Am 18.10.2026 um 16:56 schrieb Cottrell, Allin:
On Fri, Oct 16, 2026 at 11:10 AM Sven Schreiber
<sven.schreiber(a)fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> some may have noticed the following report about a bug which Allin has
> already fixed in the meantime;
https://sourceforge.net/p/gretl/bugs/337/
>
> I have quickly tested this with gretl 2026b, and it seems to work there,
> so that would be a regression in the recent 2026c release. I wonder if a
> crash with VAR forecasting (with exog. terms) is bad enough to warrant
> an emergency fix?
I've re-tested that issue and in fact inclusion of exogenous variables
is not required to trigger a crash. It would happen with any attempt
to forecast from a window holding VAR results in the GUI program. I
would not be opposed to offering a quick release of 2026d.
I think we should try to do some more ad-hoc testing in GUI scenarios
that may have suffered from side effects -- it would be really
unfortunate if the quick-fix release had more of those problems. We know
that the problem stems from code changes in the area of forecasting
dialog windows, right? Or could it have a broader scope in principle?
(Knowing that all answers will never be 100% sure.)
thanks
sven