The traditional way of getting this news out was via the gretl-announce mailing list. But I think a lot more people are subscribed to this list, so at the risk of duplication I'll post here too. See http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ 8/10/09 version 1.8.3 - Fix bugs 2819633, 2827358, 2828349, 2833434 - $stopwatch: use times() function if available, to include execution time of child processes - Add function "mreverse" to reverse rows of a matrix - Add function "deseas" to deseasonalize a monthly or quarterly time series using X-12-ARIMA or TRAMO/SEATS - Remove function "strcmp" as redundant - Add "sscanf" function - Add function "pergm" corresponding to the pergm command - Several fixes and enhancements for interaction with TRAMO/SEATS and X-12-ARIMA - Many small GUI fixes - Add (optional) support for Ox programs via the "foreign" command - Ctrl-X in editing windows: cut text, don't exit - Data importers: add a comment to the imported dataset saying where it came from - 3-D graphs: use the wxt terminal in gnuplot if it's available - Fix for putting RTF onto clipboard on OS X - Observation labels ("case markers"): print up to 15 characters of such labels - Support compaction of hourly (24 hours per day) data to daily - Add "set" variable "csv_na" to control the representation of NA values in CSV output (also GUI selector for same) - Remove old "set" variable, "protect_lists" - Help windows: substantial revamp of GUI, plus fixes for dealing with translated helpfiles - Add experimental function debugger: new "debug" command - Stata importer: support current format 114 .dta files - MS Windows: update the GTK+ stack - Lists: allow formation of a new list by subtraction of one list from another - "omit" command with --auto option: allow specification of a list of candidates for omission - fix bug: "smpl --no-missing" was not always purging missing values in the case of panel data - fix bug: possible confusion when creating a named list if the dataset contains a variable named "to" - fix bug: wrong error message given by "system" command on encountering missing values - fix bug: crash in estimating a system via LIML when the equations are given in TSLS fashion (i.e., y X ; Z) -- Allin Cottrell Department of Economics Wake Forest University