GNU Scientific Library 2.7 released

[Patrick Alken]

Version 2.7 of the GNU Scientific Library (GSL) is now available. GSL
provides a large collection of routines for numerical computing in C.

This release introduces some new features and fixes several bugs. The
full NEWS file entry is appended below.

The file details for this release are:

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gsl/gsl-2.7.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gsl/gsl-2.7.tar.gz.sig

The GSL project homepage is http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/

GSL is free software distributed under the GNU General Public License.

Thanks to everyone who reported bugs and contributed improvements.

Patrick Alken

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* What is new in gsl-2.7:

|** fixed doc bug for gsl_histogram_min_bin (lhcsky at 163.com) ** fixed
bug #60335 (spmatrix test failure, J. Lamb) ** fixed bug #36577 **
clarified documentation on interpolation accelerators (V. Krishnan) **
fixed bug #45521 (erroneous GSL_ERROR_NULL in ode-initval2, thanks to M.
Sitte) ** fixed doc bug #59758 ** fixed bug #58202 (rstat median for
n=5) ** added support for native C complex number types in gsl_complex
when using a C11 compiler ** upgraded to autoconf 2.71, automake 1.16.3,
libtool 2.4.6 ** updated exponential fitting example for nonlinear least
squares ** added banded LU decomposition and solver (gsl_linalg_LU_band)
** New functions added to the library: - gsl_matrix_norm1 -
gsl_spmatrix_norm1 - gsl_matrix_complex_conjtrans_memcpy -
gsl_linalg_QL: decomp, unpack - gsl_linalg_complex_QR_* (thanks to
Christian Krueger) - gsl_vector_sum - gsl_matrix_scale_rows -
gsl_matrix_scale_columns - gsl_multilarge_linear_matrix_ptr -
gsl_multilarge_linear_rhs_ptr - gsl_spmatrix_dense_add (renamed from
gsl_spmatrix_add_to_dense) - gsl_spmatrix_dense_sub -
gsl_linalg_cholesky_band: solvem, svxm, scale, scale_apply -
gsl_linalg_QR_UD: decomp, lssolve - gsl_linalg_QR_UU: decomp, lssolve,
QTvec - gsl_linalg_QR_UZ: decomp - gsl_multifit_linear_lcurvature -
gsl_spline2d_eval_extrap ** bug fix in checking vector lengths in
gsl_vector_memcpy (dieggsy@pm.me) ** made gsl_sf_legendre_array_index()
inline and documented gsl_sf_legendre_nlm()|