5d8d3f6)
+- [Add links to DESCRIPTION](https://github.com/OHDSI/Achilles/commit/c0f1a934c949a5b989f02eb56e271101306e1ed9)
+- [Fix fromJSON correct method usage](https://github.com/OHDSI/Achilles/commit/b6ff65524a34da285e6340236791b00f6e32a39d)
+
+---
+
+For more, visit the [develop branch commit history](https://github.com/OHDSI/Achilles/commits?sha=develop&sort=updated).
+
 # Achilles 1.7.2
 
 1. Improved test setup management