Change log for 5.9.2--5.9.3.

Author: robert_dodier

ChangeLog-5.9.3

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+ Major items:
+
+ * Expand build system to handle internationalization for Spanish
+   and Portuguese. UTF-8 and Latin-1 locales are supported by
+   Maxima if the underlying Lisp implementation supports the
+   locales. See README.i18n
+
+ * Revision and expansion of linear algebra functions
+   (share/linearalgebra)
+
+ * Revisions of floating-point function evaluation (sqrt,
+   trigonometric functions)
+
+ * Replace existing definition of "conjugate" with a much more
+   extensive implementation
+
+ * Revision of evaluation and simplification of sum and product
+
+ * Revision and expansion of reference manual (English, Spanish,
+   and Portuguese)
+
+ * Bring Spanish and Portuguese translations of reference manual
+   into the on-line help system
+
+
+ Other revisions:
+
+ * Allow symbolic constants in expressions for QUADPACK functions
+
+ * Call Common Lisp functions for floating-point evaluation of
+   trigonometric functions
+
+ * Documentation for add-on packages (some new and some already
+   existing) integrated into Maxima help system
+
+ * Evaluation of Airy functions for imaginary floating point
+   arguments
+
+ * Expanded test suite
+
+ * Expansion and revision of probability functions
+   (share/contrib/distrib)
+
+ * Expunge control characters (ctl-Z, null, etc) from add-on files
+
+ * Extend "rhs" and "lhs" functions to other operators
+
+ * Implement bigfloat versions of some special functions
+
+ * Implement OpenOffice formula output
+   (share/contrib/tex2ooo.lisp)
+
+ * Improved support for MacOS Lisp implementations (Clisp and
+   OpenMCL)
+
+ * Minor expansion of file i/o functions
+   (share/contrib/numericalio)
+
+ * Move some obsolete add-on files to archive
+
+ * New scheme for bigfloat evaluation of trigonometric functions
+
+ * On logarithmic plots ("plot2d" function), sample the log of
+   the function to make plot smoother
+
+ * Partial fix: 1409904 (dilogarithm and trilogarithm computed
+   in single-precision)
+
+ * Plotting functions recognize lambda expressions as functions
+   to plot
+
+ * QUADPACK functions recognize lambda expressions and function
+   names as integrands
+
+ * Recognize backslash as a line continuation character, and
+   also display backslash at end of broken lines
+
+ * Recognize sets in {curly braces} in input
+
+ * Regenerate SLATEC numerical code from Fortran
+
+ * Regularize use of intermediate expression (%t) labels
+
+ * Renamed files in some add-on packages so that package name
+   coincides with file name (grobner, sarag, linearalgebra,
+   zeilberger)
+
+ * Renamed functions "mod" to "polymod" and "nummod" to "mod"
+
+ * Renamed "interpolate" (one-dimensional numerical root finder)
+   to "find_root"
+
+ * Revise "reset" function
+
+ * Revision of code for floating-point evaluation of Airy
+   functions
+
+ * Revision of floating-point evaluation of trigonometric
+   functions for complex arguments
+
+ * Revision of Newton's method add-on package
+   (share/contrib/mnewton)
+
+ * Revision of probability functions (share/contrib/distrib)
+
+ * Revisions of string processing add-on package
+   (share/contrib/stringproc)
+
+ * Revisions to add-on functions for simplification
+
+ * Revisions to code for hypergeometric functions
+
+ * rmaxima (script to call Maxima via readline wrapper program
+   rlwrap) uses list of built-in Maxima functions for word
+   completion
+
+ * save, with_stdout, stringout, and share/contrib/numericalio
+   functions observe file_output_append global flag
+
+ * Support for Scieneer Common Lisp (SCL)
+
+ * Update test suite for differential equations add-on package
+   (share/contrib/diffequations)
+
+
+ New items:
+
+ * New functions for operations on integers: ceiling, charfun,
+   floor, lmax, lmin, nummod, rationalize.
+   Revised: compare, max, min, featurep
+
+ * New tutorial documents in German and Portuguese
+
+ * New add-on package: augmented Lagrangian method for
+   constrained optimization (share/contrib/augmented_lagrangian)
+
+ * New add-on package: base 10 logarithm (share/contrib/log10)
+
+ * New add-on package: Bode plots (share/contrib/bode)
+
+ * New add-on package: compute the generating function of a
+   sequence (share/contrib/ggf)
+
+ * New add-on package: easy-to-use units (share/contrib/ezunits)
+
+ * New add-on package: integer factorization and primality
+   testing (share/contrib/ifactor)
+
+ * New add-on package: linear programming simplex algorithm
+   (share/contrib/simplex)
+
+ * New add-on package: solving recurrences
+   (share/contrib/solve_rec)
+
+ * New add-on package: guess a formula for a sequence of numbers
+   (share/contrib/devine)
+
+ * New add-on package: linear and cubic spline interpolation
+   (share/contrib/intpol)
+
+ * New add-on package: operator substitution
+   (share/contrib/opsubst)
+
+ * New add-on package: orthogonal polynomials and related functions
+   (share/orthopoly). Supersedes share/specfun, which was removed
+
+ * New add-on package: unevaluated Boolean and conditional
+   expressions (share/contrib/boolsimp)
+
+
+ Bug fixes:
+
+ * 1089988 (bigfloats in TeX output)
+
+ * 1224960 (side effect with copylist)
+
+ * 1294744 (operator precedence in displayed expressions)
+
+ * 1309377 (translated and untranslated "is")
+
+ * 1363421 (Gosper summation function)
+
+ * 1369451 (sec and trigexpand)
+
+ * 1369669 (csc and trigexpand)
+
+ * 1374704 (integration)
+
+ * 1394256
+
+ * 1403415 (bigfloat-to-float conversion)
+
+ * 1404754 (simplification of expressions containing bigfloats)
+
+ * 1405931 (integration)
+
+ * 625278 (simplification of "sum")
+
+ * 635045 (derivatives of acsc, asec, and acsch)
+
+ * 660936 (polarform)
+
+ * 771218 (mexpt of floats incorrect)
+
+ * 776974 (translation of errcatch)
+
+ * 846112
+
+ * 876274 (obsolete code for hashed arrays)
+
+ * 876274 (translation of hashed array indexing)
+
+ * 887152 (translation of matrix and list indexing)
+
+ * 942261 (zeta function)
+
+ * 625278 649428 740134 817521 851765 1007094 1192935 1363411
+   (sum and product)
+
+ * Bug fix: determinant function
+
+ * Bug fixes in MathML output add-on package
+   (share/contrib/lurkmathml)
+
+ * Bug fixes in Maxima-to-Lisp translation code
+
+ * Bug fix: observe "nolabels" global flag
+
+ * Bug fix: plot2d(x,[x,0,1]) no longer causes a stack overflow
+
+ * Fix bugs in atan and atanh
+
+ * Fix some bugs in Maxima-to-Lisp translation code
+