Hello folks,
Sage 3.0.1 has been released on May 4th, 2008. It is available at
http://sagemath.org/download.html
* About Sage (http://www.sagemath.org)
Sage is developed by volunteers and combines 71 open source packages.
It is available for download from sagemath.org and its mirrors in
source or binary form. If you have any questions and/or problems
please report them to the Google groups sage-devel or sage-support.
You can also drop by in #sage-devel or #sage-support in freenode.
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The following 24 people contributed to this release:
* Tim Abbott
* Michael Abshoff
* Jason Bandlow
* Francois Bissey
* Tom Boothby
* Robert Bradshaw
* Dan Bump
* Craig Citro
* Timothy Clemans
* Didier Deshommes
* Lars Fischer
* Gary Furnish
* Alex Ghitza
* Jason Grout
* David Joyner
* Marshall Hampton
* Kiran Kedlaya
* Robert Miller
* Max Murphy
* Andrey Novoseltsev
* Willem Jan Palenstijn
* David Roe
* William Stein
* Scot Terry
Cheers,
Michael Abshoff (release chair), William Stein
* Major Features, New Spkgs and Bugfixes
* PBuild (Gary Furnish)
* Convex Hulls And Polyhedral Functions Improvements (Marshall Hampton)
* Lattice Polytope Update (Andrey Novoseltsev)
* zeta_function Method for Schemes (Kiran Kedlaya)
* More Debianization (Tim Abbott)
* Default Mode for Notebook no longer uses SSL (William Stein)
For details see the Sage 3.0.1 Release Tour at
http://wiki.sagemath.org/sage-3.0.1
* Known Issues with 3.0.1:
#2983: Singular interface problems in matrix_group.py on
Itanium/Linux RHEL 5: We see a segfault in the
doctest when using the default system compiler.
* Bug Statistics
We closed a record number of 75 tickets. For details see
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/milestone/sage-3.0.1
or check out the closed ticket section at the end of the
announcement.
* Upcoming Releases
The next release will be 3.0.2, chaired by Michael Abshoff.
The release is planned in about a week. It will be mostly a
bug fix release to clear up issues from the 3.0.1 release.
* Doctesting Coverage
For 3.0 we had:
Overall weighted coverage score: 51.5%
Total number of functions: 19514
We increased coverage by 0.3% in 3.0.1 while adding 39 functions:
Overall weighted coverage score: 51.8%
Total number of functions: 19553
* Closed Tickets:
Merged in final:
#3010: Michael Abshoff: Numerical noise doctest failure in
rings/complex_double.pyx
#3085: Jason Grout: fix identity matrix docs [reported by Geoff
Tims]
#3087: Tim Abbott: Fix stupid mistakes in Debian palp copyright
files
#3088: Tim Abbott: Fixes for Debian gfan build
#3092: Tim Abbott: Debian Singular permissions fixes
#3093: Tim Abbott: Debian lcalc package missing -DINCLUDE_PARI
flag
#3094: Tim Abbott: Update to SAGE Debian packaging
#3095: Lars Fischer, Michael Abshoff: Notebook, Documentation
of DATA has a small error
#3096: Michael Abshoff: Fix documentation rebuild issues for
Sage 3.0.1.final
#3098: Willem Jan Palenstijn, William Stein: doctest failure in
devel/sage/sage/rings/ring.pyx involving synchronizing
the Singular interface
#3101: Gary Furnish, Michael Abshoff: pbuild: mwrank.so needs
to be build as a C++ extension
Merged in rc0:
#2755: Andrey Novoseltsev: lattice_polytope.py update
#3060: Marshall Hampton, Michael Abshoff: update optional
biopython package to 1.45 release
#3062: Timothy Clemans: implement __oct__ special method for the
integers
#3070: Robert Miller: bug in SymmetricGroup(1).cayley_graph()
#3071: Gary Furnish: Using pbuild does not create site-packages
sage symlink
#3072: Willem Jan Palenstijn: sage -i numeric-24.2 (and all other
experimental packages) fails
#3074: Robert Bradshaw: update Cython to the 0.9.6.14 release
#3076: Michael Abshoff: spkg-debian in extcode spkg not executable
#3077: Gary Furnish: pbuild does not return properly on failure
#3078: Willem Jan Palenstijn: sage's spkg-install doesn't return
failure if build failed
#3082: William Stein: sage-3.0.1.alpha1: a twist.py doctest failure
Merged in alpha1:
#1261: Gary Furnish: parallel "sage -br"
#1549: Alex Ghitza: Sage 2.9: fix optional doctests in tut.tex
#2216: Alex Ghitza: Creating an order in a number field -->
infinite loop?
#2504: Alex Ghitza: number field .units() method caches
proof=False result and returns it for proof=True
#2523: Craig Citro: bug in modular symbols for GammaH subgroup
#2716: Marshall Hampton: convex hulls and polyhedral functions
#2741: William Stein, Timothy Clemans: Implement mesh lines
in 3d plots
#2938: Craig Citro: Fix ModularSymbols(GammaH(8,[3])).decomposition()
ModularSymbols(GammaH(81, [10])).decomposition();
#3029: Tim Abbott: Move DEB_AUTO_UPDATE_DEBIAN_CONTROL out
of Debian packages
#3030: Gary Furnish: Cython working directory command line
option patch
#3031: Kiran Kedlaya, Craig Citro: Add zeta_function method
for schemes
#3032: Dan Bump: minor docstring cleanup in crystals.py and
tensor_product.py
#3034: Tim Abbott: improved cleaning code for Debian packages
#3036: Tim Abbott: SAGE_TESTDIR broken
#3037: Gary Furnish, Robert Bradshaw: update cython to
0.9.6.13-20080426
#3038: Tim Abbott: SAGE setup.py fixes for using Debian
packaged polybori, zn_poly
#3039: Tim Abbott: Improve auto-generated version numbers
for Debian packages
#3041: Francois Bissey, Michael Abshoff: optimization setting
in LinBox.spkg is broken
#3054: Jason Grout: copying a graph doesn't copy _pos or
_boundary
#3055: Jason Grout: creating subgraph does not delete _pos
entries [reported by Tracy McKay and Laura DeLoss]
#3057: Tom Boothby: MPolynomialRing_generic type-checks to
determine commutativity
#3059: William Stein, Timothy Clemans: notebook -- rewrite
notebook(...) function to *not* use SSL by default
#3061: Michael Abshoff, Max Murphy: use readlink and realpatch
so that symlinking sage works
#3063: Didier Deshommes: empty matrices: norm() returns a
ValueError
#3064: Didier Deshommes: empty matrices: density() function
throws a ZeroDivisionError
#3066: Didier Deshommes: empty matrices: gram_schmidt() throws
a NameError
#3067: Didier Deshommes: matrices: numeric_array() is missing
an import
Merged in alpha0:
#783: Alex Ghitza: dilog is lame
#1187: Alex Ghitza: bug in G.conjugacy_classes_subgroups()
#1921: Alex Ghitza, Mike Hansen: add random_element to groups
#2302: Michael Abshoff, William Stein, Scot Terry: Add a 64
bit glibc 2.3 based binary of Sage to the default
build platforms
#2325: David Roe, Kiran Kedlaya: segfault in p-adic extension()
method
#2821: Alex Ghitza: get rid of anything "about this document"
sections of any sage docs that say "send email to stein"
#2939: David Joyner: piecewise.py improvements (docstring and
laplace fixes)
#2985: Michael Abshoff: ITANIUM (RHEL 5) -- bug in rubik.py's
OptimalSolver()
#2993: Michael Abshoff: OSX/gcc 4.2: disable padlock support
per default
#2995: Alex Ghitza: some new functionality and doctests for
congruence subgroups
#3003: Jason Bandlow: Bugfix for to_tableau() method of
CrystalOfTableaux elements
#3005: Craig Citro: modabar -- failure to compute endomorphism
ring
#3006: David Joyner: missing elliptic integrals in special.py
#3014: Michael Abshoff: ZZ.random_element -- corrupted docstring
#3017: Michael Abshoff: invalid link after make install
#3022: Tim Abbott: Debian package support for polybori
#3023: Jason Grout: make apply_map deal with empty matrices
#3025: William Stein: Sparse vector spaces don't cast on
assignment
#3027: Tim Abbott: Debian lintian fixes