[Gretl-users] Re: gretl 2026b released

See https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgretl.s... Here are the changes: 2026-04-30 version 2026b - new function which() to determine which elements of a given matrix satisfy a specified condition - new function fols() for factorized least squares - new function tsolvepd() for solving Toeplitz linear systems when the Toeplitz matrix is known to be symmetric and positive definite - probability distribution functions: add support for the truncated normal distribution - "join" command: fix possible crash on joining data from two binary gdtb data files in succession - correlation matrix plot: use graph-names as set by the "setinfo" command if available - "add" and "omit" commands with --auto option: attach to the augmented or reduced $model bundle a list giving the order in which regressors were added ("add_order") or omitted ("omit_order") - "var" command with --lagselect option: show the LR test P-value for the null of lag order 0 - "vecm" command: in the vecm_info bundle in the $system accessor we now provide new matrices: "long_run" (Johansen's C), "cov_long_run" (the covariance of vec(C)) and "se_long_run" (standard errors of the elements of C), along with additional documentation in the User's Guide - "foreign" command block: support the --send-data option when executing a Python script, via Pandas - "panplot" command: correct suport for the --font option - matrix "slicing": correct handling of an empty selection vector, and sypport use of row and column names when indexing into matrices - script editor: handle "doc strings" in hansl functions via "question mark-click" - geoplot addon: document the cbrange option - User's Guide: improve documentation of string literals - GUI: /View/Correlations now shows nonparametric option - GUI: Augment tooltips for model selection dialog buttons - GUI: "View code" for function packages: preserve inline comments - GUI: fix broken display of complex matrices - GUI: enhance searching of gretl-curated data files - GUI: fix handling of scalar arguments in the dialog box for calling function packages - GUI: "ui-maker" for functions packages: support setting a run-time default for a boolean argument - GUI: fix breakage in Command Log on Windows and macOS - GUI: fix breakage in string argument selector for function packages on 32-bit Windows (GTK2) - launching of gnuplot via gretl: respect the GNUTERM environment variable on Linux, if present - Windows ARM64 build: include MPI and make available an ARM64 build of X-13ARIMA-SEATS (x13as) - Mac builds: update GTK3 to version 3.24.52