v0.6.6

0.6.6 (2022-06-27)

Added

• Parallel functions (part 1):

  • parfeval: Run function on parallel background thread pool worker.
  • backgroundPool: Environment for running code in the background.
  • fetchOutputs: Retrieve results from function running in the background.

• #666: ls function: List folder contents.

• #655: help viewer embedded (available on all platforms).

Changed

• LGTM replaced by CodeQL (Thanks to Github for their support)

• #662: Snap uses Core22 and Qt6 (all dependencies are up-to-date).

• #668: maxNumCompThreads detects numbers of physical cores on Windows.

• matrix of handles supported.

Fixed

• #659: qhelpgenerator on macOs after brew Qt6.3.0 update.

• #661: CodeQL warnings.

v0.6.5

0.6.5 (2022-05-26)

Added

• #572: pow2: Base 2 exponentiation.

• audioread, audiowrite supports new file formats .mp3, .flac, .caf (Thanks to libsndfile).

• MacOs 12 Monterey Github CI.

• #634: Ubuntu 22.04 CI.

Changed

• #631: Qt6 used as default distribution on some OS platforms.

  For backport compatibility only Qt5.15.x and Qt6.3 (or more) are supported.

  • Windows 64 bits: Qt6.3
  • Windows 32 bits: Qt5.15.x
  • Ubuntu 22.04: Qt6.3
  • Ubuntu 20.04, 18.04: Qt5.15.x
  • MacOs Monterey: Qt6.3
  • MacOs BigSur, Catalina: Qt5.15.x
  • Others OS platforms: Qt version based on distributed Qt version.

• #636: docker image uses bullseye image.

• system builtin: multithread rework.

• #633: libsndfile 1.1.0 used.

• Windows build uses /permissive- option.

• #646: warndlg, questdlg, errordlg, helpdlg reworked to better Qt6 support.

Fixed

• Dark theme detection with Gnome.

• #642: rand was not thread safe.

• #648: Ubuntu 18.04 CI failed.

• #651: MacOs monterey crashs at exit with mpi module.

v0.6.4

0.6.4 (2022-04-24)

Changed

• #590: Nelson's license moved to LGPL v3.0 and GPL v3.0 and uses SPDX format.

• Nelson uses Hack font.

• Linux 64 bits and 32 bits uses same main script.

• #594: .pot used to generate en_US.

Added

• 'sscanf' reworked to manage unicode characters and speed optimization.

• French translations imported from Weblate (Thanks to contributors)

• Dark theme detected and applied on Linux, MacOS and Windows.

• #559: formattedDisplayText function: Capture display output as string.

• Better detection Qt6 or Qt5 with CMake.

Fixed

• Main Nelson's font was not applied on some OS platforms (ex: MacOS Catalina)

• #622: isreal(sqrt(i^4)) did not return true.

• Nelson's help indexing is faster (x100).

v0.6.3

0.6.3 (2022-03-26)

Changed

• #596: Tests results display use emoji if terminal supports Unicode.

Added

• Packaging:

  • #603: Nelson as snap package for Linux.
  • #605: [Package request] Chocolatey package manager for Windows.
  • #582: Nelson available as Portable apps.

• add information for Software Center (Linux desktop, icons).

• nelson Main script to start Nelson (superceed others scripts).

• isunicodesupported function: Detect whether the current terminal supports Unicode.

• dlsym function: search nearest symbol name if value entry is not found.

• terminal_size function:Query the size of the terminal window.

• #598: sscanf function read formatted data from strings.

Fixed

• #599: make install step in CI for linux and MacOs.

• #601: embed all tests on linux and macos install.

v0.6.2

0.6.2 (2022-02-26)

Changed

• #576: C++17 Compiler required to build Nelson.

• #581: Github CI platforms list extended (ArchLinux, Fedora, Ubuntu 18.04, MacOs BigSur).

• #539: Visual studio 2022 build on Windows

  • Visual studio 2022 solution upgraded,
  • Github CI and Appveyor use VS 2022 image,
  • boost 1.78 (VS 2022 x86, x64 build),
  • Eigen 3.4 stable branch (Feb 06/22),
  • MSVC 2022 support added to build C/C++ code easily "on fly" on Windows,
  • slicot 5.0 (VS 2022 x86, x64 build),
  • libffi (VS 2022 x86, x64 build),
  • taglib 1.12 (VS 2022 x86, x64 build),
  • hdf5 1.12.1 (VS 2022 x86, x64 build),
  • matio 1.5.21 (VS 2022 x86, x64 build),
  • all others windows dependencies rebuilt with VS 2022.
  • #505: libCurl 7.81 on Windows.
  • #524: oneApi 2022.1 on Windows.

Added

• Nelson uses JuliaMono-Regular font as default.
• #567: ... in cells if character vector is too long.

Fixed

• #587: implicit cast to string array for horzcat and vertcat operators.
• #562: format long complex do not display expected precision.
• scale factor for integer values did not display as expected.
• #561: 0^0 did not return expected value.
• #560: many warnings fixed (Thanks to new PVS-Studio and cppcheck).
• cmake WITH_SLICOT, WITH_FFTW, ENABLE_CLANG_TIDY_FIX were not documented.
• #584: docker files updated to support C++17 and new libraries.
• #591: Innosetup display glitch with Nelson's website button.

v0.6.1

0.6.1 (2022-01-30)

Changed

• display of all types reworked to be pixel perfect. (a small sentence but a big rework)

Added

• format extended to manage: compact, loose, longE, longG, hex, bank, rational.
• #507: celldisp: Display cell array contents.
• #548: hypot builtin: Square root of sum of squares.
• #555: rsf2csf function: Convert real Schur form to complex Schur form.
• CHANGELOG 0.6.x family.

v0.5.12

0.5.12 (2021-12-31)

Added

• hankel function: Hankel matrix.
• factor function: Prime factors.
• primes function: Prime numbers less than or equal to input value.
• isrow function: Determine whether input is row vector.
• iscolumn function: Determine whether input is column vector.

Fixed

• #544: add folder fieldname to dir output.

• #541: common class between two elements for operators, horzcat and vertcat.

Compilation

• Boost 1.78 support (default on Windows).

• CMake 3.22.1 (on Windows).

0.5.11

0.5.11 (2021-11-26)

Added

• hilb function: Hilbert matrix.
• invhilb function: Inverse of Hilbert matrix.
• cond function: Condition number for inversion.
• rank function: Rank of matrix.
• ismatrix function: Determines whether input is matrix.
• squeeze function: Removes dimensions of length 1.
• speye function: Sparse identity matrix.
• randperm function: Random permutation.
• cat function: Concatenate arrays.
• SECURITY.md file as recommended by Github.

Fixed

• vercat, horzcat returns an empty array whose size is equal to the output size as when the inputs are nonempty.
• #533: find with one lhs did not return expected result with complex.
• #536: test_websave_3 failed randomly due to distant server.

v0.5.10

0.5.10 (2021-10-30)

• Polynomial functions:

  • poly: Polynomial with specified roots or characteristic polynomial.
  • roots: Polynomial roots.
  • polyval: Polynomial evaluation.
  • polyvalm: Matrix polynomial evaluation.
  • polyint: Polynomial integration.
  • polyfit: Polynomial curve fitting.
  • polyder: Polynomial differentiation.

• pinv: Moore-Penrose pseudoinverse.

• #520: inputname get variable name of function input.

• #525: use fast_float library to parse numbers .

• #528: Assignment in cell did not work in this case [c{:}] = ind2sub (dv, i)

• #534: diag(ones(0, 1), -1) did not return zero as result.

v0.5.9

0.5.9 (2021-09-29)

• leapyear function: determine leap year.

• meshgrid function: Cartesian rectangular grid in 2-D or 3-D.

• sub2ind function: linear index to matrix subscript values.

• ind2sub function: matrix subscript values to linear index.

• #518: isStringScalar checks if input is string array with one element.

• #516: ind = 2; ind(false) logical extraction on scalar should return empty matrix.

• #514: C{3} = 4 should create a cell with good dimensions.

• #512: Assign must not change left assign type when it is possible.

• #509: horzcat vertcat generic support for class object.

• #508: Change default seed for 'rand' with Mersenne Twister algo.

• #506: Modernize windows installer style.

Compilation:

• #496: Eigen 3.4 used.

• #503: Boost 1.77 support (default on Windows).