[Gretl-announce] gretl 2025c released
See https://gretl.sourceforge.net/
New in this release:
2025-11-12 version 2025c
- new (block) command, "gibbs", implements the Gibbs sampler
- "append" command: tighten the restriction on appending to
a panel dataset, to avoid spurious results
- "dataset compact": support hourly to daily compaction via
the command line (was already supported via the GUI)
- "store" command: enable saving of user-defined functions
to file in XML format
- "corrgm" command: clarify the status of Barlett standard
errors for the ACF
- "omit" command: extend the --auto option to support use of
information criteria
- "delete" command: ensure that an informative message is
shown when some series cannot be deleted
- "join" command: fix handling of problematic CSV files
- "setobs" syntax: accept month as a single digit for panel
data with monthly time dimension
- "nulldata" command: ensure that all pre-existing dataset
information is cleared out
- distance() function: treat the Mahalanobis metric in the
same way as all the other supported metrics
- new function lnmgamma(): multivariate log gamma function
- slight speedup for forward stepwise regression code
- command-line syntax: accept trailing ';' as calling for
line continuation (except in the "smpl" command)
- function packages: add apparatus to specify that the
return value of a given public function must be assigned,
in GUI usage; also provide a mechanism to automate the
specification of an assignment name.
- printing of a bundle with the --tree option: clarify the
structure of the bundle
- Fix bug: restore the "savename <- gnuplot ..." syntax,
which had got broken
- Fix bug: potential crash in GTK file chooser dialog
- Fix bug: incorrect Bartlett band in ACF + PACF plot
- Fix bug: memory leak in some cases of loop code
- Fix bug: possible spurious error from "smpl" command
- Fix bug: a series could be wrongly taken to be a lag of
another series
- Fix bug: decimal comma creeping into the representation
of models stored in a gretl session file
- Fix bug: failure on reading ods spreadsheet files with
columns of date type
- Fix bug: mols() could produce a broken covariance under
certain conditions
- GUI: enhance the dbnomics search facility
- GUI: ensure that the separator between the main window
and the "swallowed" console can be grabbed via the mouse
- GUI: fix background of the "icon view" window when a dark
theme is active
- GUI: support opening gfn "spec" file via command-line or
drag-and-drop
- GUI: ensure that the special strings "[null]" and "[auto]"
are not offered as the default names for lists
- GUI: offer a more direct way to view a graph in the Icon
View window using gnuplot
- GUI: plot context menu: add option to view the gnuplot
commands that generated the plot
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Allin Cottrell
Professor Emeritus of Economics
Wake Forest University, NC