PSPP NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
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-Changes since 0.8.1:
+Changes since 0.8.2:
+
+ * REGRESSION now recognises /STATISTICS=CI(x) which causes confidence
+ intervals for the coefficients to be printed.
+
+ * PSPPIRE graphical user interface improvements:
+
+ - File|Open now allows an encoding to be selected for opening
+ system files.
+
+ - File|Display Data File Information|External File... now allows an
+ encoding to be selected.
+
+ * System file related improvements:
+
+ - With ENCODING="DETECT", SYSFILE INFO can now help the user to
+ pick an encoding for reading a system file that does not identify
+ its own encoding
+
+ - SYSFILE INFO now accepts an ENCODING subcommand to specify the
+ character encoding of string data in the system file.
+
+ - System files that contain duplicate variable names may now be
+ read successfully (bug #41475).
+
+Changes from 0.8.1 to 0.8.2:
* Charts are now rendered with colours from the Tango palette instead
of fully saturated primaries.
+ * Support for new system file variants:
+
+ - PSPP can now read and write ZCOMPRESSED system files, which
+ compress data much more effectively than older "compressed"
+ files. (The older format is still supported.)
+
+ - PSPP can now decrypt encrypted system files, using the new
+ pspp-convert utility. The encrypted system file format is
+ unacceptably insecure, so to discourage its use PSPP and PSPPIRE
+ do not directly read or write this format.
+
* Missing values for long string variables are now read from and
written to system files in an SPSS-compatible fashion.
way. To fix the problem, read the system file with this version of
PSPP and then save a new copy of it.)
+ * pspp-convert, a new standalone utility for converting SPSS system
+ and portable files to other formats, is now included. The initial
+ version supports comma-separated value files as output format.
+ pspp-convert can also decrypt encrypted system files.
+
* Build changes:
- zlib is now a required dependency. (Previously it was optional.)