PSPP NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
-Copyright (C) 1996-2000, 2008-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1996-2000, 2008-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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Please send PSPP bug reports to bug-gnu-pspp@gnu.org.
- It now uses Gtk+ version 3 instead of version 2. Accordingly, it has a
somewhat different look and feel.
- - There is now has a Graphs menu to access the GRAPH command.
+ - There is now a Graphs menu to access the GRAPH command.
- The status of dialog box widgets are now preserved between calls
to the same dialog box for the same dataset.
+ - The dialog box for the Logistic Regression command will now
+ infer that string variables or any varible with a "measure"
+ of Nominal or Ordinal are to be treated as categorical variables
+ and will generate syntax accordingly.
+
* The pspp-convert utility can now decrypt encrypted syntax files.
The encrypted syntax file format is unacceptably insecure, so to
discourage its use PSPP and PSPPIRE do not directly read or write
For compatibility, the behavior that ESCAPE enabled is now the
default and only supported behavior.
+ - 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.
+
Changes from 0.8.4 to 0.8.5:
* The FREQUENCIES and CROSSTABS commands can now generate barcharts.