diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md index 1e48180a19b411b5f71ec81ba584c2cfd1591926..7176873c0761d3201c6aca7ce8776b2e1c265ede 100644 --- a/NEWS.md +++ b/NEWS.md @@ -1,3 +1,44 @@ +Announcement for Dynare 4.6.3 (on 2020-11-20) +============================================= + +We are pleased to announce the release of Dynare 4.6.3. + +This maintenance release fixes various bugs. + +The Windows, macOS and source packages are already available for download at +[the Dynare website](https://www.dynare.org/download/). + +All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade. + +This release is compatible with MATLAB versions ranging from 7.9 (R2009b) to +9.9 (R2020b), and with GNU Octave versions 5.2.0 (under Windows) and 4.4.1 +(under macOS). + +Here is a list of the problems identified in version 4.6.2 and that have been +fixed in version 4.6.3: + +* Using an unknown symbol in `irf_shocks` option of `stoch_simul` would lead to + a crash of the preprocessor +* `discretionary_policy` would crash in the presence of news shocks +* The `endogenous_prior` option did not properly handle missing observations +* The auxiliary particle filter with pruning and resampling would crash +* Initialization of the state variance for particle filters was buggy +* An `@#else` clause after an `@#ifndef` was not correctly interpreted +* An `@#elseif` clause after an `@#ifdef` or an `@#ifndef` was not correctly + interpreted +* Perfect foresight simulations of models with a single equation would crash + when using either the `lmmcp` option or the `linear_approximation` +* Inequality constraints on endogenous variables (when using the `lmmcp` + option) were not enforced on purely backward or purely forward models +* Perfect foresight simulations with `bytecode` and `block` options could crash + if there was a purely forward variable whose value in all periods could be + evaluated backward (typically a process of the form `y=a*y(+1)+e`) +* `extended_path` was broken with `bytecode` +* Under Windows, with Octave, the k-order perturbation and MS-SBVAR MEX files + could not be loaded +* On Fedora (and possibly other GNU/Linux distributions), compilation from + source would fail against Octave 5 + Announcement for Dynare 4.6.2 (on 2020-09-07) =============================================