The release of GNU MPFR 2.4.2 ("andouillette sauce moutarde"
patch level 2) is imminent. Please help to make this release
as good as possible by downloading and testing this release
candidate:http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-2.4.2/mpfr-2.4.2-rc1.tar.xz http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-2.4.2/mpfr-2.4.2-rc1.tar.bz2 http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-2.4.2/mpfr-2.4.2-rc1.tar.gz http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-2.4.2/mpfr-2.4.2-rc1.zip The MD5's: e60d4aa71db3822e5ef92aa0720a05b8 mpfr-2.4.2-rc1.tar.xz 43b040a2203174824b7833eeb5a47a8a mpfr-2.4.2-rc1.tar.bz2 abae0b7776520332d9df36b5ffcee664 mpfr-2.4.2-rc1.tar.gz 544083466e8a2f2c615e015fb3044334 mpfr-2.4.2-rc1.zip The signatures: http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-2.4.2/mpfr-2.4.2-rc1.tar.xz.asc http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-2.4.2/mpfr-2.4.2-rc1.tar.bz2.asc http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-2.4.2/mpfr-2.4.2-rc1.tar.gz.asc http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-2.4.2/mpfr-2.4.2-rc1.zip.asc Changes from version 2.4.1 to version 2.4.2: - Security fix in formatted output functions (buffer overflow). - Formatted output functions: 6 is now the default value for empty precision field with %Rf. - Better portability of configure script. - Detection of intmax_t and uintmax_t types. - Improved documentation: mpfr_get_z_exp, mpfr_strtofr, mpfr_get_str and formatted output functions. - Improved message in case of assertion failure. - Test coverage: 97.0% lines of code. - Updated tcmp_ld test to really test the long double. - Some documentation files are installed in $docdir. - Bug fixes. Please send success and failure reports with "./config.guess" output to <m...@loria.fr>. If no problems are found, GNU MPFR 2.4.2 should be released around 2009-09-09. Regards, -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.org> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arénaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
