PSPP NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
-Time-stamp: <2010-10-16 13:05:30 blp>
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+Copyright (C) 1996-2000, 2008-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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-Changes from 0.7.3 to 0.7.6:
+Changes from 0.6.2 to 0.7.9:
- * NPAR TESTS now supports the /KRUSKAL-WALLIS subcommand.
+ * New commands:
- * AUTORECODE now supports the /GROUP subcommand.
+ - ADD FILES
+ - CORRELATIONS
+ - DATAFILE ATTRIBUTES
+ - DATASET ACTIVATE
+ - DATASET CLOSE
+ - DATASET COPY
+ - DATASET DECLARE
+ - DATASET DISPLAY
+ - DATASET NAME
+ - MATCH FILES
+ - MEANS
+ - MRSETS
+ - PRESERVE and RESTORE
+ - QUICK CLUSTER
+ - RELIABILITY
+ - ROC
+ - SAVE TRANSLATE to CSV and tab-delimited files
+ - UPDATE
+ - VARIABLE ATTRIBUTES
- * The MRSETS command is now implemented.
+ * Changes to existing commands:
- * SAVE TRANSLATE is now implemented, with initial support for saving
- data in comma-separated value and tab-delimited formats.
+ - AUTORECODE has a new GROUP subcommand.
- * The PRESERVE and RESTORE commands are now implemented.
+ - CROSSTABS has been re-implemented to fix numerous bugs.
- * The HOST command has been updated to use more modern syntax.
+ - EXAMINE: /MISSING=LISTWISE is now the default.
-Changes from 0.7.2 to 0.7.3:
+ - DO REPEAT command has been reimplemented. Now, when DO REPEAT
+ contains an INCLUDE or INSERT command, substitutions are not
+ applied to the included file.
+
+ - HOST has been updated to use more modern syntax.
- * Charts are now produced with Cairo and Pango, instead of libplot.
- Without them, the new graphing features will not work. If you do
- not have Cairo and Pango installed, you must run `configure' with
- --without-cairo.
+ - GET, INCLUDE, and INSERT have a new ENCODING subcommand.
- * The new "cairo" output driver supports output in PostScript, PDF,
- and SVG formats. Its functionality is a superset of that of the
- "postscript" driver, which has been removed. You must have Cairo
- and Pango installed to build the "cairo" driver.
+ - MISSING VALUES can now assign missing values to long string
+ variables.
-Changes from 0.7.1 to 0.7.2:
+ - ONEWAY: the POSTHOC subcommand is now implemented.
- * Updated Perl module interface.
+ - The following new subcommands to NPAR TESTS have been implemented:
+ COCHRAN, FRIEDMAN, JONCKHEERE-TERPSTRA, KENDALL, KRUSKAL-WALLIS, MANN-WHITNEY,
+ MCNEMAR, SIGN, WILCOXON, and RUNS
- * Value labels for long string variables are now supported.
+ - SET and SHOW no longer have ENDCMD, NULLINE, PROMPT, CPROMPT, and
+ DPROMPT subcommands. The defaults are now fixed values.
- * Missing values for long string variables are now supported.
+ - VALUE LABELS can now assign value labels to long string
+ variables.
-Changes from 0.7.0 to 0.7.1:
+ * Other language changes:
- * Added a perl module to facilitate reading and writing of pspp system
- files from perl programs.
+ - The new DATASET commands replace the "scratch file" PSPP
+ extension, which is no longer supported.
-Changes from 0.6.2-pre6 to 0.7.0:
+ - Strings may now include arbitrary Unicode code points specified
+ in hexadecimal, using the syntax U'hhhh'. For example, Unicode
+ code point U+1D11E, the musical G clef character, may be
+ expressed as U'1D11E'.
- * Custom variable and data file attributes are now supported.
- Commands VARIABLE ATTRIBUTE and DATAFILE ATTRIBUTE have been added
- for setting and clear attributes. Support for attributes has also
- been added to commands that read and write system files, such as
- SAVE and GET, as well as to the DISPLAY command.
+ See the "Tokens" section in the PSPP manual for more information.
- * Numererous improvements to the Graphical User Interface have
- made. Notable improvements include:
+ - In previous versions of PSPP, in a string expressed in
+ hexadecimal with X'hh' syntax, the hexadecimal digits expressed
+ bytes in the locale encoding. In this version of PSPP, X'hh'
+ syntax always expresses bytes in UTF-8 encoding.
- - Non-Ascii characters in strings, labels and variable names are
- now supported.
+ See the "Tokens" section in the PSPP manual for more information.
- - A "Split Window" function is available, which makes it easier to
- see different parts of a large data file.
+ * PSPPIRE graphical user interface improvements:
- - Data files can now be opened by specifing their name as the first
- argument. This means that on a properly configured desktop, double
- clicking on an icon will open the file.
-
+ - Added support for non-ASCII characters in strings, labels and
+ variable names.
- * New statistical procedures:
- - CORRELATIONS
- - ROC
- - RELIABILITY
+ - A "Split Window" function is available, which makes it easier to
+ see different parts of a large data file.
- NPAR TESTS now supports the WILCOXON and SIGN subcommands.
+ - Data files can now be opened by specifing their name as the first
+ argument. This means that on a properly configured desktop, double
+ clicking on an icon will open the file.
- The CROSSTABS command has been completely re-implemented to fix numerous bugs.
+ * Output changes:
- * Three new commands to combine data files have been added: MATCH FILES,
- UPDATE and ADD FILES.
+ - The new "cairo" output driver supports output in PostScript, PDF,
+ and SVG formats. Its functionality is a superset of that of the
+ "postscript" driver, which has been removed. You must have Cairo
+ and Pango installed to build the "cairo" driver.
- * A tutorial chapter has been added to the user manual.
+ - Charts are now produced with Cairo and Pango, instead of libplot.
+ Without them, the new graphing features will not work. If you do
+ not have Cairo and Pango installed, you must run `configure' with
+ --without-cairo.
-Changes from 0.6.1 to 0.6.2
+ - The plain text output driver now properly supports multibyte UTF-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
+ "auto" mode, PSPP interprets most syntax files correctly regardless
+ of their intended syntax mode.
+
+ See the "Syntax Variants" section in the PSPP manual for more
+ information.
+
+ * The "pspp" program has a new option --syntax-encoding that
+ specifies the encoding for syntax files listed on the command line,
+ as well as the default encoding for syntax files included with
+ INCLUDE or INSERT. The default is to accept the system locale
+ encoding, UTF-8, UTF-16, or UTF-32, automatically detecting which
+ one the system file uses.
+
+ See the documentation for the INSERT command in the PSPP manual for
+ more information.
+
+ * A new Perl module allows Perl programs to read and write PSPP
+ system files.
+
+ * A tutorial chapter has been added to the user manual.
+\f
+Changes from 0.6.1 to 0.6.2:
* New translations:
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