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Re: Testing version of gnuplot 6.0.3
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From: Ethan A M. <me...@uw...> - 2025-06-07 20:47:05
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Sigh. Quite right. Trivial fix but it will of course mean the tarball
has a different hash sum.
Thanks for testing.
Ethan
On Sat, Jun 7, 2025 at 7:03 AM Erik Luijten <eri...@gm...> wrote:
> 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"
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> It may be slightly pedantic, but I just noticed that gnuplot 6.0.3 states
> (upon start-up):
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> "Version *6.0.3* patchlevel 3 last modified 2025-06-01"
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> while 6.0.2 stated (more logically, in my opinion):
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> "Version 6.0 patchlevel 2"
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> Erik
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> On Thu, Jun 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM Erik Luijten <eri...@gm...>
> wrote:
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>> 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/
>>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot/files/gnuplot/testing/__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!lH9cGC0w2qdoOf5ZhlYyhW2qgZZa-6cMWuUOcrtVPrlVskQbr2DJ7erPTsvmc9dNWD_Lg9vStgQkj5eXHV3v$>
>>>
>>> Please report any build problems or other issues you find with the test
>>> package.
>>> If no problems arise I plan to use the same files for a release
>>> announcement
>>> next weekend.
>>>
>>> Release note appended below, or see
>>>
>>> gnuplot.sourceforge.net/ReleaseNotes_6_0_3.html
>>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/ReleaseNotes_6_0_3.html__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!lH9cGC0w2qdoOf5ZhlYyhW2qgZZa-6cMWuUOcrtVPrlVskQbr2DJ7erPTsvmc9dNWD_Lg9vStgQkj1HGSp7Q$>
>>>
>>> - 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
>>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://gnuplot.info/demo_6.0/watch_contours.html__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!lH9cGC0w2qdoOf5ZhlYyhW2qgZZa-6cMWuUOcrtVPrlVskQbr2DJ7erPTsvmc9dNWD_Lg9vStgQkj6PGpJ3N$>
>>> * 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
>>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://git.code.sf.net/p/gnuplot/gnuplot-main__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!lH9cGC0w2qdoOf5ZhlYyhW2qgZZa-6cMWuUOcrtVPrlVskQbr2DJ7erPTsvmc9dNWD_Lg9vStgQkj49IONLU$>
>>> git log
>>> </pre>
>>>
>>> Release Notes date: 03 June 2025
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ethan A Merritt
>>> Department of Biochemistry
>>> University of Washington, Seattle
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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Ethan A Merritt
Department of Biochemistry
University of Washington, Seattle
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