4.2.6 released

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

Gnuplot version 4.2.6 is released as of today.

SourceForge has totally re-worked the process for putting out a release.
Making the actual files available for download is now much easier.
Unfortunately, I can't find an equivalent to the old button 
"E-mail an announcement to everyone who requested notification".

So tell all your friends :-)

	Ethan (sf...@us...)









   	           GNUPLOT VERSION 4.2.6
	    ===================================

Version 4.2.6 is an incremental update to the current official base
release gnuplot version 4.2.   

This is expected to be the final update to the 4.2 series;
the next release will be version 4.4

A synopsis of changes since the previous release is given below and in the
NEWS file.  Full information is given in the ChangeLog.

New features, changes and fixes in gnuplot version 4.2.6
===========================================================
* NEW xterm tektronix emulation 'set term xterm'
* FIX off-by-one pixel bug in width of boxes with palette or rgb color
* FIX center rotation of 'set view equal xyz' mode at screen center
* FIX sanity-check time ranges for axes with timeformat
* FIX pslatex blacktext and broken format specifier
* FIX PostScript code points for Lcaron, lcaron in encoding cp1250
* CHANGE If a 2D plot uses a Z-based palette, then autoscale cbrange
* CHANGE aquaterm accepts "size xx,yy" with a comma
* CHANGE Remove the EXPERIMENTAL flag from the wxt terminal
* CHANGE Remove the EXPERIMENTAL flag from the x11 terminal binary polygon mode


Demo plots illustrating these and other features are online at

	http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo_4.2/

You can download a source tarball for gnuplot version 4.2.5 from the 
gnuplot development site on SourceForge.

	http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2055


Installation
------------
Installation instructions are available in the source itself; the short
version for linux/unix-like systems is to unpack the tarball and then
build it:
		cd gnuplot-4.2.6 ; ./configure ; make
test it:
		make check
install it:
		make install


Known issues
------------

- Internationalization and locale support is incomplete in version 4.2.
  If you encounter problems with character encodings, numerical formats,
  or other locale issues, try the CVS development branch on SourceForge.

- Octave has recently changed its method of sending data to gnuplot for
  plotting; data is passed in-line through the pipe to gnuplot's stdin.
  Unfortunately, the current Gnuplot 4.2 code does not support mouse
  interaction with in-line data.  This problem is fixed in the development
  branch, and the fix will appear in version 4.4.

Support
-------
Please report all bugs and installation problems to the bug tracker
on SourceForge:

	http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=2055&atid=102055

There is also an active gnuplot discussion forum on usenet group

	comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot

Development
-----------
Gnuplot development is quite active. The development branch on SourceForge
contains preliminary implementations of many new features.  At the time of
this release, the development branch is identified as version 4.3.
When version 4.4 is released, the development branch will be relabeled 4.5.
Feedback and contributions of code are very welcome.