[Plplot-general] PLplot-5.9.11 has been released

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

I am pleased to report on behalf of the PLplot developers that
PLplot-5.9.11 is now available for you to download, build, and test.
For details of this latest release, please follow the links in
http://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/news/2013/12/plplot-release-5911/

The README.release and ChangeLog.release files in plplot-5.9.11.tar.gz
are of particular interest.  Note especially the complete removal of
f77, and the small (mostly having to do with PLplot constants)
backwards- incompatible changes in Python, Java, Lua, Octave, Fortran
95, and Tcl bindings.

Also note the extensive testing (6 individuals participated using
15 different platforms) done for 5.9.11.  Of course, if you notice
any 5.9.11 bugs on your own platforms please get in touch on this
plplot-general mailing list or else the plplot-devel mailing list.

I strongly suggest you download both
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/plplot/files/plplot/5.9.11%20Source/plplot-5.9.11.tar.gz.asc>
and
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/plplot/files/plplot/5.9.11%20Source/plplot-5.9.11.tar.gz>

since that allows you to run

gpg --verify plplot-5.9.11.tar.gz.asc

to verify that Alan W. Irwin identified by

pub   2048R/BB159E92 2011-08-19 [expires: 2016-08-17]
uid                  Alan W. Irwin (Time Ephemerides key) <ai...@us...>
uid                  Alan W. Irwin (FreeEOS key) <ai...@us...>
uid                  Alan W. Irwin (libLASi key) <ai...@us...>
uid                  Alan W. Irwin (PLplot key) <ai...@us...>
sub   2048R/C5ECCF77 2011-08-19 [expires: 2016-08-17]

is the author of plplot-5.9.11.tar.gz, and you have downloaded that
tarball without any bit errors.

Please also take a look at plplot.sf.net which has had some modest
changes (especially in the documentation) since the release of 5.9.10.

Hammer this new version of PLplot hard and report all bugs that you
find (ideally with patches to fix the bug if you can manage that)
because our next release will be for a stable version of PLplot
(5.10.0) which will be based on this (5.9.11) release of PLplot plus
bug fixes.

Note we prefer initial bug discussion to be on plplot-devel or else
here since we would prefer to be fixing bugs rather than doing bug
triage.  That frees up the bug tracker to keep track of issues which
we are having trouble fixing in a timely manner.

Alan
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Alan W. Irwin

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

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state
implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time
Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting
software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project
(unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net);
and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net).
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