Release 0.9.7 of the TileDB R package supports TileDB Embedded 2.4.0 (or earlier, or later; tested with dev, 2.3.4, 2.2.9, 2.1.6 and 2.0.8)

Entries from the NEWS.md file follow:

tiledb 0.9.7

This release of the R package builds against TileDB 2.4.0, but has been tested against previous releases and the development version.

Improvements

Accessors for context and query statistics were added (returning easily parseable JSON strings) (#293).
Initial support for schema evolution was added to add or drop attributes (#294).
Use of TileDB Embedded was upgraded to release 2.4.0 (#295)
Windows builds under GitHub Actions now also include the newer UCRT variant (#296).
The internal memory allocation has been switched to set_{data,offset,validity}_buffer functions (#297).
A convenience accessor for schema information retrieving 'dimension' or 'attribute' status has been added (#299).
The default array type fromDataFrame has been change to sparse to match some optimizations in TileDB Embedded, some unit tests have been updated accordingly (#300).
TileDB arrays can now be queried in expression using pipes (for row-wise filtering and colunb-wise selection) (#301).
When matrices as well as sparse matrices are written to arrays, optional row and column names are now supported as well (#303, #304).
The configure script was update to the standards of autoconf 2.69 as requested by CRAN (#305).

Use of set_{data,offset,validity}_buffer is made conditional on TileDB 2.4.0 or later to continue builds on older versions (#298).
Tests of piped expressions have been rewritten to be compatible with R versions earlier than 4.1.0 (#302).
A dangling documentation link in README.md was corrected, and another removed (#306).