Sage 3.4 Release Tour

Sage 3.4 was released on FIXME. For the official, comprehensive release note, please refer to sage-3.4.txt. The following points are some of the foci of this release:

• Merging of Jon Hanke's quadratic forms code
• Sphinxifying the Sage documentation and move its content to the main Sage development repository

All tickets in the 3.4 milestone can be found on the trac server. Here's a summary of features in this release, categorized under various headings.

Algebra

Build

Combinatorics

Distribution

Doctest

Documentation

Graphics

Miscellaneous

Notebook

Number Theory

Numerical

Packages

• Update the libgcrypt spkg to libgcrypt-1.4.3.p0.spkg (Michael Abshoff) -- Originally based on Gnu Privacy Guard (GnuPG), libgcrypt is a general purpose library of cryptographic primitives. As such, it does not provide an implementation of any cryptographic protocols, but rather serves as a collection of cryptographic building blocks.

• Update the Python spkg to python-2.5.2.p9.spkg (Michael Abshoff) -- Python is a general purpose, object oriented programming language. Together with various other open source components, Python serves as a fundamental tool that unify the components of Sage under a common interface.

Porting

Quadratic Forms

• Merge Jon Hanke's quadratic forms code (Gonzalo Tornaria, Michael Abshoff) -- John Hanke has written a substantial amount of Sage code for working with quadratic forms. Hanke's code can serve as base for further enhancement to the case of binary quadratic forms, which are quadratic forms involving two variables. There are currently a number of patches on the trac server for enhancing the functionalities of binary quadratic forms.

Solaris

User Interface

Website/Wiki