Re: early release of version 5.4.5 (please test)

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

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5.4.5 patchlevel 5  ->  5.4 patchlevel 5

Tatsuro

> ----- Original Message -----
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> From: "Tatsuro MATSUOKA via gnuplot-beta" <gnu...@li...>
> To: "me...@uw..." <me...@uw...>; "gnu...@li..." <gnu...@li...>
> Date: 2022/09/26 月 09:05
> Subject: Re: early release of version 5.4.5 (please test)
> 
> 
> 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 
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> > ----- Original Message -----
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> > 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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