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 179
