[Gretl-announce] gretl 2016b released

As usual, at http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ 2016-04-14 version 2016b - "panel" command, random-effects version: show an overall Wald chi-square test on the named regressors; also support the --robust option - "dataset" command: expose and document the "pad-daily" option - "vecm" command: clarify the options available when specify- ing a restriction on beta via matrices R and q - Commands that produce both textual output and plots: add a --plot option to control the format of the plot - GUI help text: make references to the Gretl User's Guide chapter-specific, and make the file open at the specified chapter if the PDF viewer supports that functionality - GUI "view code" option for function packages: avoid slow loading of big code buffers - GUI plot editor: enable selection of point size for graph styles that use points - Internal code: introduce several optimizations to speed up execution of complex scripts - "foreign" language mechanism: add basic support for Julia (including editing and execution of Julia programs) - build: try harder to respect --disable-nls (though this is very difficult nowadays) - Fix bug: crash on performing some matrix transformations using the GUI "icon view" - Fix bug: broken format in output of actual versus forecast values in some cases - Fix bug: CSV import failing in locales that use decimal comma when file uses decimal comma and also '.' as thousands marker - Fix bug: handling of "missingness" in imported daily data not working quite right - Fix bug: "omit" command with --auto option failing for ordered logit/probit models - Fix bug: potential crash in printing the results of a random-effects probit model with small RE variance - Fix bug: GUI access to nonparametric models was broken - Fix bug: not flagging an error when given a broken right- hand side specification in the "restrict" command - Fix bug: matrix-form restrictions on VECM model not being accepted even when valid, in some cases - Fix bug: partial parsing of command line when blocked by a false if-condition could give rise to spurious errors - Fix bugs: some subtle fail conditions for saving compiled loops onto functions - OS X (quartz) build: update to GTK 2.24.29, and fix a GTK issue which led to crashes on OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) - OS X (quartz) build: fix problem with gnuplot wxt window, add Adwaita theme, and make Adwaita the default - Bundled gnuplot for Windows and OS X: update to 5.1 cvs as of March 2016 - MS Windows builds: update to OpenBLAS 0.2.18dev. -- Allin Cottrell Department of Economics Wake Forest University, NC