[Gretl-devel] Re: The 2021c release candidate is available (with apologies for cross-posting)

Hi, Thanks for the release candidate. The gretl test suit runs fine here on my Ubuntu 21.04 machine. Best, Artur Am 17.08.21 um 16:05 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti: > > Hi all, > > on behalf of the development team, I'm glad to announce that we're > about to release gretl 2021c. The official release will take place in > a week or so, but you can already see what's new by downloading and > installing the 2021c release candidate: > > 64-bit Windows: > https://sourceforge.net/projects/gretl/files/snapshots/gretl_install-64.e... > > > Mac OS (Intel): > https://sourceforge.net/projects/gretl/files/snapshots/gretl-macos-intel.... > > > Mac OS (M1): > https://sourceforge.net/projects/gretl/files/snapshots/gretl-macos-arm64.... > > > To have a quick idea of what the new stuff is, take look at the > Changelog: > http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ChangeLog.html > > In fact, we'd appreciate it very much if you could give these versions a > good go: we have tried to squash all the bugs we were aware of, but you > can never be 100% sure, so please hammer on the release candidates as > much as you can. Some of the new GUI features are somewhat experimental, > so we'd be grateful if you could try them out. To enable them, go to > Tools>Preferences>General and look for the following: > > 1) the "plot collection" feature (multiple plots in one window); see > the help for "set plot_collection" > > 2) the "Main window includes console" feature (try it for yourselves, > I don't want to spoil it for you). > > Between now and the official release, we'll only fix any bugs you may > report (no new features), and give the translators some time to send us > updates of the PO files. As of now, the only localisations that are 100% > complete are Italian and Russian (thanks to Olesya Petrenko). > > Should you have any question or comment, please feel free to contact > any of us. > > Thanks! > > > PS: Linux people will have to download the source and compile it > themselves; the source code is at > https://sourceforge.net/projects/gretl/files/snapshots/gretl-source.tar.x... > > > If you need guidance on how to build, have a look at Appendix B in the > User's Guide, or watch the excellent video by Clive Nicholas: > https://youtu.be/WSdZkd-uln4 > > > ------------------------------------------------------- >   Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti >   Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES) > >   Università Politecnica delle Marche >   (formerly known as Università di Ancona) > >   r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it >   http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti > ------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Gretl-devel mailing list -- gretl-devel(a)gretlml.univpm.it > To unsubscribe send an email to gretl-devel-leave(a)gretlml.univpm.it > Website: https://gretlml.univpm.it/postorius/lists/gretl-devel.gretlml.univpm.it/ >