From c53ce5cad6aa80d247a5deca65d8c937f9de41f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?S=C3=A9bastien=20Villemot?= <sebastien.villemot@ens.fr> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:27:07 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] NEWS entry for 4.2.5 (cherry picked from commit 00596753c4ea72e9f735e29acf7eaa5f69090b27) --- NEWS | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2e59c9b89..5008450d2 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,44 @@ +Announcement for Dynare 4.2.5 (on 2012-03-14) +============================================= + +We are pleased to announce the release of Dynare 4.2.5. + +This is a bugfix release. + +The Windows package for the new release is already available for download at +the official Dynare website <http://www.dynare.org>. The Mac and Linux packages +should follow soon. + +All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade. + +The new release is compatible with MATLAB versions ranging from 7.0 (R14) to +7.14 (R2012a) and with GNU Octave versions ranging from 3.0 to 3.6. + +Note that GNU Octave users under Windows will have to upgrade to GNU Octave +version 3.6.1 (MinGW). The Octave installer can be downloaded at: + + http://www.dynare.org/octave/Octave3.6.1_gcc4.6.2_20120303-setup.exe + +Here is a non-exhaustive list of the problems identified in version 4.2.4 and +that have been fixed in version 4.2.5: + + * The MATLAB optimization toolbox was sometimes not correctly detected even + when installed + + * Using the inverse gamma distribution with extreme hyperparameter values + could lead to a crash + + * Various issues in the accelerated deterministic solver with block + decomposition + + * Various issues in the parallelization engine + + * Compatibility issues with the Global Sensitivity Analysis toolbox + + * The Dynare++ binary was broken in the Windows package because of a missing + dynamic library + + Announcement for Dynare 4.2.4 (on 2011-12-02) ============================================= -- GitLab