PSPP is a program for statistical analysis of sampled data. It is a free replacement for the proprietary program SPSS. PSPP development is ongoing. It already supports a large subset of SPSS's syntax. Its statistical procedure support is currently limited, but growing. At your option, PSPP will produce statistical reports in ASCII, PostScript, PDF, HTML, or SVG formats. Instructions for PSPP installation are in INSTALL, including a list of prerequisite packages and other PSPP-specific information. Full documentation on PSPP's language will be installed along with the programs. For information on differences from previous versions, please see file NEWS. Source code for the latest release of PSPP is available at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/pspp/. Older versions may be obtained from ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/pspp/. Development sources are available at http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/pspp The following miscellaneous notes apply to this release: * On a few operating systems, such as OpenBSD, some of the tests may fail with messages similar to: 'Warning: cannot create a convertor for "646" to "UTF-8"'. These test failures may safely be ignored. Questions and comments about using PSPP may be sent to pspp-users@gnu.org. Bug reports may be filed at http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=pspp or emailed to bug-gnu-pspp@gnu.org. We prefer the web-based system because it makes it more difficult for us to lose track of bugs, but we are happy to hear from users through any means. The long term goals for PSPP are ambitious. We wish to provide the following support to users: * All of the SPSS transformation language. PSPP already supports a large subset of it. * All the statistical procedures that someone is willing to implement, whether they exist in SPSS or not. * Compatibility with SPSS syntax, including compatibility with known bugs and warts, where it makes sense. We also provide an "enhanced" mode in certain cases where PSPP can output better results that may surprise SPSS users. * Friendly textual and graphical interfaces. This release includes the first version of PSPPIRE, the PSPP graphical user interface. * Attractive output, including graphs, in a variety of human- and machine-readable formats. PSPP currently produces output in ASCII, PostScript, PDF, HTML, and SVG formats. We will enhance PSPP's output formatting in the future. * Good documentation. Currently the PSPP manual describes its language completely, but we would like to add information on how to select statistical procedures and interpret their results. * Efficient support for very large data sets. For procedures where it is practical, we wish to efficiently support data sets many times larger than physical memory. The framework for this feature is already in place. It has not been tuned or extensively tested, however initial experience has given impressive results. Over the long term, we also wish to provide support to developers who wish to extend PSPP with new statistical procedures, by supplying the following: * Easy-to-use support for parsing language syntax. Currently, parsing is done by writing "recursive descent" code by hand, with some support for automated parsing of the most common constructs. We wish to improve the situation by supplying a more complete and flexible parser generator. * Easy-to-use support for producing attractive output. Currently, output is done by writing code to explicitly fill in table cells with data. We should be able to supply a more convenient interface that also allows for providing machine-readable output. * Eventually, a plug-in interface for procedures. Over the short term, the interface between the PSPP core and statistical procedures is evolving quickly enough that a plug-in model does not make sense. Over the long term, it may make sense to introduce plug-ins.