Dear all, Following this announcement, the GAP 4.11.1 installer for Windows is now also available at https://www.gap-system.org/Releases/4.11.1.html
Please note, especially if you can't find a GAP shortcut in the Windows menu, that you need to start GAP using the gap-4.11.0/bin/gap.bat file. Do NOT start it using gap.exe. Best wishes Alexander > On 4 Mar 2021, at 11:02, Max Horn <h...@mathematik.uni-kl.de> wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Gap mailing list > g...@gap-system.org > https://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/gap _______________________________________________ Forum mailing list Forum@gap-system.org https://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum
