PSPP NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
-Time-stamp: <2008-06-04 21:27:06 blp>
-Copyright (C) 1996-9, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1996-2000, 2008-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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Please send PSPP bug reports to bug-gnu-pspp@gnu.org.
+Changes from 0.6.2 to 0.7.9:
+
+ * New commands:
+
+ - 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
+
+ * Changes to existing commands:
+
+ - AUTORECODE has a new GROUP subcommand.
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - HOST has been updated to use more modern syntax.
+
+ - GET, INCLUDE, and INSERT have a new ENCODING subcommand.
+
+ - MISSING VALUES can now assign missing values to long string
+ variables.
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - VALUE LABELS can now assign value labels to long string
+ variables.
+
+ * Other language changes:
+
+ - The new DATASET commands replace the "scratch file" PSPP
+ extension, which is no longer supported.
+
+ - 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'.
+
+ See the "Tokens" section in the PSPP manual for more information.
+
+ - 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.
+
+ See the "Tokens" section in the PSPP manual for more information.
+
+ * PSPPIRE graphical user interface improvements:
+
+ - Added support for non-ASCII characters in strings, labels and
+ variable names.
+
+ - A "Split Window" function is available, which makes it easier to
+ see different parts of a large data file.
+
+ - 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.
+
+ * Output changes:
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - 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:
+
+ - Dutch, thanks to Harry Thijssen.
+
+ - Brazilian Portuguese, thanks to Michel Boaventura.
+
+ Thanks for translations are also due to the coordinators at
+ translationproject.org.
+
+ * Statistical bug fixes:
+
+ - REGRESSION: Report correct standard error of the estimate (bug
+ #25677).
+
+ - T-TEST: Report correct significance of paired sample T-test in
+ the common case (bug #26936) and corner cases. Thanks to Mike
+ Griffiths and Matej Cepl for reporting these bugs.
+
+ * Build fixes and changes:
+
+ - Fix build with GTK+ 2.17.4 and later.
+
+ - Make running "make" after running "configure" with different
+ settings reliably rebuild version.c.
+
+ - Cygwin and MinGW build fixes.
+
+ - Fixes for building with recent gnulib.
+
+ - The Makefile now honors two new variables, PSPP_LDFLAGS and
+ PSPPIRE_LDFLAGS, that affect linking of the PSPP and PSPPIRE
+ binaries, respectively. This makes building easier for some
+ packagers.
+
+ - Fixes for "configure --enable-relocatable" (bug #25508).
+
+ * Data file bug fixes and changes:
+
+ - Fix reading text data files that contain a mix of white space
+ and commas. Now "a ,b" is treated as two fields containing "a"
+ and "b"; previously it was treated as three, with an empty field
+ in the middle.
+
+ - Fix writing corrupted .sav files on Windows.
+
+ - Fix writing variable labels longer than 252 bytes to save files.
+ Thanks to Robert Westlund for reporting this bug.
+
+ - Fix writing corrupted .por files (bug #26034).
+
+ - Fix reading .por files whose initial lines are not padded out
+ with spaces as expected.
+
+ - PSPP will no longer issue warnings about some .sav file records
+ or values that it does not understand. These warnings were
+ harmless, but needlessly alarmed some users.
+
+ - Fix crash reading empty string fields from PostgreSQL databases.
+
+ * Bug fixes that affect PSPP and PSPPIRE:
+
+ - Users may now control precision of output statistics. Instead
+ of hard coding the width and decimals of output numbers, respect
+ the default format in most instances. Counts are now normally
+ displayed with the format of the weight variable, if any.
+
+ - Fix crash when an INSERT command specifies the name of a file
+ that does not exist (bug #24569).
+
+ - Fix crash when CROSSTABS specifies a long-string variable (bugs
+ #24557 and #26131).
+
+ - Fix crash drawing pie charts with many segments.
+
+ - Fix crash when NUMERIC specifies an invalid format.
+
+ * PSPPIRE bug fixes and changes:
+
+ - On Windows, write the output file to the user's home directory
+ instead of the current directory, to better match user
+ expectations.
+
+ - Some data editor fixes.
+
+ * Documentation:
+
+ - Fix typo in BINOMIAL section of user manual (bug #25892).
+
+Changes from 0.6.0 to 0.6.1:
+
+ * Statistical bug fixes:
+
+ - Report correct standardized regression coefficients in linear
+ regression output (bug #23567).
+
+ * Bug fixes that affect PSPP and PSPPIRE:
+
+ - Avoid crash with pie charts (bug #24014).
+
+ - Don't append % to count totals (bug #24003).
+
+ - Don't crash on bad input (bug #24031).
+
+ - Don't crash if "end data." is not left aligned (bug #24115).
+
+ - Change default workspace value to 64 MB, to avoid unnecessary
+ disk accesses on modern machines.
+
+ * PSPPIRE bug fixes:
+
+ - Add ".sav" or ".por" suffix to filename when saving with Save_As
+ (bug #23137).
+
+ - Make it possible to reopen the output window on Windows (bug
+ #24033).
+
+ - A POSIX regular expression library is now included and used
+ automatically if the host does not have one or has one that is
+ inadequate.
+
+ * Build fixes and changes:
+
+ - Work around bug in GSL that prevented build with recent GCC
+ versions without manually adding -fgnu89-inline to CFLAGS.
+
+ - Also warn about missing prerequisites as we encounter them (bug
+ #24445).
+
+ - Distribute necessary files to allow users working from the
+ distributed tarball to configure with --enable-gui-tools.
+
+ - Append $(EXEEXT_FOR_BUILD) to output file name when building
+ q2c, fixing build problems on Windows.
+
+ - GSL 1.8 or later is now required.
+
+ - Build errors with --enable-relocatable were fixed.
+
+ * The German translations were removed, since native German speakers
+ found them too poor to be useful.
+
Changes from 0.4.0 to 0.6.0:
* The PSPP license is now version 3 or later of the GNU General
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