X-Git-Url: https://www.ginac.de/ginac.git//ginac.git?p=ginac.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=a312179c66aa341724243f7429f2f422ff54a430;hp=0489cb5b66b7aa5ba56633b3ba59c5f9a794d511;hb=383d5eb3b0f0506810d9105a268f939125bfc347;hpb=6de869e3c497de0a136c2905b2dcc248d1e7b7fb;ds=inline diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0489cb5b..a312179c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,50 @@ This file records noteworthy changes. +0.7.1 (--date--) +* Fix problems with Cint that were caused by CLN's overloaded operator new. +* Fix compilation errors with GCC3. + +0.7.0 (15 December 2000) +* Requires CLN 1.1 now. Class numeric doesn't use an indirect pointer to the + actual representation any more. This is a speedup. +* mul::expand() was reengineered to not allocate temporary excess memory. +* Non-integer powers of a symbol are treated as constants by (l)degree() and + coeff(). Using these functions on an expression containing such powers used + to fail with an internal error message. The side-effect is that collect() + can be used on expressions which are not polynomials. +* Added a man page for the ginac-config script. +* Ctor of numeric from char* honors Digits. + +0.6.4 (10 August 2000) +* Complete revamp of methods in class matrix. Some redundant (and poor) + implementations of elimination schemes were thrown out. The code is now + highly orthogonal, more flexible and much more efficient. +* Some long standing and quite nasty bugs were discovered and fixed in the + following functions: add::normal(), heur_gcd(), sr_gcd() and Order_eval(). + +0.6.3 (25 July 2000) +* Derivatives are now assembled in a slightly different manner (i.e. they + might 'look' different on first sight). Under certain circumstances this + can result in a dramatic speedup because it gives hashing a better chance, + especially when computing higher derivatives. +* Some series expansions of built-in functions have been reengineered. +* The algorithm for computing determinants can be chosen by the user. See + ginac/flags.h and ginac/matrix.h. +* The Dilogarithm (Li2) now has floating point evaluation, derivative and a + proper series expansion. +* Namespace 'std' cleanly disentangled, as demanded by ISO/EIC 14882-1998(E). +* Some minor bugfixes, one major lsolve()-bugfix and documentation updates. + +0.6.2 (21 June 2000) +* ginaccint.bin is now launched by a binary program instead of by a scripts. + This allows us to write #!-scripts. A small test suite for GiNaC-cint was + added. +* Several minor bugfixes. + +0.6.1 (18 May 2000) +* Cleanup in the interface to Cint. The required version is now Cint 5.14.38. +* Several bugfixes in target install. + 0.6.0 (11 May 2000) * IMPORTANT: Several interface changes make programs written with GiNaC much clearer but break compatibility with older versions: @@ -16,6 +61,8 @@ This file records noteworthy changes. * ex::to_rational() provides a way to extend the domain of functions like gcd() and divide() that only work on polynomials or rational functions (the good old ex::subs() method reverses this process) +* Calling diff() on a function that has no derivative defined returns the + inert derivative function "Derivative". * Several new timings in the check target. Some of them may be rather rude at your machine, feel free to interrupt them.