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Hi folks,

Sage 4.3.5 was released on March 28, 2010. It is available at

           http://www.sagemath.org/download.html

* About Sage (http://www.sagemath.org)

Sage is developed by volunteers and combines over 90 open source packages.
It is available for download from www.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 on freenode.

The following 6 people contributed to this release:

 * David Kirkby
 * Florent Hivert
 * Jaap Spies
 * Rob Beezer
 * Robert Miller
 * William Stein

* Release manager

  * William Stein

* Major features, new spkg's, and bug fixes

 * After introducing iconv as a standard package, Sage 4.3.4 failed to
   build on platforms such as Fedora, Red Hat, openSUSE, etc. Sage
   4.3.5 is a bug fix release that allows Sage to build on such
   platforms.

* Bug statistics

We closed 3 tickets. For details see

   http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/milestone/sage-4.3.5

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

* Doctesting coverage

The doctest coverage for Sage 4.3.5 is the same as that for Sage
4.3.4. Thus for Sage 4.3.5 we have

 * Overall weighted coverage score:  81.5%
 * Total number of functions:  25,122

Closed tickets:

Merged in sage-4.3.5.final:

#8539: Robert Miller: Matrix(ZZ, sparse=True)._mod_int(p) has the wrong parent [Reviewed by William Stein]
#8567: David Kirkby: Change iconv so it builds on Cygwin and Solaris only [Reviewed by Jaap Spies, Florent Hivert]
#8612: William Stein: potentially horrible multimodular matrix echelon bug [Reviewed by Rob Beezer]