Hello folks,

Sage 3.0.6 was released on July 30th, 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 22 people contributed to this release:

 * Michael Abshoff
 * Martin Albrecht
 * Tom Boothby
 * Ondrej Certik
 * Craig Citro
 * Dan Grayson (first contribution)
 * John Cremona
 * Gary Furnish
 * Carlo Hamalainen
 * Mike Hansen
 * Bill Hart
 * David Harvey
 * Waldek Hebish (first contribution)
 * Emily Kirkman
 * Robert Miller
 * Clement Pernet
 * Anne Schilling
 * William Stein
 * Nicolas Thiery
 * Ralph-Philipp Weinmann
 * Carl Witty
 * Chris Wuthrich

Cheers,

Michael Abshoff (release chair), William Stein

* Major Features, New Spkgs and Bugfixes

 * This release was another stabilization release before opening 
   3.1.

For details see the Sage 3.0.6 Release Tour at

  http://wiki.sagemath.org/sage-3.0.6

* Known Issues with 3.0.6:

 * RHEL 5 clisp build issue: the latest clisp.spkg does not build 
   so please use the clisp.spkg from Sage 3.0.3.

* Bug Statistics

We closed 39 tickets. For details see

   http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/milestone/sage-3.0.6

or check out the closed ticket section at the end of the 
announcement. 

* Upcoming Releases

The next release will be 3.1, chaired by Michael Abshoff. It will 
focus on merging the new coercion code among other things and 
should increase the development speed again.

* Doctesting Coverage

For 3.0.4 we had:

Overall weighted coverage score:  53.6%
Total number of functions:  20233

We increased coverage by 0.6% in 3.0.6 while adding 4 functions:

Overall weighted coverage score:  54.2%
Total number of functions:  20237

* Closed Tickets:

Merged in Sage 3.0.6.final:

#3611: Michael Abshoff: sympow: make it use $CC instead of cc [Reviewed 
       by William Stein]
#3706: William Stein: fix segfault in matrix2.pyx [Reviewed by Michael 
       Abshoff]
#3712: Michael Abshoff: clisp+nohup eats ones disc [Reviewed by William 
       Stein]
#3715: Waldek Hebish, Michael Abshoff: Bug in lisp startup script 
       [Reviewed by William Stein]
#3716: Martin Albrecht: add GINV as experimental/optional package 
       [Reviewed by Michael Abshoff]
#3742: Michael Abshoff: Fortran.spkg: Detect the location of gfortran 
       properly [Reviewed by William Stein]

Merged in Sage 3.0.6.rc0:

#10: Gary Furnish, Dan Grayson: update M2 to the 1.1 release 
     [Reviewed by Michael Abshoff, Mike Hansen]
#3345: Mike Hansen, William Stein: trace no longer works in 3.0.2 
       [Reviewed by William Stein, Mike Hansen] 
#3669: William Stein: improve multiple_of_order command for torsion 
       subgroups of modular abelian varieties [Reviewed by Craig Citro]
#3671: Michael Abshoff, Clement Pernet: Fix ssmod.py doctest failures in 
       Sage 3.0.4 or later [Reviewed by William Stein]
#3694: Michael Abshoff, Bill Hart: Update FLINT to the 1.0.13 release 
       [Reviewed by William Stein]
#3681: William Stein: modulus() randomly broken for gf2e fields 
       [Reviewed by John Cremona, Michael Abshoff]
#3695: Ondrej Certik, John Cremona: Improve factor documentation 
       [Reviewedby William Stein, Martin Albrecht]
#3696: Michael Abshoff: Fix gmp.spkg build issue on Solaris
       [Reviewed by William Stein]
#3700: Michael Abshoff: Solaris: Fix ntl build issue 
       [Reviewed by William Stein]
#3701: Michael Abshoff: Solaris: fix polybori build due to bashism 
       [Reviewed by William Stein]

Merged in Sage 3.0.6.alpha0:

#3232: Martin Albrecht: wrap NTL's BKZ [Reviewed by Ralph-Philipp Weinmann]
#3531: Gary Furnish: create optional boehm_gc.spkg [Reviewed by Michael Abshoff]
#3532: Gary Furnish: create optional gdbm.spkg [Reviewed by Michael Abshoff]
#3554: Mike Hansen: improve M2 pexpect interface [Reviewed by Gary Furnish]
#3564: William Stein: optimize sage startup: don't import sympy by default 
       [Reviewed by Michael Abshoff]
#3579: Emily Kirkman: bug in RandonGNP graph constructor 
       [Reviewed by Robert Miller]
#3592: Ondrej Certik: update sympy to the 0.6.0 release 
       [Reviewed by Michael Abshoff]
#3601: Anne Schilling: Reimplementation of tensor products 
       [Reviewed by Mike Hansen]
#3614: Gary Furnish: pbuild broken by finance [Reviewed by Michael Abshoff]
#3626: Tom Boothby: Graph.set_boundary only takes lists 
       [Reviewed by Robert Miller]
#3629: Clement Pernet: givaro-3.2.11 installs its own libgmpxx.{so,a} 
       [Reviewed by Michael Abshoff]
#3650: Gary Furnish: Infinite recursion in pbuild by recursive pxd imports 
       [Reviewed by Michael Abshoff]
#3651: John Cremona: elliptic curves -- bug in L_ratio() 
       [Reviewed by Chris Wuthrich]
#3657: Carlo Hamalainen: Documentation for latin squares, DLXCPP; minor fixes 
       [Reviewed by Mike Hansen]
#3632: Chris Wuthrich, David Harvey: small bug in p-adic heights 
       [Reviewed by David Harvey, Chris Wuthrich]
#3647: Michael Abshoff: remove "- static-libgcc" from lcalc's CFLAGS) 
       [Reviewed by Mike Hansen]
#3648: Carl Witty, David Harvey: complex(pari(...)) fails 
       [Reviewed by David Harvey, Carl Witty]
#3660: Anne Schilling, Mike Hansen: add documentation to the reference manual
       for crystals and root systems [Reviewed by Mike Hansen]
#3661: Nicolas Thiery, Mike Hansen: move sage/combinat/family.py into the 
       main tree [Reviewed by Mike Hansen]
#3667: William Stein: notebook -- if user history can't be loaded from disk 
       make it blank (much better than making entire notebook not work at all) 
       [Reviewed by Michael Abshoff]