Sage 5.8 was released on 15 March 2013. It is available in source and binary form from: * http://www.sagemath.org/download.html Sage (http://www.sagemath.org/) is developed by volunteers and combines over 90 open source packages. For instructions about installing Sage, see * http://www.sagemath.org/doc/installation The following page lists the platforms on which Sage should work: * http://wiki.sagemath.org/SupportedPlatforms If you have any questions and/or problems, please report them to any of these Google groups: * sage-support: http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support * sage-devel: http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel You can also drop by in #sagemath on freenode or post your questions at http://ask.sagemath.org/ The following 76 people contributed to this release. Of those, 10 made their first contribution to Sage: - Alejandro Morales [first contribution] - Alexander Dreyer - Aly Deines - Andrew Mathas - André Apitzsch - Anne Schilling - Ben Hutz - Ben Salisbury [first contribution] - Benjamin Jones - Chris Berg - Christian Nassau - Christian Stump - Dan Orr [first contribution] - Darij Grinberg - David Coudert - David Harvey - David Joyner - David Loeffler - David Roe - Dmitrii Pasechnik - Emily Gunawan [first contribution] - Eric Rowland [first contribution] - Florent Hivert - Francis Clarke - Franco Saliola - François Bissey - Frithjof Schulze - Frédéric Chapoton - Gregg Musiker - Ivan Andrus - Jason Bandlow - Javier López Peña - Jean-Pierre Flori - Jeroen Demeyer - John Palmieri - John Perry - Julian Rueth - Kannappan Sampath - Karl-Dieter Crisman - Kevin Halasz - Kwankyu Lee - Leif Leonhardy - Lucas David-Roesler [first contribution] - Luis Felipe Tabera Alonso - Mario Pernici - Mark Shimozono - Martin Albrecht - Michael Orlitzky - Michelle Manes [first contribution] - Miguel Marco - Mike Hansen - Mike Zabrocki - Mitesh Patel - Nathann Cohen - Nicholas Kirchner [first contribution] - Nicolas M. Thiéry - Niles Johnson - Nils Bruin - Paul Zimmermann - Paul-Olivier Dehaye - Punarbasu Purkayastha - R. Andrew Ohana - Robert Miller - Salvatore Stella [first contribution] - Samuel Lelièvre - Sara Billey [first contribution] - Simon King - Simon Spicer - Stepan Starosta - Sébastien Labbé - Timo Kluck - Travis Scrimshaw - Vincent Delecroix - Volker Braun - Wai Yan Pong - William Stein * Release manager: Jeroen Demeyer. * We closed 144 tickets in this release. For details, see http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/release/sage-5.8/tickets.html Closed tickets: #2694: Hecke algebra basis not implemented [Reviewed by Travis Scrimshaw] #3426: bessel_K function is broken [Reviewed by Karl-Dieter Crisman, Benjamin Jones] #4230: implement arbitrary precision Bessel Y function [Reviewed by Karl-Dieter Crisman, Benjamin Jones] #12349: linbox fails to builds in sage-5.0_beta1 [Reviewed by François Bissey] #13603: .DS_Store garbage in rpy2-2.0.8.p0 [Reviewed by Karl-Dieter Crisman] #14074: saving fill in eps doesn't work right for some reason [Reviewed by Punarbasu Purkayastha] #4294: sage -t under %pdb [Reviewed by David Roe] #7493: Implement sage -t --time [Reviewed by Jeroen Demeyer] #9224: Unify sage-test and sage-ptest [Reviewed by David Roe] #9449: The summary printed after running doctests is inaccurate. [Reviewed by Jeroen Demeyer] #10760: Improve coverage test for gsl/interpolation.pyx [Reviewed by Kannappan Sampath] #12024: 90% doctest coverage thrust metaticket [Reviewed by Travis Scrimshaw] #13383: Fix missing documentation of sage/rings/real_lazy in doc/en/reference/rings_numerical.rst [Reviewed by Volker Braun] #13652: Error in pari when dealing with algebraic numbers [Reviewed by Jeroen Demeyer] #14113: affine root system ambient lattice issue [Reviewed by Nicolas M. Thiéry] #12357: Make groupoids garbage collectable [Reviewed by Simon King, Jean-Pierre Flori] #13904: Better deletion of items of TripleDict [Reviewed by Simon King, Jean-Pierre Flori] #11525: file name conflict in SageTeX using sage.tex [Reviewed by Ivan Andrus, Karl-Dieter Crisman] #12253: SVD segfaults on complex matrices [Reviewed by Luis Felipe Tabera Alonso] #12686: Add sage.rings.finite_rings to the reference manual [Reviewed by Travis Scrimshaw] #9194: Expose and extend the thematic tutorial on symmetric functions [Reviewed by Jason Bandlow, Anne Schilling, Mike Zabrocki, Nicolas M. Thiéry] #13296: unicode default encoding is not utf-8 in command line [Reviewed by John Palmieri] #13991: Mitigate speed regressions in symmetric function related code due to #12313 [Reviewed by Simon King] #14201: During upgrade to sage 5.7 ppl is using gmpxx headers from the system [Reviewed by Wai Yan Pong, Volker Braun] Merged in sage-5.8.beta0: #6495: Mitesh Patel, John Palmieri, Florent Hivert: Build the reference manual incrementally [Reviewed by Volker Braun, Florent Hivert] #9235: Simon King: Doctest coverage for sage.categories.homset [Reviewed by Niles Johnson, Travis Scrimshaw] #10834: Mario Pernici: faster creation of an ETuple from a list or tuple [Reviewed by Travis Scrimshaw] #11026: Ivan Andrus: Add double clicking of sws files for Mac app [Reviewed by Karl-Dieter Crisman, Nicholas Kirchner, John Palmieri] #12774: Mark Shimozono: various enhancements for Coxeter and Weyl groups [Reviewed by Christian Stump, Anne Schilling] #13079: Frédéric Chapoton, Franco Saliola: Use a ranked poset's rank function to determine heights for plotting [Reviewed by Christian Stump] #13369: Christian Stump, Gregg Musiker: Implementation of the class ClusterSeed [Reviewed by Salvatore Stella] #13370: Simon King: Do not cache the result of is_Field externally [Reviewed by Nils Bruin] #13440: Emily Gunawan: Adding reverse_edge() function to DiGraph [Reviewed by Gregg Musiker, Nathann Cohen] #13732: John Perry: Fix alpha in disk() graphics object so that we can save PDF's [Reviewed by Karl-Dieter Crisman] #13787: Nathann Cohen: Bug in GenericGraph.line_graph() when the vertices cannot be compared [Reviewed by Frédéric Chapoton] #13801: Vincent Delecroix: Fix facade set category initialisation [Reviewed by Travis Scrimshaw] #13856: Christian Nassau: Add a top_class method to the Steenrod algebra [Reviewed by John Palmieri] #13960: Dmitrii Pasechnik: nef.x segfaults on Cygwin [Reviewed by Jean-Pierre Flori] #14033: Jean-Pierre Flori: Let Singular link to termcap on Cygwin [Reviewed by Dmitrii Pasechnik] #14038: Volker Braun, Jean-Pierre Flori: Let libgap build a shared library on Cygwin [Reviewed by Jean-Pierre Flori, Dmitrii Pasechnik] #14065: Travis Scrimshaw: Element overrides python behavior of cmp [Reviewed by Mike Hansen] #14070: Jeroen Demeyer: Problems with get_test_shell() [Reviewed by David Roe] #14075: Karl-Dieter Crisman: remove annoying printing of primes in conway polynomials spkg [Reviewed by François Bissey, R. Andrew Ohana] #14080: Jeroen Demeyer: Simplify cdefs.pxi using Cython's libc module [Reviewed by David Roe] #14084: Simon King: Wrong domain of the fraction field construction functor [Reviewed by Julian Rueth] #14089: Anne Schilling: Speed improvements in affine crystals and fix of optional doctest failure [Reviewed by Nicolas M. Thiery, Travis Scrimshaw] #14096: Jean-Pierre Flori: Let GSL build a shared library on Cygwin [Reviewed by Dmitrii Pasechnik] #14115: Frédéric Chapoton: missing log attribute for power series [Reviewed by Travis Scrimshaw] #14129: John Palmieri: Incorrect notebook typesetting due to '\texttt' [Reviewed by Luis Felipe Tabera Alonso] Merged in sage-5.8.beta1: #5978: Travis Scrimshaw: Can't construct the quotient of an univariate polynomial ring by its zero ideal [Reviewed by Luis Felipe Tabera Alonso] #10556: Ivan Andrus: Add button to Mac App to add sage executable to PATH [Reviewed by Karl-Dieter Crisman, John Palmieri] #11490: Simon King: Add a thematic tutorial on coercion and categories [Reviewed by Vincent Delecroix, Travis Scrimshaw, Dmitrii Pasechnik] #11696: Leif Leonhardy, Jean-Pierre Flori: The libpng12 spkg should also create symbolic links from `libpng.*` for its libraries [Reviewed by Dmitrii Pasechnik] #12175: Frithjof Schulze: Missing *args and **kwds in SL2Z.random_element() [Reviewed by Frédéric Chapoton] #12912: Mike Hansen: Interface to Fokko Ducloux's Coxeter 3 [Reviewed by Anne Schilling, Nicolas M. Thiéry, Jean-Pierre Flori] #13254: John Palmieri: compute fundamental groups of simplicial complexes [Reviewed by Miguel Marco] #13367: Kevin Halasz: Add Holomorph method for Permutation Groups [Reviewed by Frédéric Chapoton, Benjamin Jones] #13600: Julian Rueth: pAdicZZpXCAElement can not be initialized from fraction field element [Reviewed by David Roe] #13618: Travis Scrimshaw: Doctest coverage for rings [Reviewed by Kannappan Sampath, Volker Braun] #13688: Travis Scrimshaw: FiniteEnumeratedSets cardinality override [Reviewed by Andrew Mathas] #13839: Jean-Pierre Flori: Let lrcalc build as a shared library on Cygwin. [Reviewed by Dmitrii Pasechnik] #13894: Michael Orlitzky, Jean-Pierre Flori: Fix ArithmeticError: 0^0 in rings/finite_rings/integer_mod.pyx [Reviewed by Travis Scrimshaw] #14011: Florent Hivert: Add various new sphinx roles [Reviewed by Frédéric Chapoton] #14041: Christian Nassau: Give the SteenrodAlgebra a proper basis object [Reviewed by John Palmieri] #14098: Francois Bissey, David Harvey: zn_poly-0.9.p9 fails at least one its tests on power7 [Reviewed by Paul Zimmermann, Jeroen Demeyer] #14108: Robert Miller: bug in is_isomorphic with multiple edges [Reviewed by Paul Zimmermann] #14118: Jean-Pierre Flori: Compiling universal_cyclotomic_field_c.pyx fails on Cygwin [Reviewed by Dmitrii Pasechnik] #14122: Nathann Cohen: Tournament and directed path constructors [Reviewed by David Coudert] #14128: Nathann Cohen: Very bad mistakes in linear_arboricity [Reviewed by David Coudert] #14138: Nathann Cohen: some cleanup in sage.combinat.combinat [Reviewed by Punarbasu Purkayastha, Nicolas M. Thiéry] #14139: Frédéric Chapoton, Travis Scrimshaw: doc of prandom.py [Reviewed by Frédéric Chapoton] #14148: John Palmieri: Print location of output from documentation building [Reviewed by Anne Schilling] #14157: Travis Scrimshaw: Latex output for barred letters [Reviewed by Anne Schilling] #14160: Mike Zabrocki: Fix bug with the antipode in NonCommutativeSymmetricFunctions [Reviewed by Franco Saliola] #14162: Franco Saliola: fix parent coefficients for elements of NCSF / QSym [Reviewed by Mike Zabrocki] #14163: Mike Zabrocki, Franco Saliola: add counit method to QSym [Reviewed by Franco Saliola, Mike Zabrocki] Merged in sage-5.8.beta2: #7886: Javier López Peña: Implement conjugacy classes [Reviewed by David Joyner, Travis Scrimshaw] #8920: Vincent Delecroix, Stepan Starosta: Factor code between words's alphabets and sets/enumerated sets/ordered sets [Reviewed by Travis Scrimshaw] #11593: Kwankyu Lee: `quo_rem` for divisor of leading unit coefficient [Reviewed by Frédéric Chapoton] #12313: Simon King, Jean-Pierre Flori: Fix yet another memory leak caused by caching of coercion data [Reviewed by Simon King, Jean-Pierre Flori, John Perry, Nils Bruin] #13054: Jeroen Demeyer: PARI polred() bug [Reviewed by David Roe] #13387: Nils Bruin: Improve MonoDict and TripleDict data structures [Reviewed by Simon King] #13539: Julian Rueth: Add inverse_of_unit() for padics [Reviewed by David Roe] #13780: Kannappan Sampath: Typo in the docstring for echelon_coordinate_vector in FreeModules Documentation [Reviewed by Julian Rueth] #13786: Michael Orlitzky: Fix remaining instances of ArithmeticError: 0^0 is undefined [Reviewed by Travis Scrimshaw] #13895: Michael Orlitzky: Fix ArithmeticError: 0^0 in rings/polynomial/polynomial_modn_dense_ntl.pyx [Reviewed by Travis Scrimshaw] #13897: Michael Orlitzky: Fix ArithmeticError: 0^0 in rings/finite_rings/element_givaro.pyx [Reviewed by Travis Scrimshaw] #13941: Michael Orlitzky: Fix ArithmeticError: 0^0 in rings/padics/padic_capped_absolute_element.pyx [Reviewed by Travis Scrimshaw] #14000: Nathann Cohen: Speedup in GenericGraph.relabel() and two new options [Reviewed by Anne Schilling] #14040: Volker Braun: Configurable "tall list" output style [Reviewed by Travis Scrimshaw] #14063: Travis Scrimshaw: Remove CombinatorialClass from Compositions [Reviewed by Vincent Delecroix] #14085: Nicolas M. Thiéry: Ambient spaces for dual and affine root systems [Reviewed by Dan Orr, Anne Schilling] #14100: Simon King: Make raising attribute errors faster [Reviewed by Volker Braun] #14105: Alejandro Morales, Eric Rowland: all_graph_colorings should have an option to use integer colors. [Reviewed by Chris Berg, Nathann Cohen] #14120: Travis Scrimshaw: Add constant_coefficient method for Laurent polynomials [Reviewed by Kannappan Sampath] #14142: Travis Scrimshaw: Making mutable copies of simplicial complexes [Reviewed by John Palmieri] #14150: Jeroen Demeyer: Fix wait() in @parallel [Reviewed by David Roe] #14156: John Palmieri: New docbuilder always rebuilds everything [Reviewed by Volker Braun] #14158: Jeroen Demeyer: _is_Field() ignores exceptions [Reviewed by David Roe] #14166: John Palmieri: Use "tar", not "cp -pr", to copy files in spkg-install [Reviewed by Jeroen Demeyer] #14173: Nathann Cohen: Stopgap warning in Graph.modular_decomposition [Reviewed by Luis Felipe Tabera Alonso] #14174: Nicolas M. Thiéry: Remove coxeter matrix implementation for type H (the generic implementation is just as good) [Reviewed by Anne Schilling] #14176: Nicolas M. Thiéry: Use standard Python operators for intersection of polyhedrons and membership testing [Reviewed by Volker Braun] #14177: Nicolas M. Thiéry: More uniform handling of color_by_labels for graph plot, plot3d, graphviz, and reference fix [Reviewed by Nathann Cohen] #14182: Jeroen Demeyer: Fix whitespace in coercion_and_categories.rst [Reviewed by Simon King] #14185: Nathann Cohen: Stopgap warning in Poset.relabel [Reviewed by Luis Felipe Tabera Alonso] Merged in sage-5.8.beta3: #6567: David Roe: function to test whether or not some integer is a primitive root modulo n [Reviewed by Julian Rueth, Simon Spicer] #12109: David Roe: Function for faster evaluation of cyclotomic polynomials [Reviewed by André Apitzsch, Simon Spicer] #12116: David Roe: perfect_power for integers [Reviewed by David Loeffler, Aly Deines, Simon Spicer] #12543: Vincent Delecroix: improve import_statements [Reviewed by Nicolas M. Thiéry] #13102: Nathann Cohen: PermutationGroup.all_blocks from GAP [Reviewed by Benjamin Jones] #13130: Ben Hutz: Ring support for projective space points and morphisms [Reviewed by Michelle Manes] #13605: Travis Scrimshaw: Partition options and cleanup partitions documentation [Reviewed by Andrew Mathas, Nicolas M. Thiéry] #13767: Timo Kluck: upgrade boost to version 1.52.0 [Reviewed by Volker Braun, François Bissey, Alexander Dreyer] #13798: Frédéric Chapoton: q-Bernoulli numbers of Carlitz [Reviewed by Francis Clarke] #13994: Christian Stump: Implementation of EL labellings of posets [Reviewed by Frédéric Chapoton] #14082: Jeroen Demeyer: PARI stack overflow crashes Sage [Reviewed by David Roe] #14090: Franco Saliola, Florent Hivert, Nicolas M. Thiéry, et al.: Thematic tutorials: using the notebook, programming python, comprehensions [Reviewed by Samuel Lelièvre, Sébastien Labbé, Karl-Dieter Crisman, Darij Grinberg] #14111: Sara Billey: Tutorial for quasisymmetric functions (QSYM) [Reviewed by Travis Scrimshaw] #14130: Lucas David-Roesler, Ben Salisbury: Implement Crystals of Generalized Young Walls [Reviewed by Travis Scrimshaw, Anne Schilling] #14155: David Roe: gcd for IntegerMod [Reviewed by Simon Spicer] #14168: Jeroen Demeyer: Fix race condition rebuilding MPIR,... with GCC spkg [Reviewed by Karl-Dieter Crisman, Leif Leonhardy] #14180: Martin Albrecht: SatSolver.clauses [Reviewed by Nathann Cohen] #14184: Jeroen Demeyer: Fix # optional tags [Reviewed by Karl-Dieter Crisman] #14188: John Palmieri, Volker Braun: IPython 0.13: merge user configuration with Sage configuration [Reviewed by Volker Braun, William Stein, John Palmieri] #14193: David Roe: Converting polynomial quotient ring elements to pari yields plain polynomials [Reviewed by Simon Spicer] #14195: Nathann Cohen: Bad error management in the CPLEX interface [Reviewed by David Coudert] #14198: Martin Albrecht: update cryptominisat to most recent upstream release [Reviewed by Nathann Cohen] #14200: Travis Scrimshaw: Add shortcut to add multiple variables with different names [Reviewed by Sara Billey] #14216: Frédéric Chapoton: clean-up of parts of combinat [Reviewed by Nathann Cohen] #14227: R. Andrew Ohana: Cython includes assume rigid directory structure [Reviewed by Jeroen Demeyer] Merged in sage-5.8.beta4: #11410: Paul-Olivier Dehaye: 01 sequence or east-north sequence for partitions [Reviewed by Frédéric Chapoton, Nathann Cohen, Travis Scrimshaw] #14054: Simon King: Cythoned UniqueRepresentation [Reviewed by Travis Scrimshaw] #14189: Simon Spicer: Extend modular degree and congruence modulus of elliptic curves over QQ to arbitrary level. [Reviewed by Aly Deines] #14199: John Palmieri: Docbuilder changes sagetex.rst [Reviewed by Jeroen Demeyer] #14204: Jeroen Demeyer: Building unchanged documentation takes very long [Reviewed by John Palmieri] #14225: Simon King: Remove redundant classcall_private from partitions [Reviewed by Travis Scrimshaw] #14228: Travis Scrimshaw: Caching of data needed for computations in k_dual [Reviewed by Simon King] #14230: Travis Scrimshaw: Update developer conventions page for multiline equations [Reviewed by John Palmieri] #14233: Frédéric Chapoton: small cleanup of sage/homology [Reviewed by John Palmieri] #14236: Jeroen Demeyer: Use "tar", not "cp -pPRL", to copy files in sage-bdist [Reviewed by John Palmieri] Merged in sage-5.8.rc0: #14121: Chris Berg: Fixing bug in shuffle product [Reviewed by Franco Saliola, Frédéric Chapoton, Nathann Cohen] #14245: John Palmieri: Cloning doesn't properly copy the _static doc directory [Reviewed by Florent Hivert] #14254: Jeroen Demeyer: OverflowErrors in TripleDictEraser [Reviewed by Simon King]