Erik Staats | 809aa5b | 2017-04-03 09:39:01 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | lmfit-6.1, released 2dec15: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | - docs: |
| 4 | - new man page lmfit(7) |
| 5 | - 'BUGS' section in man pages |
| 6 | - code cleanup: |
| 7 | - lmcurve_tyd in separate source file |
| 8 | |
| 9 | lmfit-6.0, released 24nov15: |
| 10 | |
| 11 | - API changes: |
| 12 | - a few more 'const' qualifiers in lmmin and lmcurve. |
| 13 | - new wrapper function lmcurve_tyd, for use in GROMACS |
| 14 | - code cleanup: |
| 15 | - further unify code layout |
| 16 | - use temporary variable for readability in lmcurve (suggested by T. Klauser) |
| 17 | |
| 18 | lmfit-5.3, released 24nov15: |
| 19 | |
| 20 | - autotools: |
| 21 | - set default optimization -O3 |
| 22 | - monitoring: |
| 23 | - detect if norm is not finite, new outcome code 12 = "found nan" |
| 24 | - print parameters before invoking callback functiion |
| 25 | - docs: |
| 26 | - correct typo in lmmin(3) |
| 27 | - code cleanup: |
| 28 | - uniform code layout, starting from clang-format |
| 29 | - correct and improve comments, especially in qrfac |
| 30 | - uppercase matrix names |
| 31 | - testing: |
| 32 | - new unit test directory test/, for development purposes only |
| 33 | |
| 34 | lmfit-5.2, released 23oct14: |
| 35 | |
| 36 | - bug fix: |
| 37 | - correct man page (5.0 API change) |
| 38 | - acceleration(?): |
| 39 | - revert to just one malloc for all workspaces, now based on a char array |
| 40 | |
| 41 | lmfit-5.1, released 29aug13: |
| 42 | |
| 43 | - bug fix: |
| 44 | - FILE** initialization from &stdout was not standard compliant |
| 45 | (report by Jan Krieger, cf http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18505530); |
| 46 | now FILE* initialized to NULL |
| 47 | - code cleanup: |
| 48 | - better wrapper for "extern C" declaration |
| 49 | |
| 50 | lmfit-5.0, released 9aug13: |
| 51 | |
| 52 | - API changes: |
| 53 | - removed callback function for printout |
| 54 | - removed control structure for printout; some par's go to lm_control_struct |
| 55 | - pivoting can no longer be switched off |
| 56 | - from now on, addition of par's to lm_control_struct is not an API change |
| 57 | - bug fix: |
| 58 | - correct memory leak introduced by reversal of mallock trick |
| 59 | - restore default scale_diag=1 |
| 60 | - monitoring: |
| 61 | - improved text messages ("success" -> "converged", we should not say more) |
| 62 | - demo: reworked examples |
| 63 | - new example nonlin1: solution of 2 nonlinear equations in 2 variables |
| 64 | - example surface1 improved and included in man page lmmin(3) |
| 65 | - otherwise testsuite started as new project fittest |
| 66 | - packaging: configure now supports pkg-config |
| 67 | |
| 68 | lmfit-4.0, released 16jul13: |
| 69 | |
| 70 | - binary library renamed: lmmin -> lmfit |
| 71 | - API changes: |
| 72 | - lmcurve.h no longer depends on lmmin.h, but only on new lmstruct.h |
| 73 | - low-level API lmdif is removed (code integrated in lmmin) |
| 74 | - lmcurve_fit -> lmcurve |
| 75 | - new control parameter 'pivot' (default: pivoting is used, as before) |
| 76 | - new structure lm_princon_struct, generalizing printflags |
| 77 | - in consequence thereof, new parameter lists for lmcurve and lmmin |
| 78 | - code cleanup: |
| 79 | - ensure strict C90 compliance: no C++ comments; replace non-standard |
| 80 | struct assignement (reported by Elio Mazzocca, using LCC) |
| 81 | - revert malloc trick of release 3.4 (readability is more important) |
| 82 | - source code comment blocks moved around, to reduce duplications |
| 83 | - build scripts cleanup: |
| 84 | - demo programs are no longer installed to $bindir |
| 85 | - configure.ac: cleaned up, and inserted comments |
| 86 | - documentation: |
| 87 | - new web location: apps.jcns.fz-juelich.de/lmfit |
| 88 | - new entry page (dokuwiki) instead of man page |
| 89 | - man page split and largely rewritten: lmcurve(3), lmmin(3) |
| 90 | |
| 91 | lmfit-3.5, released 3feb13: |
| 92 | |
| 93 | - changed overall license to FreeBSD to facilitate inclusion in Linux |
| 94 | distributions (request by M. Hroncok) |
| 95 | - directory doc renamed man |
| 96 | |
| 97 | lmfit-3.4, released 21jan13: |
| 98 | |
| 99 | - only one malloc call to allocate all arrays (proposal by F. Polchow) |
| 100 | - liblmmin_la_LDFLAGS += -lm (required by Ubuntu, report by J. M. Agosta) |
| 101 | - there is now an alternative ruby binding, using inline instead of swig |
| 102 | (contribution by I. Drozdov) |
| 103 | - long message for degenerate case now suggests increasing epsilon |
| 104 | (suggestion by Nghia Ho) |
| 105 | |
| 106 | lmfit-3.3, released 12sep12: |
| 107 | |
| 108 | - moved "int" declarations to top of lm_printout_std() and lmmin() |
| 109 | (required by Visual Studio 2005: bug report M. Beek) |
| 110 | - corrected typo 0.55 -> 0.5 (bug reports M. Kardas and D. Pescia) |
| 111 | - man pages now produced by make; finally got rid of dmake |
| 112 | - untabified code (hint by W. Pimenta) |
| 113 | |
| 114 | lmfit-3.2, released 28mar10 (preview 27mar10): |
| 115 | |
| 116 | - shared library is given correct version number (set in configure.ac) |
| 117 | - man page lmfit(3) is copied by dmake to lmmin(3) and lmcurve_fit(3) |
| 118 | |
| 119 | lmfit-3.1, released 12mar10: |
| 120 | |
| 121 | - debian directory not part of tgz distribution |
| 122 | - temporarily removed lmmin.3 (was symlink -> lmfit.3) |
| 123 | |
| 124 | lmfit-3.0, released 2mar10 (preview 27feb10): |
| 125 | |
| 126 | - for parameter close to zero, change step width for calculation of jabobian |
| 127 | - outer iteration counter starting at zero (C style) |
| 128 | - replace BUG by LMFIT_DEBUG_MESSAGES and .._MATRIX to allow control by -D |
| 129 | - remove redundant calculation by exchanging workspaces and lm_lmpar output |
| 130 | - eliminate unncessary wa1 = -wa1 computation |
| 131 | - avoid passing wa3 to wa1, choose better names for work arrays in lm_par |
| 132 | - migrate documentation from brain-damaged asciidoc to pod |
| 133 | - rewrote interface documentation |
| 134 | - API changes: |
| 135 | -- eliminate lm_initialize_control, provide defaults for float and double |
| 136 | -- separate limits and status records |
| 137 | -- separate generic minimization and one-dimensional curve fitting |
| 138 | -- simplify the latter |
| 139 | - replace curve-fitting demo |
| 140 | - provide surface-fitting demo (correspondence M. Rudolphi) |
| 141 | - provide vector minimization demos |
| 142 | - test for fnorm<=LM_DWARF, renumbered info values 0, 10, 11 |
| 143 | |
| 144 | lmfit-2.6, released 29sep09: |
| 145 | |
| 146 | - nfev incrementation even if printout=0 (bug report C. Tanner) |
| 147 | - correct t->tvec, y->yvec in man page (bug report C. Tanner) |
| 148 | |
| 149 | lmfit-2.5, released 20sep09: |
| 150 | |
| 151 | - malloc==NULL ? (suggestion R. Strickland) |
| 152 | - allow printout=NULL (suggestion J. Lodewyck) |
| 153 | - improve infmsg (correspondence B. McHoull) |
| 154 | - eliminate some static variables (p25, p5, p75, ..) |
| 155 | - eliminate function data types; they obscure more than they help |
| 156 | |
| 157 | lmfit-2.4, released 27jul08: |
| 158 | |
| 159 | - clearer file headers |
| 160 | - clearer licence (everything has ever been in the public domain) |
| 161 | - machine-dependent arithmetic constants from float.h (suggestion M. Bydder) |
| 162 | - minor improvements of comments |
| 163 | |
| 164 | lmfit-2.3, released 5apr08: |
| 165 | |
| 166 | - fixed bug sf#1817631: replaced confusing variable names in lmmin.c:lm_qrsolv() |
| 167 | - accepted feature request 1814970: inclusion protection in headers |
| 168 | - accepted feature request 1814976: cplusplus wrapper in headers |
| 169 | - fixed bug sf#1868399: typos in debug messages |
| 170 | - accepted proposal from M. Bydder: |
| 171 | improved calculation of differences in lmmin, lines 415-417 |
| 172 | - reverted comments in lmmin.c to pure C style |
| 173 | - improved documentation of interfaces |
| 174 | |
| 175 | lmfit-2.2, released 20sep07: |
| 176 | |
| 177 | - no change log has been maintained, |
| 178 | there are just the sourceforge release notes |