Hi folks,

Yes, you heard right. It's Sage 4.1.2.alpha4, not 4.1.2.alpha3. Sage
4.1.2.alpha3 was released by William Stein for working on making the
notebook a self-contained package. The source tarball for Sage
4.1.2.alpha4 is up at

http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mvngu/release/upgrade/sage-4.1.2.alpha4.tar

the binary tarball is available at

http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mvngu/release/upgrade/sage-4.1.2.alpha4-sage.math.washington.edu-x86_64-Linux.tar.gz

and the upgrade path is

http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mvngu/release/upgrade/sage-4.1.2.alpha4/

You can also find the download links for this pre-release on trac at

http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/milestone/sage-4.1.2

Please test and report all problems.

With this release, the Sage 4.1.2 release cycle is now officially in
feature freeze mode. No new feature would be added, unless it's
absolutely necessary. In feature freeze mode, we hope to resolve all
doctest issues previously reported for Sage 4.1.2.alpha2. In
particular, we have a doctest failure from the file

sage/crypto/boolean_function.pyx

which is probably due to a 32- vs. 64-bit issue. A patch to fix this
doctest failure is up at ticket #7020

http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7020

We still have about half a dozen or so blocker tickets to resolve
before Sage 4.1.2 is out the door. The following blocker tickets
already have patches and/or updated spkg's and are waiting for some
thumbs up:

* #6681 cliquer doesn't work in 64-bit OS X --- The updated spkg here
has been tested on various Linux distributions and Mac OS X 10.5. It
still needs someone to test it on SPARC Solaris with at least GCC, as
well as testing on OS X 10.6. If you're going to build Sage
4.1.2.alpha4 from source or upgrading from source on 64-bit openSUSE
or 64-bit Fedora 10, it's likely that you need to replace the cliquer
package that's shipped with Sage 4.1.2alpha4 with the updated cliquer
spkg at #6681.

* #7022 os x -- 10.6 -- generated the matplotlib font cache crashes
sage --- This is a port of matplotlib to OS X 10.6 and so it requires
someone with access to at least Snow Leopard to test that updated
package. We still want to support OS X 10.5; any testing on that
platform would be appreciated. I don't know about OS X 10.4, but it
doesn't hurt to try on that platform as well.

* #6990 readline tab completion has an extra space appended --- This
ticket has an updated Python 2.6.2 package to fix a readline issue. It
has been tested on various Linux distributions, OS X 10.6, and SPARC
Solaris with GCC. Any volunteers to test it on OS X 10.5 and SPARC
Solaris with the Sun compiler?

There are also three blocker tickets that have been reported to be
related to PPC OS X 10.5:

* #6754 sage-4.1.1 -- numerical noise on OS X 10.5 PPC

* #6755 sage-4.1.1 -- twist.py tests are seriously broken on OS X 10.5 PPC

* #6753 sage-4.1.1 -- bug in integral_elements_in_box

All of these PPC related tickets don't have patches yet. Anyone with
access to a PPC OS X 10.5 machine who could help out?

The following tickets were merged in Sage 4.1.2.alpha4. A big thank
you to everyone who reviewed tickets during our inaugural Sage Review
Day, especially to Jason Grout for organizing our first ever review
day. I would also like to extend my gratitude to everyone who have
worked on tickets during this alpha release. Without your dedication
and effort, we wouldn't have resolved over 200 tickets so far in the
Sage 4.1.2 release cycle. Woo hoo!

#780: Alex Ghitza, Burcin Erocal: calculus integration failing due to
maxima interacting when it shouldn't [Reviewed by Karl-Dieter Crisman]
#2562: Karl-Dieter Crisman: minor symbolic doc things [Reviewed by
Burcin Erocal]
#2624: John Palmieri: parallel testing: sage -tp foo/bar/file.py
should assume 1 thread [Reviewed by Dan Drake]
#3646: Tom Boothby: Implement paren matching [Reviewed by John Palmieri]
#4046: Mitesh Patel: add support for Google's new browser to the
notebook [Reviewed by Tim Dumol]
#5221: Karl-Dieter Crisman: default cmap for contour_plot makes last
contour line invisible when fill=False [Reviewed by Jason Grout]
#6283: John Palmieri: Make it so NUM_THREADS is set intelligently
instead of idiotically in makefile so doing "make ptest" or "make
ptestlong" doesn't kill some computers [Reviewed by Dan Drake, Minh
Van Nguyen]
#6339: Martin Albrecht: multivariate polynomial content is broken
[Reviewed by Mike Hansen]
#6340: Karl-Dieter Crisman: var('x',ns=False) -- should go boom but
silently gives a new symbolic variable [Reviewed by Jason Grout,
Burcin Erocal]
#6373: John Cremona: AA and QQbar have no is_square method [Reviewed
by Jason Grout]
#6507: Mitesh Patel: doc sidebar toggle [Reviewed by Tim Dumol]
#6524: Burcin Erocal: Ratio of two symbolic expressions involving
derivative does not simplify [Reviewed by Karl-Dieter Crisman]
#6630: Florent Hivert: The empty species exists !!! [Reviewed by
Franco Saliola, Mike Hansen, Minh Van Nguyen]
#6694: Mitesh Patel: Live reference manual worksheets [Reviewed by
Marshall Hampton]
#6748: Nathann Cohen: Adds Graph.Cliquer to the reference [Reviewed by
Jason Grout]
#6776: Andrey Novoseltsev: plot3d improvement for lattice polytopes
[Reviewed by Marshall Hampton]
#6778: Andrey Novoseltsev: Fix nfacets for non-reflexive lattice
polytopes [Reviewed by Marshall Hampton]
#6824: Jason Grout: cdef in timeseries.pyx follows use of variable
[Reviewed by Mike Hansen]
#6826: Nick Alexander: magma_free interface is broken [Reviewed by
Mike Hansen, Robert Bradshaw]
#6829: Maite Aranes: Implement Manin symbols over number fields
[Reviewed by Georg S. Weber]
#6832: Maite Aranes: bug in inverse_mod for number field elements
[Reviewed by William Stein]
#6841: Minh Van Nguyen: the shift cryptosystem [Reviewed by Rob Beezer]
#6851: Burcin Erocal: hashes for derivatives of symbolic functions
still collide [Reviewed by Karl-Dieter Crisman]
#6859: Michael Yurko: Add more graph generators [Reviewed by Jason
Grout, Minh Van Nguyen]
#6861: Jason Grout, Francis Clarke: allow users to test Sage script
using system-wide Sage installation [Reviewed by Tim Dumol]
#6865: Tim Dumol: Use templates for CSS [Reviewed by Mitesh Patel, Jason Grout]
#6879: John Cremona: Elliptic curve constructor does not check if the
base is a field properly [Reviewed by Mike Hansen]
#6883: David Kirkby, Minh Van Nguyen: ECL 9.8.4 fails to build in
64-bit mode, OS X 10.5.8 [Reviewed by John Palmieri, William Stein]
#6898: Minh Van Nguyen, John Palmieri: update the installation guide
[Reviewed by Mike Hansen, John Palmieri, Minh Van Nguyen]
#6901: Minh Van Nguyen: follow-up to #6839: fix warnings when building
reference manual [Reviewed by John Palmieri]
#6902: Burcin Erocal: log(x) is typeset as \ln x [Reviewed by
Karl-Dieter Crisman]
#6919: Mike Hansen, William Stein: basic arithmetic using FLINT is
broken (very serious!) [Reviewed by John Palmieri, Minh Van Nguyen]
#6921: Jonathan J. Hunt: MATLAB crashes on Snow Leopard due to library
conflicts [Reviewed by William Stein]
#6929: Karl-Dieter Crisman: Docs in functional and a few ring methods
[Reviewed by John Palmieri]
#6930: Jason Grout: make 3d axes labels a little more precise
[Reviewed by William Stein]
#6937: Tom Boothby: Fix cached_function to handle defaults better
[Reviewed by Robert Miller]
#6939: Jason Grout: Make scrollbars appear on cell output when the
output is too wide [Reviewed by Karl-Dieter Crisman, Mitesh Patel,
Jason Grout, Minh Van Nguyen]
#6944: Minh Van Nguyen: typos in some installation scripts [Reviewed
by John Palmieri]
#6947: Jonathan Bober: make complex_plot() work for for fast_callable
functions [Reviewed by Jason Grout]
#6948: Burcin Erocal: powers of exp are over simplified [Reviewed by
Karl-Dieter Crisman]
#6951: Georg S. Weber: Singular fails to build on t2.math with GCC
[Reviewed by Minh Van Nguyen]
#6954: Wilfried Huss: latex output for dictionaries [Reviewed by John
Palmieri, Mike Hansen]
#6956: Tim Joseph Dumol: cannot differentiate cotangent [Reviewed by
Burcin Erocal]
#6963: Minh Van Nguyen: follow up to #3133: fix ReST formatting
[Reviewed by Jason Grout]
#6964: William Stein: implement computation of Dirichlet character of
irreducible cuspidal modular symbols space [Reviewed by Soroosh
Yazdani, Minh Van Nguyen]
#6966: Soroosh Yazdani: Shimura subgroup [Reviewed by William Stein]
#6968: Yann Laigle-Chapuy: improve _vector_times_matrix [Reviewed by
William Stein]
#6969: William Stein: port boehm gc to os x 10.6 [Reviewed by John
Palmieri, Minh Van Nguyen]
#6971: William Stein: port ECL spkg to os x 10.6 [Reviewed by John
Palmieri, Minh Van Nguyen]
#6972: Jason Grout: update the r spkg in sage to 2.9.2 [Reviewed by
William Stein, John Palmieri, Minh Van Nguyen]
#6974: William Stein: cygwin port: make all the crypto ssl-ish spkg's
into dummy packages on Cygwin (where we can use the system openssl
instead) [Reviewed by Ondřej Čertík, John Palmieri, Minh Van Nguyen]
#6976: Ondřej Čertík: numpy package fixed to work in cygwin [Reviewed
by William Stein]
#6980: Yann Laigle-Chapuy: add _nonzero_positions_by_column to sparse
integer matrices [Reviewed by William Stein]
#6981: William Stein: include 64-bit OS X gfortran in standard SAge
[Reviewed by John Palmieri]
#6982: William Stein: cygwin port: atlas and linbox [Reviewed by
Ondřej Čertík, Minh Van Nguyen]
#6985: Mike Hansen, Jason Grout: complex_plot needs to use
fast_callable [Reviewed by Jason Grout, Karl-Dieter Crisman]
#6988: John Palmieri: error building PDF version of reference manual
on Sage 4.1.2.alpha2 [Reviewed by Minh Van Nguyen]
#6992: Burcin Erocal: rename lngamma to log gamma [Reviewed by
Karl-Dieter Crisman]
#6993: Burcin Erocal: update pynac to 0.1.9 [Reviewed by Karl-Dieter Crisman]
#6996: Jason Grout: turn off axes in new contour plots [Reviewed by
Karl-Dieter Crisman]
#6997: Mariah Lenox: minor typo in Constructions documentation
[Reviewed by Minh Van Nguyen]
#6999: Felix Lawrence: doctest failures on 32-bit systems due to #4948
patches [Reviewed by Jaap Spies]
#7002: Jason Grout: Notebook documentation says to use "#auto", but
should be "%auto" [Reviewed by Karl-Dieter Crisman]
#7006: William Stein: os x 10.6 port -- update mpir to autodetect ABI
on OS X since ABI=32 is *no* longer necessarily the default on 10.6
[Reviewed by John Palmieri, Minh Van Nguyen]

-- 
Regards
Minh Van Nguyen

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