Re: Testing version of Release 5.2.7

[Erik L. <eri...@gm...>]

Dear Ethan,

Version 5.2.7beta compiles without problems on OS X. I have not tested all
the bugfixes, but in a quick check it appeared to work properly.

Best,

Erik


On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 1:52 AM Ethan Merritt (UW) <me...@uw...> wrote:

>
>
> I have placed a tarball gnuplot-5.2.7beta.tar.gz in the "testing" folder
> on SourceForge.
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>
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> https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot/files/gnuplot/testing/
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>
>
> This version identifies as 5.2.7beta and is intended for test-builds on
> Windows,
>
> OSX, etc prior to full release of 5.2.7 at the end of the month.
>
> Please report and build problems before then.
>
>
>
> There are many more changes than is usual for a patchlevel release this
> late in
>
> the series. I do not know why, but perhaps it has taken longer than usual
> for
>
> various linux distributions to include any version of the current major
> release
>
> so end-users only recently switched to 5.2 from 5.0. Maybe.
>
>
>
> Ethan
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>
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>
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>
> GNUPLOT Version 5.2.7 Release Notes
>
> ===================================
>
>
>
> These release notes are for version 5.2 patchlevel 7 (5.2.7).
>
> This release contains bug-fixes, a few changes back-ported from the
>
> development version, and some minor new features.
>
> The largest change is a revised fig terminal that brings it into line
>
> with capabilities of other version 5 terminals.
>
>
>
> Please see the ChangeLog file for a complete list of changes made during
> the
>
> course of development from 5.0 to 5.2.
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>
>
> Release Notes date: 14-May-2019
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>
>
> Changes in 5.2.7
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> ================
>
>
>
> * NEW "set pm3d noclipcb" will skip drawing quadrangles with color < cbmin
>
> * NEW pm terminal supports utf8, dashed lines, bold/italic text
>
> * NEW imaginary component of array values is available to "using" in
> column 3
>
> * NEW gnuplot --slow may help use of qt terminal with slow system font
> server
>
> * CHANGE splot "with points pt 0" acts like "with dots"
>
> * CHANGE (tikz) improved default interpretation of gnuplot arrowhead style
>
> * CHANGE teach hidden3d to handle double-headed vectors (arrowstyle
> "heads")
>
> * CHANGE "unset title" or "reset" resets all title properties to default
>
> * CHANGE font names passed to enhanced text processing may be in quotes
>
> * CHANGE cairo terminals accept fractional font sizes
>
> * CHANGE "plot with table" does not output trailing field separator
>
> * CHANGE better centering for clustered histograms
>
> * CHANGE clear STATS_* variables before performing analysis
>
> * CHANGE cairo, libgd, and svg terminals handle LT_NODRAW by not drawing
> at all
>
> * CHANGE svg terminal clickable icons are in-line data rather than
> external refs
>
> * CHANGE revise space allocated for ylabel; allow text justification for
> ylabel
>
> * CHANGE reduce overhead, making it feasible to have 10^6 hypertext labels
>
> * FIX "plot with table" unnecessarily limited string column output to 60
> chars
>
> * FIX (windows) make sure graph window is shown even if the program is
> "hidden"
>
> * FIX hidden3d mode was not correctly dealing with arrowstyle backhead
>
> * FIX sprintf in 'using' spec must not clobber numeric locale
>
> * FIX tikz - request for polygon with 0 vertices could hang terminal
>
> * FIX lua/tikz - do not attempt to ftruncate output being piped through
> stdout
>
> * FIX tkcanvas - do not attempt to ftruncate output being piped through
> stdout
>
> * FIX handle NaN values in input stream to "stats FOO matrix"
>
> * FIX prevent extra read past the end of a datablock holding matrix data
>
> * FIX pm - issues in box and polygon fill, (wide) lines, enhanced text,
> images
>
> * FIX dropped character in piped input stream if plot window is manually
> closed
>
> * FIX extraneous dots and potential segfault from splot with contour labels
>
> * FIX boxplots - color sequence correctly starts with specified linetype
>
> * FIX incomplete initialization led to segfault from "gnuplot -c foo.gp
> baz"
>
> * FIX Allow "pm3d depthorder base" to handle 3D quadrangles with logscale z
>
>
>
>
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