Dear GAP Forum, This is to announce the release of ANUPQ 3.0 and ACE 5.0.
Both packages are available from the GAP website: http://www.gap-system.org and my websites: http://www.math.rwth-aachen.de/~Greg.Gamble/ (Aachen, Germany) http://www.maths.uwa.edu.au/~gregg/ (Perth, Australia) http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~gregg/ (Brisbane, Australia) There is no urgency for users to upgrade either package. The new versions are *not* backward-compatible to versions of GAP prior to GAP 4.4. Thus, users of these packages must *not* upgrade if they are still using GAP 4.3 (and must continue to use ANUPQ 2.2 and ACE 4.1), though such users are strongly encouraged to upgrade their GAP to version 4.4, in which case it makes sense to upgrade ACE and ANUPQ at the same time. Neither package contains new features nor fixes any outstanding bugs (the previous versions of ACE and ANUPQ are not known to contain any bugs). These new versions of the packages update them fully to GAP 4.4; all obsolete pre-GAP 4.4 code has been removed. While GAP continues to support `ReadPkg' (and, in the case of ANUPQ, `PrimeOfPGroup') users of ANUPQ and ACE may continue to use ANUPQ 2.2 and ACE 4.1, safely. In the case of ANUPQ, the `IsPqIsomorphicPGroup' has been improved thanks to suggestions from Marco Costantini and Jack Schmidt. Users installing ANUPQ are urged to use testPq to check for correct installation (and can be confident they do have a correct installation if it responds as described in the README). For ACE also, one of the internal functions has been simplified (by removing GAP 4.2 compatibility). Users doing a ReadTest of the tst/aceds.tst file of the package should be aware that if the only difference is one of timing then their installation is quite ok (a cputime of 0 just means the relevant instruction took less than 5ms). Regards, Greg Gamble _______________________________________________ Forum mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum
