Re: Testing version of gnuplot 6.0.3

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

It may be slightly pedantic, but I just noticed that gnuplot 6.0.3 states
(upon start-up):

"Version *6.0.3* patchlevel 3    last modified 2025-06-01"

while 6.0.2 stated (more logically, in my opinion):

"Version 6.0 patchlevel 2"

Erik

On Thu, Jun 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM Erik Luijten <eri...@gm...> wrote:

> 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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