[Plplot-general] PLplot 5.3.1 is released

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

I am happy to announce the release of PLplot version 5.3.1 which supersedes
all previous versions of this scientific plotting package.  Get the tarball
and detached signature file (plplot-5.3.1.tar.gz and
plplot-5.3.1.tar.gz.asc) at the usual place
(http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2915).  To verify
your downloads use the "gpg --verify plplot-5.3.1.tar.gz.asc" command.

Rafael Laboissiere, our release manager, is still working on the formal
announcement of this latest release, but for now a quick summary of the
changes since 5.3.0 is as follows:

     * New API functions: plvect, plsvect, plsurf3dl, and plot3dcl  (the first
       two help plot vector fields, the third implements non-rectangular
       boundaries for plsurf, and the fourth is API to do the same for plot3dc
       without the details implemented as yet.)
     * Memory leak fixes
     * Octave bindings and demos work for Octave 2.1.57
     * Java binding improvements
     * Freetype fixes
     * DJGPP updated
     * New driver wingcc for Mingw Unix platform
     * New chapters in the manual: "Deploying programs that use PLplot" and
       "API compatibility definition"
     * All examples ported to the PerlDL bindings
     * make check now works in the build tree
     * Reorganization of configuration files under cf/

For a more detailed list of the 369 commits since 5.3.0 see
http://plplot.sourceforge.net/announce/ChangeLog-5.3.0-5.3.1.

Enjoy this new stable version of PLplot!

Alan W. Irwin on behalf of our release manager, Rafael Laboissiere, and the
rest of the PLplot development team.

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Alan W. Irwin
email: ir...@be...
phone: 250-727-2902

Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org), the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net), the
Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net), and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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