PSPP NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
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+Copyright (C) 1996-2000, 2008-2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021,
+ 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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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 1.5.3:
+
+ * 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.
+
+ * 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.
+
+ * 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:
+
+ - PSPP and PSPPIRE can write output to .spv files.
+
+ - The new utility pspp-output can convert .spv files to other formats.
+
+ - The pspp-convert utility can now decrypt encrypted .spv files. The
+ encrypted viewer file format is unacceptably insecure, so to
+ discourage its use PSPP and PSPPIRE do not directly read or write
+ this format.
+
+ * A bug where the Data|Select Cases|Random Sample menu would generate
+ invalid syntax has been fixed.
* FREQUENCIES will emit a warning if one or more weight values are missing.
* Plain text output is no longer divided into pages, since it is now
rarely printed on paper.
- * pspp-convert: New "-a", "-l", "--password-list" options to search
- for an encrypted file's password.
+ * pspp-convert improvements:
+
+ - New "-a", "-l", "--password-list" options to search for an
+ encrypted file's password.
+
+ - 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.
* Bug fix for CVE-2018-20230.
+ * The /RENAME subcommand in SAVE TRANSLATE et al. has been extended
+ to support the syntax also accepted by other software.
+
* The EXAMINE command will now perform the Shapiro-Wilk test when
one or more plots are requested.
be used to save the cases' cluster membership and/or their distance
from the cluster centre to the active file.
- * A bug where the GUI would crash when T-TEST was executed whilst
- a filter was set has been fixed.
+ * The MEANS command has been re-implemented.
* The GUI now has a sub-dialog for post-hoc tests of the oneway
anova test.
- * GRAPH: A categorical barcharts displaying percentages now show the
+ * Gtk+3.22.0 or later must now be used when building.
+
+ * GRAPH: Categorical barcharts displaying percentages now show the
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.
+
+ - Many bug fixes.
+
Changes from 1.0.1 to 1.2.0:
* New experimental command SAVE DATA COLLECTION to save MDD files.
* The graphical user interface (psppire) has been changed as follows:
- - It now uses Gtk+ version 3 instead of version 2. Accordingly, it has a
+ - It now uses Gtk+ version 3 instead of version 2. Accordingly, it has a
somewhat different look and feel.
- There is now a Graphs menu to access the GRAPH command.
- 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.
- 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,
+ 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
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