[Plplot-general] PLplot-5.12.0 has been released

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

On behalf of all the PLplot developers I am happy to announce a new
release of PLplot is now available.  We have put a substantial amount
of effort into this release (some 400 commits) so downloading it and
building it is highly recommended.

For all the details concerning this release please follow the links
given in
<https://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/news/2017/01/plplot-5120-has-been-released/>.
Note that the release notes linked there are especially important
because they give details concerning backwards incompatibilities
(an unfortunate necessity to support our on-going but slow battle
against cruft) and concerning the following highlights of this release:

     Bug fixes
     Rewrite the CMake Ada language support
     Rewrite the Fortran binding
     Supply old Fortran binding and examples option
     Backwards incompatibilities introduced by the new Fortran binding
     Examples reworked for the -DPL_DOUBLE=OFF case
     Changes to our Ada bindings and examples
     Changes to our tclmatrix library
     Backwards-incompatible changes to our Tcl/Tk bindings and examples
     Substantial rewrite of the DocBook documentation
     Default page size consistency
     Updated D language support
     Modernized build-system support for Qt4 and Qt5
     Implemented support for pyqt5
     Addressed -DPL_DOUBLE=OFF issues
     Replaced "Lena" with "Chloe"
     Removed trailing blanks on most text files in our source tree
     Make our wxwidgets find module consistent with the official version for CMake-3.7.1
     Introduction of two new generic pointer types to help protect against a planned future C API breakage
     Introduction of additional self-describing names for the types of arguments used in our C API
     Implement submission of dashboards to the <my.cdash.org> cdash server
     Substantial update and rename of the Python examples
     Linux efficiency improvements for the wxwidgets device driver

Enjoy this new version of PLplot!

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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Linux-powered Science
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