[Gretl-announce] gretl 2018a released

See http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Aside from bug-fixes the main innovation is that SVM support (machine-learning) is now built-in and so is available on all platforms. 2019-01-24 version 2019a - Hush some warnings issued in the GUI, plus several small GUI improvements - Increase the default size of the script editor window - dbnomics support: transition to using the v22 API - Ban creation of named lists containing the semicolon separator, to ward off potential crashes - "foreign" block with Julia: add --no-compile option - "xtab" command: support TeX output and add some more formatting options - "lad" command: add --no-vcv option - SVM support: make this available on all platforms and drop the requirement of separately installed libsvm - Fix bug: expansion of dataset via interpolation could fail under some conditions - Fix bug: generation of random series via the GUI got broken - Fix bug: "diff" command not always respecting a revised sample range - Fix bug: the deseas() function stopped working when used with x12a/x13as -- Allin Cottrell Department of Economics Wake Forest University, NC