Re: early release of version 5.4.5 (please test)

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

Thank you for your efforts.

I build gnuplot-5.4.5 beta on Windows and confirmed that bug #2549 and bug #2551 were fixed.

Tatsuro 

> ----- Original Message -----
> 
> From: "Ethan A Merritt" <me...@uw...>
> To: "gnu...@li..." <gnu...@li...>
> Date: 2022/09/26 月 02:55
> Subject: early release of version 5.4.5 (please test)
> 
> 
> I have uploaded a testing copy of a version 5.4.5 release to the "testing"
> area on SourceForge:
>   https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot/files/gnuplot/testing/
> 
> The reason for an earlier than usual release is to correct a regression
> that affected version 5.4.4 (only) and to provide a fix for mousing in
> the Windows qt terminal.
> 
> The regression in 5.4.4 caused string->integer type promotion to
> incorrectly interpret leading '0' characters as indicating an octal number.
> For example in extracting sequence numbers from filenames "run_009.dat",
> "run_010.dat", the first conversion would fail ('9' is not a legal octal
> character) and the second would yield 8 rather than 10.
> 
> My thought is to leave a week for testing and then announce the actual
> release at the end of this month.
> 
> Changes in 5.4.5
> ================
> * NEW    "set key offset <dx>, <dy>" tweaks placement of the key
> * NEW    data-driven histogram colors (variable color from extra using column)
> * CHANGE re-order drawing 3D labels to come after pm3d depthorder surfaces
> * CHANGE hpgl: add terminal option "fontscale <value>"
> * CHANGE for nonuniform matrix data, column(0) returns linear position in matrix
> * CHANGE set pointintervalbox 0 disables drawing the background box   Bug #2544
> * FIX    svg: hypertext font handling
> * FIX    track columnheaders of multiple data blocks in a single file Bug #2538
> * FIX    Clean up positioning of polar border, raxis, and theta tics  Bug #2130
> * FIX    Autoscaling of logscaled raxis
> * FIX    memory corruption if a small plot structure is recycled      Bug #2550
> * FIX    regression in 5.4.4 - promotion of string to integer should
>          should not assume that a leading 0 means octal               Bug #2551
> * FIX    Windows qt: "pause -1" should not block mousing              Bug #2549
> 
>         Ethan
> 
> 
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