On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I have released SymPy 0.7.1. > > You can download the source at > http://code.google.com/p/sympy/downloads/detail?name=sympy-0.7.1.tar.gz, > a Windows installer at > http://code.google.com/p/sympy/downloads/detail?name=sympy-0.7.1.win32.exe, > and the html documentation at > http://code.google.com/p/sympy/downloads/detail?name=sympy-0.7.1-docs-html.zip. > > The primary motivation for this release was to fix isympy to work with > the new IPython 0.11, which is planned to be released in the next few > days sometime. But there have also been several other improvements in > this release. Other improvements include (among other things): > > - Python 2.4 is no longer supported. > > - The Pyglet plotting library is now an optional external dependency. > Previously, we shipped a version of Pyglet with SymPy. Pyglet is only > required for plotting, and the rest of SymPy will work just fine > without it. > > - Hypergeometric functions and Meijer G-Functions, including an > algorithm to convert these into more familiar named elementary or > special functions. This is the first part of Tom Bachmann's GSoC > project, which is to use this algorithm as part of a powerful > technique for computing symbolic definite integrals. > > - Many improvements to the sets module, including support for > FiniteSets and Cartesian products. This is part of Matthew Rocklin's > GSoC project on symbolic statistics. > > - Our docs now use MathJax to render LaTeX math. Please let us know > if this causes any problems for you. > > - Many algorithms were added to the iterables module as part of > Saptarshi Mandal's GSoC project on combinatorics. > > - The framework for working with xyz spin bases in the quantum module > has been improved, as part of Sean Vig's GSoC project. > > There are also many other changes. Please see the full release notes > at https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/Release-Notes-for-0.7.1 for a > more complete list, and for more details on the above. > > Note: I haven't updated any of the websites yet. Please give me a day > to do this, and if you notice any discrepancies then, let me know. > > Aaron Meurer >
This is included in the release notes, but I forgot to mention it here. The following people contributed at least one patch to this release (names are given in alphabetical order by last name). A total of 26 people contributed to this release. People with a * by their names contributed a patch for the first time for this release. Five people contributed for the first time for this release. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release! * Tom Bachmann * Ondřej Čertík * Renato Coutinho * Bill Flynn * Bradley Froehle* * Gilbert Gede * Brian Granger * Emma Hogan* * Yuri Karadzhov * Stefan Krastanov* * Ronan Lamy * Tomo Lazovich * Sam Magura* * Saptarshi Mandal * Aaron Meurer * Sherjil Ozair * Mateusz Paprocki * Vladimir Perić * Mario Pernici * Nicolas Pourcelot * Min Ragan-Kelley* * Matthew Rocklin * Chris Smith * Vinzent Steinberg * Sean Vig * Thomas Wiecki Aaron Meurer -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en.
