News - Project LinBox

Announcing LinBox version 1.2

May 11, 2011

Version 1.2.0 has been released

What's new in this release:

• Many many bug fixes, many memleaks, much code beautify.
• Licence/copyright added to (hopefully) every file.
• Vi/emacs magic lines for auto-indentation.
• Some documentation added + improved Doxygen framework (dev/user documentation, more *.doxy items, bug/todo list, bibliography list)
• Upgrade to givaro 3.4.0 series ( new namespace, new API for integer operations, a few new functions (naturallog...) )
• Upgrade to fflas-ffpack 1.4.0 (new namespace, new includes)
• Some initial work introduced here and there (matrix permutation representations, symbolic/numeric solver, sparse matrix representation...)
• CRA algorithms reworked and tested, some added.
• Timer moved to Givaro
• Some debug/util moved to FflasFfpack
• Better configure.ac/Makefiles (more options, icc/gcc customisation,...)
• More m4 rules
• Possibility to use IML functions as a shared library (and some examples given)
• make fullcheck checks all possible tests given and reports
• Auto-installer from sources/svn with plenty of options
• Some new field functions like characteristic()
• Work on synchronising field member functions signatures for better compatibility between all fields (in progress)
• ...and miscellaneous.

October 10, 2011

Version 1.2.1 has been released

What's new in this release:

• better auto-install.sh
• update for Givaro interface changes
• Use only Blas(Subm/M)atrix according to the Mother model. Remove all other dense representations.
• Block Berlekamp/Massey sequence introduced
• fix FSF addresses.
• OS-X configure bug fixing.
• sage-on-gentoo+sage patches.
• correct lapack handling
• m4ri check
• oand 1/0/-1 to most tests
• RawIterators are renamed to Iterators (impossible to pronounce, easy to misspell)
• many small tweaks, bugs corrected
• rework fields/ architecture.
• ...and miscellaneous.

October 28, 2011

Version 1.2.2 has been released

What's new in this release:

• Bug fixes.