diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 7bc530315334cf69d71132346d7a42c27c005021..25a7cd3b4aefac730d669d395fa3401ffa9948da 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,53 @@ +Announcement for Dynare 4.4.2 (on 2014-03-04) +============================================= + +We are pleased to announce the release of Dynare 4.4.2. + +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 8.2 (R2013b) +and with GNU Octave versions 3.6 to 3.8. + +Here is a list of the problems identified in version 4.4.1 and that have been +fixed in version 4.4.2: + + - Geweke convergence diagnostics was computed on the wrong sample if `mh_drop' + was not equal to the default of 0.5. + + - The confidence level for computations in `estimation' (`conf_sig') could not + be changed and was fixed at 0.9. + + - The `loglinear' option of `stoch_simul' was displaying the steady state of + the original values, not the logged ones, and was producing incorrect + simulations and simulated moments. Theoretical moments were unaffected. + + - The `optim' option of `estimation (for setting options to `mode_compute') + was only working with at least MATLAB 8.1 (R2013a) or Octave 3.8. + + - For unit root models, theoretical HP filtered moments were sometimes + erroneously displayed as NaN. + + - Specifying an endogenous variable twice after the `estimation' command would + lead to a crash in the computation of moments. + + - Deterministic simulations were crashing on some models with more than one + lead or one lag on exogenous variables. + + - Homotopy in stochastic extended path with order greater than 0 was not + working correctly (during the homotopy steps the perfect foresight model + solver was called instead of the stochastic perfect foresight model solver). + + - MCMC convergence diagnostics were not computed if `mh_replic' was less than + 2000; the test now relies on the total number of iterations (this only makes + a difference if option `load_mh_file' is used). + + Announcement for Dynare 4.4.1 (on 2014-01-17) ============================================= @@ -21,7 +71,7 @@ with GNU Octave versions 3.6 to 3.8. - The syntax introduced in 4.4.0 for conditional forecast in a deterministic setup was removed, and replaced by a new one that is better suited to the - task. More precisely, such deterministc forecast are no longer done using + task. More precisely, such deterministic forecasts are no longer done using the `conditional_forecast' command. The latter is replaced by a group of commands: `init_plan', `basic_plan' and `flip_plan'. See the reference manual for more details.