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Re: Testing version of Release 5.2.7
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From: Erik L. <eri...@gm...> - 2019-05-21 17:39:08
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P.S. Looking into the changes of the fig terminal, I did "help term fig". The help text states: *The fig terminal was significantly revised in gnuplot version 5.3.* That is evidently a bit confusing. Erik On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 12:12 PM Erik Luijten <eri...@gm...> wrote: > 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. >> >> >> >> https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot/files/gnuplot/testing/ >> >> >> >> 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 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> 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. >> >> >> >> Release Notes date: 14-May-2019 >> >> >> >> Changes in 5.2.7 >> >> ================ >> >> >> >> * 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 >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnuplot-beta mailing list >> gnu...@li... >> Membership management via: >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gnuplot-beta >> > |
