Release 1.7.0

It's been a long wait but here it comes again.

Downloads

You can download yacas from the Downloads page. Please note that not all binary packages may have been uploaded yet.

Release highlights

Math

  • new Product() rules for symbolic products (finite and infinite)
  • improved and extended Sum() simplification (thanks Mikkel!)

cyacas

  • Ctrl-D exits the console
  • the code is now C++17 compatible
  • new fast memory allocator; should improve efficiency noticeably on MacOS and MS Windows
  • new arbitrary precision integer library; while not bringing any obvious speedup yet, it provides a clean codebase for improvements in the future

GUI

  • GUI adapts to High DPI displays
  • switch from QWebKit to QWebEngine
  • MathJax uses CommonHTML instead of HTML-CSS as the output engine

Altogether, 28 issues were closed in this release.

Acknowledgements

Quite a few people contributed to the release by providing bug fixes, extensions, bug reports, suggestions and, last but not least, pushing me to finally release a new version. Thanks!


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