For the record, this is explained in the new developer manual which you can 
find in SAGE_ROOT/src/doc/output/html/en/developer/index.html

On Monday, December 23, 2013 2:47:32 PM UTC, Jean-Pierre Flori wrote:
>
> I've opened #15574 for updating FLINT in Sage.
> It should be trivial, though I've had no time to craft an spkg yet (or 
> rather make what's needed in the new workflow).
>
> On Saturday, December 21, 2013 10:10:09 PM UTC+1, Bill Hart wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> We are pleased to announce the release of flint 2.4.
>>
>> FLINT is a C library for arithmetic in support of Number Theory, 
>> including polynomial arithmetic and linear algebra over Z, Z/nZ, Q, 
>> p-adics, q-adics, F_q, and univariate factorisation over those rings. It 
>> depends on GMP or MPIR and MPFR.
>>
>> There's a vast array of new features in this release, which we try to 
>> summarise below.
>>
>> Source code: 
>>
>>    http://flintlib.org/flint-2.4.tar.gz
>>
>> Documentation (624 pp.): 
>>
>>    http://flintlib.org/flint-2.4.pdf
>>
>> The flint-2.4 release contains around 220,000 lines of code.
>>
>> Selected benchmarks are available on our **new website**:
>>
>>    http://flintlib.org/
>>
>> Happy Christmas,
>>
>> The FLINT Team.
>>
>> Major New Features (1479 new commits)
>> =====================================
>>
>> Here are the major new features provided by the 2.4 release:
>>
>> * C++ expressions template wrapper [1]
>>
>> * Fast factorisation of polynomials over Z/nZ [2, 3]
>>
>> * improved p-adics [4]
>>
>> * polynomials/matrices over p-adics [4]
>>
>> * qadics [4]
>>
>> * Finite fields (small and large F_q), polynomials/matrices over F_q [4, 
>> 5, 6]
>>
>> * Finite fields with Zech logarithm representation [6]
>>
>> * Fast factorisation of polynomials over F_q [6]
>>
>> * Faster Brent-Kung modular composition [2]
>>
>> * New prime sieving code [7]
>>
>> * Lambert-W function [7]
>>
>> * Precomputed inverses for polynomials and large integers [2, 8]
>>
>> * Williams' P+1 integer factoring algorithm [8]
>>
>> * Harvey's KS2/KS4 polynomial multiplication [10]  
>>
>> * Faster primality testing up to 64 bits [9]
>>
>> * Support for Cygwin64 and MinGW64
>>
>> * Support for Clang
>>
>> * Support for GMP
>>
>> * Support for Boehm-Demers-Weiser GC
>>
>> * Better ARM support
>>
>> * Support for flint extension modules, e.g:
>>
>>   -- Arb -- Arbitrary-precision floating-point ball arithmetic [7] --
>>      floating point balls, polynomials, matrices and calculus
>>      over real and complex numbers with rigorous error bounds,
>>      elementry functions, Bernoulli numbers, gamma function, 
>>      zeta function, hypergeometric series, partition function
>>            (http://fredrikj.net/arb/)
>>
>>   -- ANTIC -- Algebraic Number Theory in C [8] --
>>      arithmetic of general number fields, binary quadratic forms, 
>>      quadratic class numbers
>>            (https://github.com/wbhart/antic)
>>
>>   -- BLAND -- Generic recursive rings [7] --
>>            (https://github.com/fredrik-johansson/bland)
>>
>> Contributors
>> ============
>>
>> (At least) the following people contributed to flint-2.4, including code 
>> contributions, bug reports, corrections to the documentation and patches:
>>
>>    Tom Bachmann, Martin Lee, Lina Kulakova, Andres Goens, Mike Hansen,
>>    Sebastian Pancratz, Fredrik Johansson, William Hart, Dana Jacobsen,
>>    Michael Jacobson Jr., Mike Stillman, Jan Englehardt, Jean-Pierre Flori,
>>    Jeroen Demeyer, Shi Bai, Qingwen Guan, Frithjof Schulze, Robert 
>> Baillie,
>>    Oleksandr Motsak, Hans Schoenemann, Janko Boehm, Ahmad Soliman
>>
>> Acknowledgements
>> ================
>>
>> [1] Tom Bachmann -- Google Summer of Code 2013
>> [2] Martin Lee -- DFG Priority program SPP1489
>> [3] Lina Kulakova -- Google Summer of Code 2012
>> [4] Sebastian Pancratz -- ERC Grant 204083
>> [5] Andres Goens -- DFG Priority program SPP1489
>> [6] Mike Hansen -- Macaulay2 developers NSF Grant 1002171
>> [7] Fredrik Johansson -- Austrian Science Fund FWF Grant Y464-N18
>> [8] William Hart -- EPSRC Grant EP/G004870/1 and DFG Priority program 
>> SPP1489
>> [9] Dana Jacobsen's verification of flint's primality test using Feitma's 
>> tables
>> [10] Code ported from David Harvey's zn_poly -- 
>>      (http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~davidharvey/code/zn_poly/)
>>
>>

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