[python-control-announce] python-control 0.8.1 now available

[Murray, R. M. <mu...@cd...>]

Version 0.8.1 of the python-control toolbox is now available for download on GitHub, as well as via pip and conda.  A short list of changes is appended to the bottom of this message.

Installation instructions:

 pip install slycot # optional
 pip install control

You should get slycot v0.3.0 and python-control v0.8.1.  In order to install slycot via pip you will need to have a Fortran compiler on your system.  Note that python-control depends on numpy, scipy, and matplotlib.

Binary installations are available for Linux and Mac platforms using conda and conda-forge:

 conda install -c conda-forge control

Slycot should be installed automatically, without the need for a Fortran compiler.  (Unfortunately, conda-forge does not yet support Fortran for Windows builds => you have to install from source.)

Documentation is available at

  http://python-control.readthedocs.org/

Thanks to

-richard

Changes since previous release (0.8.0):

This release fixes a number of small issues and adds a few new features:

* A new canonical function modal_form can be used to convert a state space system to modal form (ipa-lth)
* Improved pole placement algorithm place_varga (rabraker)
* Bug fix in computing poles of MIMO transfer functions (murrayrm)
* Indexing of MIMO transfer functions (hungpham2511)
* Additional small bug fixes (adm78, stertingen)
* Documentation updates and fixes (joaoantoniocardoso, murrayrm)

* List of all changes in this release: https://github.com/python-control/python-control/compare/0.8.0...0.8.1