Allow me to refer to my answer at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/julia-users/Nwt8bEwe7xU .
On Sunday, August 14, 2016 at 10:51:20 AM UTC+2, Uwe Fechner wrote: > > Thanks. I did not expect these icons to be links. > It would be nice to have an explicit link at the end of the README, too. > > Uwe > > On Sunday, August 14, 2016 at 1:12:19 AM UTC+2, Kristoffer Carlsson wrote: >> >> It is linked right at the top in the README? >> >> On Saturday, August 13, 2016 at 11:40:24 PM UTC+2, Uwe Fechner wrote: >>> >>> 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 >>>> >>>>
