gretl 1.8.5 is now available at the usual place: http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ This is mostly a bug-fix release but has incremental enhancements of functionality in several respects. 10/10/2009 version 1.8.5 - Fix: avoid duplicating the return line when saving packaged functions that were originally old-style - Several refinements for function-package editor - Update the gretl function package DTD - genr: improvements in type-handling for some tricky cases - Internal clean-up: revamp gretl's mechanism for reading configuration info and setting paths at start-up - Fix bug in handling of the R dll on Windows - Function parameter [min:max:default] values: fix bug for locales using ',' as decimal separator - Fix bugs 2843717, 2848633, 2865384 - Fix bug in corrgm() function when the series given as arguments contain missing values - Add --to-file and --from-file options to "set" command - Several refinements for the GUI "model table" - Fix bug: error when trying to save the dataset, in the context of a saved-then-reopened session file - Fix bug: in some circumstances model tests failed to respect the sample used when estimating the model, if the sample had since been changed - Fix bug: wrong results from the "fcast" command after estimating an ordered probit or logit model - Fix bug: the --output option to the "gnuplot" command was not being respected in the gretl console - Fix bug: inconsistent handling of maximum command-line length in the context of loops - GUI, main window, Sample menu: add an item to print details of the current sample status - On closing GUI session, close any open graph windows - RATS databases: recognize weekly data - Eviews data importer: fix recognition of the starting month or quarter for dated time series - CSV data importer: recognize the rather strange represent- ation of dates in the IMF's International Financial Statistics - Add importer for SAS "xport" data - GUI model window: add option to view the model in equation format, in plain text, for simple models - $hausman accessor: make this available for panel models estimated via the random effects estimator - add financial functions npv and irr - win32: update GTK+ stack to 2.16.6; update gnuplot to CVS as of 2009-09-13 -- Allin Cottrell Department of Economics Wake Forest University