expressions: Implement the MEDIAN function.

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@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ Changes from 0.8.5 to 0.9.0:
 
  * The GRAPH command now has a /BAR subcommand to draw barcharts.
 
+ * If the DECIMAL character is set to COMMA then the ',' character
+   will not be treated as a separator by DATA LIST.
+
  * The graphical user interface (psppire) has been changed as follows:
 
    - It now uses Gtk+ version 3 instead of version 2.  Accordingly, it has a 
@@ -35,6 +38,12 @@ Changes from 0.8.5 to 0.9.0:
    discourage its use PSPP and PSPPIRE do not directly read or write
    this format.
 
+ * The following functions for transformation expressions are new:
+
+   - REPLACE, for search-and-replace of one string with another.
+
+   - MEDIAN, to compute the median of its arguments.
+
  * Bug fixes, including the following notable ones:
 
    - The correlation coefficient in the paired samples t-test
@@ -48,6 +57,10 @@ Changes from 0.8.5 to 0.9.0:
    - Rendering of the variable and data sheets in right-to-left locales
      now works properly.
 
+   - The Mann-Whitney test, when run on a dataset containing values
+     of the group variable, other than those defining the test groups,
+     would incorrectly calculate the ranks.  This has been corrected.
+
  * The IMPORTCASES subcommand on GET DATA is now ignored, for
    compatibility.