v0.5.8

0.5.8 (2021-08-25)

Features:

• test_run displays errors with file and line number.

• CTRL-C throws an error.

• some warnings detected by LGTM or VS fixed.

• allows .m file empty to be called.

• #477: update files watcher algo.

• #489: display builtin and associated overload.

• #490: update default prompt.

Bug Fixes:

• #480: publisher name updated for windows installer.

• #483: extern modules no more build if boost not available.

• #486: inmem help was missing.

• #464: simplify macos build (catalina & BigSur support only).

• #499: rename getContentAsUnsignedInt64Scalar to getContentAsUnsignedInteger64Scalar.

• #495: some mtimes call failed.

v0.5.7

0.5.7 (2021-07-24)

Features:

• macros in memory reworked to support also MEX.

• C MEX compatibility, load and build fully compatible with other softwares.

• inmem builtin returns names of functions, MEX-files in memory.

• mexext builtin returns binary MEX file-name extension.

• main function in .m no more require to be the first in file.

• checks in the .m function that other local function names are not duplicated.

• .m timestamp checked if addpath(...,'-frozen') is not enabled.

• function_handle reworked to have an compatible behavior.

• struct behavior with function_handle.

• clear reworked to support mex in memory.

• nargin, nargout behavior with mex updated.

• #474: exist: extended to manage mex function.

• #449: conv2: 2-D convolution and conv: Convolution and polynomial multiplication.

Bug Fixes:

• #468: A(':') = [] was not managed.

v0.5.6

0.5.6 (2021-06-27)

BREAKING CHANGE:

Features:

• function ... endfunction and function ... end are equivalent (increase compatibility ;).

• file extension .m is managed by Nelson.

  • About compatibility: scripts and functions developed with Nelson should work with other tools managing .m files. The reciprocal is not necessarily true.

  • .m is default and alone file extension.

• module skeleton updated to use to .m extension (Please update your code)

• run builtin can also evaluate a macro function.

• macro functions also searched in current directory.

• parser cleaned and generated with Bison 3.7.4

• narginchk builtin: checks number of input arguments.

• nargoutchk builtin: checks number of outnput arguments.

• #448: data analysis module (Code refactoring).

Bug Fixes:

• nmm('install', existing_module_directory) did not work as expected.

• #451: var() returns an unexpected error.

Compilation:

• #455: M1 macOS apple native support. It works but some gui features can crash due to young Qt support on M1.

• Update fmt library to 8.0.

v0.5.5

0.5.5 (2021-05-24)

Features:

• Validators functions available from Nelson and C++ API (part 2):

  • mustBeFile,
  • mustBeNonempty, mustBeNonNan, mustBeNonZero, mustBeNonSparse,
  • mustBeA, mustBeReal, mustBeInteger, mustBeNonmissing,
  • mustBePositive, mustBeNonpositive, mustBeNonnegative, mustBeNegative,
  • mustBeGreaterThan, mustBeGreaterThanOrEqual, mustBeLessThan,
  • mustBeNumericOrLogical, mustBeText, mustBeNonzeroLengthText,
  • mustBeMember, mustBeInRange.

• test_run manages SEQUENTIAL TEST REQUIRED and NATIVE_ARCHITECTURE TEST REQUIRED tags.

• benchs are executed sequentialy (better bench results).

• all, any behavior with empty matrix updated.

• extends all to manage over all elements.

• ismember builtin: Array elements that are members of another array.

• #439: split elementary_functions module and creates operators modules.

Changed:

• comment symbol is '%'. others previous supported comment symbol removed.

Bug Fixes:

• #435: maxNumCompThreads did not return number of threads but number of cores.

Compilation:

• Move Windows build to GitHub CI. Appveyor is no more the principal build CI for Windows.

• #441: Circle CI (ArchLinux build) fixed.

• #357: Curl 7.76.1 on Windows.

v0.5.4

0.5.4 (2021-04-24)

Features:

• Functions using SIMD extensions:

  • ceil, round, fix, floor, abs, conj,
  • exp, sqrt, log1p, log10, log
  • cos, sin, tan
  • atan2, acos, asin
  • addition, substraction, multiplication, division vectors.

• Validators functions available from Nelson and C++ API (part 1):

  • mustBeLogicalScalar, mustBeLogical, mustBeFloat,
  • mustBeFinite, mustBeScalarOrEmpty, mustBeVector,
  • mustBeValidVariableName,
  • mustBeTextScalar, mustBeFolder,
  • mustBeNumeric.

• system allows to run shell command execution in parallel.

• test_run executes on parallel process.

• extends assert_checkerror to check also error identifier.

• isvector, isscalar support overload.

• isvarname builtin: check if input is valid variable name.

• isdir manages string array.

• time returns current time as the number of seconds or nanoseconds since the epoch.

Bug Fixes:

• #352: number of input arguments checked in macro.

• #382: optimize corrcoef.

v0.5.3

0.5.3 (2021-03-24)

Features:

• #373: sign builtin.

• #313: atanh builtin: inverse hyperbolic tangent.

• MException comes default exception in Nelson.

• try, catch extended to manage MException.

• throw, throwAsCaller, rethrow functions added.

• error extended to manage identifier.

• callstack reworks, available with MException.

• for loop faster > x2.

• assignment does not copy matrix.

• reworks ArrayOfVector (internal).

• C++ API nargincheck, nargoutcheck helpers added.

• rename mexception to MException

Bug Fixes:

• #413: circle CI Arch docker did not work.

• #412 docker fedora 35 support.

v0.5.2

0.5.2 (2021-02-27)

Features:

• triu builtin: Upper triangular part of matrix.

• tril builtin: Lower triangular part of matrix.

• istriu checks if matrix is upper triangular part of matrix.

• istril: checks if matrix is lower triangular part of matrix.

• isdiag: checks if matrix is diagonal.

Compilation:

• MacOS build uses openBLAS. lapacke included in openBLAS. No more thirdparty repository required for MacOS build.

• rename ArrayOf::getLength to ArrayOf::getElementCount method.

• rework simple assignement.

• add benchs about loop to identify existing bottleneck for next iteration.

• rework loop to prepare next iteration.

v0.5.1

0.5.1 (2021-01-30)

• qt_version builtin: returns the version number of Qt at run-time.

• qt_constant builtin: returns value of an Qt constant.

• #374: num2str builtin: converts numbers to character array.

Bug Fixes:

• #388: Windows x64 build failed (elementary_functions module was too big).

• #385: corrcoef, mean, var, cov moved in statistics module.

Compilation:

• 0.5 family (CHANGELOG)

• Eigen 3.3.9 used.

• libsndfile 1.0.31 on Windows.

• libboost 1.75 on Windows.

• fix cirle CI build.

• #394: Upgrade socket.IO dependency to v3.0.

• #367: add fftw_init_threads and fftw_plan_with_nthreads to MKL wrapper for FFTW.

• #356: MKL OneAPI v2021 support.

• #355: Qt6 support.

• #317: uses fmtlib.

v0.4.12

0.4.12 (2020-12-30)

• eig builtin: Eigenvalues and eigenvectors.

• det builtin: Matrix determinant.

• gcd builtin: Greatest common divisor.

• find builtin: Find indices and values of nonzero elements.

• ishermitian builtin: Checks if an matrix is hermitian or skew-hermitian.

• strcat builtin: concatenate strings horizontally.

• append builtin: combine strings horizontally.

• corrcoef function: correlation coefficients.

• cov function: covariance.

• var builtin: variance.

• magic function: magic square.

• mpower builtin: matrix support added.

• fft is faster: plan was not correctly cached.

• |, &, ./ and .^ operators are faster.

• inv is faster.

• extends fullfile compatibility with string type.

• extends assert_isequal, isequal to manage missing type.

• extends issymmetric to manage boolean type.

Bug Fixes:

• #364: isinf, isnan, conj, double, single, real, imag are faster.

• #361: abs is faster.

• #360: ctranpose and transpose are faster.

• #353: N = i; N(1) returned wrong value.

• #351: binary operators and empty matrix (behavior described in book of Carl de Boor in An Empty Exercise)

Compilation:

• Qt 5.15.2 on Windows (AppVeyor CI).

v0.4.11

0.4.11 (2020-11-24)

• Nelson Engine API for C (compatible with MEX Engine 100%).

  • engSetVisible,
  • engGetVisible,
  • engEvalString,
  • engOutputBuffer.

• sha256 builtin: get sha256 checksum of a file or a string.

• ipc extended with minimize argument.

• fullfile builtin: build full file name from parts.

Bug Fixes:

• #342: disable slicot on Macos CI.

• #341: extend ipc(pid, 'post', cmd, scope) to manage scope destination.

• #314: Nelson crashs randomly at exit with Qt 5.15.0

Compilation:

• Qt 5.15.1 on Windows (AppVeyor CI).