[Gretl-users] Re: gretl 2020e released

Apologies to anyone receiving multiple copies of this message, but the gretl 2020e release is now available at http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ It offers the following list of new features and fixes: 2020-11-21 version 2020e - New function tdisagg() for temporal disaggregation   (distribution and interpolation) - New addon package "regls": supports LASSO, Ridge regression   and Elastic net - New function assert() for debugging purposes - MPI: update documentation and support transfer of more   data types - kdensity() function: generalize to allow as argument a   list or matrix with more than one column - "dataset sortby": handle sorting by string-valued series - OLS output: don't print out DW statistic when calculation of   Durbin's h fails - Fix: when extracting a column of a "dated" matrix, copy   across the dates information - Documentation: add material on forecasting for VARs and   other multi-equation systems - Improve format of panel plot when there are many unnamed   individuals - gretlcli and gretlmpi on MS Windows: accept unicode filenames   on the command line - "midasreg" command: be more flexible in parsing arguments to   mds() terms - Add to practice scripts: simulation using Klein model - Implement the '^' operator (logical product) for string-   valued series - xlsx data importer: handle correctly the case where a given   column is "partially" string-valued - dbnomics data importer: handle absence of dimensions_labels   in some cases - mpiscatter() function: revise rule for dividing matrices   for greater efficiency - Fix bug: possibility of invalid XML when saving a model to   session file - Fix bug: "smpl" command rejects the combination of "full"   and --quiet - Fix: --single-yaxis option not respected by "gnuplot" and   "plot" when a band is specified - Fix: GUI dialog for "join" was not working on Windows - Fix: work around bug in Apple's LAPACK that could lead to   a crash when computing eigenvalues - Fix: the Preview button in print dialogs was not working   in macOS build - Fix: prune correctly the regressor list in the "perfect   prediction" case in RE probit - Fix: incorrect $vcv matrix for bivariate probit models - Fix: dbnomics import misaligning data of different   frequencies in certain cases - Fix: $obsmajor and friends not working for daily data   with non-trading days omitted and dates given in the old   form of YYYY/MM/DD; also "dataset pad-daily" not working   with such old-style dates - Fix: potential crash on closing a maximized window on   recent macOS (a GDK problem) - MS Windows build: support printing scripts with syntax   highlighting - MS Windows build (64-bit): update pixman, cairo and pango   libraries (DLLs) - MS Windows build: update libeay.dll so as to prevent   crashes on certain CPUs - MS Windows: give up on trying to write downloaded PDFs   and function packages to "system" location -- go straight   to the user's filespace - Update packaged fedstl database - Update several translations