v1.0.6

GDL v1.0.6

v1.0.5

GDL v1.0.5

We discovered a critical Plplot bug in the release v1.0.5 (#1835). Please avoid using this version and go straight to v1.0.6.

What's Changed

• SPAWN: a windows change by @GillesDuvert in #1468
• Suppress GTK+ diagnostics (seen in #1470) by @GillesDuvert in #1472
• Windows sizes (and more) to solve #1471 and many others by @GillesDuvert in #1473
• use the general library whereami for getting the path of the excutable on all platforms. by @GillesDuvert in #1477
• fine-tune checkout action (submodules, fetch-depth) by @slayoo in #1482
• qhull.cpp: Use resize() to extend vectors instead of reshape(). Fix … by @opoplawski in #1480
• move whereami into a submodule by @slayoo in #1484
• Solves Issue #1470 and more by @GillesDuvert in #1483
• according to #1465 that's what must be done to work on windows too by @GillesDuvert in #1485
• Permit relocation of drivers (new version of #1481) by @GillesDuvert in #1486
• solves #1487 : window sizes are OK in all cases I tested. by @GillesDuvert in #1492
• add missing-submodule warning to CMakeLists.txt by @slayoo in #1491
• set CMake C standard flag (for whereami) by @slayoo in #1497
• tentatively solve #1474 by @GillesDuvert in #1502
• aimed at allowing gdl build on OSX even on arm64 and OSX 13.2 by @GillesDuvert in #1510
• patch regression #1508 by @GillesDuvert in #1512
• solve #1501 by @GillesDuvert in #1513
• Correct surface and shade_surf by @GillesDuvert in #1515
• replace obsolete sprintf by snprintf by @GillesDuvert in #1514
• enable Python module to use GDL.so by @GillesDuvert in #1520
• insure journal is really created. by @GillesDuvert in #1527
• congrid was complaining if last dimension was 1 by @GillesDuvert in #1528
• add support for writing geotiff tags, using only a GDL procedure. by @GillesDuvert in #1525
• support for !C embedded formatting command for text by @GillesDuvert in #1530
• correct behaviour of widget_base(/MAP) by @GillesDuvert in #1532
• correct bug found in #1533 and a few others, related. by @GillesDuvert in #1535
• Faster gdl by @GillesDuvert in #1538
• Correct 2 recent bugs by @GillesDuvert in #1542
• Typo fix (thanks @jtappin for reporting). Closes #1546 by @slayoo in #1547
• rewrote write tiff by @GillesDuvert in #1549
• Restore 64bits pointers inRESTORE procedure. Solves #1545 by @GillesDuvert in #1550
• gaussfit and curvefit and poly_fit modified to work better. by @GillesDuvert in #1556
• Major refurbishing of XMANAGER and EventLoop . Plus extras. by @GillesDuvert in #1558
• Various impros by @GillesDuvert in #1565
• Completed SCOPE_VARFETCH (COMMON Keyword) by @GillesDuvert in #1566
• Several bug correction for widgets. by @GillesDuvert in #1568
• Adds ARROW and DEFROI procedures to GDL by @GillesDuvert in #1574
• Correct histogram bug #1572 by @GillesDuvert in #1573
• WIDGET_TEXT WIP following #1544 by @GillesDuvert in #1552
• Various patches and addons to finish complete (yes!) support of HESSI (and SSW) by @GillesDuvert in #1575
• solves #1576 by @GillesDuvert in #1579
• Patchs for #1571 and #1570 by @GillesDuvert in #1581
• implement value_locate() in C++ instead of slow pro version before. by @GillesDuvert in #1583
• fix codecov git submodule by @Saynkas in #1590
• WIP Remove many antlr issues by @GillesDuvert in #1588
• solves #1592 by @GillesDuvert in #1597
• fixed codecov so it actually works by @Saynkas in #1601
• WIP Work on plotting functions by @GillesDuvert in #1603
• New version of gaussfit named gaussfit2 by @BoudjemaaS in #1602
• reverted for_block to historical version by @GillesDuvert in #1610
• Further work on plotting by @GillesDuvert in #1613
• closes #1604 by @GillesDuvert in #1614
• closes #1551 by @GillesDuvert in #1616
• brute force adding libraries needed by drivers in the DMG (OSX) by @GillesDuvert in #1584
• Integer power optimizations by @GillesDuvert in #1620
• closes #78 by @GillesDuvert in #1622
• closes #364 (make sure we exit correctly if inputline is > some IDL-fixed max.) by @GillesDuvert in #1621
• Speed improvement file lines by @GillesDuvert in #1623
• Improvements for transpose, and more. by @GillesDuvert in #1624
• set threshold for codecov PR failures by @slayoo in #1625
• close #1628 by @GillesDuvert in #1630
• close #1632 by @GillesDuvert in #1633
• changes to get the simplest way to get valid useable DMG on OSX. by @GillesDuvert in #1631
• patched FOR loop to avoid #1634 bug by @GillesDuvert in #1636
• versioned subdirectory in release tarballs. Closes #1639 by @slayoo in #1640
• see #1357 by @GillesDuvert in #1644
• patched resolve routine: by @GillesDuvert in #1645
• rewrote a more precise tic and toc by @GillesDuvert in #1646
• PostScript shape,size and position improvements. by @GillesDuvert in #1638
• reverted ominous oops and close #1650 by @GillesDuvert in #1651
• Trying to solve GAUSSFIT issue by @alaingdl in #1663
• try to make save/restore 64 bits work for 64b bits BigEndian machines. by @GillesDuvert in #1666
• Exact plot positioning in all cases by @GillesDuvert in #1664
• changed logic of test on tictoc by @GillesDuvert in #1668
• Revert "try to make save/restore 64 bits work for 64b bits BigEndian machines." by @GillesDuvert in #1669
• improved version for GAUSSFIT() + initial import of "test_gaussfit.pro" by @alaingdl in #1671
• tentative solution to #1655 by @GillesDuvert in #1672
• Solve absence of needed libraries in DMG files. by @GillesDuvert in #1673
• Remove unitialized values in plplot driver by @GillesDuvert in #1674
• Create CITATION.cff (which makes GitHub display a "Cite this repo" button in the "About" panel) by @slayoo in #1678
• Save restore procedures now available by @GillesDuvert in #1681
• improvements upon previous PR (SAVE/RESTORE of procedures) by @GillesDuvert in #1682
• Smaller memory imprint of semicompiled code by @GillesDuvert in #1687
• minimal changes for bug #1689 by @GillesDuvert in #1690
• solve #1691 by @GillesDuvert in #1692
• closes #1685 by @GillesDuvert in #1694
• close 1696 by @GillesDuvert in #1699
• Sparse matrix support by @GillesDuvert in #1698
• various changes for T_PDF, Besel*, GaussInt by @alaingdl i...

Weekly Release (unstable)

weekly-release

Close 1814 (#1827)

v1.0.4

GDL v1.0.4

v1.0.3

GDL v1.0.3

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Update on 09 Sep 2023: MacOS DMG binaries are updated

v1.0.2

GDL v1.0.2

v1.0.1

• wx plotting device fixes (addressing event loop issues visible if plotting in loops)
• image file reading fixes
• widget enhancements
• countour plot fixes
• CURVEFIT fix
• new routines: CW_BGROUP, READM_PPM, WRITE_PPM
• Python interface: switch to undeprecated NumPy API

kudos to: @acoulais, @eloirozier, @GillesDuvert, @jkohnert, @jtappin & @pjb7687

v1.0.0

• wxwidgets is now the default plplot plotting backend
  Dear Packagers, please ensure the required plplot driver is included in the dependencies

• cleanups, speed and compatibility improvements, new test routines, new GDL routines, 700+ commits in total since the last release
  Dear Packagers, note the CMake testsuite target changed from "make check" to "make test", please ensure 100% tests pass

• new resource files (including GDL icon)
  Dear Packagers, please also consult the README file in gdl/resource/maps

• Delaunay triangulation support
  Dear Packagers, note that GDL ships with modified source of delaunator-cpp (as well as modified ANTLR and dSFMT header files)

• new GDL website:
  Dear Packagers, please include in package metadata a link to https://gnudatalanguage.github.io/

• game-changing improvements in widgets and plotting (kudos Gilles Duvert)

• switch from Travis & Appveyor to Github Actions, weakly binary releases including Windows installer (kudos Jeongbin Park)

• improvements in implied print, FILE_SEARCH/FINDFILE, PostScript output, interpolation and *_LUN routines (kudos Gilles)

• HDF5 improvements (kudos Oliver Gressel)

• TRIANGULATE improvements (kudos Gilles and brandy125)

• IBETA, TIMESTAMP and related time-handling improvements (kudos Eloi Rozier de Linage and Thibault Huillet)

• numerous Windows compatibility issues fixed (kudos Greg Jung, Eloi Rozier de Linage et al)

• numerous fixes and IDL-compatibility improvements (kudos Alain Coulais et al)

• CMake: requiring 3.2, removed local FindNumpy, cleanups

• stopped supporting grib_api in favor of eccodes

v1.0.0-rc.3

• transparent reading of windows text files (terminated with )
• speedup of TRISOL
• SAVE/RESTORE correctly handling complicated objects and heap nested structures
• TERMINAL_SIZE() added
• adding HANNING() and GAUSSIAN_FUNCTION() (thanks J. Tappin)
• SIGMA() added
• fixes in SIMPLEX(), PTRARR() and IDLNETURL
• correction dim. in POLYWARP() (thanks Igor Ch.)
• reworked help,/obj and help,/path_cache and help,/sys
• complex inputs in READS
• removing EditLine and PSlib from dependencies
• fixed OpenMP-related bug in MAX/MIN
• revised test_hash() and test_list()
• added test_widgets()
• numerous small fixes (CMake, typos, cleanups, compilation issues...)
• Windows compilation issues
• numerous updates in plotting and widget infrastructure
• updated manpage

v1.0.0-rc.2

• fixed linestyle +psym problem when NaN in data (#678)
• fixes for path separators on Windows
• cleanup of map projections resource files (much reduced tarball size)
• cleanup of GSHHS leftovers (GDL no longer depends on GSHHS)
• clarification of projection resource licensing information
• fix for SMOOTH() making it work correctly with complex arrays (#685)
• fix for SMOOTH() curing segfault condition with large arrays (#682)
• fix for POLYFILL and log axes (#674)
• fixing build failures on s390x (#676)
• fix for segmentation fault on total(,/double) (#680)
• removed confusing message about graphic magick compiled only with 8 BPP
• improved management of input to RANDOM( ... poisson=)
• fixed WRITE_JPEG so it creates 2-dim jpg by default instead of 3-dim (#710)
• fix in HELP so it does not free memory twice when used like help,/obj,out=xxx
• corrected behaviour of '...' in string truncation in HELP
• fixed OBJ_CLASS so it does not include structures in the list of objects (#173)
• added "compile_opt idl2, hidden" to numerous GDL-written library routines
• VALUE_LOCATE: speedup + better error message
• XMANAGER: many new features supported
• improved IDL compatibility in the idlneturl class
• added FILE_CHMOD
• improvements in PRT_VALID and OBJ_VALID (e.g. correct support of /CAST)
• new implementation of WordExp for use in path expansion
• better integration of !NULL type (#589)
• added WIDGET_INFO(/display) and WIDGET_INFO(/map)
• SPAWN modified to allow immediate return when background job
• multiple choice support in list widget
• better HELP,/HEAP
• FILE_MOVE improvements
• FSTAT() improvements
• fixed HDF_VD_READ segfault issue (#664)
• fixed FindXdr.cmake
• support for SORT()-ing pointers (#698)
• STRUCT_ASSIGN fixed so it assigns correctly parts of structs that were themselves structs
• some compiler warnings eliminated
• fixed crash in REPLICATE_INPLACE (#574)