Known bugs present in the current stable version

This page documents known bugs in Dynare stable.

• Under Windows, when the default installation location is chosen (c:\dynare\), Dynare installation files can be modified by unpriviledged local users (bug fixed in 689355eb)
• OccBin:
  • running calib_smoother with smoother_inversion_filter would crash unless likelihood_inversion_filter was also specified (bug not yet fixed, see !2116 (merged))
  • running the PKF smoother would crash if an error was encountered during computation of the decision rules (bug not yet fixed, see #1879 (closed))
• PAC: iterative OLS is broken (bug fixed in 3aeb1ff7)
• Perfect foresight simulations
  • the debug-mode did not preserve sparsity, causing out of memory errors (bug fixed in bbdcdc89)
• Estimation:
  • the computation of prior/posterior statistics would crash if filter step_ahead > 1 without requesting forecast or the smoother (bug fixed, see e7ca989b)
• Forecasts are only based on the DSGE-model, not the DSGE-VAR (bug not yet fixed; see #819)
• The contemp_reduced_form-option of the sbvar-command is broken (bug not yet fixed, see #1716)