Re: Testing version of gnuplot 6.0.3

[Erik L. <eri...@gm...>]

This compiles properly on macOS, both with wxt and with Qt5.

Erik

On Tue, Jun 3, 2025 at 9:29 PM Ethan A Merritt <me...@uw...> wrote:

> I have placed a tarball for release 6.0.3 in the "testing" folder on
> SourceForge
>    https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot/files/gnuplot/testing/
>
> Please report any build problems or other issues you find with the test
> package.
> If no problems arise I plan to use the same files for a release
> announcement
> next weekend.
>
> Release note appended below, or see
>
>     gnuplot.sourceforge.net/ReleaseNotes_6_0_3.html
>
> - Ethan
>
>                 Gnuplot Version 6.0.3 Release Notes
>                 ===================================
>
> This is the third incremental release for gnuplot stable version 6.0.
> It contains several new features and improvements back-ported from the
> development version.
>
> NEW (backported from development version)
> -----------------------------------------
>
> * NEW    "contourfill {at base} {fs {no}border}"
> * NEW    "save changes <filename>"
>          This variant saves only the differences between the current
> program
>          state and the state at the start of the session.
> * NEW    "plot <data> ... if (filter_condition)"
>          Input lines of data that satisfy the if condition are processed
> as usual.
>          Lines that fail are essentially ignored.
> * NEW    backport watchpoint improvements from 6.1
>          Each watch target can have its own label, generated by a user
> function.
>          Any real-valued function is legal as a watchpoint target.
>          Current x, y, and z values are available inside a watchpoint
> target function.
>          Watchpoints are possible for splot in "set view map" projection.
>          See
>             * https://gnuplot.info/demo_6.0/watch_contours.html
> * NEW    Continued work on multiplot replot and mousing
>
> CHANGES
> -------
>
> * CHANGE 3D polygon objects can have per-object fill border properties.
>          The restriction that all 3D polygons share a single set of
>          properties from "set pm3d" remains true for "splot with polygons".
> * CHANGE The configuration option --with-wx-multithreaded has been removed.
>          The multi-thread code has not worked under linux for quite a
> while.
>          This change does not affect the Windows version of the wxt
> terminal,
> * CHANGE "with hsteps" takes default width from "set boxwidth".
> * CHANGE column(0) returns an integer (not complex) value
> * CHANGE win: dll function loading altered for compatibility with gcc15
>
> FIXES
> -----
>
> * FIX    Support for combined hidden3d + pm3d depthorder back-ported from
> 6.1
>          This allows placing contours on a depth-sorted pm3d surface
> * FIX    qt: opaque key caused incorrect interactive toggling of final plot
> * FIX    6.0.2 regression in "splot ... using 1:2:3:4 lc palette"
> * FIX    placement of category labels along x-axis of boxplots
> * FIX    qt, cairo: "set colorbox invert" produced empty colorbox
> * FIX    placement of minor tics along logscale axis with narrow range
> * FIX    OK to have missing corners in an image from a sparse matrix
> * FIX    error handling for various corner cases involving function blocks
>
>
> KNOWN ISSUES
> ------------
>
> - Redefining a global array variable inside a user function or function
> block
>   may lead to memory corruption and/or a program crash.  The development
> version
>   now handles this cleanly, but the necessary framework has not yet been
>   back-ported to verion 6.0.  The current version may issue the confusing
> error
>   message "non-numeric array index" and leave the corrupted array in place.
>
> - Font handling by the cairo/pango libraries supporting some gnuplot
> terminals
>   (pdf, png, wxt, ...) on both Windows and MacOS are sensitive to the
>   enviromental variable PANGOCAIRO_BACKEND.  If you are having font
> problems,
>   try setting this to
>         PANGOCAIRO_BACKEND=fc
>
> - Support for replot and pan/zoom mouse operations in multiplot mode is
> still
>   incomplete. Expect further improvement in subsequent releases.
>
> - TeXLive2024 pdflatex does not like some of the UTF-8 characters in the
> user manual.
>   The distribution includes a pre-built copy of gnuplot.pdf but if you want
>   to rebuild it from the source in docs/gnuplot.doc please use lualatex
> instead.
>   You can either replace the definition PDFLATEX=pdflatex with
> PDFLATEX=lualatex
>   in the Makefile or provide this in the environment during configuration
>         PDFLATEX=lualatex ./configure
>
> Gnuplot development is tracked in a git repository on SourceForge.
> You can generate a complete history of changes using "git log"
> after downloading:
>
> <pre>
>     git clone -b branch-6-0-stable git://
> git.code.sf.net/p/gnuplot/gnuplot-main
>     git log
> </pre>
>
> Release Notes date:  03 June 2025
>
>
>
> --
> Ethan A Merritt
> Department of Biochemistry
> University of Washington, Seattle
>
>
>
>
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