[Gretl-users] Re: gretl 2021a released
Thanks for this new release, Allin. Also thank you to all other people
who support the development such as translators, developers and bugfix
reporters.
Artur
Am 18.01.21 um 16:14 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
> See http://gretl.sourceforge.net/
>
> Here's the change log entry:
>
> 2021-01-18, version 2021a
> - New function vma() for multiple time series
> - quantile(): support variant methods Q7 and Q8 described
> in Hyndman and Fan (1996)
> - defbundle(): add two shorthand variants of this function
> - irf(): support calculation of multiple impulse responses
> in a single call (with internal speed-up)
> - irf() bug-fix: failing to compute bootstrap confidence band
> correctly when passed a $system bundle argument
> - VAR internals: scrap augmented Cholesky matrix; so the
> $system.C accessor is now a square matrix
> - $system bundle: ensure presence of xlist member, and
> include the command-word (var, vecm or system)
> - mread(): support reading gdt and gdtb files as matrices
> - readfile(): support reading gzipped files transparently
> - obslabel(): support a vector of observations
> - nls/mle/gmm blocks: support use of printf statements
> - "open" command: support reading selected series from
> native gretl datafiles (gdt, gdtb)
> - "join" command: support $obsmajor, $obsminor as outer keys
> - "coint2" command: rename as "johansen"
> - "freq" and "xtab" for string-valued series: don't let
> non-ASCII characters break the formatting
> - Gretl User's Guide: add links to download example scripts
> - Reorganize the categories for the functions help file
> - Fix obscure problem with plots: inability to show markers
> for observations in some cases where this should be OK
> - Fix memory leak on deleting a series with descriptive
> label attached
> - Fix excessive messaging on renaming series in a loop, a
> serious issue if the dataset contains very many series
> - Fix breakage in handling of boolean comparisons involving
> missing values
> - Fix bug: potential crash on "Save as icon and close" for
> a model displayed in tabbed model viewer
> - Fix bug: possible crash on confusion between singleton
> array and array element within a loop
> - Fix bug: crash after setting "specific lags" for a VAR in
> the GUI model selection dialog
> - Fix bug: possible crash on frequency plot for series with
> long string values
> - Fix: text encoding for RTF printing of model output broken
> in some cases under translation
> - Fix: memory leaks associated with GUI window lists
> - Fix: buggy completion proposals in script editor when
> using gtksourceview-2.0
> - Fix Windows-specific bug: gretlcli and gretlmpi could
> fail on parsing command-line arguments
>