Plan for incremental release of version 4.2.3

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

It's been 1 year since the 4.2 release and 6 months since the 4.2.2 
incremental release (4.2 patchlevel 2).

I am thinking to release 4.2.3 (4.2 patchlevel 3) some time in the
next couple of weeks.  The list of accumulated changes as shown
in the NEWS file is appended below. Apart from some trivial new
features, this mostly consists of fixes for platform-specific
configuration issues and terminal driver bugs.  

In particular, this release should now self-install on OSX 10.4
(OSX 10.5 is still a sore point) and various platforms not using
the ./configure script.  It also contains the recent fix for pm3d
and polygon-fill support in the cgm terminal driver, broken since
4.0.

If there is anything else you think should be included, please
speak up.  There are for example four recent patches to the cvs
development version that also apply against 4.2 and could go in
if wanted:

   cgm_rgb              Approximate RGB colors for cgm terminal
			by using the web_color_rgbs from bitmap.c
   inline_readline      Read inline data from '-' via readline()
   2xbinary             allow more than 2 binary files in a single
			plot command
   xtic_rotate_42       better estimation of space for rotated tic labels


	Ethan


New features, changes and fixes in gnuplot version 4.2.3
===========================================================
* NEW options front and back to "set colorbox"
* NEW character encoding support for emf and pdf terminals
* NEW "format" keyword for "set tics" and "set {x|y|...}tics"
* NEW allow user to set colorbar label rotatation if the bar is vertical
* FIX allow tic format to be given as a string variable
* FIX handling of negative screen coordinates on ia64, PPC
* FIX direction of y axis in graph coords for "set view map"
* FIX minitics in log scale
* FIX minor bugfixes to terminals fig, emf, post, svg, x11
* FIX cgm terminal now produces correct pm3d and pattern fill output
* FIX protect against overly long font names in gd, svg
* FIX infinite loop from x11 plot window resizing under ion, fluxbox
* FIX never estimate zero size for a non-empty string
* FIX discard degenerate polygons during hidden3d processing
* FIX segfault if replot is called while terminal type is unknown
* FIX segfault if locale obtained by getenv() is freed
* FIX discard axis ticks read from previous data file
* FIX Do not clip image against Z range in 3D splot with "set view map"
* FIX off-by-one error in implicit column 0 for binary data files
* FIX splot was trashing the default clipping boundaries for 2D plots
* CHANGE tweak installation scripts for OSX nt cyg dj2 mgw
* CHANGE install Xresource file as Gnuplot, not Gnuplot.app-defaults
* CHANGE Remove limitation of 10 args max to internal function sprintf()
* CHANGE Bring emf point types into conformity with other terminals

-- 
Ethan A Merritt