X-Git-Url: https://pintos-os.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=e0c7eeca628189d5e5decde18bf569a0c0bfc838;hb=refs%2Fheads%2Fctables10;hp=8bbecdf01d9891b80a5854b228619c7f37b0cea3;hpb=293d0658260be13274d3d74b3596883528e40f28;p=pspp diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 8bbecdf01d..e0c7eeca62 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,10 +1,91 @@ PSPP NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. -Copyright (C) 1996-2000, 2008-2016, 2017, 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 1996-2000, 2008-2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, + 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end for copying conditions. Please send PSPP bug reports to bug-gnu-pspp@gnu.org. -Changes from 1.2.0 to 1.3.0: +Changes from 1.4.1 to 1.6.0: + + * In the Kruskal-Wallis test, a misleading result could occur + if the lower bound specified by the user was in fact higher + than the upper bound specified. This has been fixed. + + * The DEFINE, MATRIX, MCONVERT, and MATRIX DATA commands are now + implemented. + + * An error in the displayed signficance of oneway anova + contrasts tests has been corrected. + + * Added Drag-N-Drop in output view. + + * The Explore GUI dialog supports the "Plots" subdialog. Boxplots, Q-Q Plots + and Spreadlevel plots are now also available via the GUI. + + * The graphical user interface for importing spreadsheets has been improved. + The new interface provides the user with a preview of the data to be imported + and interactive methods to select the desired ranges. + + * The user manual, in its Info and HTML versions, now includes + graphical output examples and screenshots. + + * New command SHOW SYSTEM to easily print system information useful + in bug reports. + + * Build changes: + + - Perl is no longer required to build. + + - Build now requires Python 3.4 or later. (Building PSPP 1.4.0 + also required Python, but it wasn't properly documented at the + time.) + + - The Cairo and Pango libraries are now required. + + - gettext 0.20 or later is now required. + + - gtksourceview 4.x is now supported (3.x also remains supported). + + * Output improvements: + + - New drivers for output to TeX source files and to PNG files. + + - Table output styles may now be set with the new option + --table-look and the new SET TLOOK command. + + - New driver option "trim" to remove empty space from PDF, + PostScript, SVG, and PNG output files. + + - The PDF output driver now adds an outline to allow PDF viewers to display + as a "table of contents" for the file. + + - The HTML output driver has a new option "bare". + + * New features in pspp-output: + + - New --table-look and --nth-commands options. + + - New get-table-look and convert-table-look commands. + +Changes from 1.4.0 to 1.4.1: + + * Bug fixes. + + * Translation updates. + + * HTML output is now HTML5 instead of HTML4.0 Transitional. + + * The HOST command has been reimplemented. It now supports TIMELIMIT. + +Changes from 1.2.0 to 1.4.0: + + * The file pspp-mode.el (the pspp-mode for Emacs) is no longer distributed + with PSPP. Instead, it can be installed directly in emacs and is available + from https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/pspp-mode.html + + * The Find dialog box, when searching for numeric values, will match only + to the precision of the variable's print format. This avoids behaviour + which is surprising to some users. * PSPP now supports the SPSS viewer (.spv) format that SPSS 16 and later use to save the contents of its output editor: @@ -31,7 +112,11 @@ Changes from 1.2.0 to 1.3.0: - New "-a", "-l", "--password-list" options to search for an encrypted file's password. - - New "--labels" and "--recode" options for CSV output. + - New "--keep" and "--drop" options to output only selected variables. + + - New "--recode", "--no-var-name", "--labels", "--print-formats", + "--decimal", "--delimiter", and "--qualifier" options to control + CSV output. * Improvements to SAVE DATA COLLECTION support for MDD files. @@ -52,9 +137,6 @@ Changes from 1.2.0 to 1.3.0: * The MEANS command has been re-implemented. - * A bug where the GUI would crash when T-TEST was executed whilst - a filter was set has been fixed. - * The GUI now has a sub-dialog for post-hoc tests of the oneway anova test. @@ -64,6 +146,9 @@ Changes from 1.2.0 to 1.3.0: sub-category as a percentage of the primary category instead of the total. + * The Syntax Window now has a Find function to perform simple text + searching. + * AUTORECODE: - The PRINT subcommand is now implemented.