From 3aa0eb1ac1489499b87c9bf67d5e287005fe768c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?St=C3=A9phane=20Adjemian=20=28Scylla=29?= <stephane.adjemian@univ-lemans.fr> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 09:56:58 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Updated NEWS file for 4.5.1 bug fix release. (cherry picked from commit d78be7fdf0b34d03f326897e6198b96cccb3564b) --- NEWS | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 9dc3638b1..e38acc20b 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,47 @@ +Announcement for Dynare 4.5.1 (on 2017-08-24) +============================================= + +We are pleased to announce the release of Dynare 4.5.1. + +This is a bugfix release. + +The Windows packages are already available for download at: + + http://www.dynare.org/download/dynare-stable + +The Mac and GNU/Linux packages (for Debian and Ubuntu LTS) should follow soon. + +This release is compatible with MATLAB versions 7.3 (R2006b) to 9.2 (R2017a) +and with GNU Octave versions 4.2. + +Here is a list of the problems identified in version 4.5.0 and that have been +fixed in version 4.5.1: + + + - Fixed out of memory issue with simpsa optimization algorithm. + + - Added missing plots for measurement errors with `generate_trace_plot` + command. + + - Posterior moments after MCMC for very big models were not correctly computed + and their plotting might crash Dynare. + + - Results of the posterior conditional variance decomposition after MCMC were + not correctly computed. + + - Options `use_shock_groups` and `colormap` of the `shock_decomposition` + command were not working. + + - Added a clean error message if sensitivity toolbox is used with recursive + estimation. + + - Computation of posterior filtered variables was crashing in models with only + one variable. + + - Fixed various typos and errors in the reference manual. + + + Announcement for Dynare 4.5.0 (on 2017-06-11) ============================================= -- GitLab