diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index ac67b4c8..65e549f1 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -23,3 +23,5 @@
 ^\.github/workflows/pkgdown\.yaml$
 ^\.github/workflows/pr-commands\.yaml$
 ^CRAN-SUBMISSION$
+^compile_commands\.json$
+^\.cache$
diff --git a/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml b/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml
index ee65ccb5..e712a216 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ on:
 
 name: R-CMD-check
 
+permissions: read-all
+
 jobs:
   R-CMD-check:
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.config.os }}
@@ -25,24 +27,22 @@ jobs:
           - {os: macos-latest,   r: 'release'}
 
           - {os: windows-latest, r: 'release'}
-          # Use 3.6 to trigger usage of RTools35
-          - {os: windows-latest, r: '3.6'}
           # use 4.1 to check with rtools40's older compiler
           - {os: windows-latest, r: '4.1'}
 
-          - {os: ubuntu-latest,   r: 'devel', http-user-agent: 'release'}
-          - {os: ubuntu-latest,   r: 'release'}
-          - {os: ubuntu-latest,   r: 'oldrel-1'}
-          - {os: ubuntu-latest,   r: 'oldrel-2'}
-          - {os: ubuntu-latest,   r: 'oldrel-3'}
-          - {os: ubuntu-latest,   r: 'oldrel-4'}
+          - {os: ubuntu-latest,  r: 'devel', http-user-agent: 'release'}
+          - {os: ubuntu-latest,  r: 'release'}
+          - {os: ubuntu-latest,  r: 'oldrel-1'}
+          - {os: ubuntu-latest,  r: 'oldrel-2'}
+          - {os: ubuntu-latest,  r: 'oldrel-3'}
+          - {os: ubuntu-latest,  r: 'oldrel-4'}
 
     env:
       GITHUB_PAT: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
       R_KEEP_PKG_SOURCE: yes
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-pandoc@v2
 
@@ -60,3 +60,4 @@ jobs:
       - uses: r-lib/actions/check-r-package@v2
         with:
           upload-snapshots: true
+          build_args: 'c("--no-manual","--compact-vignettes=gs+qpdf")'
diff --git a/.github/workflows/pkgdown.yaml b/.github/workflows/pkgdown.yaml
index ed7650c7..c9f0165d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pkgdown.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pkgdown.yaml
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ on:
 
 name: pkgdown
 
+permissions: read-all
+
 jobs:
   pkgdown:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
@@ -22,7 +24,7 @@ jobs:
     permissions:
       contents: write
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-pandoc@v2
 
@@ -41,7 +43,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Deploy to GitHub pages 🚀
         if: github.event_name != 'pull_request'
-        uses: JamesIves/github-pages-deploy-action@v4.4.1
+        uses: JamesIves/github-pages-deploy-action@v4.5.0
         with:
           clean: false
           branch: gh-pages
diff --git a/.github/workflows/pr-commands.yaml b/.github/workflows/pr-commands.yaml
index 71f335b3..d1f76509 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pr-commands.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pr-commands.yaml
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ on:
 
 name: Commands
 
+permissions: read-all
+
 jobs:
   document:
     if: ${{ github.event.issue.pull_request && (github.event.comment.author_association == 'MEMBER' || github.event.comment.author_association == 'OWNER') && startsWith(github.event.comment.body, '/document') }}
@@ -14,7 +16,7 @@ jobs:
     env:
       GITHUB_PAT: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - uses: r-lib/actions/pr-fetch@v2
         with:
@@ -51,7 +53,7 @@ jobs:
     env:
       GITHUB_PAT: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - uses: r-lib/actions/pr-fetch@v2
         with:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/test-coverage.yaml b/.github/workflows/test-coverage.yaml
index 27d45283..fefc52e2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test-coverage.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test-coverage.yaml
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ on:
 
 name: test-coverage
 
+permissions: read-all
+
 jobs:
   test-coverage:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
@@ -15,7 +17,7 @@ jobs:
       GITHUB_PAT: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r@v2
         with:
@@ -23,28 +25,37 @@ jobs:
 
       - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r-dependencies@v2
         with:
-          extra-packages: any::covr
+          extra-packages: any::covr, any::xml2
           needs: coverage
 
       - name: Test coverage
         run: |
-          covr::codecov(
+          cov <- covr::package_coverage(
             quiet = FALSE,
             clean = FALSE,
             install_path = file.path(normalizePath(Sys.getenv("RUNNER_TEMP"), winslash = "/"), "package")
           )
+          covr::to_cobertura(cov)
         shell: Rscript {0}
 
+      - uses: codecov/codecov-action@v4
+        with:
+          fail_ci_if_error: ${{ github.event_name != 'pull_request' && true || false }}
+          file: ./cobertura.xml
+          plugin: noop
+          disable_search: true
+          token: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
+
       - name: Show testthat output
         if: always()
         run: |
           ## --------------------------------------------------------------------
-          find ${{ runner.temp }}/package -name 'testthat.Rout*' -exec cat '{}' \; || true
+          find '${{ runner.temp }}/package' -name 'testthat.Rout*' -exec cat '{}' \; || true
         shell: bash
 
       - name: Upload test results
         if: failure()
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
         with:
           name: coverage-test-failures
           path: ${{ runner.temp }}/package
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index bec6215c..f4aa53ee 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -7,3 +7,5 @@ revdep/library
 TAGS
 .httr-oauth
 docs
+compile_commands.json
+.cache
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 4fa416db..4b0a7f7d 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ LinkingTo:
 VignetteBuilder: 
     knitr
 Biarch: true
-Config/Needs/website:tidyverse/tidytemplate, tidyr
+Config/build/compilation-database: true
+Config/Needs/website: tidyverse/tidytemplate, tidyr
 Config/testthat/edition: 3
 Encoding: UTF-8
 Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)