diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md index 3b94c458a6985689ddd6945ff77180337ee61806..a5abba764068f630101b84aefe8549c551ac30b4 100644 --- a/NEWS.md +++ b/NEWS.md @@ -1,3 +1,58 @@ +Announcement for Dynare 6.2 (on 2024-09-25) +=========================================== + +We are pleased to announce the release of Dynare 6.2. + +This maintenance release fixes various bugs. + +The Windows, macOS, MATLAB online and source packages are available for +download at [the Dynare website](https://www.dynare.org/download/). + +This release is compatible with MATLAB versions ranging from 9.5 (R2018b) to +24.2 (R2024b), and with GNU Octave versions ranging from 7.1.0 to 9.2.0 (NB: +the Windows package requires version 9.2.0 specifically). + +Here is a list of the problems identified in version 6.1 and that have been +fixed in version 6.2: + +* The mixed complementarity problem (MCP) solver could fail or give wrong + results in some cases where there were multiple complementarity conditions +* The `qmc_sequence` MEX file from the macOS package would fail to load +* OccBin forecasts would crash in case of shocks with zero variance +* OccBin smoother would crash if simulation did not converge +* Computation of posterior moments could crash in large models +* The auxiliary particle filter and the Liu & West online filter + (`mode_compute=11`) required the Statistics Toolbox +* The auxiliary particle filter and the Liu & West online filter + (`mode_compute=11`) would not work with the `discretionary_policy` command +* The `discretionary_policy` command would crash if there were fewer than two + exogenous variables +* Using the `forecast` command with a model solved at `order>1` without + `varexo_det` would return forecasts based on a first order approximation + instead of providing an error message +* Using the `forecast` command with a model solved at `order=2` with + `varexo_det` and `pruning` would return forecasts without `pruning` instead + of providing an error message +* Using the `forecast` command with a model solved at `order=3` would crash +* SMC methods could return wrong posterior results if the Parallel Toolbox was + installed +* The Herbst-Schorfheide SMC sampler would crash at `order>1` +* Annualized shock decomposition would not output results if desired vintage + date did not coincide to an end-of-the-year Q4 period +* Using `rand_multivariate_student` as the proposal density in the + `tailored_random_block_metropolis_hastings` posterior sampler would return + wrong results +* The `onlyclearglobals` of the `dynare` command was not working as intended +* The `det_cond_forecast` command would crash with plans including only + expected shocks +* Estimation could crash in some rare cases when computing the 2nd order + moments of prior or posterior distribution +* Successive calls of the Herbst-Schorfheide SMC sampler could crash due to + some stale files being left on disk +* The shock decomposition plot could be wrong in the presence of leads/lags on + exogenous variables, or when the steady state is squeezed + + Announcement for Dynare 6.1 (on 2024-05-02) ===========================================