diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 280f285c5e0019f8ed8b190d8f276898fcaaabf6..004cbc1c1119ec0c040aa32b844f9f68fc02a3d3 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,74 @@ +Announcement for Dynare 4.3.1 (on 2012-10-10) +============================================= + +We are pleased to announce the release of Dynare 4.3.1. This release adds a few +minor features and fixes various bugs. + +The Windows and Mac packages are already available for download at: + + http://www.dynare.org/download/dynare-4.3 + +The GNU/Linux packages (for Debian and Ubuntu) should follow soon. + +All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade. + +The new release is compatible with MATLAB versions ranging from 7.0 (R14) to +8.0 (R2012b) and with GNU Octave versions ranging from 3.2 to 3.6. + +Here is the list of the main user-visible changes: + + +* New features in the user interface: + + - New `@#ifndef' directive in the macro-processor + + - Possibility of simultaneously specifying several output formats in the + `graph_format' option + + - Support for XLSX files in `datafile' option of `estimation' and in + `initval_file' + + +* Bugs and problems identified in version 4.3.0 and that have been fixed in + version 4.3.1: + + - Shock decomposition was broken + + - The welfare computation with `ramsey_policy' was buggy when used in + conjunction with `histval' + + - Estimation of models with both missing observations and measurement errors + was buggy + + - The option `simul_replic' was broken + + - The macro-processor directive `@#ifdef' was broken + + - Identification with `max_dim_cova_group > 1' was broken for specially + degenerate models (when parameter theta has pairwise collinearity of one + with multiple other parameters, i.e. when all couples (theta,b), (theta,c), + ... (theta,d) have perfect collinearity in the Jacobian of the model) + + - The `parallel_test' option was broken + + - Estimation with correlated shocks was broken when the correlations were + specified in terms of correlation and not in terms of co-variance + + - The Windows package was broken with MATLAB 7.1 and 7.2 + + - When using `mode_compute=0' with a mode file generated using + `mode_compute=6', the value of option `mh_jscale' was not loaded + + - Using exogenous deterministic variables at 2nd order was causing a crash + + - The option `no_create_init' for the `ms_estimation' command was broken + + - Loading of datafiles with explicit filename extensions was not working + + - The preprocessor had a memory corruption problem which could randomly lead + to crashes + + Announcement for Dynare 4.3.0 (on 2012-06-15) =============================================