This file records noteworthy changes.
+1.5.0 (<date>)
+* Added polynomial factorization.
+* Added an additional (recursive descent) expression parser.
+* gcd now allows the user to override (some of the) heuristics.
+* Improved lsolve() of systems containing non-numeric coefficients.
+* Removed implicit conversions from cl_N to numeric.
+
+1.4.4 (<DATE>)
+* Fixed a bug in the multiple polylogarithms Li/G that caused imaginary parts
+ of the arguments to be ignored.
+* Fixed archiving of complex numbers.
+* Made the behaviour of class function more consistent with respect to
+ ncmul::eval().
+* Improved heur_gcd() so it can handle rational polynomials.
+
+1.4.3 (04 April 2008)
+* Fixed bug in numerical evaluation of multiple polylogarithms and
+ alternating multiple zeta values introduced in version 1.4.2.
+* Nielsen polylog now invalidates its lookup tables in case the precision
+ (Digits) has been changed.
+* Added new checks for recent bugs in the numerical evaluation of Li and zeta.
+
+1.4.2 (03 April 2008)
+* Fixed VPATH building of documentation.
+* Fixed bug in numerical evaluation of multiple polylogarithms for arguments
+ equal to certain roots of unity (thanks to Jianqiang Zhao).
+* Fixed check for memory leakage in parser.
+* Made internal function coerce() standard compliant.
+* Improved lsolve() of systems containing non-numeric coefficients.
+* Improved automatic test programs. Now they work on MinGW and Cygwin as well.
+
+1.4.1 (21 November 2007)
+* Fixed memory leak in ginac_yylex().
+* Fixed memory leaks in mul::eval() and power::eval().
+* Fixed macro checking for version of libreadline (Mac OS X).
+* Fixed broken preprocessor instruction in excompiler.cpp.
+* Fixed broken module loading in excompiler.cpp.
+* info(info_flags::has_indices) now works for sums and products.
+* Improved mul::expand().
+* Improved CLN output.
+
+1.4.0 (31 August 2007)
+* New tinfo mechanism.
+* Removed rtt from class symbol.
+* Faster archiving by adding a map from strings to indices in the atoms vector.
+* Improved unarchiving: algorithms order N instead of order N^2.
+* Added compile function, excompiler class.
+* Added exset type.
+* Added step function to GiNaCs built-in functions.
+* Added is_polynomial() method.
+* Added real_part() and imag_part() methods.
+* Added matrix::is_zero_matrix() method.
+* Added evalm() method to pseries class.
+* Improved dummy index renaming.
+* Many improvements for class clifford.
+* New flag for positive symbols/numbers, added possymbol class.
+* Added programming examples in doc/examples
+
+1.3.8 (28 August 2007)
+* Drop support of ginac-config and ginac.m4. Please use pkg-config instead.
+* atan2(y,x) branch cut correction.
+* Fixed bug in series expansion.
+* Additional transformations for mul and power.
+* Clifford units now honor representation labels.
+* Correct csrc output for idx and fderivative.
+* Improved handling of convergence transformationis for Li/G.
+* Fix compilation issues with prereleases of GCC 4.3.
+* info_flags::expanded added.
+* input_parser also accepts pow().
+* texinfo.tex removed from package.
+
+1.3.7 (05 February 2007)
+* Fixed bug in expansion of power.
+* Fixed bugs in functions S() (infinite loop), H() and zeta() (wrong results).
+* Rebuilt bison related files with bison version 2.3 (fixes parse error bugs).
+* Improved power::eval().
+* Improved libreadline detection.
+
+1.3.6 (13 December 2006)
+* Better worst case behavior in heuristic gcd.
+* Improved collecting for sparse multivariate polynomials.
+* Improved collect_common_factors.
+* Fixed bug in numerical evaluation of multiple polylogs.
+* Fixed numerical integration of complex functions.
+* Fixed bug in tensor::replace_contr_index().
+
+1.3.5 (17 August 2006)
+* Re-built bison related files that caused bugs with gcc 4.
+* Fixed bugs in fderivative::match_same_type(), expairseq::match(),
+ expand_dummy_sum(), and expairseq::map().
+* Fixed template specialization for class container to be gcc 4.2 compliant.
+* Output in csrc mode is now -x instead of -1.0*x.
+* Fixed tutorial and reference generation in html/pdf/ps format.
+* Modified autotool configuration to allow for compilation on MinGW.
+* Debian packaging files updated.
+
+1.3.4 (12 April 2006)
+* More general index dimensions are now possible.
+* Improved algebraic substitutions.
+* Fixed wrong matching in .has().
+* Fixed bug in differentiation of a power.
+* collect_common_factors also works with negative powers of common factors now.
+* Code clean-up and preparations for upcoming cln 1.2.
+
+1.3.3 (24 October 2005)
+* Fixed bug occuring in algebraic substitutions with expressions involving
+ indices.
+* Fixed bug that selected the wrong algorithm for determinants of purely
+ numeric matrices with at least one floating point element.
+* Fixed bug in function H that caused an infinite recursion for arguments
+ around +-I.
+* Fixed const-correctness in printing handler for GCC 4.0.2.
+* Made lookup in adaptivesimpson precision-aware.
+* Added series expansion for functions (classical) Li and S around x==0.
+* Added fsolve() numerical univariate real-valued function solver.
+* Added functions sub_matrix() and reduced_matrix().
+* Small cleanups. Less warnings with latest GCC.
+
+1.3.2 (10 July 2005)
+* GCD avoids to produce expanded expressions.
+* Fixed bug in expanding expressions containing dummy indices.
+* Fixed static initialization order bug.
+* collect_common_factors now works with powers.
+* Modernized configuration scripts.
+
+1.3.1 (04 May 2005)
+* integral() and eval_integ() can be used from ginsh.
+* Integrals can be series-expanded.
+* Fixed a library initialization problem.
+* GiNaC compiles from tarball even if lex/flex is missing.
+* Fixed bugs in canonicalize_clifford(), clifford_prime() and clifford_to_lst().
+* clifford_moebius_map(), remove_dirac_ONE() and LaTeX output of Clifford
+ objects now care about representation labels.
+* Fixed bug in gcd.
+* Better output for slashed expressions
+
1.3.0 (19 October 2004)
-* Clifford algebra has been generalized (V. Kisil).
-* Symbolic integration class added (C. Dams).
-* The multiple polylogarithm Li now evaluates numerically for arbitrary arguments.
-* New function G added (another notation for a multiple polylogarithm).
+* The Clifford classes have been generalized to allow working with Clifford
+ algebras generated by arbitrary symmetric tensors or matrices. Also, a lot
+ of new functions for Clifford algebras have been added, including
+ automorphisms and Moebius transformations. [V. Kisil]
+* Added some basic symbolic and numeric integration facilities. [C. Dams]
+* The multiple polylogarithm Li() now evaluates numerically for arbitrary
+ arguments.
+* New functions G(a,y) and G(a,s,y) added (another notation for multiple
+ polylogarithms).
1.2.4 (12 October 2004)
* Added ex::unitcontprim() to compute the unit, content, and primitive parts
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