Release 5.2.7

[Ethan M. (UW) <me...@uw...>]

Release 5.2.7 tarball and Windows binaries are ready and can be
downloaded from 

     https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot/files/gnuplot/5.2.7/[1]



		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 major revision to the fig and pm terminals
bringing them 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: 29-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

	happy gnuplotting

		Ethan

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[1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot/files/gnuplot/5.2.4/gnuplot-5.2.4.tar.gz