Gnuplot 6.0 Release Announcement

[Ethan A M. <me...@uw...>]

Gnuplot version 6.0 is now available for download.

The source tarball is here

    https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot/files/gnuplot/6.0.0/

The Release Notes start with a long bullet-point list of new features

     https://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/ReleaseNotes_6_0_0.html

Gnuplot is a portable command-line driven graphing utility for Linux,
MacOS, Windows, and many other platforms.   It was originally created
to allow scientists and students to visualize mathematical functions and
data interactively, but has grown to support many non-interactive uses
such as web scripting. 

Gnuplot has been supported and under active development since 1986.
This is the first new major version of gnuplot since the release of version 5
in January 2015.  It introduces extensions to the gnuplot command language,
an expanded collection of special and complex-valued functions,
additional 2D and 3D plotting styles, and support for new output protocols.

Backward compatibility is given high priority in gnuplot development,
so users should find no significant changes required for techniques or code
they are currently using with gnuplot 5.

If you are curious about what changed during the past eight years of
incremental development, you might compare the on-line demo pages
for the initial version 5 release
    https://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo_5.0
and the current version 6 release
    https://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo_6.0

Many thanks to everyone who contributed to the development,
documentation, and testing of gnuplot 6.

Happy gnuplotting in 2024 and beyond!

-- 
Ethan A Merritt
on behalf of the gnuplot development team