X-Git-Url: https://pintos-os.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=fc676cc4b0e14b068f6114f447c70503511f5cbc;hb=refs%2Fheads%2Fpivot-table2;hp=57d2d7b59cae7d1f01c580e8d315e49090cca9f5;hpb=8761c0923f6c1676ac9bf730c94471e9ce952d4f;p=pspp diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 57d2d7b59c..fc676cc4b0 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,10 +1,154 @@ PSPP NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. -Copyright (C) 1996-9, 2000, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 1996-2000, 2008-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end for copying conditions. Please send PSPP bug reports to bug-gnu-pspp@gnu.org. + +Changes since 0.8.4: -Changes from 0.6.2 to 0.7.8: + * SPSS/PC+ system files are now supported on GET and other commands + that read SPSS system files. The pspp-convert program can now read + SPSS/PC+ system files. Writing the obsolete SPSS/PC+ system file + format is not supported. + + * SYSFILE INFO can now read SPSS/PC+ system files and SPSS portable + files. + + * FREQUENCIES: A bug was fixed where an assertion failure occured + when an empty dataset was presented. + + * The GRAPH command is now available. Initially it supports + scatterplots and histograms. + +Changes from 0.8.3 to 0.8.4: + + * Formatting of SYSFILE INFO output was made easier to read. + + * Bug fixes, including the following notable ones: + + - FREQUENCIES works properly for string variables. (This bug was + introduced in 0.8.2.) + + - CROSSTABS now correctly computes all of the measures that it + offers. Some measures have been removed because they were not + computed correctly. + + - The NPAR TESTS calculation of significance for the RUNS + subcommand has been corrected. + + - Planned comparisons in ONEWAY ANOVA now correctly handle negative + T-values. + + - Conformance fixes to Open Document output format. + +Changes from 0.8.2 to 0.8.3: + + * Independent T-Tests displayed the standard error of the difference + and the confidence interval for the unequal variances case, where + the equal variances case should have been. This has been fixed. + + * REGRESSION now recognises /STATISTICS=CI(x) which causes confidence + intervals for the coefficients to be printed. + + * When DESCRIPTIVES calculates Z scores, it now omits cases filtered + by the current FILTER settings. + + * PSPPIRE graphical user interface improvements: + + - Dialog boxes with source variable lists can now choose the sort + order; right click and select from the popup menu. + + - 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. + + - A problem with the Means dialog has been resolved (bug #41433). + + - Several problems related to the input of spreadsheets have been + fixed (bug #41657, #41620 + + * 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. + + - Variable labels over 255 bytes long are now accepted without + truncation (bug #41863). + + - 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. + + (Earlier versions of PSPP that supported missing values for long + string variables wrote them to system files in an SPSS-incompatible + 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.) + +Changes from 0.8.0 to 0.8.1: + + * New commands: + + - VARIABLE ROLE. + + * Changes to existing commands: + + - CROSSTABS: The requirement that one expected count must be less than five + before Fishers Exact Test will be reported has been removed. + + * PSPPIRE graphical user interface improvements: + + - A new set of icons has been contributed. + + - Syntax windows now parse syntax in "auto" mode, which in practice + should mean that both "batch" and "interactive" syntax now works, + instead of just "interactive" syntax. + + - The variable pane of data windows now include a Role column. + + * Notable bug fixes: + + - System files written by IBM SPSS 21 are now read without warnings. + + - System files written by "VOXCO INTERVIEWER 4.3" are now read + without warnings. + + - PSPPIRE should now more gracefully handle syntax files that contain + errors. + +Changes from 0.6.2 to 0.8.0: * New commands: @@ -17,7 +161,9 @@ Changes from 0.6.2 to 0.7.8: - DATASET DECLARE - DATASET DISPLAY - DATASET NAME + - LOGISTIC REGRESSION - MATCH FILES + - MEANS - MRSETS - PRESERVE and RESTORE - QUICK CLUSTER @@ -33,23 +179,34 @@ Changes from 0.6.2 to 0.7.8: - CROSSTABS has been re-implemented to fix numerous bugs. + - EXAMINE: /MISSING=LISTWISE is now the default. + - DO REPEAT command has been reimplemented. Now, when DO REPEAT contains an INCLUDE or INSERT command, substitutions are not applied to the included file. + + - FILE HANDLE has a new ENDS subcommand to select CR or CRLF new-lines. - HOST has been updated to use more modern syntax. - - INCLUDE and INSERT have a new ENCODING subcommand. + - Most commands that work with data files now support a new + ENCODING subcommand. - MISSING VALUES can now assign missing values to long string variables. - - NPAR TESTS has new KRUSKAL-WALLIS, SIGN, WILCOXON, and RUNS - subcommands. + - ONEWAY: the POSTHOC subcommand is now implemented. + + - The following new subcommands to NPAR TESTS have been implemented: + COCHRAN, FRIEDMAN, JONCKHEERE-TERPSTRA, KENDALL, KRUSKAL-WALLIS, MANN-WHITNEY, + MCNEMAR, SIGN, WILCOXON, and RUNS - SET and SHOW no longer have ENDCMD, NULLINE, PROMPT, CPROMPT, and DPROMPT subcommands. The defaults are now fixed values. + - SHOW now has a JOURNAL subcommand, to show the location of the + journal file. + - VALUE LABELS can now assign value labels to long string variables. @@ -84,6 +241,9 @@ Changes from 0.6.2 to 0.7.8: argument. This means that on a properly configured desktop, double clicking on an icon will open the file. + - Foreign formats, such as Gnumeric, OpenDocument and CSV can be imported + via using an "intelligent" application assistant dialog. + * Output changes: - The new "cairo" output driver supports output in PostScript, PDF, @@ -100,6 +260,10 @@ Changes from 0.6.2 to 0.7.8: characters, including double-width characters and combining accents. + - Output to OpenDocument format is now supported. + + - The HTML output is much improved. + * The "pspp" program has a new option --batch (or -b) that selects "batch" syntax mode. In previous versions of PSPP this syntax mode was the default. Now a new "auto" syntax mode is the default. In @@ -119,6 +283,10 @@ Changes from 0.6.2 to 0.7.8: See the documentation for the INSERT command in the PSPP manual for more information. + * Text data files that PRINT and WRITE creates now use the system + native line ends by default (CRLF on Windows, LF only elsewhere). + Use the new ENDS subcommand on FILE HANDLE to override the default. + * A new Perl module allows Perl programs to read and write PSPP system files.