See http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ 2017-07-18 version 2017c - MIDAS support: several small fixes and refinements - "panel" command: add an --unbalanced option to inflect random effects estimation for unbalanced panels - Extend the $ahat accessor to support retrieval of the individual effects from random effects panel data models - Rename the $fcerr accessor as $fcse (but keep $fcerr as an alias) - Creation of lists: support '?' as wildcard standing for a single character - GUI: add "Packages" item under the Help menu: basic info on Addons and contributed function packages - GUI: add an easy way to scale both the menu font and the monospaced font for formatted output - GUI: move the file-related function-package items from the Tools menu to the File menu - GUI: move the Preferences submenu to the top of the Tools menu - GUI: increase the default size of the main window somewhat - GUI: forecast window, add button: enable saving of forecast standard errors when available - GUI: add display of name of working directory - GUI editor for "foreign" scripts: some usability enhance- ments - library: add some internal functions to support operations on complex matrices using LAPACK - library: add functionality to make use of an mpi block from a function package as seamless as possible - Fix buglet re. text coloring in script output window - Tweak naming of auto-generated list for midasreg in the GUI program - Fix bug: failure on repeated assignment of a constant string under a bundle key in a loop - Fix bug: "Up to date" indicator for function packages got broken - Fix bug: "boxplot" command with matrix argument: should default to plotting all columns - Fix bug: nested calls to a given function were failing in cases where the inner call occurred at the second or higher argument slot - Fix bug: the seq() function not producing correct output with decreasing arguments - Fix bug: crash when viewing forecasts with confidence intervals under Russian translation - MS Windows: upgrade to mkstemp() for tmp file creation (was missing from mingw) -- Allin Cottrell Department of Economics Wake Forest University, NC