Dear GAP Users,

The next release of GAP, version 4.11.1, is now available at

   https://www.gap-system.org/Releases/4.11.1.html

This is a minor release, which only contains bug fixes and minor tweaks. You 
can find an overview of these changes at

  https://github.com/gap-system/gap/blob/stable-4.11/CHANGES.md


The GAP 4.11.1 distribution contains 151 packages, of which 49 have been 
updated since GAP 4.11.0. A full list of which packages were updated can be 
found in `CHANGES.md`. Notable changes include extending the Transitive Groups 
Library with representatives for all transitive permutation groups of degree at 
most 47 (due to Derek Holt), and fixing the ordering of groups of orders 3^7, 
5^7, 7^7, 11^7 in the Small Groups Library. For other changes, we refer to the 
documentation of the various packages. 


We encourage all users to upgrade to GAP 4.11.1. You can download source 
archives from 

   https://www.gap-system.org/Releases/4.11.1.html

For Windows 10 users, we recommend using it with the help of WSL (Windows 
Subsystem for Linux). We also hope to be able to again offer a binary installer 
for Windows in the coming weeks. However, this is not yet completely certain. 
The reason for this is that the efforts required to produce the Windows 
installer has become a problem. It was one of the reasons for delays in GAP 
releases -- e.g. this release was originally scheduled for mid 2020. 

To address the delays in GAP releases, we have switched to a completely new 
release process, which is simpler and easier for us to maintain. We also 
completely revamped the technical underpinnings of our website, which also 
makes it much easier to improve it. And we decided to give up on delaying 
releases until a Windows installer can be prepared.

On the upside, this all means we should be able to make GAP releases with far 
less effort, and thus more frequently. Also, a better and improved Windows 
installer is in the works, which hopefully will also be easier to prepare, so 
that we may even be able to return to providing Windows installers as part of 
the release process.

If you need any help or would like to report any problems, please do not 
hesitate to contact us at supp...@gap-system.org, or submit new issues on 
GitHub: 

   https://github.com/gap-system/gap/issues

There is also a 'gap' tag for questions about GAP at the Mathematics Q&A site:

   https://math.stackexchange.com/tags/gap/info

In addition, you may find some GAP related news on Twitter:

   https://twitter.com/gap_system


Best regards
Max Horn
on behalf of the GAP Group
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