- Completely restructured the checks in subdir check/.

[ginac.git] / NEWS

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 This file records noteworthy changes.
 
-0.4.0 (26 November 1999)
-* First public release.
+0.5.4 (?? 2000)
+* Algorithms in class matrix (determinant and solve) were replaced by
+  less brain-dead ones and should now have much better performance.
+* Checks were reorganized and split up into three parts:
+  a) exams (small tests with predefined input)
+  b) checks (lenghty consistency checks)
+  c) timings (for crude benchmarking)
+
+0.5.3 (23 February 2000)
+* A more flexible scheme for registering functions was implemented,
+  allowing for remembering, too.
+* Some Bugfixes.
+
+0.5.2 (16 February 2000)
+* Mainly fixes a bug in the packaging of release 0.5.1.
+
+0.5.1 (14 February 2000)
+* Fixes a small number of bugs.
+
+0.5.0 (7 February 2000)
+* Expressions can be written ("archived") to files and read therefrom.
+* Addition of GiNaC-cint, which lets you write complete programs in
+  an interactive shell-like manner in your favoured programming
+  language (i.e. C++).
 
 0.4.1 (13 December 1999)
 * Series Expansion of Gamma function and some other trigonometric
@@ -13,8 +35,5 @@ This file records noteworthy changes.
   info_flags::integer and -::cinteger work similarly, the same
   holds for types like info_flags::rational_polynomial.
 
-0.5.0 (7 February 2000)
-* Expressions can be written ("archived") to files and read therefrom.
-* Addition of GiNaC-cint, which lets you write complete programs in
-  an interactive shell-like manner in your favoured programming
-  language (C++).
+0.4.0 (26 November 1999)
+* First public release.