Hello,
in the README it says, "for more information, see the documentation".
Is the documentation online available? I cannot find it.

Uwe 

On Saturday, August 13, 2016 at 10:07:57 PM UTC+2, Patrick Kofod Mogensen 
wrote:
>
> We are happy to announce that Optim v0.6 has been released.
>
> Since v0.5, we've seen some great additions and changes to the package. 
> Much
> of this has happened with the help of new and old contributors, and 
> therefore
> this version tag should really be dedicated to them. We've had nine 
> contributors
> in this minor tag (@pkofod, @ranjanan, @ahwillia, @bjarthur, @Ace139, 
> @rgiordan,
> @abieler, @matthieugomez, and @amroamroamro). This brings us up to 36 
> contributors
> in total (I'm not counting you @gitter-badger!), and 15 this year alone. 
> It is
> great to see so many volunteering their time for this open source project.
>
> In this version we have the following changes
> * Added NEWS.md
> * Added proper documentation using Documenter.jl
> * Changed old solver: Nelder-Mead w/ Adaptive parameters (breaking)
> * Julia v0.5 deprecation fixes
> * Added solver: NewtonTrustRegion
> * Added solver: ParticleSwarm
> * Added box constraints to Levenberg Marquardt
> * Changed Automatic Differentiation to ForwardDiff
> * Various bug fixes
>
> Worth noting here is that we have some changes to the Nelder-Mead API. It 
> is
> documented in the new documentation.
>
> We also have two new solvers: the NewtonTrustRegion solver, and the 
> ParticleSwarm
> solver. A lot of focus and effort has gone into first order solvers, so 
> it's interesting
> to see both a new zeroth and second order solver in Optim.
>
> Box contrains in Levenberg-Marquardt was added, and we switched to 
> ForwardDiff for
> automatic differentiation, such that you can now obtain Hessians for the 
> two Newton
> solvers.
>
> There's plenty of work in the pipeline, so stay tuned for more Optim 
> improvements
> in the future. We are looking into code refactoring to easy use of the 
> code in more
> flexible ways, better benchmarking, better testing, and more.
>
> As always, please report bugs or feature requests to the issue tracker
> (https://github.com/JuliaOpt/Optim.jl/issues), and join the chat at gitter
> (https://gitter.im/JuliaOpt/Optim.jl).
>
> Optim.jl / JuliaOpt
>
>

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