Windows binary packages for Testing (Re: Testing version of Release 5.2.7)

[Tatsuro M. <tma...@ya...>]

I have uploaded testing windows binary packages gnuplot 5.2.7 beta.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot/files/gnuplot/testing/

If you have find problem, please report here.

Tatsuro

----- Original Message -----
>From: Ethan Merritt (UW)
>To: gnuplot beta list 
>Date: 2019/5/21, Tue 15:49
>Subject: Testing version of Release 5.2.7
> 
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> 
>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
> 
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