• predict(, OOB = TRUE) in party < 1.2-0 was _correct_ and version 1.2-0 to 1.2-2 contained in incorrect "correction". The test set error and the out-of-bag error are now (again) roughly equal. There won't be any correlation between observations and out-of-bag predictions when the response is independent to all explanatory variables. Out-of-bag predictions in package partykit (>= 2.0-0) are now based on the same out-of-bag weights and the results from both packages are roughly equivalent. The issue was first spotted by Julian Karch and later by Andrew Sage.
• comment on false alarms by maacheck / bcheck (email by Tomas Kalibera April 10, 2017) in party/src/*c