[Gretl-announce] gretl 2025b released
Please see https://gretl.sourceforge.net/
Windows users: Note that there's now an ARM64 package available:
https://gretl.sourceforge.net/win32/
The changes:
2025-06-05 version 2025b
- gretlcli: add --no-plots option to suppress plots
- "add" command: add an --auto option for forward stepwise
regession via QR algorithm
- new function thresh() for hard and soft thresholding
- new function pxmean() for cross-sectional panel mean
- "gnuplot" command: generalize the --dummy functionality
for factorized plots; update and improve the help text
- curl() function: add an option to skip downloading of
the body of the requested URL
- cnameset() and rnameset(): these functions now flag a
warning if the number of names given does not match the
relevant matrix dimension; this will become an error in
a future release
- Fix bug: correct the disturbance smoother for the de Jong
variant of the Kalman filter; also fix a memory leak
- Fix bug: poor handling of vector added to a bundle "as a
series" when the dataset is sub-sampled
- Fix minor bug: bad initialization in legacy Kalman code
- internals: make gretl_get_data() support more data file
formats; several small fixes to quell errors and warnings
from gcc 15 and clang 20; add some code to facilitate new
gretl4py functionality
- GUI: fix the action of the "Stop" button when running a
packaged function from the function-call dialog
- GUI: relax the restrictions on the number of lags that
can be selected in the model specification dialog
- GUI: rejig the main-window "Add" menu and also the
pop-up context menu for single series
- regls addon: miscellaneous small fixes and tweaks
- cleanup: delete the long-deprecated eigengen() function
- Windows: add a gretl package for Windows on ARM64
- macOS: drop the "Calculator" button in the main window
toolbar, since this stopped working as a result of
recent security updates; also drop usage of otool by
libgretl_init()
- macOS: fix for launching gretl by double-clicking on a
gretl script or data file
- update translatable strings
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Allin Cottrell
Professor Emeritus of Economics
Wake Forest University, NC