Changelog for gretl-2024b-1.1.x86_64.rpm :

* Sat Jun 15 2024 Atri Bhattacharya - Update to version 2024b:
* \"gridplot\" command: add a --title option
* \"clear\" command: add an --all option
* instrings() function: add optional boolean argument to get a simple boolean return value
* typeof() function: functionality is extended to cover hansl expressions in general
* exists() function: recommended usage is restricted to top- level identifiers, but backward compatibility is preserved for the present
* new function binperms() for binary permutations
* Testing for equality via \"==\" and \"!=\": extend this to cover arrays and bundles
* help files: clarify the help for some commands and improve formatting
* $sysinfo bundle: add \"stack_size\"
* mrw (Mankiw-Romer-Weil) dataset: rename \"inv\" as \"i_y\"
* Fix bug: crash on replacing a single character in a string variable, when the replacement UTF-8 character takes up more bytes than the original
* Fix bug: potential crash when using the \"smpl\" command on a dataset that is already subject to random resampling
* Fix bug: possible confusion in parsing lag specifications for list members, as in \"list.vname(-1)\"
* Fix bug: possible interference of options passed in \"plot\" with those passed to \"gnuplot\"
* Fix bug: crash in 32-bit gretl for Windows when trying to read gdtb data files created on a 64-bit system
* Function packages: validate gfn files using an XML schema rather than a Document Type Definition
* GUI, function packages: further extensions to the \"ui-maker\" functionality, plus minor fixes for the function-call dialog
* GUI: support the --preserve-panel option in the dialog box for sub-sampling
* GUI: support the Gamma distribution under /Tools/Distribution graphs
* GUI: fix the \"Packages\" entry under Help
* GUI: ensure that all fonts scale on zoom in/out in help
* GUI: add more choices for plot scaling
* GUI: improvements to the regls dialog
* Internals: economize stack usage in case of nested function calls
* regls addon: bug fixes and improved documentation- Add guide and command reference PDFs as sources and install them as part of a new -doc package.- Run checks as part of %check section.- Split out lang package.- Drop changes made to .desktop file.- Switch to \"pkgconfig\" based BuildRequires where possible.- Bump shared library name to keep up with soversion bump.- Minor specfile cleanups.
* Wed Sep 21 2022 Stefan Brüns - New upstream release 2022b See included Changelog file or http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ChangeLog.html- Drop obsolete desktop-file-fixwarning.patch
* Fri Dec 04 2015 stathisagrapidisAATTgmail.com- Fixed error: No sufficient Category definition.
* Thu Jun 19 2014 stathisagrapidisAATTgmail.com- New upstream release 1.9.90
* GUI reorganization: move the Function packages menu from /Files to /Tools
* GUI enhancement: add News button under \"/Help/About gretl\" to display list of changes in the current version
* Help menu: add item for the new \"hansl primer\" which covers the basics of gretl\'s scripting language
* Introduce a new native binary datafile format, the gdtb file (zipped XML metadata plus binary values)
* Add new functions: bread(), bwrite(), substr(), easterday()
* \"summary\" command: add --weights option
* \"tabprint\" command: add --csv option
* fdjac function: provide choice of algorithm
* Enable use of arrays in the SFMT random number generator
* Enable use of value labels (if any) in factorized boxplots
* Enable use of named lists in the GMM() and GMMlevel() parameter-groups for the \"dpanel\" and \"arbond\" commands
* Print out alternative definition of R^2 in FE linear panel data models
* Add choice of compression level when saving data in native gdt format
* Stata dta import: handle (illegal!) non-ASCII characters in variable names
* X-12-ARIMA interface: support the new X-13-ARIMA-SEATS as an alternative
* Fix bug: incorrect plot header when the --radians option was given with the \"pergm\" command
* Fix bug: the --test-down option to \"coint\" was not working as advertised
* Fix bug (?): the final regression in \"coint\" (Engle-Granger test) could end up using a different sample range depending on whether or not the --skip-df option was given
* Fix bug: incorrect handling of Poisson regression when the specification does not include an intercept term
* Fix bug: bad handing of decimal comma in context of the --by option
* Fix bug: incorrect treatment of big-endian SPSS \"sav\" files on data import
* Fix bug: the auxiliary regression for White\'s test should contain a constant even if the model to be tested does not
* Fix bug: wrong starting date being sent to x12a/x13as for monthly data starting in October
* Fix bug: score calculation for random-effects probit was incorrect
* Fix bug: incorrect estimates when the --robust option was used with the \"wls\" command
* Fix bugs 181, 182
* Internals: add support for multiple, independent PRNGs
* configure script: add an option --disable-www which drops the libcurl dependency, conditional on not building the
* Tue Feb 18 2014 stathisagrapidisAATTgmail.com- New upstream release 1.9.14
* Use daily dates when plotting daily/weekly data and there are not too many observations
* Line-numbering in the script editor: make this a preference which is remembered
* mols() function: parallelize some of the work for builds with openmp enabled
* GUI: provide a menu item for adding a panel unit index
* GUI: \"/File/Save data as\" now switches the current dataset to the name of the saved one
* Fix bug: the build of gnuplot included in the gretl-quartz package (for Mac) did not work properly in stand-alone mode
* Fix bug: the importer for SAS \"xport\" files over-counted the number of observations, leading to out-of-memory failure on very big datasets
* Fix bug: the --show-plot option to the \"freq\" command was not being respected
* Fix bug: failure parsing value-labels for \"int\" arguments in building function packages
* Fix bug: \"foreach\" loop failing when given a single term that is not a named list
* Fix bug: panel Hausman test producing bad output under some conditions- Updated gtksource build requirements.
* Tue Jul 09 2013 stathisagrapidisAATTgmail.com- Fixed warning about file permissions of the upstream tarball.- Added desktop-file-fixwarning.patch which fixes warning: invalid desktop file missing a semicolon as trailing character.
* Fri Jul 05 2013 stathisagrapidisAATTgmail.com- New upstream version 1.9.12
* Mon Oct 22 2012 stathisagrapidisAATTgmail.com- Used spaces instead of tabs.- Removed %clean section.- Removed
*.la files.
* Mon Oct 22 2012 stathisagrapidisAATTgmail.com- Fixed warning: package built without RPM_OPT_FLAGS.- Fixed warning: empty generic name in desktop file.- Fixed warning: desktop file contains absolute path in icon.
* Sat Oct 20 2012 stathisagrapidisAATTgmail.com- Made the BuildRequires one per line.