This file records noteworthy changes.
-0.8.1 (15 April 2001)
+1.5.7 (29 March 2010)
+* Fixed a bug in the GCD code (infinite loop in pgcd()).
+* Fixed a bug in atan2() (division by zero error for atan2(x,0) if x is a
+ negative and composite term).
+* Products now correctly set info_flags::negative and info_flags::negint.
+
+1.5.6 (28 January 2010)
+* Fixed compile problem with gcc 3.4.
+* Improved excompiler: The ginac-excompiler script will only be installed if
+ excompiler is supported and enabled.
+
+1.5.5 (04 November 2009)
+* Correct libtool versioning.
+
+1.5.4 (02 November 2009)
+* Default parser now can again read in user defined classes.
+* Add mul::info() and add::info() support for numeric info_flags (GiNaC now can
+ detect that the sum or product of a number of positive expressions is again a
+ positive expression).
+* Fixed cast that caused compile error on 64bit machines.
+* Fixed incorrect uses of STL iterators.
+* Removed subdirectory debian.
+* Output LaTeX-symbols using \mathrm, instead of \mbox.
+
+1.5.3 (30 July 2009)
+* The parser now understands user-defined functions by default. The identifier
+ names can now contain underscores.
+
+1.5.2 (10 July 2009)
+* Fixed documentation of return_type_info()
+* Fixed cstdio include issue.
+* GiNaC now requires at least version 1.2.2 of cln.
+
+1.5.1 (25 February 2009)
+* Fixed compiling problems with GNU g++ 3.4.
+* Work around weird C++ RTTI behaviour on woe32 so GiNaC works on MinGW again.
+
+1.5.0 (17 February 2009)
+* Added polynomial factorization.
+* New, faster (recursive descent) expression parser.
+* Faster GCD computation.
+* gcd() now allows the user to override (some of the) heuristics.
+* Writing extensions classes is simpler now:
+ - Replaced custom RTTI by standard C++ RTTI.
+ - Definition of archiving methods now optional when declaring a new GiNaC class.
+* Fixed recursion in polynomial divide that caused a significant slowdown in
+ sqrfree().
+* Improved lsolve() of systems containing non-numeric coefficients.
+* Removed implicit conversions from cl_N to numeric.
+* Improved configuration and compatibility.
+
+1.4.4 (7 Nov 2008)
+* 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().
+* Fixed bug in power::is_polynomial.
+* Improved heur_gcd() so it can handle rational polynomials.
+* Improved build scripts.
+
+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)
+* 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
+ of a polynomial in one go.
+* binomial(n, k) evaluates for non-integer arguments n.
+* Li(2,x) now evaluates for +-I.
+* Optimized Li(2,x).
+* Fixed bug in Li(n,x) (if Li(2,x) was calculated with high precision the
+ enlargement of the look-up table caused a segmentation fault).
+* Fixed another bug in the series expansion of powers, and a bug in
+ power::info().
+
+1.2.3 (13 August 2004)
+* Added variants of dirac_trace() and color_trace() that take the trace over
+ more than one representation label by specifying a set or list of labels.
+* diracgamma::contract_with() uses Chisholm identities in 4 dimensions to
+ produce more compact results.
+* Fixed a bug in the series expansion of powers.
+* The --enable-html-doc and --enable-ps-doc configure options are gone.
+ Documentation in HTML, DVI, PostScript, and PDF formats is now built with
+ "make html", "make dvi", "make ps", and "make pdf", respectively. The only
+ documentation that gets built by default are the tutorial in .info format
+ and the manpages.
+
+1.2.2 (3 August 2004)
+* Added const_preorder_iterator and const_postorder_iterator classes (and
+ associated methods ex::pre/postorder_begin/end()) providing tree traversal
+ with iterators.
+* Fixed the LaTeX output of the varidx class.
+* Fixed bugs in series expansion and complex conjugation.
+* (p.i*p.i).get_free_indices() returns the correct result () instead of (.i).
+* Symbolic functions without any eval(), evalf() etc. functions now work
+ properly.
+* integer_content(), content(), and primpart() now also work for polynomials
+ with rational coefficients (calculating the LCM of coefficients'
+ denominators).
+* Added method matrix::rank().
+* Added function resultant().
+* Added integer_content() function to ginsh.
+
+1.2.1 (23 April 2004)
+* Fixed infinite recursion in atan2_evalf() and improved atan2_eval().
+* Added automatic evaluations for trigonometric functions with negative
+ arguments (e.g. sin(-2) -> -sin(2)).
+* Fixed a static initialization order goof-up.
+* Fixed various bugs in series expansion.
+
+1.2.0 (19 March 2004)
+* Added a structure<T> template class for the easy creation of user-defined
+ algebraic classes.
+* Added support for (acyclic) visitors, to allow cleaner implementations of
+ algebraic algorithms.
+* Added a const_iterator class that can be used instead of op()/nops().
+* Completely revamped the implementation of expression output. It is now
+ possible to add new output formats, to change the behavior of predefined
+ formats at run-time, and to have different output styles for algebraic
+ functions.
+* Symbols can be made non-commutative.
+* Added a method ex::conjugate() and a function conjugate() for complex
+ conjugation. Symbols can be declared as real or complex-valued.
+* Improved the speed of subs(), normal(), to_rational() and to_polynomial()
+ by the use of maps instead of lists. The old forms
+ subs(const lst & ls, const lst & lr, unsigned options)
+ to_rational/to_polynomial(lst & repl)
+ are still available for compatibility, but using the new forms
+ subs(const exmap & m, unsigned options)
+ to_rational/to_polynomial(exmap & repl)
+ is more efficient, especially when the number of replacements is large.
+* quo(), rem(), prem(), sprem(), decomp_rational(), unit(), content(),
+ primpart() and matrix::charpoly() now take a "const ex &" instead of a
+ "const symbol &".
+* Redundant expressions (two ex pointing to different objects are found to be
+ equal in compare()) are now actively deleted/fused to conserve memory and
+ speed up subsequent comparisons. This behavior can be suppressed on a
+ per-object level with status_flags::not_shareable. Lists and matrices are
+ not shareable by default.
+* Lots of internal streamlining and optimizations.
+* Caveats for class implementors:
+ - basic::copy() and basic::destroy() are gone; classes derived from
+ basic can use the defaults for the assignment operator and copy
+ constructor.
+ - basic::subs(), basic::normal(), basic::to_rational() and
+ basic::to_polynomial() take 'exmap' objects instead of lists.
+ - basic::subs() now descends into subexpressions (if accessible via
+ nops()/op()/let_op()). If you have a custom implementation of subs()
+ that calls basic::subs() after substituting subexpressions, this needs
+ to be changed to a call to subs_one_level().
+ - lst::thislst() and exprseq::thisexprseq() renamed to thiscontainer().
+ - thiscontainer() and associated constructors now take a std::auto_ptr.
+ - Overloading basic::print() is now deprecated. You should use
+ print_func<>() class options instead.
+
+1.1.7 (11 March 2004)
+* Fixed a bug in canonicalize_clifford().
+* Series expansion now works predictably. All terms with the exponent of the
+ expansion variable smaller than the given order are calculated exactly. If
+ the series is not terminating, the Order function is (at least) of the given
+ order.
+
+1.1.6 (22 January 2004)
+* Added a function option "dummy()" which means "no options". This simplifies
+ the implementation of symbolic functions which are not to be further
+ evaluated.
+* Removed a bug in the numerical evaluation of Li() that caused the system
+ to hang for certain parameter combinations.
+* Fixed a bug in the calculation of hash values for indices that could lead
+ to wrong results or bogus error messages from simplify_indexed().
+* Fixed a bug in the evaluation of harmonic polylogarithms for complex
+ arguments with positive imaginary part.
+
+1.1.5 (5 November 2003)
+* Harmonic polylogarithms now numerically evaluate for arbitrary arguments
+ (parameter must still be positive integers).
+* The zeta function now can also be given a lst as a parameter in which case
+ it becomes a multiple zeta value. The use of mZeta is deprecated.
+* The order of parameters for the multiple polylogarithm has been corrected.
+* Documentation for the nested sums functions zeta, harmonic polylog, multiple
+ polylog, etc. has been added.
+
+1.1.4 (17 October 2003)
+* Lists and matrices can now be initialized from comma-separated lists of
+ expressions, like this:
+
+ lst l;
+ l = x, 2, y, x+y;
+
+ matrix M(3, 3);
+ M = x, y, 0,
+ -y, x, 0,
+ 0, 0, 1;
+
+ This is both faster and produces much smaller code than the old constructors
+ lst(ex, ex, ...) and matrix(unsigned, unsigned, lst), especially in the case
+ of matrices, and is now the recommended way to create these objects.
+* The function mZeta now evaluates much faster for arbitrary parameters. The
+ harmonic and multiple polylogarithms evaluate considerably faster and check
+ for convergence. The order of parameters for the harmonic polylogarithm
+ has been corrected.
+
+1.1.3 (22 August 2003)
+* Added new symbolic functions for better integration with nestedsums:
+ (multiple) polylogarithm Li(), Nielsen's generalized polylogarithm S(),
+ harmonic polylogarithm H(), and multiple zeta value mZeta().
+* New exhashmap<T> template intended as a drop-in replacement for
+ std::map<ex, T, ex_is_less> using GiNaC's hashing algorithms.
+
+1.1.2 (11 August 2003)
+* Fixed a bug in the unarchiving of sums and products: terms were not
+ reordered in a canonical way.
+* Fixed a bug in normal()/numer_denom(): denominator was not made unit
+ normal if it was a simple number.
+* Improved the speed of subs() in some cases.
+
+1.1.1 (18 June 2003)
+* lst (and exprseq) provide iterators for read-only element access. For
+ sequential access this is one order faster than using op().
+* Implemented relational::subs() (this was done in 1.0.9 but inadvertently
+ omitted from the 1.1 branch).
+* pole_error and do_taylor are available to library users.
+* Added on-line help and Tab-completion for print(), iprint(), print_latex()
+ and print_csrc() in ginsh.
+
+1.1.0 (3 April 2003)
+* Removed deprecated macros is_ex_a, is_ex_exactly_a and friends for good.
+* The scalar_products mechanism allows the specification of an index dimension.
+* Removed dirac_gamma6/7().
+* Added ex::to_polynomial().
+* subs() accepts an optional "options" argument. The option
+ subs_option::subs_algebraic enables "smart" substitutions in products and
+ powers.
+* Added stream manipulators "dflt", "latex", "python", "python_repr", "tree",
+ "csrc", "csrc_float", "csrc_double", "csrc_cl_N", "index_dimensions" and
+ "no_index_dimensions" to control the output format. Calling basic::print()
+ directly is now deprecated.
+* Made the hashing more simple and efficient.
+* Caveats for class implementors:
+ - basic::subs(): third argument changed from "bool" to "unsigned"
+ - unarchiving constructor and basic::unarchive(): "const" removed from
+ second argument
+ - basic::let_op() should only be implemented if write access to
+ subexpressions is desired
+ - simplify_ncmul() renamed to eval_ncmul()
+ - simplified_ncmul() renamed to hold_ncmul()
+ - nonsimplified_ncmul() renamed to reeval_ncmul()
+
+1.0.14 (1 March 2003)
+* Improved the C-source output: complex numbers are printed correctly (using
+ the STL complex<> template or cln::complex()), rational numbers use cl_RA()
+ in the CLN output, and small integers are printed in a more compact format
+ (e.g. "2.0" instead of "2.0000000e+00").
+* function_options::set_return_type() and function_options::do_not_evalf_params()
+ now actually work.
+
+1.0.13 (27 January 2003)
+* Contracting epsilon tensors with Euclidean indices now works.
+* Improved dummy index symmetrization in sums.
+* Added dirac_gammaL/R(), which can be used instead of dirac_gamma6/7()
+ but are single objects, to allow for a more compact notation of Dirac
+ strings.
+* Powers with negative numeric exponents are printed as fractions in the
+ LaTeX output.
+* Added symbolic_matrix() for the convenient creation of matrices filled
+ with symbols.
+* Added collect_common_factors() which collects common factors from the
+ terms of sums.
+* simplify_indexed() converts "gamma~mu*p.mu" to "p\".
+
+1.0.12 (30 October 2002)
+* Fixed a bug in power::expand() that could produce invalid expressions.
+* The input parser no longer ignores extra data following accepted input.
+* Improved the CLN C-source output (integers are printed as integers, and
+ floating point numbers include the precision).
+* Fixed a problem in the LaTeX-output of negative fractions.
+* Added print_latex() and print_csrc() to ginsh.
+* The sprem() function is now public.
+
+1.0.11 (18 September 2002)
+* Fixed a possible memory corruption in contractions of indexed objects with
+ delta or metric tensors.
+* Computing the derivative of a power series object with respect to a symbol
+ that is not the expansion variable now works correctly.
+* Several bugfixes in code generation.
+
+1.0.10 (24 July 2002)
+* Powers of indexed objects are now parenthesized correctly in LaTeX output.
+* Input parser handles indices (they have to be specified in the same list
+ as the symbols).
+* Added some limited support for subspaces in the idx and tensor classes.
+* Fixed a bug in canonicalize() (antisymmetric canonicalization of an already
+ sorted list containing two or more equal objects failed to return 0).
+
+1.0.9 (11 June 2002)
+* simplify_indexed() now raises/lowers dummy indices to canonicalize the index
+ variance. This allows some simplifications that weren't possible before,
+ like eps~a.b~c~d*X.a*X~b -> 0 and X.a~a-X~a.a -> 0.
+* Implemented relational::subs().
+* Fixed bug in simplify_ncmul() for clifford objects.
+
+1.0.8 (31 March 2002)
+* Improvements in memory usage of the expand() methods.
+
+1.0.7 (18 March 2002)
+* Fixed LaTeX output of indexed and matrix objects.
+* Fixed matrix::pow(n) for n==0 and added helper functions to create unit
+ matrices "ex unit_matrix(unsigned, unsigned)".
+
+1.0.6 (4 March 2002)
+* "(x+1).subs(x==x-1)" now returns the correct result "x" instead of "x-1".
+
+1.0.5 (27 January 2002)
+* (l)degree(s), coeff(s, n) and collect(s) were extended to accept expressions
+ of any class (except add/mul/ncmul/numeric) for "s". They should even work
+ if "s" is a "power" object, as long as the exponent is non-integer, but with
+ some limitations. For example, you can "collect(a*2^x+b*2^x, 2^x)" to get
+ "(a+b)*2^x", but "degree(2^(3*x), 2^x)" yields 0 instead of 3).
+* Fixed a small output bug.
+
+1.0.4 (24 January 2002)
+* Speedup in expand().
+* Faster Bernoulli numbers (Markus Nullmeier).
+* Some minor bugfixes and documentation updates.
+
+1.0.3 (21 December 2001)
+* Fixed a bug where quo() would call vector::reserve() with a negative
+ argument.
+* Fix several bugs in code generation.
+
+1.0.2 (19 December 2001)
+* Input parser recognizes "sqrt()", which is also used in the output.
+* divide(a,b,q) only modifies q if the division succeeds; also, divide(a,b,a)
+ works now.
+* Fixed small bug in dummy index renaming which could cause it to not
+ recognize renamable indices in some cases.
+* power::degree() and power::ldegree() throw an exception when encountering
+ a non-integer exponent.
+* Add output-support for Python bindings.
+
+1.0.1 (22 November 2001)
+* Function sqrfree() handles a few more cases now.
+* Class relational has real canonical ordering now.
+* Handle obscene libreadline version numbers when building ginsh.
+
+1.0.0 (6 November 2001)
+* Some internal reorganization resulting in a general speed-up.
+* The last 3 evaluated expressions in ginsh are now referred to with the
+ tokens '%', '%%' and '%%%'. The old '"', '""' and '"""' remain for
+ compatibility but may be removed in a future version of GiNaC.
+
+0.9.4 (20 September 2001)
+* Functions have better support for external scripting languages.
+* Interface cleanups and bugfixes.
+* Fix silly bug in evalf() that prevented things like 2^Pi being computed.
+
+0.9.3 (16 August 2001)
+* series expansion now much more consistent for small order expansion.
+* lsolve() accepts algorithmic hint as parameter.
+
+0.9.2 (31 July 2001)
+* Epsilon tensor is more functional.
+* simplify_indexed() is better at detecting expressions that vanish for
+ symmetry reasons.
+* Several little bugfixes and consistency enhancements.
+
+0.9.1 (27 June 2001)
+* Ctors of class numeric are not explicit any more. All built-in callers for
+ pseudofunctions are now templated and default to ex arguments which relaxes
+ the need for explicit ctors.
+* New functions/methods:
+ - find()
+ - remove_first(), remove_last(), sort() and unique() for lists
+ - symmetrize_cyclic()
+ - decomp_rational()
+* Instead of just totally symmetric or antisymmetric, complex symmetries
+ can now be defined for indexed objects. Symmetries are described by a
+ tree of "symmetry" objects that is constructed with the sy_none(),
+ sy_symm(), sy_anti() and sy_cycl() functions. The symmetry of a function
+ with respect to its arguments can also be defined (this is currently
+ only used for the Beta function).
+* Generalized map() to take a function object instead of a function pointer.
+ This allows passing an arbitrary number of additional state to the
+ function being called.
+* color_trace(), dirac_trace(), diff(), expand(), evalf() and normal() work
+ better with container classes, e.g. using color_trace() on a relation will
+ take the trace on both sides, using diff() on a matrix differentiates every
+ element etc.
+* diff() works properly with non-commutative products and indexed objects.
+* New option flag "expand_function_args" for expand().
+* Supplement some (now deprecated) macros by inlined template functions:
+ - is_of_type(foo, type) -> is_a<type>(foo)
+ - is_ex_of_type(foo, type) -> is_a<type>(foo)
+ - is_exactly_of_type(foo, type) -> is_exactly_a<type>(foo)
+ - is_ex_exactly_of_type(foo, type) -> is_exactly_a<type>(foo)
+ - ex_to_foobar(baz) -> ex_to<foobar>(baz)
+* rem(c, p[x], x) (c: numeric, p[x]: polynomial) erroneously returned p[x]
+ instead of c.
+* Small bugfixes in pattern matching.
+* Updated libtool to version 1.4.
+
+0.9.0 (7 June 2001)
+* In the output and in ginsh, lists are now delimited by { } braces, and
+ matrices are delimited by single [ ] brackets.
+* simplify_indexed() renames dummy indices so, e.g., "a.i*a.i+a.j*a.j" gets
+ simplified to "2*a.i*a.i" (or "2*a.j*a.j").
+* New functions/methods:
+ - canonicalize_clifford() (helpful when comparing expressions containing
+ Dirac matrices)
+ - symmetrize() and antisymmetrize()
+ - numer_denom() (return numerator and denominator in one call)
+ - map() (apply function to subexpressions)
+ - evalm() (evaluate sums, products and integer powers of matrices)
+* Added a new function match() for performing pattern matching. subs() and
+ has() also accept patterns as arguments. A pattern can be any expression,
+ optionally containing wildcard objects. These are constructed with the
+ call "wild(<unsigned>)" and are denoted as "$0", "$1" etc. in the output
+ and in ginsh.
+* Positive integer powers of non-commutative expressions (except matrices)
+ are automatically expanded.
+* Removed cint subdirectory, ginaccint is a separate package now due to
+ packaging considerations.
+* Several little bugfixes.
+
+0.8.3 (11 May 2001)
+* color and clifford classes are functional and documented.
+* New "spinidx" class for dotted/undotted indices.
+* Predefined spinor metric tensor (created by spinor_metric()).
+* Symbols can have a LaTeX name, e.g. symbol s("s", "\\sigma");
+* LaTeX output of indexed objects is much nicer.
+* Fixed some build problems (with recent libreadline).
+* Semantics of arithmetic operators now follows the C++ rules more strictly.
+
+0.8.2 (24 April 2001)
+* degree(), ldegree(), coeff(), lcoeff(), tcoeff() and collect() work with
+ non-symbols as the second argument in ginsh.
+* the argument to collect() can be a list of objects in which case the
+ result is either a recursively collected polynomial, or a polynomial in
+ a distributed form with terms like coeff*x1^e1*...*xn^en, as specified by
+ the second argument to collect().
+* Several bugfixes (including a nasty memory leak in .normal()).
+* class matrix: solve() doesn't call algorithms redundantly any more and
+ inverse() falls back to solve() which works in more general cases.
+
+0.8.1 (16 April 2001)
* degree(), ldegree(), coeff(), lcoeff(), tcoeff() and collect() can now
be used with constants, functions and indexed expressions as well, so you
can use it to collect by powers of Pi or sin(x), or to find the coefficient
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