Hi folks, This is the final alpha release of Sage 4.3.3. The next release would be an rc0. The development version of Sage is now in feature freeze.
Source: http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/release/sage-4.3.3.alpha1/sage-4.3.3.alpha1.tar Binary for sage.math: http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/release/sage-4.3.3.alpha1/sage-4.3.3.alpha1-sage.math.washington.edu-x86_64-Linux.tar.gz Upgrade path: http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/release/sage-4.3.3.alpha1/sage-4.3.3.alpha1/ There are several major features in this release. The GAP package is now upgraded to version 4.4.12. Cython is now upgraded to version 0.12.1. The upgrade of Pynac to version 0.1.11 also fixes about 8 tickets relating to symbolics. Much progress is made with the Cygwin port in closing tickets #8267, #8279 and #8280. Please test and report all problems. The following tickets were merged in Sage 4.3.3.alpha1: #1610: Rob Beezer: hg record / cherry picking -- add something to the programming guide [Reviewed by Minh Van Nguyen] #2064: Mitesh Patel: foo?? doesn't know about cpdef from the command line [Reviewed by David Roe] #4889: William Stein: deprecate matrix.list() [Reviewed by Jason Grout, Nick Alexander] #6465: Burcin Erocal, Golam Mortuza Hossain: Derivative D acts wrongly on symbolic integration [Reviewed by Tim Dumol, Karl-Dieter Crisman, Ross Kyprianou, Minh Van Nguyen] #6559: Golam Mortuza Hossain, Burcin Erocal: Real domain for symbolic variables [Reviewed by Karl-Dieter Crisman, Ross Kyprianou, Minh Van Nguyen] #6961: Burcin Erocal: provide wrapper for psi function of GiNaC [Reviewed by Karl-Dieter Crisman, Ross Kyprianou, Minh Van Nguyen] #7308: Mike Hansen: cliquer's spkg-install does not work on cygwin [Reviewed by William Stein] #7336: Mike Hansen: boehm_gc fails to build on Cygwin [Reviewed by Minh Van Nguyen] #7338: William Stein: Singular fails to build on cygwin [Reviewed by Mike Hansen] #7363: Burcin Erocal: print symbolic fractions more naturally: print 2/(x+2) instead of 2 (1/(x+2)) [Reviewed by Karl-Dieter Crisman, Ross Kyprianou] #7746: Minh Van Nguyen: Blum-Goldwasser probabilistic encryption [Reviewed by David Joyner] #7751: Daniel Bump: Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials, Bruhat order, and related features [Reviewed by David Roe, Brant Jones] #7822: Burcin Erocal: pynac log function cannot handle float arguments <= 0 [Reviewed by Karl-Dieter Crisman] #7876: Burcin Erocal: symbolic expression displayed wrong [Reviewed by Jason Grout, Ross Kyprianou] #7911: Mitesh Patel: Fix Scilab interface doctests, add 'scilab (optional)' to systems in the notebook dropdown menu [Reviewed by Ross Kyprianou] #7916: Burcin Erocal: change conjugate(X) to try X.conjugate() [Reviewed by Karl-Dieter Crisman] #7957: Burcin Erocal: problems with real_part function [Reviewed by Karl-Dieter Crisman] #8007: Craig Citro: Speed up generation of random number field elements [Reviewed by David Roe] #8076: Dmitrii Pasechnik: upgrade GAP to version 4.4.12 [Reviewed by William Stein, David Joyner, Minh Van Nguyen] #8079: Minh Van Nguyen: Better documentation for patching spkg's [Reviewed by Ross Kyprianou, Karl-Dieter Crisman] #8080: Minh Van Nguyen: installation guide: require Fortran as a pre-requisite for compiling Sage on Linux [Reviewed by Mike Hansen] #8115: Volker Braun: bad patching practice in cddlib-094f.p2.spkg [Reviewed by Minh Van Nguyen] #8118: Chris Wuthrich: split off Galois representations and modular parametrization from ell_rational_field.py [Reviewed by John Cremona, Minh Van Nguyen] #8150: Dima Pasechnik: various fixes in sage/groups/ and sage/interfaces needed for GAP 4.4.12 [Reviewed by Robert Bradshaw, David Joyner] #8154: Anne Schilling: Enhancement for crystals [Reviewed by Daniel Bump] #8163: Robert Bradshaw: Upgrade to Cython 0.12.1 [Reviewed by Minh Van Nguyen] #8220: Yann Laigle-Chapuy: Improve consistency and docs for finite fields creation [Reviewed by Francis Clarke] #8223: Nicolas M. Thiéry: tab completion broken for many parent objects [Reviewed by Andrey Novoseltsev] #8224: Sébastien Labbé: help(w) is broken for infinite word w defined by a callable [Reviewed by Mitesh Patel] #8229: Dmitrii Pasechnik: gap_packages-4.4.12 updated [Reviewed by David Joyner] #8232: Sébastien Labbé: cmp function for words is broken [Reviewed by Alexandre Blondin Massé] #8246: Mike Hogan, David Joyner, Minh Van Nguyen: Carmichael lambda function for the Blum-Blum-Shub pseudorandom bit generator [Reviewed by David Joyner] #8248: John Cremona: Small improvement in checking for elliptic curve isogenies [Reviewed by Chris Wuthrich] #8250: Nicolas M. Thiéry: Extend ClasscallMetaclass to allow for binding behavior [Reviewed by Florent Hivert] #8253: John Palmieri: search_src (etc.) bug [Reviewed by Mitesh Patel] #8267: William Stein: cygwin: ratpoints is broken again [Reviewed by Minh Van Nguyen] #8279: Mike Hansen: cygwin: cliquer names the library incorrectly for cygwin [Reviewed by Minh Van Nguyen] #8280: Mike Hansen: cygwin: zn_poly shared library named incorrectly on cygwin [Reviewed by Minh Van Nguyen] -- Regards Minh Van Nguyen -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
