diff --git a/.crow/archive-missed-packages.yaml b/.crow/archive-missed-packages.yaml
index e033f88..1077b7d 100644
--- a/.crow/archive-missed-packages.yaml
+++ b/.crow/archive-missed-packages.yaml
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ matrix:
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Archive missed packages'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-alpine:3.23
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-alpine:3.23-4.5
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -53,11 +53,10 @@ steps:
         from_secret: GITHUB_PAT
       # normal env vars
       GIT_USER: pat-s
-      R_VERSION: 4.5.3
     commands:
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git", dependencies = TRUE)'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'bincraft::process_unarchived_pkgs(Sys.getenv("CODENAME"), Sys.getenv("ARCH"), workers = 2L)'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git", dependencies = TRUE)'
+      - R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e 'bincraft::process_unarchived_pkgs(Sys.getenv("CODENAME"), Sys.getenv("ARCH"), workers = 2L)'
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/build-all-versions-amd64.yaml b/.crow/build-all-versions-amd64.yaml
index 2766243..4c10387 100644
--- a/.crow/build-all-versions-amd64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/build-all-versions-amd64.yaml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # ARCH (amd64)
 # OS (alpine)
 # OS_VERSION (3.22)
-# R_VERSION (4.5.3)
+# R_VERSION (4.5)
 # crow pipeline create --var ARCH=arm64 --var OS=alpine --var OS_VERSION=3.23 --var R_VERSION=4.5.3 --var task=build-all-arm64 --branch=main --log-level=info 5
 # crow pipeline create --var ARCH=arm64 --var OS=redhat --var OS_VERSION=10 --var R_VERSION=4.5.3 --var task=build-all-arm64 --branch=main --log-level=info 5
 # crow pipeline create --var ARCH=amd64 --var OS=redhat --var OS_VERSION=10 --var R_VERSION=4.5.3 --var task=build-all-amd64 --branch=main --log-level=info 5
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ depends_on:
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Build binaries'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-${OS}:${OS_VERSION}
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-${OS}:${OS_VERSION}-${R_VERSION}
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -69,9 +69,9 @@ steps:
       # Windows-only: 'RInno', 'KeyboardSimulator', 'R2PPT', 'RWinEdt', 'blatr', 'excel.link', 'spectrino', 'taskscheduleR', 'MDSGUI', 'BiplotGUI', 'R2wd', 'rFUSION', 'MediaNews', 'rFUSION', 'MediaNews'
       # pkgs = readRDS('/mnt/cache/pkgs_amd64.rds');
       - XVFB=$(command -v xwfb-run 2>/dev/null || command -v xvfb-run); XVFB_ARGS=""; if command -v xwfb-run >/dev/null 2>&1; then dnf install -y -q weston 2>/dev/null; XVFB_ARGS="-c weston"; fi
-      - $XVFB $XVFB_ARGS -n $SPLIT_INDEX -- /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/Rscript local/build-all.R $SPLIT_INTO $SPLIT_INDEX $NCPUS 2>&1
+      - $XVFB $XVFB_ARGS -n $SPLIT_INDEX -- Rscript local/build-all.R $SPLIT_INTO $SPLIT_INDEX $NCPUS 2>&1
       # archive missed packages
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e "bincraft::process_unarchived_pkgs(paste(Sys.getenv('OS'), Sys.getenv('OS_VERSION')), Sys.getenv('ARCH'), workers = $NCPUS)"
+      - R -q -e "bincraft::process_unarchived_pkgs(paste(Sys.getenv('OS'), Sys.getenv('OS_VERSION')), Sys.getenv('ARCH'), workers = $NCPUS)"
     backend_options:
       docker:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/build-all-versions-arm64.yaml b/.crow/build-all-versions-arm64.yaml
index 8de103d..eb1a5c2 100644
--- a/.crow/build-all-versions-arm64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/build-all-versions-arm64.yaml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # ARCH (amd64)
 # OS (alpine)
 # OS_VERSION (3.22)
-# R_VERSION (4.5.3)
+# R_VERSION (4.5)
 # echo "c('RInno','KeyboardSimulator','R2PPT','RWinEdt','blatr','excel.link','spectrino','taskscheduleR','MDSGUI','BiplotGUI','R2wd','rFUSION','MediaNews','doBy','IDPmisc','frailtypack','afex','FrF2','DoE.base','agricolae','doFuture','fscaret','PHYLOGR','seewave','pls','relaimpo','geepack','gggenes','NPCirc','repmis','PNDSIBGE','lidR','poismf','neonstore','MachineShop','mvst','MacBehaviour','mcmcderive','RGIFT','KnowBR','netmeta','spdep','sf','Rfast','compareGroups','ff','GsymPoint','RcppDynProg','comtradr','RcppDynProg','FD','PearsonDS','DCluster','gRc','mixlm','geospt','fdth','ffmanova','fiery','ffscrapr','cold','fiery','RcmdrPlugin.DoE','RcmdrPlugin.NMBU')" | base64
 # crow pipeline create --var ARCH=arm64 --var OS=alpine --var OS_VERSION=3.22 --var R_VERSION=4.5 --var task=build-all-arm64 --var K8S_INSTANCE_TYPE=cax41 --branch=main --var SKIP_PKGS=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 --log-level=info 7
 # crow pipeline create --var ARCH=arm64 --var OS=alpine --var OS_VERSION=3.23 --var R_VERSION=4.5 --var task=build-all-arm64 --var K8S_INSTANCE_TYPE=cax41 --branch=main --log-level=info 5
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ depends_on:
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Build binaries'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-${OS}:${OS_VERSION}
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-${OS}:${OS_VERSION}-${R_VERSION}
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -82,9 +82,9 @@ steps:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs /mnt/cache/ccache /mnt/cache/packages
       - XVFB=$(command -v xwfb-run 2>/dev/null || command -v xvfb-run); XVFB_ARGS=""; if command -v xwfb-run >/dev/null 2>&1; then dnf install -y -q weston 2>/dev/null; XVFB_ARGS="-c weston"; fi
-      - $XVFB $XVFB_ARGS -n $SPLIT_INDEX -- /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/Rscript local/build-all.R $SPLIT_INTO $SPLIT_INDEX $NCPUS 2>&1
+      - $XVFB $XVFB_ARGS -n $SPLIT_INDEX -- Rscript local/build-all.R $SPLIT_INTO $SPLIT_INDEX $NCPUS 2>&1
       # archive missed packages
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e "bincraft::process_unarchived_pkgs(paste(Sys.getenv('OS'), Sys.getenv('OS_VERSION')), Sys.getenv('ARCH'), workers = $NCPUS)"
+      - R -q -e "bincraft::process_unarchived_pkgs(paste(Sys.getenv('OS'), Sys.getenv('OS_VERSION')), Sys.getenv('ARCH'), workers = $NCPUS)"
     backend_options:
       docker:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/build-all-versions-install-deps-amd64.yaml b/.crow/build-all-versions-install-deps-amd64.yaml
index f3d61f0..c41789f 100644
--- a/.crow/build-all-versions-install-deps-amd64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/build-all-versions-install-deps-amd64.yaml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ labels:
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Install deps and bincraft'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-${OS}:${OS_VERSION}
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-${OS}:${OS_VERSION}-${R_VERSION}
     pull: true
     environment:
       REPO_RO_TOKEN:
@@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ steps:
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs /mnt/cache/ccache /mnt/cache/packages
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - git clone -q https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git /tmp/bincraft
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::sysreqs_db_update(); pak::local_install("/tmp/bincraft"); pak::pak(c("RPostgres", "s3fs", "data.table", "future")); packageVersion("bincraft")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e "source('local/packages-to-build.R'); saveRDS(pkgs, '/mnt/cache/packages/pkgs_to_build.rds'); sprintf('Precomputed %s package versions to build', nrow(pkgs))"
+      - R -q -e 'pak::sysreqs_db_update(); pak::local_install("/tmp/bincraft"); pak::pak(c("RPostgres", "s3fs", "data.table", "future")); packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e "source('local/packages-to-build.R'); saveRDS(pkgs, '/mnt/cache/packages/pkgs_to_build.rds'); sprintf('Precomputed %s package versions to build', nrow(pkgs))"
     backend_options:
       docker:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/build-all-versions-install-deps-arm64.yaml b/.crow/build-all-versions-install-deps-arm64.yaml
index e6e65ec..dbd1df3 100644
--- a/.crow/build-all-versions-install-deps-arm64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/build-all-versions-install-deps-arm64.yaml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ labels:
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Install deps and bincraft'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-${OS}:${OS_VERSION}
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-${OS}:${OS_VERSION}-${R_VERSION}
     pull: true
     environment:
       REPO_RO_TOKEN:
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ steps:
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs /mnt/cache/ccache /mnt/cache/packages
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - git clone -q https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git /tmp/bincraft
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::sysreqs_db_update(); pak::local_install("/tmp/bincraft"); pak::pak(c("RPostgres", "s3fs", "data.table", "future")); packageVersion("bincraft")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e "source('local/packages-to-build.R'); saveRDS(pkgs, '/mnt/cache/packages/pkgs_to_build.rds'); sprintf('Precomputed %s package versions to build', nrow(pkgs))"
+      - R -q -e 'pak::sysreqs_db_update(); pak::local_install("/tmp/bincraft"); pak::pak(c("RPostgres", "s3fs", "data.table", "future")); packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e "source('local/packages-to-build.R'); saveRDS(pkgs, '/mnt/cache/packages/pkgs_to_build.rds'); sprintf('Precomputed %s package versions to build', nrow(pkgs))"
     backend_options:
       docker:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/build-r-minor-sensitive-packages.yaml b/.crow/build-r-minor-sensitive-packages.yaml
index e4eea47..6e9d10c 100644
--- a/.crow/build-r-minor-sensitive-packages.yaml
+++ b/.crow/build-r-minor-sensitive-packages.yaml
@@ -17,16 +17,16 @@ matrix:
   include:
     - os: alpine
       os_version: 3.21
-      r_version: 4.5.3
+      r_version: 4.5
     - os: alpine
       os_version: 3.21
-      r_version: 4.4.3
+      r_version: 4.4
     # - os: alpine
     #   os_version: 3.21
     #   r_version: 4.3
 steps:
   - name: 'Build R-minor-sensitive binaries'
-    image: "docker.io/devxygmbh/rpkgs-build-env-${os}:${os_version}"
+    image: "docker.io/devxygmbh/rpkgs-build-env-${os}:${os_version}-${r_version}"
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -60,10 +60,10 @@ steps:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-*
       - mkdir -p /tmp/R-libs
-      - git clone -q https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git /tmp/bincraft && /opt/R/${r_version}/bin/R CMD INSTALL --library=/tmp/R-libs /tmp/bincraft && /opt/R/${r_version}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - git clone -q https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git /tmp/bincraft && R CMD INSTALL --library=/tmp/R-libs /tmp/bincraft && R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs /mnt/cache/ccache /mnt/cache/packages
       - XVFB=$(command -v xwfb-run 2>/dev/null || command -v xvfb-run)
-      - $XVFB -- /opt/R/${r_version}/bin/R -q -e "options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = $NCPUS, future.globals.onReference = NULL); pak::sysreqs_db_update(); pkgs = bincraft::get_r_minor_sensitive_packages(r_minor_packages_issue_url = 'https://git.devxy.io/api/v1/repos/devxy/build-cran-binaries/issues/29'); foo = lapply(pkgs, function(x) bincraft::build_binary_package(x, is_debug = FALSE, is_r_minor_sensitive = TRUE, force = FALSE, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE))" 2>&1
+      - $XVFB -- R -q -e "options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = $NCPUS, future.globals.onReference = NULL); pak::sysreqs_db_update(); pkgs = bincraft::get_r_minor_sensitive_packages(r_minor_packages_issue_url = 'https://git.devxy.io/api/v1/repos/devxy/build-cran-binaries/issues/29'); foo = lapply(pkgs, function(x) bincraft::build_binary_package(x, is_debug = FALSE, is_r_minor_sensitive = TRUE, force = FALSE, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE))" 2>&1
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/process-updates-alpine-322-amd64.yaml b/.crow/process-updates-alpine-322-amd64.yaml
index cccbf0b..ed39ccc 100644
--- a/.crow/process-updates-alpine-322-amd64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/process-updates-alpine-322-amd64.yaml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ labels:
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Processing Updates'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-alpine:3.22
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-alpine:3.22-4.5
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ steps:
       # set the location of the 'pkgcache' cache dir which persists the R package dependencies needed to install the packages themselves
       R_PKG_CACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/pkgcache
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.5.3
       CCACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/ccache
       PLATFORM: alpine-322
       ARCH: amd64
@@ -52,12 +51,12 @@ steps:
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-r-pkg-binaries /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-bincraft /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-pak /mnt/cache/pkgcache/R/pkgcache /mnt/cache/pkgcache/R/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-pak/mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-RPostgres /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/bincraft
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
+      - R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs /mnt/cache/ccache /mnt/cache/packages
       # options(future.globals.onReference = NULL): for some reason s3fs::file_delete() throws 'Error: Detected a non-exportable reference ('externalptr') in one of the globals ('FUN' of class 'function') used in the future expression' otherwise
-      - xvfb-run /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e "options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = 4, future.globals.onReference = 'error', repos = structure(c(getOption('repos'),INLA='https://inla.r-inla-download.org/R/stable'))); progressr::handlers('cli'); progressr::handlers(global = TRUE); options(future.globals.onReference = NULL); bincraft::process_cran_updates(interval = $INTERVAL, platform = 'alpine-322', process_updated = TRUE, process_new = FALSE, process_removed = TRUE, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE)"
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'library(bincraft); upload_package_index(codename = "alpine322", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
+      - xvfb-run R -q -e "options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = 4, future.globals.onReference = 'error', repos = structure(c(getOption('repos'),INLA='https://inla.r-inla-download.org/R/stable'))); progressr::handlers('cli'); progressr::handlers(global = TRUE); options(future.globals.onReference = NULL); bincraft::process_cran_updates(interval = $INTERVAL, platform = 'alpine-322', process_updated = TRUE, process_new = FALSE, process_removed = TRUE, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE)"
+      - R -q -e 'library(bincraft); upload_package_index(codename = "alpine322", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/process-updates-alpine-322-arm64.yaml b/.crow/process-updates-alpine-322-arm64.yaml
index 40048cb..57d3891 100644
--- a/.crow/process-updates-alpine-322-arm64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/process-updates-alpine-322-arm64.yaml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ labels:
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Processing Updates'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-alpine:3.22
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-alpine:3.22-4.5
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ steps:
       # set the location of the 'pkgcache' cache dir which persists the R package dependencies needed to install the packages themselves
       R_PKG_CACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/pkgcache
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.5.3
       CCACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/ccache
       PLATFORM: alpine-322
       ARCH: arm64
@@ -51,9 +50,9 @@ steps:
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-r-pkg-binaries /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-bincraft /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-pak /mnt/cache/pkgcache/R/pkgcache /mnt/cache/pkgcache/R/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-pak/mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-RPostgres /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/bincraft
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
+      - R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs /mnt/cache/ccache /mnt/cache/packages
       # options(future.globals.onReference = NULL): for some reason s3fs::file_delete() throws 'Error: Detected a non-exportable reference ('externalptr') in one of the globals ('FUN' of class 'function') used in the future expression' otherwise
-      - xvfb-run /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e "options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = 4, future.globals.onReference = 'error', repos = structure(c(getOption('repos'),INLA='https://inla.r-inla-download.org/R/stable'))); progressr::handlers('cli'); progressr::handlers(global = TRUE); options(future.globals.onReference = NULL); bincraft::process_cran_updates(interval = $INTERVAL, platform = 'alpine-322', process_updated = TRUE, process_new = TRUE, process_removed = TRUE, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE)"
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'library(bincraft); upload_package_index(codename = "alpine322", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
+      - xvfb-run R -q -e "options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = 4, future.globals.onReference = 'error', repos = structure(c(getOption('repos'),INLA='https://inla.r-inla-download.org/R/stable'))); progressr::handlers('cli'); progressr::handlers(global = TRUE); options(future.globals.onReference = NULL); bincraft::process_cran_updates(interval = $INTERVAL, platform = 'alpine-322', process_updated = TRUE, process_new = TRUE, process_removed = TRUE, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE)"
+      - R -q -e 'library(bincraft); upload_package_index(codename = "alpine322", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
diff --git a/.crow/process-updates-alpine-323-amd64.yaml b/.crow/process-updates-alpine-323-amd64.yaml
index 8de26d6..2855545 100644
--- a/.crow/process-updates-alpine-323-amd64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/process-updates-alpine-323-amd64.yaml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ labels:
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Processing Updates'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-alpine:3.23
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-alpine:3.23-4.5
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ steps:
       # set the location of the 'pkgcache' cache dir which persists the R package dependencies needed to install the packages themselves
       R_PKG_CACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/pkgcache
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.5.3
       CCACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/ccache
       PLATFORM: alpine-323
       ARCH: amd64
@@ -52,12 +51,12 @@ steps:
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-r-pkg-binaries /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-bincraft /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-pak /mnt/cache/pkgcache/R/pkgcache /mnt/cache/pkgcache/R/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-pak/mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-RPostgres /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/bincraft
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
+      - R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs /mnt/cache/ccache /mnt/cache/packages
       # options(future.globals.onReference = NULL): for some reason s3fs::file_delete() throws 'Error: Detected a non-exportable reference ('externalptr') in one of the globals ('FUN' of class 'function') used in the future expression' otherwise
-      - xvfb-run /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e "options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = 4, future.globals.onReference = 'error', repos = structure(c(getOption('repos'),INLA='https://inla.r-inla-download.org/R/stable'))); progressr::handlers('cli'); progressr::handlers(global = TRUE); options(future.globals.onReference = NULL); bincraft::process_cran_updates(interval = $INTERVAL, platform = 'alpine-323', process_updated = TRUE, process_new = FALSE, process_removed = TRUE, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE)"
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'library(bincraft); upload_package_index(codename = "alpine323", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
+      - xvfb-run R -q -e "options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = 4, future.globals.onReference = 'error', repos = structure(c(getOption('repos'),INLA='https://inla.r-inla-download.org/R/stable'))); progressr::handlers('cli'); progressr::handlers(global = TRUE); options(future.globals.onReference = NULL); bincraft::process_cran_updates(interval = $INTERVAL, platform = 'alpine-323', process_updated = TRUE, process_new = FALSE, process_removed = TRUE, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE)"
+      - R -q -e 'library(bincraft); upload_package_index(codename = "alpine323", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/process-updates-alpine-323-arm64.yaml b/.crow/process-updates-alpine-323-arm64.yaml
index 41f6896..7c0debe 100644
--- a/.crow/process-updates-alpine-323-arm64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/process-updates-alpine-323-arm64.yaml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ labels:
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Processing Updates'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-alpine:3.23
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-alpine:3.23-4.5
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ steps:
       # set the location of the 'pkgcache' cache dir which persists the R package dependencies needed to install the packages themselves
       R_PKG_CACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/pkgcache
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.5.3
       CCACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/ccache
       PLATFORM: alpine-323
       ARCH: arm64
@@ -51,11 +50,11 @@ steps:
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-r-pkg-binaries /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-bincraft /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-pak /mnt/cache/pkgcache/R/pkgcache /mnt/cache/pkgcache/R/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-pak/mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-RPostgres /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/bincraft
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
+      - R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs /mnt/cache/ccache /mnt/cache/packages
       # options(future.globals.onReference = NULL): for some reason s3fs::file_delete() throws 'Error: Detected a non-exportable reference ('externalptr') in one of the globals ('FUN' of class 'function') used in the future expression' otherwise
-      - xvfb-run /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e "options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = 4, future.globals.onReference = 'error', repos = structure(c(getOption('repos'),INLA='https://inla.r-inla-download.org/R/stable'))); progressr::handlers('cli'); progressr::handlers(global = TRUE); options(future.globals.onReference = NULL); bincraft::process_cran_updates(interval = $INTERVAL, platform = 'alpine-323', process_updated = TRUE, process_new = TRUE, process_removed = TRUE, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE)"
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'library(bincraft); upload_package_index(codename = "alpine323", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
+      - xvfb-run R -q -e "options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = 4, future.globals.onReference = 'error', repos = structure(c(getOption('repos'),INLA='https://inla.r-inla-download.org/R/stable'))); progressr::handlers('cli'); progressr::handlers(global = TRUE); options(future.globals.onReference = NULL); bincraft::process_cran_updates(interval = $INTERVAL, platform = 'alpine-323', process_updated = TRUE, process_new = TRUE, process_removed = TRUE, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE)"
+      - R -q -e 'library(bincraft); upload_package_index(codename = "alpine323", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
 
 
diff --git a/.crow/process-updates-redhat-10-amd64.yaml b/.crow/process-updates-redhat-10-amd64.yaml
index 7746cc6..551895e 100644
--- a/.crow/process-updates-redhat-10-amd64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/process-updates-redhat-10-amd64.yaml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ labels:
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Processing Updates'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-redhat:10
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-redhat:10-4.5.3
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ steps:
       # set the location of the 'pkgcache' cache dir which persists the R package dependencies needed to install the packages themselves
       R_PKG_CACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/pkgcache
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.5.3
       CCACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/ccache
       PLATFORM: redhat-10
       ARCH: amd64
@@ -53,13 +52,13 @@ steps:
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-r-pkg-binaries /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-bincraft /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-pak /mnt/cache/pkgcache/R/pkgcache /mnt/cache/pkgcache/R/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-pak/mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-RPostgres /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/bincraft
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
+      - R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs /mnt/cache/ccache /mnt/cache/packages
       # options(future.globals.onReference = NULL): for some reason s3fs::file_delete() throws 'Error: Detected a non-exportable reference ('externalptr') in one of the globals ('FUN' of class 'function') used in the future expression' otherwise
       - XVFB=$(command -v xwfb-run 2>/dev/null || command -v xvfb-run); XVFB_ARGS=""; if command -v xwfb-run >/dev/null 2>&1; then dnf install -y -q weston 2>/dev/null; XVFB_ARGS="-c weston"; fi
-      - $XVFB $XVFB_ARGS -- /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e "options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = 4, future.globals.onReference = 'error', repos = structure(c(getOption('repos'),INLA='https://inla.r-inla-download.org/R/stable'))); progressr::handlers('cli'); progressr::handlers(global = TRUE); options(future.globals.onReference = NULL); bincraft::process_cran_updates(interval = $INTERVAL, platform = 'redhat-10', process_updated = TRUE, process_new = TRUE, process_removed = TRUE, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE)"
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'library(bincraft); upload_package_index(codename = "rhel9", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
+      - $XVFB $XVFB_ARGS -- R -q -e "options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = 4, future.globals.onReference = 'error', repos = structure(c(getOption('repos'),INLA='https://inla.r-inla-download.org/R/stable'))); progressr::handlers('cli'); progressr::handlers(global = TRUE); options(future.globals.onReference = NULL); bincraft::process_cran_updates(interval = $INTERVAL, platform = 'redhat-10', process_updated = TRUE, process_new = TRUE, process_removed = TRUE, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE)"
+      - R -q -e 'library(bincraft); upload_package_index(codename = "rhel9", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/process-updates-redhat-10-arm64.yaml b/.crow/process-updates-redhat-10-arm64.yaml
index 7e65e36..2c72c28 100644
--- a/.crow/process-updates-redhat-10-arm64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/process-updates-redhat-10-arm64.yaml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ labels:
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Processing Updates'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-redhat:10
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-redhat:10-4.5.3
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ steps:
       # set the location of the 'pkgcache' cache dir which persists the R package dependencies needed to install the packages themselves
       R_PKG_CACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/pkgcache
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.5.3
       CCACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/ccache
       PLATFORM: redhat-10
       ARCH: arm64
@@ -51,10 +50,10 @@ steps:
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-r-pkg-binaries /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-bincraft /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-pak /mnt/cache/pkgcache/R/pkgcache /mnt/cache/pkgcache/R/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-pak/mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-RPostgres /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/bincraft
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
+      - R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs /mnt/cache/ccache /mnt/cache/packages
       # options(future.globals.onReference = NULL): for some reason s3fs::file_delete() throws 'Error: Detected a non-exportable reference ('externalptr') in one of the globals ('FUN' of class 'function') used in the future expression' otherwise
       - XVFB=$(command -v xwfb-run 2>/dev/null || command -v xvfb-run); XVFB_ARGS=""; if command -v xwfb-run >/dev/null 2>&1; then dnf install -y -q weston 2>/dev/null; XVFB_ARGS="-c weston"; fi
-      - $XVFB $XVFB_ARGS -- /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e "options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = 4, future.globals.onReference = 'error', repos = structure(c(getOption('repos'),INLA='https://inla.r-inla-download.org/R/stable'))); progressr::handlers('cli'); progressr::handlers(global = TRUE); options(future.globals.onReference = NULL); bincraft::process_cran_updates(interval = $INTERVAL, platform = 'redhat-10', process_updated = TRUE, process_new = TRUE, process_removed = TRUE, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE)"
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'library(bincraft); upload_package_index(codename = "rhel9", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
+      - $XVFB $XVFB_ARGS -- R -q -e "options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = 4, future.globals.onReference = 'error', repos = structure(c(getOption('repos'),INLA='https://inla.r-inla-download.org/R/stable'))); progressr::handlers('cli'); progressr::handlers(global = TRUE); options(future.globals.onReference = NULL); bincraft::process_cran_updates(interval = $INTERVAL, platform = 'redhat-10', process_updated = TRUE, process_new = TRUE, process_removed = TRUE, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE)"
+      - R -q -e 'library(bincraft); upload_package_index(codename = "rhel9", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
diff --git a/.crow/process-updates-redhat-8-amd64.yaml b/.crow/process-updates-redhat-8-amd64.yaml
index 0119302..9cb929d 100644
--- a/.crow/process-updates-redhat-8-amd64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/process-updates-redhat-8-amd64.yaml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ labels:
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Processing Updates'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-redhat:8
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-redhat:8-4.4.3
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ steps:
       # set the location of the 'pkgcache' cache dir which persists the R package dependencies needed to install the packages themselves
       R_PKG_CACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/pkgcache
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.4.3
       CCACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/ccache
       PLATFORM: redhat-8
       ARCH: amd64
@@ -52,12 +51,12 @@ steps:
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-r-pkg-binaries /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-bincraft /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-pak /mnt/cache/pkgcache/R/pkgcache /mnt/cache/pkgcache/R/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-pak/mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-RPostgres /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/bincraft
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
+      - R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs /mnt/cache/ccache /mnt/cache/packages
       # options(future.globals.onReference = NULL): for some reason s3fs::file_delete() throws 'Error: Detected a non-exportable reference ('externalptr') in one of the globals ('FUN' of class 'function') used in the future expression' otherwise
-      - xvfb-run /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e "options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = 4, future.globals.onReference = 'error', repos = structure(c(getOption('repos'),INLA='https://inla.r-inla-download.org/R/stable'))); progressr::handlers('cli'); progressr::handlers(global = TRUE); options(future.globals.onReference = NULL); bincraft::process_cran_updates(interval = $INTERVAL, platform = 'redhat-8', process_updated = TRUE, process_new = TRUE, process_removed = TRUE, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE)"
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'library(bincraft); upload_package_index(codename = "rhel8", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
+      - xvfb-run R -q -e "options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = 4, future.globals.onReference = 'error', repos = structure(c(getOption('repos'),INLA='https://inla.r-inla-download.org/R/stable'))); progressr::handlers('cli'); progressr::handlers(global = TRUE); options(future.globals.onReference = NULL); bincraft::process_cran_updates(interval = $INTERVAL, platform = 'redhat-8', process_updated = TRUE, process_new = TRUE, process_removed = TRUE, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE)"
+      - R -q -e 'library(bincraft); upload_package_index(codename = "rhel8", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/process-updates-redhat-8-arm64.yaml b/.crow/process-updates-redhat-8-arm64.yaml
index 28f52ba..ae86e95 100644
--- a/.crow/process-updates-redhat-8-arm64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/process-updates-redhat-8-arm64.yaml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ labels:
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Processing Updates'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-redhat:8
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-redhat:8-4.4.3
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ steps:
       # set the location of the 'pkgcache' cache dir which persists the R package dependencies needed to install the packages themselves
       R_PKG_CACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/pkgcache
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.4.3
       CCACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/ccache
       PLATFORM: redhat-8
       ARCH: arm64
@@ -51,11 +50,11 @@ steps:
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-r-pkg-binaries /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-bincraft /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-pak /mnt/cache/pkgcache/R/pkgcache /mnt/cache/pkgcache/R/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-pak/mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-RPostgres /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/bincraft
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
+      - R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs /mnt/cache/ccache /mnt/cache/packages
       # options(future.globals.onReference = NULL): for some reason s3fs::file_delete() throws 'Error: Detected a non-exportable reference ('externalptr') in one of the globals ('FUN' of class 'function') used in the future expression' otherwise
-      - xvfb-run /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e "options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = 4, future.globals.onReference = 'error', repos = structure(c(getOption('repos'),INLA='https://inla.r-inla-download.org/R/stable'))); progressr::handlers('cli'); progressr::handlers(global = TRUE); options(future.globals.onReference = NULL); bincraft::process_cran_updates(interval = $INTERVAL, platform = 'redhat-8', process_updated = TRUE, process_new = TRUE, process_removed = TRUE, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE)"
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'library(bincraft); upload_package_index(codename = "rhel8", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
+      - xvfb-run R -q -e "options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = 4, future.globals.onReference = 'error', repos = structure(c(getOption('repos'),INLA='https://inla.r-inla-download.org/R/stable'))); progressr::handlers('cli'); progressr::handlers(global = TRUE); options(future.globals.onReference = NULL); bincraft::process_cran_updates(interval = $INTERVAL, platform = 'redhat-8', process_updated = TRUE, process_new = TRUE, process_removed = TRUE, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE)"
+      - R -q -e 'library(bincraft); upload_package_index(codename = "rhel8", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
 
 
diff --git a/.crow/process-updates-redhat-9-amd64.yaml b/.crow/process-updates-redhat-9-amd64.yaml
index 961658f..520a7e0 100644
--- a/.crow/process-updates-redhat-9-amd64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/process-updates-redhat-9-amd64.yaml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ labels:
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Processing Updates'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-redhat:9
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-redhat:9-4.4.3
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ steps:
       # set the location of the 'pkgcache' cache dir which persists the R package dependencies needed to install the packages themselves
       R_PKG_CACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/pkgcache
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.4.3
       CCACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/ccache
       PLATFORM: redhat-9
       ARCH: amd64
@@ -53,12 +52,12 @@ steps:
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-r-pkg-binaries /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-bincraft /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-pak /mnt/cache/pkgcache/R/pkgcache /mnt/cache/pkgcache/R/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-pak/mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-RPostgres /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/bincraft
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
+      - R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs /mnt/cache/ccache /mnt/cache/packages
       # options(future.globals.onReference = NULL): for some reason s3fs::file_delete() throws 'Error: Detected a non-exportable reference ('externalptr') in one of the globals ('FUN' of class 'function') used in the future expression' otherwise
-      - xvfb-run /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e "options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = 4, future.globals.onReference = 'error', repos = structure(c(getOption('repos'),INLA='https://inla.r-inla-download.org/R/stable'))); progressr::handlers('cli'); progressr::handlers(global = TRUE); options(future.globals.onReference = NULL); bincraft::process_cran_updates(interval = $INTERVAL, platform = 'redhat-9', process_updated = TRUE, process_new = TRUE, process_removed = TRUE, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE)"
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'library(bincraft); upload_package_index(codename = "rhel9", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
+      - xvfb-run R -q -e "options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = 4, future.globals.onReference = 'error', repos = structure(c(getOption('repos'),INLA='https://inla.r-inla-download.org/R/stable'))); progressr::handlers('cli'); progressr::handlers(global = TRUE); options(future.globals.onReference = NULL); bincraft::process_cran_updates(interval = $INTERVAL, platform = 'redhat-9', process_updated = TRUE, process_new = TRUE, process_removed = TRUE, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE)"
+      - R -q -e 'library(bincraft); upload_package_index(codename = "rhel9", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/process-updates-redhat-9-arm64.yaml b/.crow/process-updates-redhat-9-arm64.yaml
index fb90a46..84268eb 100644
--- a/.crow/process-updates-redhat-9-arm64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/process-updates-redhat-9-arm64.yaml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ labels:
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Processing Updates'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-redhat:9
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-redhat:9-4.4.3
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ steps:
       # set the location of the 'pkgcache' cache dir which persists the R package dependencies needed to install the packages themselves
       R_PKG_CACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/pkgcache
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.4.3
       CCACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/ccache
       PLATFORM: redhat-9
       ARCH: arm64
@@ -51,11 +50,11 @@ steps:
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-r-pkg-binaries /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-bincraft /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-pak /mnt/cache/pkgcache/R/pkgcache /mnt/cache/pkgcache/R/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-pak/mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-RPostgres /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/bincraft
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
+      - R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs /mnt/cache/ccache /mnt/cache/packages
       # options(future.globals.onReference = NULL): for some reason s3fs::file_delete() throws 'Error: Detected a non-exportable reference ('externalptr') in one of the globals ('FUN' of class 'function') used in the future expression' otherwise
-      - xvfb-run /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e "options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = 4, future.globals.onReference = 'error', repos = structure(c(getOption('repos'),INLA='https://inla.r-inla-download.org/R/stable'))); progressr::handlers('cli'); progressr::handlers(global = TRUE); options(future.globals.onReference = NULL); bincraft::process_cran_updates(interval = $INTERVAL, platform = 'redhat-9', process_updated = TRUE, process_new = TRUE, process_removed = TRUE, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE)"
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'library(bincraft); upload_package_index(codename = "rhel9", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
+      - xvfb-run R -q -e "options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = 4, future.globals.onReference = 'error', repos = structure(c(getOption('repos'),INLA='https://inla.r-inla-download.org/R/stable'))); progressr::handlers('cli'); progressr::handlers(global = TRUE); options(future.globals.onReference = NULL); bincraft::process_cran_updates(interval = $INTERVAL, platform = 'redhat-9', process_updated = TRUE, process_new = TRUE, process_removed = TRUE, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE)"
+      - R -q -e 'library(bincraft); upload_package_index(codename = "rhel9", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
 
 
diff --git a/.crow/process-updates-ubuntu-2204-amd64.yaml b/.crow/process-updates-ubuntu-2204-amd64.yaml
index 5f81b1a..aeed362 100644
--- a/.crow/process-updates-ubuntu-2204-amd64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/process-updates-ubuntu-2204-amd64.yaml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ labels:
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Processing Updates'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-ubuntu:jammy
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-ubuntu:jammy-4.4.3
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ steps:
       # set the location of the 'pkgcache' cache dir which persists the R package dependencies needed to install the packages themselves
       R_PKG_CACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/pkgcache
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.4.3
       CCACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/ccache
       PLATFORM: ubuntu-2204
       ARCH: amd64
@@ -53,12 +52,12 @@ steps:
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-r-pkg-binaries /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-bincraft /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-pak /mnt/cache/pkgcache/R/pkgcache /mnt/cache/pkgcache/R/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-pak/mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-RPostgres /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/bincraft
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
+      - R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs /mnt/cache/ccache /mnt/cache/packages
       # options(future.globals.onReference = NULL): for some reason s3fs::file_delete() throws 'Error: Detected a non-exportable reference ('externalptr') in one of the globals ('FUN' of class 'function') used in the future expression' otherwise
-      - xvfb-run /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e "options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = 4, future.globals.onReference = 'error', repos = structure(c(getOption('repos'),INLA='https://inla.r-inla-download.org/R/stable'))); progressr::handlers('cli'); progressr::handlers(global = TRUE); options(future.globals.onReference = NULL); bincraft::process_cran_updates(interval = $INTERVAL, platform = 'ubuntu-2204', process_updated = TRUE, process_new = TRUE, process_removed = TRUE, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE)"
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'library(bincraft); upload_package_index(codename = "jammy", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
+      - xvfb-run R -q -e "options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = 4, future.globals.onReference = 'error', repos = structure(c(getOption('repos'),INLA='https://inla.r-inla-download.org/R/stable'))); progressr::handlers('cli'); progressr::handlers(global = TRUE); options(future.globals.onReference = NULL); bincraft::process_cran_updates(interval = $INTERVAL, platform = 'ubuntu-2204', process_updated = TRUE, process_new = TRUE, process_removed = TRUE, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE)"
+      - R -q -e 'library(bincraft); upload_package_index(codename = "jammy", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/process-updates-ubuntu-2204-arm64.yaml b/.crow/process-updates-ubuntu-2204-arm64.yaml
index 479d299..c25fbb9 100644
--- a/.crow/process-updates-ubuntu-2204-arm64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/process-updates-ubuntu-2204-arm64.yaml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ labels:
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Processing Updates'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-ubuntu:jammy
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-ubuntu:jammy-4.4.3
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ steps:
       # set the location of the 'pkgcache' cache dir which persists the R package dependencies needed to install the packages themselves
       R_PKG_CACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/pkgcache
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.4.3
       CCACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/ccache
       PLATFORM: ubuntu-2204
       ARCH: arm64
@@ -51,11 +50,11 @@ steps:
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-r-pkg-binaries /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-bincraft /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-pak /mnt/cache/pkgcache/R/pkgcache /mnt/cache/pkgcache/R/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-pak/mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-RPostgres /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/bincraft
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
+      - R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs /mnt/cache/ccache /mnt/cache/packages
       # options(future.globals.onReference = NULL): for some reason s3fs::file_delete() throws 'Error: Detected a non-exportable reference ('externalptr') in one of the globals ('FUN' of class 'function') used in the future expression' otherwise
-      - xvfb-run /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e "options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = 4, future.globals.onReference = 'error', repos = structure(c(getOption('repos'),INLA='https://inla.r-inla-download.org/R/stable'))); progressr::handlers(global = TRUE); options(future.globals.onReference = NULL); bincraft::process_cran_updates(interval = $INTERVAL, platform = 'ubuntu-2204', process_updated = TRUE, process_new = TRUE, process_removed = TRUE, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE)"
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'library(bincraft); upload_package_index(codename = "jammy", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
+      - xvfb-run R -q -e "options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = 4, future.globals.onReference = 'error', repos = structure(c(getOption('repos'),INLA='https://inla.r-inla-download.org/R/stable'))); progressr::handlers(global = TRUE); options(future.globals.onReference = NULL); bincraft::process_cran_updates(interval = $INTERVAL, platform = 'ubuntu-2204', process_updated = TRUE, process_new = TRUE, process_removed = TRUE, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE)"
+      - R -q -e 'library(bincraft); upload_package_index(codename = "jammy", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
 
 
diff --git a/.crow/process-updates-ubuntu-2404-amd64.yaml b/.crow/process-updates-ubuntu-2404-amd64.yaml
index 9250cad..268db50 100644
--- a/.crow/process-updates-ubuntu-2404-amd64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/process-updates-ubuntu-2404-amd64.yaml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ labels:
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Processing Updates'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-ubuntu:noble
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-ubuntu:noble-4.4
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ steps:
       # set the location of the 'pkgcache' cache dir which persists the R package dependencies needed to install the packages themselves
       R_PKG_CACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/pkgcache
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.4.3
       CCACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/ccache
       PLATFORM: ubuntu-2404
       ARCH: amd64
@@ -52,12 +51,12 @@ steps:
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-r-pkg-binaries /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-bincraft /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-pak /mnt/cache/pkgcache/R/pkgcache /mnt/cache/pkgcache/R/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-pak/mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-RPostgres /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/bincraft
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
+      - R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs /mnt/cache/ccache /mnt/cache/packages
       # options(future.globals.onReference = NULL): for some reason s3fs::file_delete() throws 'Error: Detected a non-exportable reference ('externalptr') in one of the globals ('FUN' of class 'function') used in the future expression' otherwise
-      - xvfb-run /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e "options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = 4, future.globals.onReference = 'error', repos = structure(c(getOption('repos'),INLA='https://inla.r-inla-download.org/R/stable'))); progressr::handlers(global = TRUE); options(future.globals.onReference = NULL); bincraft::process_cran_updates(interval = $INTERVAL, platform = 'ubuntu-2404', process_updated = TRUE, process_new = TRUE, process_removed = TRUE, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE)"
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'library(bincraft); upload_package_index(codename = "noble", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
+      - xvfb-run R -q -e "options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = 4, future.globals.onReference = 'error', repos = structure(c(getOption('repos'),INLA='https://inla.r-inla-download.org/R/stable'))); progressr::handlers(global = TRUE); options(future.globals.onReference = NULL); bincraft::process_cran_updates(interval = $INTERVAL, platform = 'ubuntu-2404', process_updated = TRUE, process_new = TRUE, process_removed = TRUE, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE)"
+      - R -q -e 'library(bincraft); upload_package_index(codename = "noble", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/process-updates-ubuntu-2404-arm64.yaml b/.crow/process-updates-ubuntu-2404-arm64.yaml
index 1ad0fc1..b926c19 100644
--- a/.crow/process-updates-ubuntu-2404-arm64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/process-updates-ubuntu-2404-arm64.yaml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ labels:
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Processing Updates'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-ubuntu:noble
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-ubuntu:noble-4.4
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ steps:
       # set the location of the 'pkgcache' cache dir which persists the R package dependencies needed to install the packages themselves
       R_PKG_CACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/pkgcache
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.4.3
       CCACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/ccache
       PLATFORM: ubuntu-2404
       ARCH: arm64
@@ -51,11 +50,11 @@ steps:
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-r-pkg-binaries /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-bincraft /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-pak /mnt/cache/pkgcache/R/pkgcache /mnt/cache/pkgcache/R/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-pak/mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-RPostgres /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/bincraft
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
+      - R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs /mnt/cache/ccache /mnt/cache/packages
       # options(future.globals.onReference = NULL): for some reason s3fs::file_delete() throws 'Error: Detected a non-exportable reference ('externalptr') in one of the globals ('FUN' of class 'function') used in the future expression' otherwise
-      - xvfb-run /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e "options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = 4, future.globals.onReference = 'error', repos = structure(c(getOption('repos'),INLA='https://inla.r-inla-download.org/R/stable'))); progressr::handlers('cli'); progressr::handlers(global = TRUE); options(future.globals.onReference = NULL); bincraft::process_cran_updates(interval = $INTERVAL, platform = 'ubuntu-2404', process_updated = TRUE, process_new = TRUE, process_removed = TRUE, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE)"
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'library(bincraft); upload_package_index(codename = "noble", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
+      - xvfb-run R -q -e "options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = 4, future.globals.onReference = 'error', repos = structure(c(getOption('repos'),INLA='https://inla.r-inla-download.org/R/stable'))); progressr::handlers('cli'); progressr::handlers(global = TRUE); options(future.globals.onReference = NULL); bincraft::process_cran_updates(interval = $INTERVAL, platform = 'ubuntu-2404', process_updated = TRUE, process_new = TRUE, process_removed = TRUE, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE)"
+      - R -q -e 'library(bincraft); upload_package_index(codename = "noble", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
 
 
diff --git a/.crow/update-package-index-alpine-322-amd64.yaml b/.crow/update-package-index-alpine-322-amd64.yaml
index 9f868d6..ae408f1 100644
--- a/.crow/update-package-index-alpine-322-amd64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/update-package-index-alpine-322-amd64.yaml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ skip_clone: true
 
 steps:
   - name: Upload PACKAGES files
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-alpine:3.22
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-ubuntu:noble-4.4
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -36,18 +36,17 @@ steps:
       # set the location of the 'pkgcache' cache dir which persists the R package dependencies needed to install the packages themselves
       R_PKG_CACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/pkgcache
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.5.3
     # volumes:
     #   - amd64-binaries-r-dep-cache-alpine-322:/mnt/cache
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/packages/*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/cranlike@s3")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/desc@description-from-remote")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/cranlike@s3")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/desc@description-from-remote")'
+      - R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
       # - cd /mnt/cache/packages
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'options(crayon.enabled = TRUE); library(bincraft); future::plan("multisession", workers = 4); library(progressr); handlers(global = TRUE); handlers("progress"); upload_package_index(codename = "alpine322", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
+      - R -q -e 'options(crayon.enabled = TRUE); library(bincraft); future::plan("multisession", workers = 4); library(progressr); handlers(global = TRUE); handlers("progress"); upload_package_index(codename = "alpine322", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/update-package-index-alpine-322-arm64.yaml b/.crow/update-package-index-alpine-322-arm64.yaml
index ae8d9bd..7d28c2a 100644
--- a/.crow/update-package-index-alpine-322-arm64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/update-package-index-alpine-322-arm64.yaml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ depends_on:
 
 steps:
   - name: Upload PACKAGES files
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-alpine:3.22
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-ubuntu:noble-4.4
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -39,18 +39,17 @@ steps:
       # set the location of the 'pkgcache' cache dir which persists the R package dependencies needed to install the packages themselves
       R_PKG_CACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/pkgcache
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.5.3
     # volumes:
     #   - arm64-binaries-r-dep-cache-alpine-322:/mnt/cache
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/packages/*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/cranlike@s3")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/desc@description-from-remote")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/cranlike@s3")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/desc@description-from-remote")'
+      - R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
       # - cd /mnt/cache/packages
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'options(crayon.enabled = TRUE); library(bincraft); future::plan("multisession", workers = 4); library(progressr); handlers(global = TRUE); handlers("progress"); upload_package_index(codename = "alpine322", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
+      - R -q -e 'options(crayon.enabled = TRUE); library(bincraft); future::plan("multisession", workers = 4); library(progressr); handlers(global = TRUE); handlers("progress"); upload_package_index(codename = "alpine322", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/update-package-index-alpine-323-amd64.yaml b/.crow/update-package-index-alpine-323-amd64.yaml
index 725aa26..77fbf9c 100644
--- a/.crow/update-package-index-alpine-323-amd64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/update-package-index-alpine-323-amd64.yaml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ depends_on:
 
 steps:
   - name: Upload PACKAGES files
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-alpine:3.23
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-ubuntu:noble-4.4
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -39,18 +39,17 @@ steps:
       # set the location of the 'pkgcache' cache dir which persists the R package dependencies needed to install the packages themselves
       R_PKG_CACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/pkgcache
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.5.3
     # volumes:
     #   - amd64-binaries-r-dep-cache-alpine-323:/mnt/cache
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/packages/*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/cranlike@s3")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/desc@description-from-remote")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/cranlike@s3")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/desc@description-from-remote")'
+      - R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
       # - cd /mnt/cache/packages
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'options(crayon.enabled = TRUE); library(bincraft); future::plan("multisession", workers = 4); library(progressr); handlers(global = TRUE); handlers("progress"); upload_package_index(codename = "alpine323", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
+      - R -q -e 'options(crayon.enabled = TRUE); library(bincraft); future::plan("multisession", workers = 4); library(progressr); handlers(global = TRUE); handlers("progress"); upload_package_index(codename = "alpine323", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/update-package-index-alpine-323-arm64.yaml b/.crow/update-package-index-alpine-323-arm64.yaml
index ce12e75..471cb4a 100644
--- a/.crow/update-package-index-alpine-323-arm64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/update-package-index-alpine-323-arm64.yaml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ depends_on:
 
 steps:
   - name: Upload PACKAGES files
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-alpine:3.23
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-ubuntu:noble-4.4
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -39,18 +39,17 @@ steps:
       # set the location of the 'pkgcache' cache dir which persists the R package dependencies needed to install the packages themselves
       R_PKG_CACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/pkgcache
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.5.3
     # volumes:
     #   - arm64-binaries-r-dep-cache-alpine-323:/mnt/cache
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/packages/*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/cranlike@s3")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/desc@description-from-remote")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/cranlike@s3")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/desc@description-from-remote")'
+      - R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
       # - cd /mnt/cache/packages
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'options(crayon.enabled = TRUE); library(bincraft); future::plan("multisession", workers = 4); library(progressr); handlers(global = TRUE); handlers("progress"); upload_package_index(codename = "alpine323", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
+      - R -q -e 'options(crayon.enabled = TRUE); library(bincraft); future::plan("multisession", workers = 4); library(progressr); handlers(global = TRUE); handlers("progress"); upload_package_index(codename = "alpine323", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/update-package-index-redhat-10-amd64.yaml b/.crow/update-package-index-redhat-10-amd64.yaml
index 3708457..b3f7056 100644
--- a/.crow/update-package-index-redhat-10-amd64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/update-package-index-redhat-10-amd64.yaml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ depends_on:
 
 steps:
   - name: Upload PACKAGES files
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-redhat:10
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-ubuntu:noble-4.5
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -40,16 +40,15 @@ steps:
       # set the location of the 'pkgcache' cache dir which persists the R package dependencies needed to install the packages themselves
       R_PKG_CACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/pkgcache
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.5.3
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/packages/*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/cranlike@s3")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/desc@description-from-remote")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/cranlike@s3")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/desc@description-from-remote")'
+      - R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
       - cd /mnt/cache/packages
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'options(crayon.enabled = TRUE); library(bincraft); future::plan("multisession", workers = 4); library(progressr); handlers(global = TRUE); handlers("progress"); upload_package_index(codename = "rhel10", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
+      - R -q -e 'options(crayon.enabled = TRUE); library(bincraft); future::plan("multisession", workers = 4); library(progressr); handlers(global = TRUE); handlers("progress"); upload_package_index(codename = "rhel10", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/update-package-index-redhat-10-arm64.yaml b/.crow/update-package-index-redhat-10-arm64.yaml
index 4550363..22d6b2a 100644
--- a/.crow/update-package-index-redhat-10-arm64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/update-package-index-redhat-10-arm64.yaml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ depends_on:
 
 steps:
   - name: Upload PACKAGES files
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-redhat:10
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-ubuntu:noble-4.4
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -40,16 +40,15 @@ steps:
       # set the location of the 'pkgcache' cache dir which persists the R package dependencies needed to install the packages themselves
       R_PKG_CACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/pkgcache
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.5.3
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/packages/*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/cranlike@s3")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/desc@description-from-remote")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/cranlike@s3")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/desc@description-from-remote")'
+      - R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
       - cd /mnt/cache/packages
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'options(crayon.enabled = TRUE); library(bincraft); future::plan("multisession", workers = 4); library(progressr); handlers(global = TRUE); handlers("progress"); upload_package_index(codename = "rhel10", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
+      - R -q -e 'options(crayon.enabled = TRUE); library(bincraft); future::plan("multisession", workers = 4); library(progressr); handlers(global = TRUE); handlers("progress"); upload_package_index(codename = "rhel10", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/update-package-index-redhat-8-amd64.yaml b/.crow/update-package-index-redhat-8-amd64.yaml
index f0c80e4..e3d5840 100644
--- a/.crow/update-package-index-redhat-8-amd64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/update-package-index-redhat-8-amd64.yaml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ depends_on:
 
 steps:
   - name: Upload PACKAGES files
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-redhat:8
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-ubuntu:noble-4.4
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -40,15 +40,14 @@ steps:
       # set the location of the 'pkgcache' cache dir which persists the R package dependencies needed to install the packages themselves
       R_PKG_CACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/pkgcache
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.4.3
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/packages/*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/cranlike@s3")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/desc@description-from-remote")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/cranlike@s3")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/desc@description-from-remote")'
       - cd /mnt/cache/packages
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'options(crayon.enabled = TRUE); library(bincraft); future::plan("multisession", workers = 4); library(progressr); handlers(global = TRUE); handlers("progress"); upload_package_index(codename = "rhel8", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
+      - R -q -e 'options(crayon.enabled = TRUE); library(bincraft); future::plan("multisession", workers = 4); library(progressr); handlers(global = TRUE); handlers("progress"); upload_package_index(codename = "rhel8", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/update-package-index-redhat-8-arm64.yaml b/.crow/update-package-index-redhat-8-arm64.yaml
index 3da6384..0e3111d 100644
--- a/.crow/update-package-index-redhat-8-arm64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/update-package-index-redhat-8-arm64.yaml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ depends_on:
 
 steps:
   - name: Upload PACKAGES files
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-redhat:8
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-ubuntu:noble-4.4
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -40,16 +40,15 @@ steps:
       # set the location of the 'pkgcache' cache dir which persists the R package dependencies needed to install the packages themselves
       R_PKG_CACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/pkgcache
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.4.3
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/packages/*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/cranlike@s3")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/desc@description-from-remote")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/cranlike@s3")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/desc@description-from-remote")'
+      - R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
       - cd /mnt/cache/packages
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'options(crayon.enabled = TRUE); library(bincraft); future::plan("multisession", workers = 4); library(progressr); handlers(global = TRUE); handlers("progress"); upload_package_index(codename = "rhel8",s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
+      - R -q -e 'options(crayon.enabled = TRUE); library(bincraft); future::plan("multisession", workers = 4); library(progressr); handlers(global = TRUE); handlers("progress"); upload_package_index(codename = "rhel8",s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/update-package-index-redhat-9-amd64.yaml b/.crow/update-package-index-redhat-9-amd64.yaml
index 54c2c41..45a45b9 100644
--- a/.crow/update-package-index-redhat-9-amd64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/update-package-index-redhat-9-amd64.yaml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ depends_on:
 
 steps:
   - name: Upload PACKAGES files
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-redhat:9
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-ubuntu:noble-4.4
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -40,16 +40,15 @@ steps:
       # set the location of the 'pkgcache' cache dir which persists the R package dependencies needed to install the packages themselves
       R_PKG_CACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/pkgcache
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.4.3
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/packages/*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/cranlike@s3")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/desc@description-from-remote")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/cranlike@s3")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/desc@description-from-remote")'
+      - R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
       - cd /mnt/cache/packages
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'options(crayon.enabled = TRUE); library(bincraft); future::plan("multisession", workers = 4); library(progressr); handlers(global = TRUE); handlers("progress"); upload_package_index(codename = "rhel9", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
+      - R -q -e 'options(crayon.enabled = TRUE); library(bincraft); future::plan("multisession", workers = 4); library(progressr); handlers(global = TRUE); handlers("progress"); upload_package_index(codename = "rhel9", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/update-package-index-redhat-9-arm64.yaml b/.crow/update-package-index-redhat-9-arm64.yaml
index 9445b26..3dabf98 100644
--- a/.crow/update-package-index-redhat-9-arm64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/update-package-index-redhat-9-arm64.yaml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ depends_on:
 
 steps:
   - name: Upload PACKAGES files
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-redhat:9
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-ubuntu:noble-4.4
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -40,16 +40,15 @@ steps:
       # set the location of the 'pkgcache' cache dir which persists the R package dependencies needed to install the packages themselves
       R_PKG_CACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/pkgcache
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.4.3
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/packages/*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/cranlike@s3")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/desc@description-from-remote")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/cranlike@s3")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/desc@description-from-remote")'
+      - R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
       - cd /mnt/cache/packages
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'options(crayon.enabled = TRUE); library(bincraft); future::plan("multisession", workers = 4); library(progressr); handlers(global = TRUE); handlers("progress"); upload_package_index(codename = "rhel9", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
+      - R -q -e 'options(crayon.enabled = TRUE); library(bincraft); future::plan("multisession", workers = 4); library(progressr); handlers(global = TRUE); handlers("progress"); upload_package_index(codename = "rhel9", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/update-package-index-ubuntu-2204-amd64.yaml b/.crow/update-package-index-ubuntu-2204-amd64.yaml
index f1a0828..d2b159a 100644
--- a/.crow/update-package-index-ubuntu-2204-amd64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/update-package-index-ubuntu-2204-amd64.yaml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ depends_on:
 
 steps:
   - name: Upload PACKAGES files
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-ubuntu:jammy
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-ubuntu:noble-4.4
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -40,16 +40,15 @@ steps:
       # set the location of the 'pkgcache' cache dir which persists the R package dependencies needed to install the packages themselves
       R_PKG_CACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/pkgcache
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.4.3
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/packages/*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/cranlike@s3")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/desc@description-from-remote")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/cranlike@s3")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/desc@description-from-remote")'
+      - R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
       - cd /mnt/cache/packages
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'options(crayon.enabled = TRUE); library(bincraft); future::plan("multisession", workers = 4); library(progressr); handlers(global = TRUE); handlers("progress"); upload_package_index(codename = "jammy", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY")); warnings()'
+      - R -q -e 'options(crayon.enabled = TRUE); library(bincraft); future::plan("multisession", workers = 4); library(progressr); handlers(global = TRUE); handlers("progress"); upload_package_index(codename = "jammy", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY")); warnings()'
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/update-package-index-ubuntu-2204-arm64.yaml b/.crow/update-package-index-ubuntu-2204-arm64.yaml
index 0641817..57a8104 100644
--- a/.crow/update-package-index-ubuntu-2204-arm64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/update-package-index-ubuntu-2204-arm64.yaml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ depends_on:
 
 steps:
   - name: Upload PACKAGES files
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-ubuntu:jammy
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-ubuntu:noble-4.4
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -40,16 +40,15 @@ steps:
       # set the location of the 'pkgcache' cache dir which persists the R package dependencies needed to install the packages themselves
       R_PKG_CACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/pkgcache
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.4.3
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/packages/*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/cranlike@s3")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/desc@description-from-remote")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/cranlike@s3")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/desc@description-from-remote")'
+      - R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
       - cd /mnt/cache/packages
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'options(crayon.enabled = TRUE); library(bincraft); future::plan("multisession", workers = 4); library(progressr); handlers(global = TRUE); handlers("progress"); upload_package_index(codename = "jammy", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
+      - R -q -e 'options(crayon.enabled = TRUE); library(bincraft); future::plan("multisession", workers = 4); library(progressr); handlers(global = TRUE); handlers("progress"); upload_package_index(codename = "jammy", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/update-package-index-ubuntu-2404-amd64.yaml b/.crow/update-package-index-ubuntu-2404-amd64.yaml
index a6f5e18..f507c0b 100644
--- a/.crow/update-package-index-ubuntu-2404-amd64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/update-package-index-ubuntu-2404-amd64.yaml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ depends_on:
 
 steps:
   - name: Upload PACKAGES files
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-ubuntu:noble
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-ubuntu:noble-4.4
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -40,18 +40,17 @@ steps:
       # set the location of the 'pkgcache' cache dir which persists the R package dependencies needed to install the packages themselves
       R_PKG_CACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/pkgcache
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.4.3
     # volumes:
     # - amd64-binaries-r-dep-cache-ubuntu-2404:/mnt/cache
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/packages/*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/cranlike@s3")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/desc@description-from-remote")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/cranlike@s3")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/desc@description-from-remote")'
+      - R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
       - cd /mnt/cache/packages
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'options(crayon.enabled = TRUE); library(bincraft); future::plan("multisession", workers = 4); library(progressr); handlers(global = TRUE); handlers("progress"); upload_package_index(codename = "noble", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
+      - R -q -e 'options(crayon.enabled = TRUE); library(bincraft); future::plan("multisession", workers = 4); library(progressr); handlers(global = TRUE); handlers("progress"); upload_package_index(codename = "noble", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/update-package-index-ubuntu-2404-arm64.yaml b/.crow/update-package-index-ubuntu-2404-arm64.yaml
index c11044f..e052a66 100644
--- a/.crow/update-package-index-ubuntu-2404-arm64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/update-package-index-ubuntu-2404-arm64.yaml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ depends_on:
 
 steps:
   - name: Upload PACKAGES files
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-ubuntu:noble
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-ubuntu:noble-4.4
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -40,16 +40,15 @@ steps:
       # set the location of the 'pkgcache' cache dir which persists the R package dependencies needed to install the packages themselves
       R_PKG_CACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/pkgcache
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.4.3
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/packages/*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/cranlike@s3")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/desc@description-from-remote")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/cranlike@s3")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("pat-s/desc@description-from-remote")'
+      - R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
       - cd /mnt/cache/packages
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'options(crayon.enabled = TRUE); library(bincraft); future::plan("multisession", workers = 4); library(progressr); handlers(global = TRUE); handlers("progress"); upload_package_index(codename = "noble", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
+      - R -q -e 'options(crayon.enabled = TRUE); library(bincraft); future::plan("multisession", workers = 4); library(progressr); handlers(global = TRUE); handlers("progress"); upload_package_index(codename = "noble", s3_endpoint = "https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com", s3_region = "eu-central-003", s3_bucket = "devxy-rpkgs-binaries", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv("B2_S3_SECRET_KEY"))'
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-alpine-321-amd64.yaml b/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-alpine-321-amd64.yaml
index 6a6ac56..77b29a4 100644
--- a/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-alpine-321-amd64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-alpine-321-amd64.yaml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ skip_clone: true
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Audit missing binaries'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-alpine:3.23
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-alpine:3.23-4.5
     pull: true
     environment:
       B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY:
@@ -27,13 +27,12 @@ steps:
       PLATFORM: alpine-321
       ARCH: amd64
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.5.3
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/packages /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak(c("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git", "httr2", "jsonlite"))'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'source("local/weekly-missing-binaries-audit.R")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak(c("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git", "httr2", "jsonlite"))'
+      - R -q -e 'source("local/weekly-missing-binaries-audit.R")'
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-alpine-321-arm64.yaml b/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-alpine-321-arm64.yaml
index 13a9baf..80ca905 100644
--- a/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-alpine-321-arm64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-alpine-321-arm64.yaml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ skip_clone: true
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Audit missing binaries'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-alpine:3.23
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-alpine:3.23-4.5
     pull: true
     environment:
       B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY:
@@ -27,13 +27,12 @@ steps:
       PLATFORM: alpine-321
       ARCH: arm64
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.5.3
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/packages /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak(c("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git", "httr2", "jsonlite"))'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'source("local/weekly-missing-binaries-audit.R")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak(c("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git", "httr2", "jsonlite"))'
+      - R -q -e 'source("local/weekly-missing-binaries-audit.R")'
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-alpine-322-amd64.yaml b/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-alpine-322-amd64.yaml
index d1255ea..b3f9ba8 100644
--- a/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-alpine-322-amd64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-alpine-322-amd64.yaml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ skip_clone: true
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Audit missing binaries'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-alpine:3.22
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-alpine:3.23-4.5
     pull: true
     environment:
       B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY:
@@ -26,13 +26,12 @@ steps:
       PLATFORM: alpine-322
       ARCH: amd64
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.5.3
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/packages /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak(c("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git", "httr2", "jsonlite"))'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'source("local/weekly-missing-binaries-audit.R")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak(c("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git", "httr2", "jsonlite"))'
+      - R -q -e 'source("local/weekly-missing-binaries-audit.R")'
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-alpine-322-arm64.yaml b/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-alpine-322-arm64.yaml
index b23eaee..1815163 100644
--- a/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-alpine-322-arm64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-alpine-322-arm64.yaml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ skip_clone: true
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Audit missing binaries'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-alpine:3.22
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-alpine:3.23-4.5
     pull: true
     environment:
       B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY:
@@ -25,13 +25,12 @@ steps:
       PLATFORM: alpine-322
       ARCH: arm64
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.5.3
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/packages /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak(c("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git", "httr2", "jsonlite"))'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'source("local/weekly-missing-binaries-audit.R")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak(c("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git", "httr2", "jsonlite"))'
+      - R -q -e 'source("local/weekly-missing-binaries-audit.R")'
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-alpine-323-amd64.yaml b/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-alpine-323-amd64.yaml
index 8b0c80b..3ef9715 100644
--- a/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-alpine-323-amd64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-alpine-323-amd64.yaml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ skip_clone: true
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Audit missing binaries'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-alpine:3.23
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-alpine:3.23-4.5
     pull: true
     environment:
       B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY:
@@ -26,13 +26,12 @@ steps:
       PLATFORM: alpine-323
       ARCH: amd64
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.5.3
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/packages /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak(c("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git", "httr2", "jsonlite"))'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'source("local/weekly-missing-binaries-audit.R")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak(c("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git", "httr2", "jsonlite"))'
+      - R -q -e 'source("local/weekly-missing-binaries-audit.R")'
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-alpine-323-arm64.yaml b/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-alpine-323-arm64.yaml
index 9a7e344..f3433ea 100644
--- a/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-alpine-323-arm64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-alpine-323-arm64.yaml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ skip_clone: true
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Audit missing binaries'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-alpine:3.23
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-alpine:3.23-4.5
     pull: true
     environment:
       B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY:
@@ -26,13 +26,12 @@ steps:
       PLATFORM: alpine-323
       ARCH: arm64
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.5.3
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/packages /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak(c("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git", "httr2", "jsonlite"))'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'source("local/weekly-missing-binaries-audit.R")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak(c("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git", "httr2", "jsonlite"))'
+      - R -q -e 'source("local/weekly-missing-binaries-audit.R")'
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-redhat-10-amd64.yaml b/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-redhat-10-amd64.yaml
index a54dc5c..be0adce 100644
--- a/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-redhat-10-amd64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-redhat-10-amd64.yaml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ skip_clone: true
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Audit missing binaries'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-redhat:10
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-redhat:10-4.5.3
     pull: true
     environment:
       B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY:
@@ -26,13 +26,12 @@ steps:
       PLATFORM: redhat-10
       ARCH: amd64
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.5.3
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/packages /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak(c("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git", "httr2", "jsonlite"))'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'source("local/weekly-missing-binaries-audit.R")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak(c("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git", "httr2", "jsonlite"))'
+      - R -q -e 'source("local/weekly-missing-binaries-audit.R")'
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-redhat-10-arm64.yaml b/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-redhat-10-arm64.yaml
index 1cdb8f5..fcfcce0 100644
--- a/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-redhat-10-arm64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-redhat-10-arm64.yaml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ skip_clone: true
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Audit missing binaries'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-redhat:10
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-redhat:10-4.5.3
     pull: true
     environment:
       B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY:
@@ -26,13 +26,12 @@ steps:
       PLATFORM: redhat-10
       ARCH: arm64
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.5.3
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/packages /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak(c("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git", "httr2", "jsonlite"))'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'source("local/weekly-missing-binaries-audit.R")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak(c("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git", "httr2", "jsonlite"))'
+      - R -q -e 'source("local/weekly-missing-binaries-audit.R")'
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-redhat-8-amd64.yaml b/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-redhat-8-amd64.yaml
index 96dec94..31e5bd3 100644
--- a/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-redhat-8-amd64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-redhat-8-amd64.yaml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ skip_clone: true
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Audit missing binaries'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-redhat:8
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-redhat:8-4.4.3
     pull: true
     environment:
       B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY:
@@ -27,13 +27,12 @@ steps:
       PLATFORM: redhat-8
       ARCH: amd64
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.4.3
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/packages /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak(c("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git", "httr2", "jsonlite"))'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'source("local/weekly-missing-binaries-audit.R")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak(c("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git", "httr2", "jsonlite"))'
+      - R -q -e 'source("local/weekly-missing-binaries-audit.R")'
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-redhat-8-arm64.yaml b/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-redhat-8-arm64.yaml
index c8009aa..c947e6c 100644
--- a/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-redhat-8-arm64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-redhat-8-arm64.yaml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ skip_clone: true
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Audit missing binaries'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-redhat:8
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-redhat:8-4.4.3
     pull: true
     environment:
       B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY:
@@ -27,13 +27,12 @@ steps:
       PLATFORM: redhat-8
       ARCH: arm64
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.4.3
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/packages /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak(c("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git", "httr2", "jsonlite"))'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'source("local/weekly-missing-binaries-audit.R")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak(c("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git", "httr2", "jsonlite"))'
+      - R -q -e 'source("local/weekly-missing-binaries-audit.R")'
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-redhat-9-amd64.yaml b/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-redhat-9-amd64.yaml
index c32ab75..9715204 100644
--- a/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-redhat-9-amd64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-redhat-9-amd64.yaml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ skip_clone: true
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Audit missing binaries'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-redhat:9
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-redhat:9-4.4.3
     pull: true
     environment:
       B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY:
@@ -27,13 +27,12 @@ steps:
       PLATFORM: redhat-9
       ARCH: amd64
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.4.3
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/packages /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak(c("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git", "httr2", "jsonlite"))'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'source("local/weekly-missing-binaries-audit.R")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak(c("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git", "httr2", "jsonlite"))'
+      - R -q -e 'source("local/weekly-missing-binaries-audit.R")'
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-redhat-9-arm64.yaml b/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-redhat-9-arm64.yaml
index a9de8c2..3ebb5a2 100644
--- a/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-redhat-9-arm64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-redhat-9-arm64.yaml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ skip_clone: true
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Audit missing binaries'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-redhat:9
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-redhat:9-4.4.3
     pull: true
     environment:
       B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY:
@@ -27,13 +27,12 @@ steps:
       PLATFORM: redhat-9
       ARCH: arm64
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.4.3
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/packages /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak(c("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git", "httr2", "jsonlite"))'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'source("local/weekly-missing-binaries-audit.R")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak(c("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git", "httr2", "jsonlite"))'
+      - R -q -e 'source("local/weekly-missing-binaries-audit.R")'
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-ubuntu-2204-amd64.yaml b/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-ubuntu-2204-amd64.yaml
index 9dc87fc..66af6b4 100644
--- a/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-ubuntu-2204-amd64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-ubuntu-2204-amd64.yaml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ skip_clone: true
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Audit missing binaries'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-ubuntu:jammy
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-ubuntu:jammy-4.4.3
     pull: true
     environment:
       B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY:
@@ -27,13 +27,12 @@ steps:
       PLATFORM: ubuntu-2204
       ARCH: amd64
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.4.3
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/packages /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak(c("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git", "httr2", "jsonlite"))'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'source("local/weekly-missing-binaries-audit.R")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak(c("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git", "httr2", "jsonlite"))'
+      - R -q -e 'source("local/weekly-missing-binaries-audit.R")'
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-ubuntu-2204-arm64.yaml b/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-ubuntu-2204-arm64.yaml
index da3d35b..e1de5f5 100644
--- a/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-ubuntu-2204-arm64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-ubuntu-2204-arm64.yaml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ skip_clone: true
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Audit missing binaries'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-ubuntu:jammy
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-ubuntu:jammy-4.4.3
     pull: true
     environment:
       B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY:
@@ -27,13 +27,12 @@ steps:
       PLATFORM: ubuntu-2204
       ARCH: arm64
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.4.3
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/packages /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak(c("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git", "httr2", "jsonlite"))'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'source("local/weekly-missing-binaries-audit.R")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak(c("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git", "httr2", "jsonlite"))'
+      - R -q -e 'source("local/weekly-missing-binaries-audit.R")'
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-ubuntu-2404-amd64.yaml b/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-ubuntu-2404-amd64.yaml
index f9f5460..6ee080b 100644
--- a/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-ubuntu-2404-amd64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-ubuntu-2404-amd64.yaml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ skip_clone: true
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Audit missing binaries'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-ubuntu:noble
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-ubuntu:noble-4.4.3
     pull: true
     environment:
       B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY:
@@ -27,13 +27,12 @@ steps:
       PLATFORM: ubuntu-2404
       ARCH: amd64
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.4.3
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/packages /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak(c("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git", "httr2", "jsonlite"))'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'source("local/weekly-missing-binaries-audit.R")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak(c("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git", "httr2", "jsonlite"))'
+      - R -q -e 'source("local/weekly-missing-binaries-audit.R")'
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-ubuntu-2404-arm64.yaml b/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-ubuntu-2404-arm64.yaml
index f3aa0bb..9c7e093 100644
--- a/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-ubuntu-2404-arm64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/weekly-audit-missing-ubuntu-2404-arm64.yaml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ skip_clone: true
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Audit missing binaries'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-ubuntu:noble
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-ubuntu:noble-4.4.3
     pull: true
     environment:
       B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY:
@@ -27,13 +27,12 @@ steps:
       PLATFORM: ubuntu-2404
       ARCH: arm64
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.4.3
     commands:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/packages /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak(c("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git", "httr2", "jsonlite"))'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'source("local/weekly-missing-binaries-audit.R")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak(c("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git", "httr2", "jsonlite"))'
+      - R -q -e 'source("local/weekly-missing-binaries-audit.R")'
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-alpine-322-amd64.yaml b/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-alpine-322-amd64.yaml
index 18843a9..86f0680 100644
--- a/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-alpine-322-amd64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-alpine-322-amd64.yaml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ labels:
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Rebuild missing binaries'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-alpine:3.22
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-alpine:3.22-4.5
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ steps:
       GIT_USER: pat-s
       R_PKG_CACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/pkgcache
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.5.3
       CCACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/ccache
       PLATFORM: alpine-322
       ARCH: amd64
@@ -39,12 +38,12 @@ steps:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs /mnt/cache/ccache /mnt/cache/packages
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
+      - R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
       - XVFB=$(command -v xwfb-run 2>/dev/null || command -v xvfb-run); XVFB_ARGS=""; if command -v xwfb-run >/dev/null 2>&1; then dnf install -y -q weston 2>/dev/null; XVFB_ARGS="-c weston"; fi
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("httr2")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'source("local/fetch-rebuild-packages-from-issue.R")'
-      - $XVFB $XVFB_ARGS -- /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e "sink(stdout(), type = 'message'); options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = $NCPUS, future.globals.onReference = NULL); pkgs <- readLines('/tmp/rebuild_pkgs.txt'); if (length(pkgs) == 0) { cat('Nothing to rebuild\n'); q('no') }; excluded <- jsonlite::fromJSON('local/excluded-packages.json')[['package']]; pkgs <- setdiff(pkgs, excluded); cat(sprintf('Rebuilding %d packages\n', length(pkgs))); n <- length(pkgs); for (i in seq_along(pkgs)) { x <- pkgs[i]; cat(sprintf('[%d/%d] %s\n', i, n, x)); tryCatch(bincraft::build_binary_package(x, tag_limit = 1L, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE), error = function(e) cat(sprintf('ERROR building %s - %s\n', x, conditionMessage(e)))) }" 2>&1
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("httr2")'
+      - R -q -e 'source("local/fetch-rebuild-packages-from-issue.R")'
+      - $XVFB $XVFB_ARGS -- R -q -e "sink(stdout(), type = 'message'); options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = $NCPUS, future.globals.onReference = NULL); pkgs <- readLines('/tmp/rebuild_pkgs.txt'); if (length(pkgs) == 0) { cat('Nothing to rebuild\n'); q('no') }; excluded <- jsonlite::fromJSON('local/excluded-packages.json')[['package']]; pkgs <- setdiff(pkgs, excluded); cat(sprintf('Rebuilding %d packages\n', length(pkgs))); n <- length(pkgs); for (i in seq_along(pkgs)) { x <- pkgs[i]; cat(sprintf('[%d/%d] %s\n', i, n, x)); tryCatch(bincraft::build_binary_package(x, tag_limit = 1L, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE), error = function(e) cat(sprintf('ERROR building %s - %s\n', x, conditionMessage(e)))) }" 2>&1
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-alpine-322-arm64.yaml b/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-alpine-322-arm64.yaml
index 6bd7a9b..c985d1e 100644
--- a/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-alpine-322-arm64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-alpine-322-arm64.yaml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ labels:
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Rebuild missing binaries'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-alpine:3.22
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-alpine:3.22-4.5
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ steps:
       GIT_USER: pat-s
       R_PKG_CACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/pkgcache
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.5.3
       CCACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/ccache
       PLATFORM: alpine-322
       ARCH: arm64
@@ -39,12 +38,12 @@ steps:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs /mnt/cache/ccache /mnt/cache/packages
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
+      - R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
       - XVFB=$(command -v xwfb-run 2>/dev/null || command -v xvfb-run); XVFB_ARGS=""; if command -v xwfb-run >/dev/null 2>&1; then dnf install -y -q weston 2>/dev/null; XVFB_ARGS="-c weston"; fi
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("httr2")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'source("local/fetch-rebuild-packages-from-issue.R")'
-      - $XVFB $XVFB_ARGS -- /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e "sink(stdout(), type = 'message'); options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = $NCPUS, future.globals.onReference = NULL); pkgs <- readLines('/tmp/rebuild_pkgs.txt'); if (length(pkgs) == 0) { cat('Nothing to rebuild\n'); q('no') }; excluded <- jsonlite::fromJSON('local/excluded-packages.json')[['package']]; pkgs <- setdiff(pkgs, excluded); cat(sprintf('Rebuilding %d packages\n', length(pkgs))); n <- length(pkgs); for (i in seq_along(pkgs)) { x <- pkgs[i]; cat(sprintf('[%d/%d] %s\n', i, n, x)); tryCatch(bincraft::build_binary_package(x, tag_limit = 1L, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE), error = function(e) cat(sprintf('ERROR building %s - %s\n', x, conditionMessage(e)))) }" 2>&1
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("httr2")'
+      - R -q -e 'source("local/fetch-rebuild-packages-from-issue.R")'
+      - $XVFB $XVFB_ARGS -- R -q -e "sink(stdout(), type = 'message'); options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = $NCPUS, future.globals.onReference = NULL); pkgs <- readLines('/tmp/rebuild_pkgs.txt'); if (length(pkgs) == 0) { cat('Nothing to rebuild\n'); q('no') }; excluded <- jsonlite::fromJSON('local/excluded-packages.json')[['package']]; pkgs <- setdiff(pkgs, excluded); cat(sprintf('Rebuilding %d packages\n', length(pkgs))); n <- length(pkgs); for (i in seq_along(pkgs)) { x <- pkgs[i]; cat(sprintf('[%d/%d] %s\n', i, n, x)); tryCatch(bincraft::build_binary_package(x, tag_limit = 1L, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE), error = function(e) cat(sprintf('ERROR building %s - %s\n', x, conditionMessage(e)))) }" 2>&1
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-alpine-323-amd64.yaml b/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-alpine-323-amd64.yaml
index a597143..1b40307 100644
--- a/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-alpine-323-amd64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-alpine-323-amd64.yaml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ labels:
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Rebuild missing binaries'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-alpine:3.23
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-alpine:3.23-4.5
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ steps:
       GIT_USER: pat-s
       R_PKG_CACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/pkgcache
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.5.3
       CCACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/ccache
       PLATFORM: alpine-323
       ARCH: amd64
@@ -39,12 +38,12 @@ steps:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs /mnt/cache/ccache /mnt/cache/packages
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
+      - R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
       - XVFB=$(command -v xwfb-run 2>/dev/null || command -v xvfb-run); XVFB_ARGS=""; if command -v xwfb-run >/dev/null 2>&1; then dnf install -y -q weston 2>/dev/null; XVFB_ARGS="-c weston"; fi
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("httr2")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'source("local/fetch-rebuild-packages-from-issue.R")'
-      - $XVFB $XVFB_ARGS -- /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e "sink(stdout(), type = 'message'); options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = $NCPUS, future.globals.onReference = NULL); pkgs <- readLines('/tmp/rebuild_pkgs.txt'); if (length(pkgs) == 0) { cat('Nothing to rebuild\n'); q('no') }; excluded <- jsonlite::fromJSON('local/excluded-packages.json')[['package']]; pkgs <- setdiff(pkgs, excluded); cat(sprintf('Rebuilding %d packages\n', length(pkgs))); n <- length(pkgs); for (i in seq_along(pkgs)) { x <- pkgs[i]; cat(sprintf('[%d/%d] %s\n', i, n, x)); tryCatch(bincraft::build_binary_package(x, tag_limit = 1L, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE), error = function(e) cat(sprintf('ERROR building %s - %s\n', x, conditionMessage(e)))) }" 2>&1
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("httr2")'
+      - R -q -e 'source("local/fetch-rebuild-packages-from-issue.R")'
+      - $XVFB $XVFB_ARGS -- R -q -e "sink(stdout(), type = 'message'); options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = $NCPUS, future.globals.onReference = NULL); pkgs <- readLines('/tmp/rebuild_pkgs.txt'); if (length(pkgs) == 0) { cat('Nothing to rebuild\n'); q('no') }; excluded <- jsonlite::fromJSON('local/excluded-packages.json')[['package']]; pkgs <- setdiff(pkgs, excluded); cat(sprintf('Rebuilding %d packages\n', length(pkgs))); n <- length(pkgs); for (i in seq_along(pkgs)) { x <- pkgs[i]; cat(sprintf('[%d/%d] %s\n', i, n, x)); tryCatch(bincraft::build_binary_package(x, tag_limit = 1L, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE), error = function(e) cat(sprintf('ERROR building %s - %s\n', x, conditionMessage(e)))) }" 2>&1
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-alpine-323-arm64.yaml b/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-alpine-323-arm64.yaml
index 47a073a..b76b3c8 100644
--- a/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-alpine-323-arm64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-alpine-323-arm64.yaml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ labels:
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Rebuild missing binaries'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-alpine:3.23
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-alpine:3.23-4.5
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ steps:
       GIT_USER: pat-s
       R_PKG_CACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/pkgcache
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.5.3
       CCACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/ccache
       PLATFORM: alpine-323
       ARCH: arm64
@@ -39,12 +38,12 @@ steps:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs /mnt/cache/ccache /mnt/cache/packages
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
+      - R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
       - XVFB=$(command -v xwfb-run 2>/dev/null || command -v xvfb-run); XVFB_ARGS=""; if command -v xwfb-run >/dev/null 2>&1; then dnf install -y -q weston 2>/dev/null; XVFB_ARGS="-c weston"; fi
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("httr2")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'source("local/fetch-rebuild-packages-from-issue.R")'
-      - $XVFB $XVFB_ARGS -- /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e "sink(stdout(), type = 'message'); options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = $NCPUS, future.globals.onReference = NULL); pkgs <- readLines('/tmp/rebuild_pkgs.txt'); if (length(pkgs) == 0) { cat('Nothing to rebuild\n'); q('no') }; excluded <- jsonlite::fromJSON('local/excluded-packages.json')[['package']]; pkgs <- setdiff(pkgs, excluded); cat(sprintf('Rebuilding %d packages\n', length(pkgs))); n <- length(pkgs); for (i in seq_along(pkgs)) { x <- pkgs[i]; cat(sprintf('[%d/%d] %s\n', i, n, x)); tryCatch(bincraft::build_binary_package(x, tag_limit = 1L, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE), error = function(e) cat(sprintf('ERROR building %s - %s\n', x, conditionMessage(e)))) }" 2>&1
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("httr2")'
+      - R -q -e 'source("local/fetch-rebuild-packages-from-issue.R")'
+      - $XVFB $XVFB_ARGS -- R -q -e "sink(stdout(), type = 'message'); options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = $NCPUS, future.globals.onReference = NULL); pkgs <- readLines('/tmp/rebuild_pkgs.txt'); if (length(pkgs) == 0) { cat('Nothing to rebuild\n'); q('no') }; excluded <- jsonlite::fromJSON('local/excluded-packages.json')[['package']]; pkgs <- setdiff(pkgs, excluded); cat(sprintf('Rebuilding %d packages\n', length(pkgs))); n <- length(pkgs); for (i in seq_along(pkgs)) { x <- pkgs[i]; cat(sprintf('[%d/%d] %s\n', i, n, x)); tryCatch(bincraft::build_binary_package(x, tag_limit = 1L, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE), error = function(e) cat(sprintf('ERROR building %s - %s\n', x, conditionMessage(e)))) }" 2>&1
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-redhat-10-amd64.yaml b/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-redhat-10-amd64.yaml
index 4335e7f..cfe3d01 100644
--- a/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-redhat-10-amd64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-redhat-10-amd64.yaml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ labels:
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Rebuild missing binaries'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-redhat:10
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-redhat:10-4.5.3
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ steps:
       GIT_USER: pat-s
       R_PKG_CACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/pkgcache
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.5.3
       CCACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/ccache
       PLATFORM: redhat-10
       ARCH: amd64
@@ -39,12 +38,12 @@ steps:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs /mnt/cache/ccache /mnt/cache/packages
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
+      - R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
       - XVFB=$(command -v xwfb-run 2>/dev/null || command -v xvfb-run); XVFB_ARGS=""; if command -v xwfb-run >/dev/null 2>&1; then dnf install -y -q weston 2>/dev/null; XVFB_ARGS="-c weston"; fi
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("httr2")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'source("local/fetch-rebuild-packages-from-issue.R")'
-      - $XVFB $XVFB_ARGS -- /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e "sink(stdout(), type = 'message'); options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = $NCPUS, future.globals.onReference = NULL); pkgs <- readLines('/tmp/rebuild_pkgs.txt'); if (length(pkgs) == 0) { cat('Nothing to rebuild\n'); q('no') }; excluded <- jsonlite::fromJSON('local/excluded-packages.json')[['package']]; pkgs <- setdiff(pkgs, excluded); cat(sprintf('Rebuilding %d packages\n', length(pkgs))); n <- length(pkgs); for (i in seq_along(pkgs)) { x <- pkgs[i]; cat(sprintf('[%d/%d] %s\n', i, n, x)); tryCatch(bincraft::build_binary_package(x, tag_limit = 1L, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE), error = function(e) cat(sprintf('ERROR building %s - %s\n', x, conditionMessage(e)))) }" 2>&1
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("httr2")'
+      - R -q -e 'source("local/fetch-rebuild-packages-from-issue.R")'
+      - $XVFB $XVFB_ARGS -- R -q -e "sink(stdout(), type = 'message'); options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = $NCPUS, future.globals.onReference = NULL); pkgs <- readLines('/tmp/rebuild_pkgs.txt'); if (length(pkgs) == 0) { cat('Nothing to rebuild\n'); q('no') }; excluded <- jsonlite::fromJSON('local/excluded-packages.json')[['package']]; pkgs <- setdiff(pkgs, excluded); cat(sprintf('Rebuilding %d packages\n', length(pkgs))); n <- length(pkgs); for (i in seq_along(pkgs)) { x <- pkgs[i]; cat(sprintf('[%d/%d] %s\n', i, n, x)); tryCatch(bincraft::build_binary_package(x, tag_limit = 1L, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE), error = function(e) cat(sprintf('ERROR building %s - %s\n', x, conditionMessage(e)))) }" 2>&1
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-redhat-10-arm64.yaml b/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-redhat-10-arm64.yaml
index e0ee2ee..89d7c45 100644
--- a/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-redhat-10-arm64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-redhat-10-arm64.yaml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ labels:
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Rebuild missing binaries'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-redhat:10
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-redhat:10-4.5.3
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ steps:
       GIT_USER: pat-s
       R_PKG_CACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/pkgcache
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.5.3
       CCACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/ccache
       PLATFORM: redhat-10
       ARCH: arm64
@@ -39,12 +38,12 @@ steps:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs /mnt/cache/ccache /mnt/cache/packages
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
+      - R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
       - XVFB=$(command -v xwfb-run 2>/dev/null || command -v xvfb-run); XVFB_ARGS=""; if command -v xwfb-run >/dev/null 2>&1; then dnf install -y -q weston 2>/dev/null; XVFB_ARGS="-c weston"; fi
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("httr2")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'source("local/fetch-rebuild-packages-from-issue.R")'
-      - $XVFB $XVFB_ARGS -- /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e "sink(stdout(), type = 'message'); options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = $NCPUS, future.globals.onReference = NULL); pkgs <- readLines('/tmp/rebuild_pkgs.txt'); if (length(pkgs) == 0) { cat('Nothing to rebuild\n'); q('no') }; excluded <- jsonlite::fromJSON('local/excluded-packages.json')[['package']]; pkgs <- setdiff(pkgs, excluded); cat(sprintf('Rebuilding %d packages\n', length(pkgs))); n <- length(pkgs); for (i in seq_along(pkgs)) { x <- pkgs[i]; cat(sprintf('[%d/%d] %s\n', i, n, x)); tryCatch(bincraft::build_binary_package(x, tag_limit = 1L, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE), error = function(e) cat(sprintf('ERROR building %s - %s\n', x, conditionMessage(e)))) }" 2>&1
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("httr2")'
+      - R -q -e 'source("local/fetch-rebuild-packages-from-issue.R")'
+      - $XVFB $XVFB_ARGS -- R -q -e "sink(stdout(), type = 'message'); options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = $NCPUS, future.globals.onReference = NULL); pkgs <- readLines('/tmp/rebuild_pkgs.txt'); if (length(pkgs) == 0) { cat('Nothing to rebuild\n'); q('no') }; excluded <- jsonlite::fromJSON('local/excluded-packages.json')[['package']]; pkgs <- setdiff(pkgs, excluded); cat(sprintf('Rebuilding %d packages\n', length(pkgs))); n <- length(pkgs); for (i in seq_along(pkgs)) { x <- pkgs[i]; cat(sprintf('[%d/%d] %s\n', i, n, x)); tryCatch(bincraft::build_binary_package(x, tag_limit = 1L, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE), error = function(e) cat(sprintf('ERROR building %s - %s\n', x, conditionMessage(e)))) }" 2>&1
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-redhat-8-amd64.yaml b/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-redhat-8-amd64.yaml
index 68bff14..62d11b3 100644
--- a/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-redhat-8-amd64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-redhat-8-amd64.yaml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ labels:
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Rebuild missing binaries'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-redhat:8
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-redhat:8-4.4.3
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ steps:
       GIT_USER: pat-s
       R_PKG_CACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/pkgcache
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.4.3
       CCACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/ccache
       PLATFORM: redhat-8
       ARCH: amd64
@@ -39,12 +38,12 @@ steps:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs /mnt/cache/ccache /mnt/cache/packages
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
+      - R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
       - XVFB=$(command -v xwfb-run 2>/dev/null || command -v xvfb-run); XVFB_ARGS=""; if command -v xwfb-run >/dev/null 2>&1; then dnf install -y -q weston 2>/dev/null; XVFB_ARGS="-c weston"; fi
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("httr2")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'source("local/fetch-rebuild-packages-from-issue.R")'
-      - $XVFB $XVFB_ARGS -- /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e "sink(stdout(), type = 'message'); options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = $NCPUS, future.globals.onReference = NULL); pkgs <- readLines('/tmp/rebuild_pkgs.txt'); if (length(pkgs) == 0) { cat('Nothing to rebuild\n'); q('no') }; excluded <- jsonlite::fromJSON('local/excluded-packages.json')[['package']]; pkgs <- setdiff(pkgs, excluded); cat(sprintf('Rebuilding %d packages\n', length(pkgs))); n <- length(pkgs); for (i in seq_along(pkgs)) { x <- pkgs[i]; cat(sprintf('[%d/%d] %s\n', i, n, x)); tryCatch(bincraft::build_binary_package(x, tag_limit = 1L, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE), error = function(e) cat(sprintf('ERROR building %s - %s\n', x, conditionMessage(e)))) }" 2>&1
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("httr2")'
+      - R -q -e 'source("local/fetch-rebuild-packages-from-issue.R")'
+      - $XVFB $XVFB_ARGS -- R -q -e "sink(stdout(), type = 'message'); options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = $NCPUS, future.globals.onReference = NULL); pkgs <- readLines('/tmp/rebuild_pkgs.txt'); if (length(pkgs) == 0) { cat('Nothing to rebuild\n'); q('no') }; excluded <- jsonlite::fromJSON('local/excluded-packages.json')[['package']]; pkgs <- setdiff(pkgs, excluded); cat(sprintf('Rebuilding %d packages\n', length(pkgs))); n <- length(pkgs); for (i in seq_along(pkgs)) { x <- pkgs[i]; cat(sprintf('[%d/%d] %s\n', i, n, x)); tryCatch(bincraft::build_binary_package(x, tag_limit = 1L, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE), error = function(e) cat(sprintf('ERROR building %s - %s\n', x, conditionMessage(e)))) }" 2>&1
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-redhat-8-arm64.yaml b/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-redhat-8-arm64.yaml
index f7fe7e9..2194fee 100644
--- a/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-redhat-8-arm64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-redhat-8-arm64.yaml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ labels:
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Rebuild missing binaries'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-redhat:8
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-redhat:8-4.4.3
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ steps:
       GIT_USER: pat-s
       R_PKG_CACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/pkgcache
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.4.3
       CCACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/ccache
       PLATFORM: redhat-8
       ARCH: arm64
@@ -39,12 +38,12 @@ steps:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs /mnt/cache/ccache /mnt/cache/packages
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
+      - R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
       - XVFB=$(command -v xwfb-run 2>/dev/null || command -v xvfb-run); XVFB_ARGS=""; if command -v xwfb-run >/dev/null 2>&1; then dnf install -y -q weston 2>/dev/null; XVFB_ARGS="-c weston"; fi
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("httr2")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'source("local/fetch-rebuild-packages-from-issue.R")'
-      - $XVFB $XVFB_ARGS -- /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e "sink(stdout(), type = 'message'); options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = $NCPUS, future.globals.onReference = NULL); pkgs <- readLines('/tmp/rebuild_pkgs.txt'); if (length(pkgs) == 0) { cat('Nothing to rebuild\n'); q('no') }; excluded <- jsonlite::fromJSON('local/excluded-packages.json')[['package']]; pkgs <- setdiff(pkgs, excluded); cat(sprintf('Rebuilding %d packages\n', length(pkgs))); n <- length(pkgs); for (i in seq_along(pkgs)) { x <- pkgs[i]; cat(sprintf('[%d/%d] %s\n', i, n, x)); tryCatch(bincraft::build_binary_package(x, tag_limit = 1L, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE), error = function(e) cat(sprintf('ERROR building %s - %s\n', x, conditionMessage(e)))) }" 2>&1
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("httr2")'
+      - R -q -e 'source("local/fetch-rebuild-packages-from-issue.R")'
+      - $XVFB $XVFB_ARGS -- R -q -e "sink(stdout(), type = 'message'); options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = $NCPUS, future.globals.onReference = NULL); pkgs <- readLines('/tmp/rebuild_pkgs.txt'); if (length(pkgs) == 0) { cat('Nothing to rebuild\n'); q('no') }; excluded <- jsonlite::fromJSON('local/excluded-packages.json')[['package']]; pkgs <- setdiff(pkgs, excluded); cat(sprintf('Rebuilding %d packages\n', length(pkgs))); n <- length(pkgs); for (i in seq_along(pkgs)) { x <- pkgs[i]; cat(sprintf('[%d/%d] %s\n', i, n, x)); tryCatch(bincraft::build_binary_package(x, tag_limit = 1L, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE), error = function(e) cat(sprintf('ERROR building %s - %s\n', x, conditionMessage(e)))) }" 2>&1
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-redhat-9-amd64.yaml b/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-redhat-9-amd64.yaml
index fbdfcc3..4c7f404 100644
--- a/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-redhat-9-amd64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-redhat-9-amd64.yaml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ labels:
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Rebuild missing binaries'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-redhat:9
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-redhat:9-4.4.3
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ steps:
       GIT_USER: pat-s
       R_PKG_CACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/pkgcache
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.4.3
       CCACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/ccache
       PLATFORM: redhat-9
       ARCH: amd64
@@ -39,12 +38,12 @@ steps:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs /mnt/cache/ccache /mnt/cache/packages
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
+      - R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
       - XVFB=$(command -v xwfb-run 2>/dev/null || command -v xvfb-run); XVFB_ARGS=""; if command -v xwfb-run >/dev/null 2>&1; then dnf install -y -q weston 2>/dev/null; XVFB_ARGS="-c weston"; fi
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("httr2")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'source("local/fetch-rebuild-packages-from-issue.R")'
-      - $XVFB $XVFB_ARGS -- /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e "sink(stdout(), type = 'message'); options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = $NCPUS, future.globals.onReference = NULL); pkgs <- readLines('/tmp/rebuild_pkgs.txt'); if (length(pkgs) == 0) { cat('Nothing to rebuild\n'); q('no') }; excluded <- jsonlite::fromJSON('local/excluded-packages.json')[['package']]; pkgs <- setdiff(pkgs, excluded); cat(sprintf('Rebuilding %d packages\n', length(pkgs))); n <- length(pkgs); for (i in seq_along(pkgs)) { x <- pkgs[i]; cat(sprintf('[%d/%d] %s\n', i, n, x)); tryCatch(bincraft::build_binary_package(x, tag_limit = 1L, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE), error = function(e) cat(sprintf('ERROR building %s - %s\n', x, conditionMessage(e)))) }" 2>&1
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("httr2")'
+      - R -q -e 'source("local/fetch-rebuild-packages-from-issue.R")'
+      - $XVFB $XVFB_ARGS -- R -q -e "sink(stdout(), type = 'message'); options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = $NCPUS, future.globals.onReference = NULL); pkgs <- readLines('/tmp/rebuild_pkgs.txt'); if (length(pkgs) == 0) { cat('Nothing to rebuild\n'); q('no') }; excluded <- jsonlite::fromJSON('local/excluded-packages.json')[['package']]; pkgs <- setdiff(pkgs, excluded); cat(sprintf('Rebuilding %d packages\n', length(pkgs))); n <- length(pkgs); for (i in seq_along(pkgs)) { x <- pkgs[i]; cat(sprintf('[%d/%d] %s\n', i, n, x)); tryCatch(bincraft::build_binary_package(x, tag_limit = 1L, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE), error = function(e) cat(sprintf('ERROR building %s - %s\n', x, conditionMessage(e)))) }" 2>&1
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-redhat-9-arm64.yaml b/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-redhat-9-arm64.yaml
index 92fd2fa..64cf358 100644
--- a/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-redhat-9-arm64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-redhat-9-arm64.yaml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ labels:
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Rebuild missing binaries'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-redhat:9
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-redhat:9-4.4.3
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ steps:
       GIT_USER: pat-s
       R_PKG_CACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/pkgcache
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.4.3
       CCACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/ccache
       PLATFORM: redhat-9
       ARCH: arm64
@@ -39,12 +38,12 @@ steps:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs /mnt/cache/ccache /mnt/cache/packages
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
+      - R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
       - XVFB=$(command -v xwfb-run 2>/dev/null || command -v xvfb-run); XVFB_ARGS=""; if command -v xwfb-run >/dev/null 2>&1; then dnf install -y -q weston 2>/dev/null; XVFB_ARGS="-c weston"; fi
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("httr2")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'source("local/fetch-rebuild-packages-from-issue.R")'
-      - $XVFB $XVFB_ARGS -- /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e "sink(stdout(), type = 'message'); options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = $NCPUS, future.globals.onReference = NULL); pkgs <- readLines('/tmp/rebuild_pkgs.txt'); if (length(pkgs) == 0) { cat('Nothing to rebuild\n'); q('no') }; excluded <- jsonlite::fromJSON('local/excluded-packages.json')[['package']]; pkgs <- setdiff(pkgs, excluded); cat(sprintf('Rebuilding %d packages\n', length(pkgs))); n <- length(pkgs); for (i in seq_along(pkgs)) { x <- pkgs[i]; cat(sprintf('[%d/%d] %s\n', i, n, x)); tryCatch(bincraft::build_binary_package(x, tag_limit = 1L, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE), error = function(e) cat(sprintf('ERROR building %s - %s\n', x, conditionMessage(e)))) }" 2>&1
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("httr2")'
+      - R -q -e 'source("local/fetch-rebuild-packages-from-issue.R")'
+      - $XVFB $XVFB_ARGS -- R -q -e "sink(stdout(), type = 'message'); options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = $NCPUS, future.globals.onReference = NULL); pkgs <- readLines('/tmp/rebuild_pkgs.txt'); if (length(pkgs) == 0) { cat('Nothing to rebuild\n'); q('no') }; excluded <- jsonlite::fromJSON('local/excluded-packages.json')[['package']]; pkgs <- setdiff(pkgs, excluded); cat(sprintf('Rebuilding %d packages\n', length(pkgs))); n <- length(pkgs); for (i in seq_along(pkgs)) { x <- pkgs[i]; cat(sprintf('[%d/%d] %s\n', i, n, x)); tryCatch(bincraft::build_binary_package(x, tag_limit = 1L, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE), error = function(e) cat(sprintf('ERROR building %s - %s\n', x, conditionMessage(e)))) }" 2>&1
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-ubuntu-2204-amd64.yaml b/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-ubuntu-2204-amd64.yaml
index c7bc6f7..94cdc34 100644
--- a/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-ubuntu-2204-amd64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-ubuntu-2204-amd64.yaml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ labels:
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Rebuild missing binaries'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-ubuntu:jammy
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-ubuntu:jammy-4.4.3
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ steps:
       GIT_USER: pat-s
       R_PKG_CACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/pkgcache
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.4.3
       CCACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/ccache
       PLATFORM: ubuntu-2204
       ARCH: amd64
@@ -39,12 +38,12 @@ steps:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs /mnt/cache/ccache /mnt/cache/packages
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
+      - R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
       - XVFB=$(command -v xwfb-run 2>/dev/null || command -v xvfb-run); XVFB_ARGS=""; if command -v xwfb-run >/dev/null 2>&1; then dnf install -y -q weston 2>/dev/null; XVFB_ARGS="-c weston"; fi
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("httr2")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'source("local/fetch-rebuild-packages-from-issue.R")'
-      - $XVFB $XVFB_ARGS -- /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e "sink(stdout(), type = 'message'); options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = $NCPUS, future.globals.onReference = NULL); pkgs <- readLines('/tmp/rebuild_pkgs.txt'); if (length(pkgs) == 0) { cat('Nothing to rebuild\n'); q('no') }; excluded <- jsonlite::fromJSON('local/excluded-packages.json')[['package']]; pkgs <- setdiff(pkgs, excluded); cat(sprintf('Rebuilding %d packages\n', length(pkgs))); n <- length(pkgs); for (i in seq_along(pkgs)) { x <- pkgs[i]; cat(sprintf('[%d/%d] %s\n', i, n, x)); tryCatch(bincraft::build_binary_package(x, tag_limit = 1L, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE), error = function(e) cat(sprintf('ERROR building %s - %s\n', x, conditionMessage(e)))) }" 2>&1
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("httr2")'
+      - R -q -e 'source("local/fetch-rebuild-packages-from-issue.R")'
+      - $XVFB $XVFB_ARGS -- R -q -e "sink(stdout(), type = 'message'); options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = $NCPUS, future.globals.onReference = NULL); pkgs <- readLines('/tmp/rebuild_pkgs.txt'); if (length(pkgs) == 0) { cat('Nothing to rebuild\n'); q('no') }; excluded <- jsonlite::fromJSON('local/excluded-packages.json')[['package']]; pkgs <- setdiff(pkgs, excluded); cat(sprintf('Rebuilding %d packages\n', length(pkgs))); n <- length(pkgs); for (i in seq_along(pkgs)) { x <- pkgs[i]; cat(sprintf('[%d/%d] %s\n', i, n, x)); tryCatch(bincraft::build_binary_package(x, tag_limit = 1L, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE), error = function(e) cat(sprintf('ERROR building %s - %s\n', x, conditionMessage(e)))) }" 2>&1
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-ubuntu-2204-arm64.yaml b/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-ubuntu-2204-arm64.yaml
index 5d958d5..c8305a6 100644
--- a/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-ubuntu-2204-arm64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-ubuntu-2204-arm64.yaml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ labels:
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Rebuild missing binaries'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-ubuntu:jammy
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-ubuntu:jammy-4.4.3
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ steps:
       GIT_USER: pat-s
       R_PKG_CACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/pkgcache
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.4.3
       CCACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/ccache
       PLATFORM: ubuntu-2204
       ARCH: arm64
@@ -39,12 +38,12 @@ steps:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs /mnt/cache/ccache /mnt/cache/packages
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
+      - R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
       - XVFB=$(command -v xwfb-run 2>/dev/null || command -v xvfb-run); XVFB_ARGS=""; if command -v xwfb-run >/dev/null 2>&1; then dnf install -y -q weston 2>/dev/null; XVFB_ARGS="-c weston"; fi
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("httr2")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'source("local/fetch-rebuild-packages-from-issue.R")'
-      - $XVFB $XVFB_ARGS -- /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e "sink(stdout(), type = 'message'); options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = $NCPUS, future.globals.onReference = NULL); pkgs <- readLines('/tmp/rebuild_pkgs.txt'); if (length(pkgs) == 0) { cat('Nothing to rebuild\n'); q('no') }; excluded <- jsonlite::fromJSON('local/excluded-packages.json')[['package']]; pkgs <- setdiff(pkgs, excluded); cat(sprintf('Rebuilding %d packages\n', length(pkgs))); n <- length(pkgs); for (i in seq_along(pkgs)) { x <- pkgs[i]; cat(sprintf('[%d/%d] %s\n', i, n, x)); tryCatch(bincraft::build_binary_package(x, tag_limit = 1L, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE), error = function(e) cat(sprintf('ERROR building %s - %s\n', x, conditionMessage(e)))) }" 2>&1
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("httr2")'
+      - R -q -e 'source("local/fetch-rebuild-packages-from-issue.R")'
+      - $XVFB $XVFB_ARGS -- R -q -e "sink(stdout(), type = 'message'); options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = $NCPUS, future.globals.onReference = NULL); pkgs <- readLines('/tmp/rebuild_pkgs.txt'); if (length(pkgs) == 0) { cat('Nothing to rebuild\n'); q('no') }; excluded <- jsonlite::fromJSON('local/excluded-packages.json')[['package']]; pkgs <- setdiff(pkgs, excluded); cat(sprintf('Rebuilding %d packages\n', length(pkgs))); n <- length(pkgs); for (i in seq_along(pkgs)) { x <- pkgs[i]; cat(sprintf('[%d/%d] %s\n', i, n, x)); tryCatch(bincraft::build_binary_package(x, tag_limit = 1L, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE), error = function(e) cat(sprintf('ERROR building %s - %s\n', x, conditionMessage(e)))) }" 2>&1
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-ubuntu-2404-amd64.yaml b/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-ubuntu-2404-amd64.yaml
index b508b85..7da31a0 100644
--- a/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-ubuntu-2404-amd64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-ubuntu-2404-amd64.yaml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ labels:
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Rebuild missing binaries'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-ubuntu:noble
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-ubuntu:noble-4.4.3
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ steps:
       GIT_USER: pat-s
       R_PKG_CACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/pkgcache
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.4.3
       CCACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/ccache
       PLATFORM: ubuntu-2404
       ARCH: amd64
@@ -39,12 +38,12 @@ steps:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs /mnt/cache/ccache /mnt/cache/packages
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
+      - R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
       - XVFB=$(command -v xwfb-run 2>/dev/null || command -v xvfb-run); XVFB_ARGS=""; if command -v xwfb-run >/dev/null 2>&1; then dnf install -y -q weston 2>/dev/null; XVFB_ARGS="-c weston"; fi
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("httr2")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'source("local/fetch-rebuild-packages-from-issue.R")'
-      - $XVFB $XVFB_ARGS -- /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e "sink(stdout(), type = 'message'); options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = $NCPUS, future.globals.onReference = NULL); pkgs <- readLines('/tmp/rebuild_pkgs.txt'); if (length(pkgs) == 0) { cat('Nothing to rebuild\n'); q('no') }; excluded <- jsonlite::fromJSON('local/excluded-packages.json')[['package']]; pkgs <- setdiff(pkgs, excluded); cat(sprintf('Rebuilding %d packages\n', length(pkgs))); n <- length(pkgs); for (i in seq_along(pkgs)) { x <- pkgs[i]; cat(sprintf('[%d/%d] %s\n', i, n, x)); tryCatch(bincraft::build_binary_package(x, tag_limit = 1L, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE), error = function(e) cat(sprintf('ERROR building %s - %s\n', x, conditionMessage(e)))) }" 2>&1
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("httr2")'
+      - R -q -e 'source("local/fetch-rebuild-packages-from-issue.R")'
+      - $XVFB $XVFB_ARGS -- R -q -e "sink(stdout(), type = 'message'); options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = $NCPUS, future.globals.onReference = NULL); pkgs <- readLines('/tmp/rebuild_pkgs.txt'); if (length(pkgs) == 0) { cat('Nothing to rebuild\n'); q('no') }; excluded <- jsonlite::fromJSON('local/excluded-packages.json')[['package']]; pkgs <- setdiff(pkgs, excluded); cat(sprintf('Rebuilding %d packages\n', length(pkgs))); n <- length(pkgs); for (i in seq_along(pkgs)) { x <- pkgs[i]; cat(sprintf('[%d/%d] %s\n', i, n, x)); tryCatch(bincraft::build_binary_package(x, tag_limit = 1L, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE), error = function(e) cat(sprintf('ERROR building %s - %s\n', x, conditionMessage(e)))) }" 2>&1
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-ubuntu-2404-arm64.yaml b/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-ubuntu-2404-arm64.yaml
index 063fa3c..5bd25c7 100644
--- a/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-ubuntu-2404-arm64.yaml
+++ b/.crow/weekly-rebuild-missing-ubuntu-2404-arm64.yaml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ labels:
 
 steps:
   - name: 'Rebuild missing binaries'
-    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-ubuntu:noble
+    image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-ubuntu:noble-4.4.3
     pull: true
     environment:
       RED_HAT_DEV_PW:
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ steps:
       GIT_USER: pat-s
       R_PKG_CACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/pkgcache
       R_LIBS_USER: /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
-      R_VERSION: 4.4.3
       CCACHE_DIR: /mnt/cache/ccache
       PLATFORM: ubuntu-2404
       ARCH: arm64
@@ -39,12 +38,12 @@ steps:
       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/pkgcache /mnt/cache/R-pkgs /mnt/cache/ccache /mnt/cache/packages
       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-*
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git")'
+      - R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
       - XVFB=$(command -v xwfb-run 2>/dev/null || command -v xvfb-run); XVFB_ARGS=""; if command -v xwfb-run >/dev/null 2>&1; then dnf install -y -q weston 2>/dev/null; XVFB_ARGS="-c weston"; fi
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("httr2")'
-      - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'source("local/fetch-rebuild-packages-from-issue.R")'
-      - $XVFB $XVFB_ARGS -- /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e "sink(stdout(), type = 'message'); options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = $NCPUS, future.globals.onReference = NULL); pkgs <- readLines('/tmp/rebuild_pkgs.txt'); if (length(pkgs) == 0) { cat('Nothing to rebuild\n'); q('no') }; excluded <- jsonlite::fromJSON('local/excluded-packages.json')[['package']]; pkgs <- setdiff(pkgs, excluded); cat(sprintf('Rebuilding %d packages\n', length(pkgs))); n <- length(pkgs); for (i in seq_along(pkgs)) { x <- pkgs[i]; cat(sprintf('[%d/%d] %s\n', i, n, x)); tryCatch(bincraft::build_binary_package(x, tag_limit = 1L, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE), error = function(e) cat(sprintf('ERROR building %s - %s\n', x, conditionMessage(e)))) }" 2>&1
+      - R -q -e 'pak::pak("httr2")'
+      - R -q -e 'source("local/fetch-rebuild-packages-from-issue.R")'
+      - $XVFB $XVFB_ARGS -- R -q -e "sink(stdout(), type = 'message'); options(crayon.enabled = TRUE, Ncpus = $NCPUS, future.globals.onReference = NULL); pkgs <- readLines('/tmp/rebuild_pkgs.txt'); if (length(pkgs) == 0) { cat('Nothing to rebuild\n'); q('no') }; excluded <- jsonlite::fromJSON('local/excluded-packages.json')[['package']]; pkgs <- setdiff(pkgs, excluded); cat(sprintf('Rebuilding %d packages\n', length(pkgs))); n <- length(pkgs); for (i in seq_along(pkgs)) { x <- pkgs[i]; cat(sprintf('[%d/%d] %s\n', i, n, x)); tryCatch(bincraft::build_binary_package(x, tag_limit = 1L, s3_endpoint = 'https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com', s3_region = 'eu-central-003', s3_bucket = 'devxy-rpkgs-binaries', s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_ACCESS_KEY'), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv('B2_S3_SECRET_KEY'), metadata_db_host = 'r-binaries.devxy.io', metadata_db_name = 'build_metadata', metadata_db_table = 'single_builds', metadata_db_user = 'rpkgs', metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv('PGPASS'), metadata_db_sslmode = 'require', metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE), error = function(e) cat(sprintf('ERROR building %s - %s\n', x, conditionMessage(e)))) }" 2>&1
     backend_options:
       kubernetes:
         resources:
diff --git a/Justfile b/Justfile
index 0c960d9..069f8c2 100644
--- a/Justfile
+++ b/Justfile
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
-# just build-all alpine 3.22 arm64 4.5.3 odbc 1
+# just build-all alpine 3.21 arm64 4.5.0 odbc 1
 build-all OS OS_VERSION ARCH R_VERSION PACKAGE NCPUS:
-  docker run --rm -it --platform linux/{{ARCH}} -v ./:/package -e AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="$HETZNER_S3_ACCESS_KEY_K3S" -e AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="$HETZNER_S3_SECRET_KEY_K3S" -e PGPASS="$PGPASS" -e NCPUS={{NCPUS}} --pull=always reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-{{OS}}:{{OS_VERSION}} bash -c '/opt/R/{{R_VERSION}}/bin/R -q -e "install.packages(\"pak\", repos = sprintf(\"https://r-lib.github.io/p/pak/stable/%s/%s/%s\", .Platform\$pkgType, R.Version()\$os, R.Version()\$arch))" && /opt/R/{{R_VERSION}}/bin/R -q -e "pak::pak(\"git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git\")" && /opt/R/{{R_VERSION}}/bin/R -q -e "bincraft::build_binary_package(\"{{PACKAGE}}\", platform = \"{{OS}}\", force=TRUE, s3_endpoint = \"https://hel1.your-objectstorage.com\", s3_region = \"hel1\", s3_bucket = \"devxy-r-package-binaries-hel1\", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv(\"HETZNER_S3_ACCESS_KEY_K3S\"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv(\"HETZNER_S3_SECRET_KEY_K3S\"), metadata_db_host = \"r-binaries.devxy.io\", metadata_db_name = \"build_metadata\", metadata_db_table = \"single_builds\", metadata_db_user = \"rpkgs\", metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv(\"PGPASS\"), metadata_db_sslmode = \"require\", metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE)"'
+  docker run --rm -it --platform linux/{{ARCH}} -v ./:/package -e AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="$HETZNER_S3_ACCESS_KEY_K3S" -e AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="$HETZNER_S3_SECRET_KEY_K3S" -e PGPASS="$PGPASS" -e NCPUS={{NCPUS}} --pull=always reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-{{OS}}:{{OS_VERSION}}-{{R_VERSION}} bash -c 'R -q -e "install.packages(\"pak\", repos = sprintf(\"https://r-lib.github.io/p/pak/stable/%s/%s/%s\", .Platform\$pkgType, R.Version()\$os, R.Version()\$arch))" && R -q -e "pak::pak(\"git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git\")" && R -q -e "bincraft::build_binary_package(\"{{PACKAGE}}\", platform = \"{{OS}}\", force=TRUE, s3_endpoint = \"https://hel1.your-objectstorage.com\", s3_region = \"hel1\", s3_bucket = \"devxy-r-package-binaries-hel1\", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv(\"HETZNER_S3_ACCESS_KEY_K3S\"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv(\"HETZNER_S3_SECRET_KEY_K3S\"), metadata_db_host = \"r-binaries.devxy.io\", metadata_db_name = \"build_metadata\", metadata_db_table = \"single_builds\", metadata_db_user = \"rpkgs\", metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv(\"PGPASS\"), metadata_db_sslmode = \"require\", metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE)"'
 
-# just build-single alpine 3.22 arm64 4.5.3 odbc 1.5.0 1
-# just build-single alpine 3.22 arm64 4.5.3 sf latest 1
-# just build-single ubuntu noble arm64 4.4.3 rlang 1.1.6 1
+# just build-single alpine 3.21 arm64 4.5.0 odbc 1.5.0 1
+# just build-single alpine 3.22 arm64 4.5.0 sf latest 1
+# just build-single ubuntu noble arm64 4.2.3 rlang 1.1.6 1
 build-single OS OS_VERSION ARCH R_VERSION PACKAGE TAG NCPUS:
-  docker run --rm -it --platform linux/{{ARCH}} -v ./:/package -e AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="$HETZNER_S3_ACCESS_KEY_K3S" -e AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="$HETZNER_S3_SECRET_KEY_K3S" -e PGPASS="$PGPASS" -e NCPUS={{NCPUS}} --pull=always reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-{{OS}}:{{OS_VERSION}} bash -c '/opt/R/{{R_VERSION}}/bin/R -q -e "install.packages(\"pak\", repos = sprintf(\"https://r-lib.github.io/p/pak/stable/%s/%s/%s\", .Platform\$pkgType, R.Version()\$os, R.Version()\$arch))" && /opt/R/{{R_VERSION}}/bin/R -q -e "pak::pak(\"git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git\")" && /opt/R/{{R_VERSION}}/bin/R -q -e "bincraft::build_binary_package(\"{{PACKAGE}}\", tag = \"{{TAG}}\", platform = \"{{OS}}\", force=TRUE, s3_endpoint = \"https://hel1.your-objectstorage.com\", s3_region = \"hel1\", s3_bucket = \"devxy-r-package-binaries-hel1\", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv(\"HETZNER_S3_ACCESS_KEY_K3S\"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv(\"HETZNER_S3_SECRET_KEY_K3S\"), metadata_db_host = \"r-binaries.devxy.io\", metadata_db_name = \"build_metadata\", metadata_db_table = \"single_builds\", metadata_db_user = \"rpkgs\", metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv(\"PGPASS\"), metadata_db_sslmode = \"require\", metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE)"'
+  docker run --rm -it --platform linux/{{ARCH}} -v ./:/package -e AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="$HETZNER_S3_ACCESS_KEY_K3S" -e AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="$HETZNER_S3_SECRET_KEY_K3S" -e PGPASS="$PGPASS" -e NCPUS={{NCPUS}} --pull=always reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-{{OS}}:{{OS_VERSION}}-{{R_VERSION}} bash -c 'R -q -e "install.packages(\"pak\", repos = sprintf(\"https://r-lib.github.io/p/pak/stable/%s/%s/%s\", .Platform\$pkgType, R.Version()\$os, R.Version()\$arch))" && R -q -e "pak::pak(\"git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git\")" && R -q -e "bincraft::build_binary_package(\"{{PACKAGE}}\", tag = \"{{TAG}}\", platform = \"{{OS}}\", force=TRUE, s3_endpoint = \"https://hel1.your-objectstorage.com\", s3_region = \"hel1\", s3_bucket = \"devxy-r-package-binaries-hel1\", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv(\"HETZNER_S3_ACCESS_KEY_K3S\"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv(\"HETZNER_S3_SECRET_KEY_K3S\"), metadata_db_host = \"r-binaries.devxy.io\", metadata_db_name = \"build_metadata\", metadata_db_table = \"single_builds\", metadata_db_user = \"rpkgs\", metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv(\"PGPASS\"), metadata_db_sslmode = \"require\", metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE)"'
 
 # just process-updates redhat 9 arm64 4.4.3 'lubridate::interval(lubridate::today() - 4, lubridate::today() - 4)'
 process-updates OS OS_VERSION ARCH R_VERSION interval:
-  docker run --rm -it --platform linux/{{ARCH}} -e AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="$HETZNER_S3_ACCESS_KEY_K3S" -e AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="$HETZNER_S3_SECRET_KEY_K3S" -e PGPASS="$PGPASS" --pull=always reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-{{OS}}:{{OS_VERSION}} /opt/R/{{R_VERSION}}/bin/R -q -e "bincraft::process_cran_updates(interval = {{interval}}, platform = \"{{OS}}\", s3_endpoint = \"https://hel1.your-objectstorage.com\", s3_region = \"hel1\", s3_bucket = \"devxy-r-package-binaries-hel1\", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv(\"HETZNER_S3_ACCESS_KEY_K3S\"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv(\"HETZNER_S3_SECRET_KEY_K3S\"), metadata_db_host = \"r-binaries.devxy.io\", metadata_db_name = \"build_metadata\", metadata_db_table = \"single_builds\", metadata_db_user = \"rpkgs\", metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv(\"PGPASS\"), metadata_db_sslmode = \"require\", metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE)"
+  docker run --rm -it --platform linux/{{ARCH}} -e AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="$HETZNER_S3_ACCESS_KEY_K3S" -e AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="$HETZNER_S3_SECRET_KEY_K3S" -e PGPASS="$PGPASS" --pull=always reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-{{OS}}:{{OS_VERSION}}-{{R_VERSION}} R -q -e "bincraft::process_cran_updates(interval = {{interval}}, platform = \"{{OS}}\", s3_endpoint = \"https://hel1.your-objectstorage.com\", s3_region = \"hel1\", s3_bucket = \"devxy-r-package-binaries-hel1\", s3_access_key_id = Sys.getenv(\"HETZNER_S3_ACCESS_KEY_K3S\"), s3_secret_access_key = Sys.getenv(\"HETZNER_S3_SECRET_KEY_K3S\"), metadata_db_host = \"r-binaries.devxy.io\", metadata_db_name = \"build_metadata\", metadata_db_table = \"single_builds\", metadata_db_user = \"rpkgs\", metadata_db_password = Sys.getenv(\"PGPASS\"), metadata_db_sslmode = \"require\", metadata_db_port = 15432, archive = TRUE, upload = TRUE, store_build_metadata = TRUE)"
diff --git a/build-all-versions-install-deps.yaml b/build-all-versions-install-deps.yaml
index afcbb58..d7c0180 100644
--- a/build-all-versions-install-deps.yaml
+++ b/build-all-versions-install-deps.yaml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 # steps:
 #   - name: 'Install common R deps'
-#     image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-${OS}:${OS_VERSION}
+#     image: reg.devxy.io/rpkgs/build-env-${OS}:${OS_VERSION}-${R_VERSION}
 #     pull: true
 #     environment:
 #       REPO_RO_TOKEN:
@@ -40,11 +40,11 @@
 #       - git clone -q https://pat-s:$$REPO_RO_TOKEN@git.devxy.io/devxy/build-cran-binaries.git .
 #       - mkdir -p /mnt/cache/R-pkgs
 #       - rm -rf /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/00LOCK-* /mnt/cache/R-pkgs/bincraft /mnt/cache/pkgcache
-#       - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'install.packages("pak", repos = sprintf("https://r-lib.github.io/p/pak/stable/%s/%s/%s", .Platform$pkgType, R.Version()$os, R.Version()$arch))'
-#       - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git", dependencies = TRUE)'
-#       - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
-#       # - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e "future::plan('multisession', workers = 6L); pkgs = bincraft::query_packages_without_historic_versions('alpine322', 'amd64'); saveRDS(pkgs, '/mnt/cache/pkgs_amd64.rds')"
-#       - /opt/R/${R_VERSION}/bin/R -q -e "future::plan('multisession', workers = 6L); pkgs = bincraft::query_packages_without_historic_versions('alpine323', 'arm64'); saveRDS(pkgs, '/mnt/cache/pkgs_arm64.rds')"
+#       - R -q -e 'install.packages("pak", repos = sprintf("https://r-lib.github.io/p/pak/stable/%s/%s/%s", .Platform$pkgType, R.Version()$os, R.Version()$arch))'
+#       - R -q -e 'pak::pak("git::https://codefloe.com/rpkgs/bincraft.git", dependencies = TRUE)'
+#       - R -q -e 'packageVersion("bincraft")'
+#       # - R -q -e "future::plan('multisession', workers = 6L); pkgs = bincraft::query_packages_without_historic_versions('alpine322', 'amd64'); saveRDS(pkgs, '/mnt/cache/pkgs_amd64.rds')"
+#       - R -q -e "future::plan('multisession', workers = 6L); pkgs = bincraft::query_packages_without_historic_versions('alpine323', 'arm64'); saveRDS(pkgs, '/mnt/cache/pkgs_arm64.rds')"
 #     backend_options:
 #       kubernetes:
 #         resources: