Hi,

I've released sage-2.8.  Get it now at http://sagemath.org/ or
do "sage -upgrade".  (Binaries will appear in the near future.)

This is a fairly nontrivial upgrade, mainly because it includes
a major new version of Singular, and updates to Linbox.  There's
also new graph theory-related code that came out of the summer REU
at Washington and optimizations to mwrank.  If you wrote something,
sent me a patch, and it isn't in here, definitely send me an email
with a new version of the patch.

Thanks to the many many people who contributed to this release, including
M Abshoff,  M Albrecht, C Citro, C Pernet, D Kohel, G Nebe, D Joyner,
E Kirkman, R Miller, S Howe, J Mohler, B moretti, J. Rivas, and
anybody else who I didn't mention explicitly.

NOTE: GCC-4.2 support isn't quite there yet, though we're very close
(M Abshoff did build SAGE under GCC-4.2, but there are some issues).
We'll
try for GCC-4.2 support in SAGE-2.8.1.

Sun Aug 12 18:22:22 2007
------------------------
2.8:
       * m albrecht: upgrade to singular-3-0-3 (this was nontrivial)
       * m albrecht, c pernet: new version of givaro that fixes some
bugs. (gcc-4.2 support)
       * m abshoff, c pernet, w stein: new version of linbox that
fixes some bugs. (gcc-4.2 support)
       * d kohel, g nebe, et al.: Genus computation for quadratic
forms (not really made public yet
             but it is there in quadratic_forms/genus).
       * e kirkman, r miller: graph database improvements (which are
generally useful).
       * s howe, r miller: bruhat intervals
       * j mohler: programming guide improvement
       * b moretti: cayley graphs
       * juan m bello rivas: fix so clisp can be built in the background.
       * w stein: upgraded sympy to version 0.5.1, whose main features
included much optimization
       * w stein: implement computing
half_integer_weight_modform_basis function for computing
                 a basis for half-integral modular forms of given
weight, level, and character.

-- 
William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://www.williamstein.org

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