Release announcement for gnuplot 4.6.4

2013-10-09T04:47:43.946000Z

               GNUPLOT VERSION 4.6.4
        ===================================

This is an incremental release of gnuplot version 4.6.
A short list of changes since the previous patchlevel (version 4.6.3)
is given below and in the NEWS file. Detailed information is in ChangeLog.

New features, changes and fixes since gnuplot version 4.6.3

NEW Ctrl-Break interrupts fitting run in wgnuplot
CHANGE treat empty fields in a csv file as "missing" rather than "bad"
CHANGE allow reference to more than one column header in 'using' or 'title'
CHANGE install-info is no longer a default "make install" target
CHANGE if a polar plot is autoscaled, try to place the origin at the center
FIX svg and canvas terminal mousing of inverted axis coordinates
FIX emf failed to initialize font correctly on some systems
FIX timedata columns can now be referred to via column(N) and column("HEAD")
FIX qt terminal toggling of enhanced text elements in plot with labels
FIX color/pattern generated for key entries of columnstacked histograms
FIX hitting ^C twice forces temination of wxt session hung by lost X-server
FIX win terminal failed to properly adjust plot border after window resize
FIX several conditions in which macros were not expanded during command input
FIX promote a string containing only digits to INTGR rather than CMPLX
FIX 'set grid front' caused failure to initialize location of axis zero point
FIX very poor precision in mouse coords reported by x11 in -persist mode
FIX parsing of $# (the number of arguments in a "call"). It's not a comment!
FIX memory leak of cropped images using pngcairo terminal
FIX "lc variable" now iterates over linetype colors (not styles) as documented
FIX rtics were sometimes drawn with length 0

Gnuplot 4.4.3 released

2011-03-05T04:18:45Z

This is an incremental update to the stable version 4.4

Gnuplot 4.4.2 released

2010-09-27T02:58:52Z

Gnuplot 4.4.2 contains 3 bug fixes for 4.4.1; they fix a regression ("lc N" broken), a segfault ("refresh" after interrupted replot), and a clipping error.

gnuplot 4.2.6 released

2009-09-03T03:37:57Z

Gnuplot version 4.2.6 is released as of today, 3 September 2009.

This will probably be the last incremental update of the 4.2 series. A first release candidate for version 4.4 will be along in the next month or two.

gnuplot 4.2.5 released

2009-03-30T05:27:26Z

Gnuplot 4.2.5 (version 4.2 patchlevel 5) is an incremental release containing bugfixes and a few enhancements.

If you are looking for major new features, try the cvs development version (4.3).

4.2.4 released

2008-09-23T05:13:55Z

Gnuplot 4.2.4 (version 4.2 patchlevel 4) is an incremental release containing bugfixes and some enhancements to the official version 4.2 release series.

If you are looking for major new features, try the cvs development version (4.3).

gnuplot 4.2.3 released

2008-03-08T21:52:56Z

Incremental release of the current stable gnuplot version 4.2

gnuplot-4.2.1 released

2007-08-26T20:14:18Z

GNUPLOT VERSION 4.2.1

Version 4.2.1 is an incremental bug-fix release for version 4.2.0.
A synopsis of the changes since 4.2.0 is given below and in the NEWS file.
Full information is given in the ChangeLog.

New features, changes and fixes since gnuplot version 4.2.0

* NEW allow extra column in 2D plots containing color information
* NEW set term latex {size XX,YY}
* FIX buffering of very long input lines
* FIX clipping of image data against plot boundary
* FIX polygon clipping bugs
* FIX key sample for plots with variable color
* FIX wxt initialization on non-gnu systems
* FIX escape sequence %% handling in sprintf() format strings
* FIX Apply "set style incr user" to 3D contours and to columnstacked histograms
* FIX Apply "set key {no}enhanced" to key titles read from a file
* FIX Allow string variable as filename for "fit via <filename>"
* CHANGE defer x11 initialization until first plot command
* CHANGE clean up configuration files for amg, cyg, mgw, dj2
* CHANGE modify SVG output to accommodate non-compliant viewers
* CHANGE allow 'strcol()' as shorthand for 'stringcolumn()'
* CHANGE default to "blacktext" for TeX-based PostScript variants

Demo plots illustrating these and other features are online at

http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo_4.2/

You can download a source tarball for gnuplot version 4.2.1 from the
gnuplot development site on SourceForge.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2055

Installation
------------
Installation instructions are available in the source itself; the short
version for linux/unix-like systems is to unpack the tarball and then
build it:
cd gnuplot-4.2.1 ; ./configure ; make
test it:
make check
install it:
make install

Known issues
------------
- Plot styles image and rgbimage are EXPERIMENTAL; their implementation
is incomplete and may change in future versions of gnuplot
- Internationalization and locale support is incomplete in this version.
If you encounter problems with character encodings, numerical formats,
or other locale issues, try the CVS version on SourceForge.

Support
-------
Please report all bugs and installation problems to the bug tracker
on SourceForge:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=2055&atid=102055

There is also an active gnuplot discussion forum on usenet group

comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot

gnuplot-4.2 released

2007-03-04T21:30:41Z

    OFFICIAL RELEASE OF GNUPLOT VERSION 4.2
    =======================================

We are delighted to announce the release of gnuplot version 4.2.
It has been almost 3 years since release of the previous version 4.0, but
we have put this time to good use. Version 4.2 contains a ton of new
features, support for several new output devices, and improved performance
when plotting large data sets. For a complete list of new features, see
the NEWS file that comes with the program.

Major additions include

\* Text strings can be read and manipulated as normal data
\* New interactive terminal based on wxWidgets, pango and cairo
\* New 2D plot styles 'histogram' 'labels' 'image' 'rgbimage'
\* New 3D plot styles 'labels' 'vectors' 'image' 'rgbimage'
\* User control over color definitions and color use in plots
\* Improved font handling and text formatting
\* New syntax to handle string variables and string functions
\* Creation of animated gif sequences
\* Support for UTF-8 and other multi-byte font encodings
\* Japanese language documentation and internal help

Demo plots illustrating these and other features are online at

http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo\_4.2/

You can download a source tarball for gnuplot version 4.2 from the
gnuplot development site on SourceForge. Pre-built binaries for
selected platforms will appear presently.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group\_id=2055

Installation
------------
Installation instructions are available in the source itself; the short
version for linux/unix-like systems is to unpack the tarball and then
build it:
cd gnuplot-4.2.0 ; ./configure ; make
test it:
make check
install it:
make install

Known issues
------------
- Installation of the new wxt terminal under OSX and Solaris is problematic
- Plot styles image and rgbimage are marked EXPERIMENTAL; their implementation
is incomplete and may change in future versions of gnuplot
- MSWindows support for mouse/keyboard events is incomplete

Support
-------
Please report all bugs and installation problems to the bug tracker
on SourceForge:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group\_id=2055&amp;atid=102055

There is also an active gnuplot discussion forum on usenet group

comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot

Development
-----------
Gnuplot development is quite active. The development branch (4.3) on
SourceForge contains preliminary implementations of many new features;
feedback and additional contributions of code are very welcome.

4th (final) Release Candidate of version 4.2

2007-01-24T20:23:05Z

We are delighted to announce the availability of the third and hopefully
final release candidate for gnuplot version 4.2, in the form of a source
file tarball. Pre-compiled binaries for selected platforms will follow.
Unless serious new bugs are reported, the final 4.2 release should be
identical to -rc4 except for the versioning tags.

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