Sage 3.1.2 Release Tour

Sage 3.1.2 was released on XXX, 2008. For the official, comprehensive release notes, see the HISTORY.txt file that comes with the release. For the latest changes see sage-3.1.2.txt.

Doctest Coverage Hits 60%

• Mike Hansen wrote doctests for almost all pexpect interfaces, which will ensure greater stability across the board.

Hidden Markov Models

Notebook Bugs

• Many bugs introduced in 3.1.1 were fixed by Mike Hansen and Timothy Clemans.
• A new testing procedure was implemented, hopefully preventing regressions like in 3.1.1 in the future.

New Structure for Partition Refinement

• Hypergraphs (i.e. incidence structures) -- this includes simplicial complexes and block designs

Improved Dense Linear Algebra over GF(2)

• M4RI (http://m4ri.sagemath.org) was updated to the newest upstream release which

  • provides much improved performance for multiplication,
  • provides improved performance for elimination,
  • contains several build and bugfixes.
• hashs and matrix pickling was much improved

• dense matrices over \mathbb{F}_2 can now be written to/read from 1-bit PNG images

New PolyBoRi Version (0.5) and Improved Interface

• PolyBoRi was upgraded from 0.3 to 0.5rc

• mq.SR now returns PolyBoRi equation systems if asked to

• support for boolean polynomial interpolation was added

QEPCAD Interface

Developer's Handbook

• John H Palmieri rewrote/rearranged large parts of the 'Programming Guide' (now 'Developer's Guide') which should make getting started easier for new developers.

Improved 64-bit OSX Support

Fast Numerical Integration

GAP Meataxe Interface

• In the module matrix_group, the method module_composition_factors interfaces with GAP's [http://www.gap-system.org/Manuals/doc/htm/ref/CHAP067.htm Meataxe] implementation. This will return decomposition information for a G-module, for any matrix group G over a finite field.

Better SymPy Integration

Faster Determinants of Matrices over Multivariate Polynomial Rings

Real Number Inputs Improved