[release-notes] Populated Scientific and Technical section

John J. McDonough jjmcd at fedoraproject.org
Fri May 10 15:07:15 UTC 2013


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Author: John J. McDonough <jjmcd at fedoraproject.org>
Date:   Fri May 10 11:07:04 2013 -0400

    Populated Scientific and Technical section

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-<section>
-  
+
+<section id="sect-Release_Notes-EngineeringGroup">
   <title>Scientific and Technical</title>
-  <para />
+
+  <section>
+    <title>E</title>
+    <indexterm><primary>E</primary></indexterm>
+    <para>
+      The <package>E</package> theorem prover version 1.7 is now
+      included in Fedora 19.  Improvements include:
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Improved automatic mode
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Interactive querying against large specifications
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Various minor bugfixes
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </para>
+  </section>
+
+  <section>
+    <title>gabedit</title>
+    <indexterm><primary>gabedit</primary></indexterm>
+    <para>
+      <package>gabedit</package> has been upgraded to 2.4.6.
+      Improvements include:
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+	    <indexterm><primary>GENNBO</primary>
+	    <secondary>gabedit</secondary></indexterm>
+	    <indexterm><primary>Orbitals</primary>
+	    <secondary>gabedit</secondary></indexterm>
+	    <indexterm><primary>Gaussian filter</primary>
+	    <secondary>gabedit</secondary></indexterm>
+	    <indexterm><primary>Blackman filter</primary>
+	    <secondary>gabedit</secondary></indexterm>
+	    <indexterm><primary>Blackman-Harris filter</primary>
+	    <secondary>gabedit</secondary></indexterm>
+	    <indexterm><primary>Psi4</primary>
+	    <secondary>gabedit</secondary></indexterm>
+	    <indexterm><primary>NCI</primary>
+	    <secondary>gabedit</secondary></indexterm>
+	    <indexterm><primary>non-covalent interactions index</primary>
+	    <secondary>gabedit</secondary></indexterm>
+	    <indexterm><primary>Analysis of Spatial Extent</primary>
+	    <secondary>gabedit</secondary></indexterm>
+	    <indexterm><primary>Charge-Transfer Excitations</primary>
+	    <secondary>gabedit</secondary></indexterm>
+	    <indexterm><primary>Spatial Extent</primary>
+	    <secondary>gabedit</secondary></indexterm>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Gabedit can now read orbitals from GENNBO files
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Several filters (Gaussian, Blackman, Blackman-Harris,...)
+	    implemented in the GabexitXYPlot window
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Psi4 is partially supported : input file, geometries,
+	    frequencies, UV Spectrum
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    NCI (non-covalent interactions index) analysis implemented
+	    (see Johnson et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 132, 6498 (2010))
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Analysis of Spatial Extent in Charge-Transfer Excitations
+	    implemented (See Le Bahers et al., J. Chem. Theory
+	    Comput. 2011, 7, 2498-2506)
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </para>
+  </section>
+
+  <section>
+    <title>gdl</title>
+    <indexterm><primary>gdl</primary></indexterm>
+    <para>
+      The Gnu Data Language, <package>gdl</package>, has been updated
+      to 0.9.3. New features include:
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+	    <indexterm><primary>FOR loop</primary>
+	    <secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	    <indexterm><primary>SCOPE_VARFETCH</primary>
+	    <secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	    <indexterm><primary>LEVEL</primary>
+	    <secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	    <indexterm><primary>.SKIP</primary>
+	    <secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	    <indexterm><primary>DIM</primary>
+	    <secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	    <indexterm><primary>MOMENT()</primary>
+	    <secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	    <indexterm><primary>MEAN()</primary>
+	    <secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	    <indexterm><primary>STDDEV()</primary>
+	    <secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	    <indexterm><primary>VARIANCE()</primary>
+	    <secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	    <indexterm><primary>SKEWNESS()</primary>
+	    <secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	    <indexterm><primary>KURTOSIS()</primary>
+	    <secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm> 
+	    <indexterm><primary>SIGN</primary>
+	    <secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	    <indexterm><primary>FINITE</primary>
+	    <secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	    <indexterm><primary>READ_JPEG</primary>
+	    <secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	    <indexterm><primary>READ_PNG</primary>
+	    <secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	    <indexterm><primary>WRITE_JPEG</primary>
+	    <secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	    <indexterm><primary>WRITE_PNG</primary>
+	    <secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	    <indexterm><primary>ICONIC</primary>
+	    <secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	    <indexterm><primary>WSHOW</primary>
+	    <secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	    <indexterm><primary>ISOTROPIC</primary>
+	    <secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	    <indexterm><primary>PLOT</primary>
+	    <secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	    <indexterm><primary>CONTOUR</primary>
+	    <secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	    <indexterm><primary> WIDGET_LIST</primary>
+	    <secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	    <indexterm><primary>CW_GROUP</primary>
+	    <secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	    <indexterm><primary>_overloadIsTrue</primary>
+	    <secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	    <indexterm><primary>_overloadPlus</primary>
+	    <secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	    <indexterm><primary>_overloadMinus</primary>
+	    <secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	    <indexterm><primary>_overloadBracketsLeftSide</primary>
+	    <secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	    <indexterm><primary>_overloadBracketsRightSide</primary>
+	    <secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	    <indexterm><primary>_overloadEQ</primary>
+	    <secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	    <indexterm><primary> _overloadNE</primary>
+	    <secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    support for empty arrays and <code>!NULL</code> system variable
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    promotion of <code>FOR</code> loop index variable type
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    <code>SCOPE_VARFETCH</code> (only <code>LEVEL</code>
+	    keyword supported)
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    support for <code>.SKIP [NSteps]</code> command
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    keyword <code>DIM</code> in <code>MOMENT()</code>,
+	    <code>MEAN()</code>, <code>STDDEV()</code>,
+	    <code>VARIANCE()</code>, <code>SKEWNESS()</code>,
+	    <code>KURTOSIS()</code>
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    keyword <code>SIGN</code> in <code>FINITE</code>
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    various improvments on <code>READ_JPEG</code>,
+	    <code>READ_PNG</code>, <code>WRITE_JPEG</code>,
+	    <code>WRITE_PNG</code>
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    keyword <code>ICONIC</code> in <code>WSHOW</code>
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    keyword <code>ISOTROPIC</code> in <code>PLOT</code>, 
+	    <code> CONTOUR</code>
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    new widget features incl. <code>WIDGET_LIST</code> 
+	    and <code>CW_GROUP</code>
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	     support for some overloaded operators
+	     (<code>_overloadIsTrue</code>,
+	     <code>_overloadPlus</code>, <code>_overloadMinus</code>,
+	     <code>_overloadBracketsLeftSide</code>,
+	     <code>_overloadBracketsRightSide</code>,
+	     <code>_overloadEQ</code>, <code>_overloadNE</code>)
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </para>
+    <para>
+      There are also some newly implemented routines:
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+	<indexterm><primary>STRMATCH()</primary>
+	<secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	<indexterm><primary>USERSYM</primary>
+	<secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	<indexterm><primary>LUDC</primary>
+	<secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	<indexterm><primary>LUSOL</primary>
+	<secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	<indexterm><primary>DETERM</primary>
+	<secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	<indexterm><primary>ROT</primary>
+	<secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	<indexterm><primary>CONGRID</primary>
+	<secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	<indexterm><primary>BILINEAR</primary>
+	<secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	<indexterm><primary>QROMB()</primary>
+	<secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	<indexterm><primary>QSIMP()</primary>
+	<secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	<indexterm><primary>QROMO()</primary>
+	<secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	<indexterm><primary>TRISOL()</primary>
+	<secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	<indexterm><primary>STANDARDIZE</primary>
+	<secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	<indexterm><primary>HIST_EQUAL</primary>
+	<secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	<indexterm><primary>FX_ROOT</primary>
+	<secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	<indexterm><primary>FZ_ROOTS</primary>
+	<secondary>gdl</secondary></indexterm>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    STRMATCH(), USERSYM
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    LUDC, LUSOL and DETERM
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    ROT, CONGRID and BILINEAR
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    TV for PS output
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    QROMB(), QSIMP() and QROMO()
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    TRISOL()
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    STANDARDIZE and HIST_EQUAL
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    FX_ROOT
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    FZ_ROOTS
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </para>
+  </section>
+
+  <section>
+    <title>genius</title>
+    <para>
+      <indexterm><primary>genius</primary></indexterm>
+
+      <package>genius</package> has been updated from version 1.0.14
+      to 1.0.16.  Changes include:
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+	<indexterm><primary>CurrentTime</primary>
+	<secondary>genius</secondary></indexterm>
+	<indexterm><primary>MacaulayRep</primary>
+	<secondary>genius</secondary></indexterm>
+	<indexterm><primary>MacaulayLowerOperator</primary>
+	<secondary>genius</secondary></indexterm>
+	<indexterm><primary>MacaulayBound</primary>
+	<secondary>genius</secondary></indexterm>
+	<indexterm><primary>SurfacePlotData</primary>
+	<secondary>genius</secondary></indexterm>
+	<indexterm><primary>SurfacePlotDataGrid</primary>
+	<secondary>genius</secondary></indexterm>
+	<indexterm><primary>LinePlotDrawAxisLabels</primary>
+	<secondary>genius</secondary></indexterm>
+	<indexterm><primary>SurfacePlotDrawLegends</primary>
+	<secondary>genius</secondary></indexterm>
+	<indexterm><primary>ExportPlot</primary>
+	<secondary>genius</secondary></indexterm>
+	<indexterm><primary>sinc</primary>
+	<secondary>genius</secondary></indexterm>
+	<indexterm><primary>BesselJ0</primary>
+	<secondary>genius</secondary></indexterm>
+	<indexterm><primary>BesselJ1</primary>
+	<secondary>genius</secondary></indexterm>
+	<indexterm><primary>BesselJn</primary>
+	<secondary>genius</secondary></indexterm>
+	<indexterm><primary>BesselY0</primary>
+	<secondary>genius</secondary></indexterm>
+	<indexterm><primary>BesselY1</primary>
+	<secondary>genius</secondary></indexterm>
+	<indexterm><primary>BesselYn</primary>
+	<secondary>genius</secondary></indexterm>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    New functions CurrentTime, MacaulayRep,
+	    MacaulayLowerOperator, MacaulayBound
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Fix rational powers of negative numbers, and exact
+	    negative rational powers
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Fix zooming in graphs using the mouse when the functions
+	    take long to run
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Accept log instead of ln for symbolic derivative when used
+	    with only one parameter
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Add SurfacePlotData and SurfacePlotDataGrid functions to
+	    draw arbitrary surface data, to allow more complicated 3d
+	    plots and 3d plots from data
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Add LinePlotDrawAxisLabels and SurfacePlotDrawLegends
+	    parameters and add corresponding UI checkboxes
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Add ExportPlot function to export the current contents of
+	    the plot window to a file from GEL
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	   Surface plot now allows "fit dependent axis" automatically
+	   when z limits are unspecified.  And this is the default in
+	   the UI
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Add sinc, BesselJ0, BesselJ1, BesselJn, BesselY0,
+	    BesselY1, BesselYn function
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Plot window slightly bigger (700x500 now) and there are
+	    wider side margins in the lineplot (2D) version to make
+	    tick labels always fit
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    In both 2D and 3D plots, tick labels now use scientific
+	    notation when needed to avoid ugly labels
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    In surface plot the gradient always shows only the range
+	    of the function, so color is more useful when zoomed out
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Simpler output when typing "help foo" when foo is neither
+	    defined nor documented
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	   When for/sum/prod loops are in terms of floating point
+	   numbers and the final number is within 2^-20 times the step
+	   size of the goal, assume there were roundoff errors and
+	   still execute the body
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Handle wider matrices than 2^15 columns in expansion
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Fix flicker when plotting surfaces to allow animations
+	    with 3d plots
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Fix possible uninitialized crash when reading badly formed
+	    standard library
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Fix LinearRecursiveSequence and allow it to take vector for n
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Fix crash on uninitialized variables in conjugate transpose
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Fix crash on extreme zoom out or zoom in of a graph
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Fix derivatives of Im and Re
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Fix file chooser dialogs not starting in current directory
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Avoid double error about uninitialized variables
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Spelling fixes and documentation fixes
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Require MPFR at least 2.3.0
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </para>
+  </section>
+
+  <section>
+    <title>gnome-chemistry-utils</title>
+    <indexterm><primary>gnome-chemistry-utils</primary></indexterm>
+    <para>
+      Fedora 19 includes the latest 0.14.2 version of
+      <package>gnome-chemistry-utils</package>. Compared to 0.13.99
+      there are some changes to <application>GChemPaint</application>:
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Fix reaction construction
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Fix non bonding electron pairs
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Do not allow a mesomery destruction when inside a reaction
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </para>
+  </section>
+
+  <section>
+    <title>gromacs</title>
+    <indexterm><primary>gromacs</primary></indexterm>
+    <para>
+      <package>gromacs</package> 4.6.1 is included in Fedora 19.  In
+      addition to the <package>gromacs</package> package itself, the
+      following related packages have also been changed:
+      <simplelist>
+	<member><package>gromacs-bash</package></member>
+	<member><package>gromacs-common</package></member>
+	<member><package>gromacs-csh</package></member>
+	<member><package>gromacs-devel</package></member>
+	<member><package>gromacs-libs</package></member>
+	<member><package>gromacs-tutor</package> (dropped)</member>
+	<member><package>gromacs-zsh</package></member>
+      </simplelist>
+    </para>
+    <para>
+      In addition to various bug fixes, 4.6.1 includes the following
+      changes: 
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    increased shared object major version to 8
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    updates to HTML manual, install guide, PDF manual, shell
+	    completions
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    new and enhanced error messages
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    various GPU performance enhancements
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    more checks for system support for setting thread affinities
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    removed inter-flag dependency in g_order
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    incorporated new changes from release 4.5.x branch
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    adding warning about not building with icc version &lt; 12
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </para>
+  </section>
+
+  <section>
+    <title>HippoDraw</title>
+    <indexterm><primary>HippoDraw</primary></indexterm>
+    <para>
+      <package>HippoDraw</package> has been dropped from Fedora.
+    </para>
+  </section>
+
+  <section>
+    <title>kst</title>
+    <indexterm><primary>kst</primary></indexterm>
+    <para>
+      <package>kst</package> has been upgraded to 2.0.6.  New features
+      include:
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    user-visible string changes
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    finish UI revamp (esp. context menus + connect plot dialog
+	    pages to the way the dialog is opened, e.g. double click
+	    on axes opens plot dialog in the right place)
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    scientific notation for extreme axis numbers
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    change scalar value directly in the scalar selection combobox
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    as-you-type search in comboboxes (vector selection)
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    view items have an option to scroll/zoom with the contents
+	    of the plot
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    improve automatic plot layout algorithm
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    option to have anti-aliased plots
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    mouse wheel scrolls and zooms
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Adding a drag and drop capability
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    data source text box handles ~/ as shortcut to $HOME
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    legends wrapped to always fit inside their plot
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    new datasource: Matlab .mat file reader (Matlab pretty
+	    much sucks at plotting, that'd be a pretty interesting
+	    move and there's a spec at
+	    <ulink type="http"
+		   url="http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/pdf_doc/matlab/matfile_format.pdf"
+		   />)
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    beta of python-based, mathplotlib-alike scripting (Linux
+	    only for now)
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </para>
+  </section>
+
+  <section>
+    <title>Octave</title>
+    <indexterm><primary>Octave</primary></indexterm>
+    <para>
+      <package>octave</package> has been updated to 3.6.4.
+    </para>
+  </section>
+
+  <section>
+    <title>qcad</title>
+    <indexterm><primary>qcad</primary></indexterm>
+    <para>
+      <package>qcad</package> has been dropped from Fedora.
+    </para>
+  </section>
+
+  <section>
+    <title>R</title>
+    <indexterm><primary>R</primary></indexterm>
+    <indexterm><primary>Statistics</primary><secondary>R</secondary></indexterm>
+    <indexterm><primary>R-devel</primary></indexterm>
+    <indexterm><primary>R-core</primary></indexterm>
+
+    <para>
+      <package>R</package> is a language and environment for
+      statistical computing and graphics.  Fedora 19 includes the
+      latest 3.0.0 release of <package>R</package>, which is a major
+      upgrade.
+    </para>
+    <para>
+      <note>
+	<title>Must re-install packages</title>
+	<para>
+	  There are many add-on packages for  <package>R</package>  which
+	  must be re-installed for this release.
+	</para>
+      </note>
+    </para>
+    <para>
+      A major thrust of release 3.0.0 is to better exploit 64-bit
+      platforms, however there are many, many improvements to a number
+      of functions.  Perhaps obviously, support for long vectors has
+      been greatly improved, but there are dozens of improvements to
+      other functions as well.
+    </para>
+    <para>
+      For full details on this new release of <package>R</package>,
+      the reader is referred to the NEWS page at <ulink type="http"
+      url="http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/NEWS.html" />.
+    </para>
+    <para>
+      In addition to updates to  <package>R</package> itself, a number
+      of R packages have also been enhanced.  The table below lists
+      those packages and the upstream web sites to obtain additional
+      information:
+      <indexterm><primary>R-qtl</primary></indexterm>
+      <indexterm><primary>R-mvtnorm</primary></indexterm>
+      <indexterm><primary>R-multcomp</primary></indexterm>
+      <indexterm><primary>R-lmtest</primary></indexterm>
+      <indexterm><primary>R-java-devel</primary></indexterm>
+      <indexterm><primary>R-java</primary></indexterm>
+      <indexterm><primary>R-IRanges</primary></indexterm>
+      <indexterm><primary>R-hgu95av2probe</primary></indexterm>
+      <indexterm><primary>R-car</primary></indexterm>
+      <indexterm><primary>R-BufferedMatrix</primary></indexterm>
+      <indexterm><primary>R-BSgenome.Celegans.UCSC.ce2</primary></indexterm>
+      <indexterm><primary>R-Biobase</primary></indexterm>
+      <indexterm><primary>R-affyio</primary></indexterm>
+      <table frame="all" id="tabl-R-Package-changes">
+	<title>Updated R Packages</title>
+	<tgroup cols="4">
+	  <colspec colnum="1" colname="c1" colwidth="2*" />
+	  <colspec colnum="2" colname="c2" colwidth="1*" />
+	  <colspec colnum="3" colname="c3" colwidth="1*" />
+	  <colspec colnum="4" colname="c4" colwidth="4*" />
+	  <thead>
+	    <row>
+	      <entry>
+		Package
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		Old Version
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		New Version
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		Upstream URL
+	      </entry>
+	    </row>
+	  </thead>
+	  <tbody>
+	    <row>
+	      <entry>
+		<package>R-affyio</package>
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		1.22.0
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		1.28.0
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		<ulink type="http" url="http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/affyio.html" />
+	      </entry>
+	    </row>
+	    <row>
+	      <entry>
+		<package>R-Biobase</package>
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		2.14.0
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		2.20.0
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		<ulink type="http" url="http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/Biobase.html" />
+	      </entry>
+	    </row>
+	    <row>
+	      <entry>
+		<package>R-BSgenome. Celegans.UCSC.ce2</package>
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		1.3.17
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		1.3.19
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		<ulink type="http" url="http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/data/annotation/html/BSgenome.Celegans.UCSC.ce2.html" />
+	      </entry>
+	    </row>
+	    <row>
+	      <entry>
+		<package>R-BufferedMatrix</package>
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		1.20.0
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		1.24.0
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		<ulink type="http" url="http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/BufferedMatrix.html" />
+	      </entry>
+	    </row>
+	    <row>
+	      <entry>
+		<package>R-car</package>
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		2.0
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		2.0.16
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		<ulink type="http" url="http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/car/index.html" />
+	      </entry>
+	    </row>
+	    <row>
+	      <entry>
+		<package>R-hgu95av2probe</package>
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		2.9.0
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		2.12.0
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		<ulink type="http" url="http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/data/annotation/html/hgu95av2probe.html" />
+	      </entry>
+	    </row>
+	    <row>
+	      <entry>
+		<package>R-IRanges</package>
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		1.14.4
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		1.18.0
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		<ulink type="http" url="http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/IRanges.html" />
+	      </entry>
+	    </row>
+	    <row>
+	      <entry>
+		<package>R-java</package>
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		2.15.2
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		3.0.0
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		<ulink type="http" url="http://www.r-project.org" />
+	      </entry>
+	    </row>
+	    <row>
+	      <entry>
+		<package>R-java-devel</package>
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		2.15.2
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		3.0.0
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		<ulink type="http" url="http://www.r-project.org" />
+	      </entry>
+	    </row>
+	    <row>
+	      <entry>
+		<package>R-lmtest</package>
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		0.9.29
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		0.9.30
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		<ulink type="http" url="http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/lmtest/index.html" />
+	      </entry>
+	    </row>
+	    <row>
+	      <entry>
+		<package>R-multcomp</package>
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		1.2
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		1.2.17
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		<ulink type="http" url="http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/multcomp/index.html" />
+	      </entry>
+	    </row>
+	    <row>
+	      <entry>
+		<package>R-mvtnorm</package>
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		0.9.9991
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		0.9.9994
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		<ulink type="http" url="http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/mvtnorm/index.html" />
+	      </entry>
+	    </row>
+	    <row>
+	      <entry>
+		<package>R-qtl</package>
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		1.25.15
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		1.27.10
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		<ulink type="http" url="http://www.rqtl.org/" />
+	      </entry>
+	    </row>
+	    <row>
+	      <entry>
+		<package>R-qvalue</package>
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		1.30.0
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		1.34.0
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		<ulink type="http" url="http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/qvalue.html" />
+	      </entry>
+	    </row>
+	    <row>
+	      <entry>
+		<package>R-rlecuyer</package>
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		0.3.1
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		0.3.3
+	      </entry>
+	      <entry>
+		<ulink type="http" url="http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rlecuyer/index.html" />
+	      </entry>
+	    </row>
+	  </tbody>
+	</tgroup>
+      </table>
+    </para>
+  </section>
+
+  <section>
+    <title>Veusz</title>
+    <para>
+      <package>veusz</package> has been updated to 1.17.1.  Some new
+      features include:
+      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Allow coloured points for non-orthogonal plots (polar, ternary)
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Remove unnecessary exception data
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Add new broken axis widget with gaps in the numerical sequence
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Grid lines are plotted always under (or over) the data
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Shift+Scroll wheel scrolls left/right
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Polar plots can have a "minimum" radius and log axes
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Many more LaTeX symbols added
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Add SAMP/VoTable support
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    New shifted-points xy line mode, which plots a stepped
+	    line with the points shifted to lie between the
+	    coordinates given
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Points can be picked to console and/or clipboard
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    Allow reversed ternary plot
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </para>
+  </section>
+
 </section>
 
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