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GNU Scientific Library - test release 1.11.90
Item posted by -Deleted Account- <bjg> on Tue 09 Dec 2008 11:10:11 PM UTC.
There is a test release for gsl-1.12 at
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gsl/gsl-1.11.90.tar.gz
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gsl/gsl-1.11.90.tar.gz.sig
Please try it out and report any problems to the bug-gsl AT gnu.org mailing list. Thanks. I've upgraded libtool, autoconf and automake to the latest versions. Other changes from the NEWS file are below.
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Brian Gough
- Upgraded to latest libtool, autoconf and automake (libtool-2.2.6, autoconf-2.63, automake-1.10.2)
- Improved the convergence of gsl_sf_gamma_inc_P for x/a ~=~ 1 and large x,a. Fixes problems with large arguments in cdf functions such as gsl_cdf_chisq_Pinv(x,nu) [bug 24704].
- Fixed gsl_ran_gamma_knuth to handle the case of a >= UINT_MAX [bug #24897]
- Added gsl_bspline_eval_deriv to compute bspline derivatives (Rhys Ulerich)
- Added a faster simplex mininimser gsl_multimin_fminimizer_nmsimplex2 which is O(N) instead of O(N^2) [bug #24418]
- Improved the original chi-squared formula in gsl_monte_vegas to avoid catastrophic cancellation [bug #24510]. The previous formula could return incorrect or negative values for relative errors < 1e-8, which could occur when integrating very smooth functions.
- Added new auxiliary functions gsl_cheb_order, gsl_cheb_size, gsl_cheb_coeffs for Chebyshev series [bug #21830]
- Updated license of the reference manual to GNU FDL version 1.3.
- Fixed a bug where the gsl_isinf function would return +1 for -Inf on systems where isinf(-Inf) returns the non-standard value +1. [bug #24489]
- Added missing functions gsl_vector_complex_{isnonneg,add,sub,mul, div,scale,add_constant} and gsl_matrix_complex_float_isnonneg [bug #22478]
- Cross compilation should now work for x86 hosts.
- Fixed a bug in gsl_interp_accel_find() where values lying on the upper boundary between interpolation points could return the index from the lower side. [bug #24211]
- Fixed gsl_linalg_solve_cyc_tridiag so that its output respects the solution vector's stride. Previously the x_stride value was ignored causing the output to be incorrect for non-unit stride. [bug #24162]
- Corrected a bug in the series calculation of gsl_sf_ellint_Kcomp for k close to 1. [bug #24146]
- Extended gsl_linalg_QRPT_update to handle rectangular matrices. Corrected definition of the update formula in the manual for both gsl_linalg_QR_update and gsl_linalg_QRPT_update.
- Added routine gsl_linalg_cholesky_invert
- Fixed a bug the simplex algorithm which caused the second highest point to be incorrectly equal to the first when the first value was the highest, which could cause suboptimal convergence. [bug #23192]
- Fixed a problem with convergence for inverse gamma and chisq distribitions, gsl_cdf_gamma_{P,Q}inv and gsl_cdf_chisq_{P,Q}inv. [bug #23101]
- Improved the handling of constant regions in Vegas by eliminating spurious excess precision when computing box variances.
- Fixed a potential division by zero in gsl_monte_miser when the left/right weight factors decrease below 1.
- Fixed incorrect dimensions check in gsl_matrix_sub{row,column}
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