Sage 3.2.3 released

[mabshoff]

[This announcement is a couple days late since we had initially
planned to do an additional
3.2.4 release due to a regression in the final release of 3.2.3. This
did not work out as
planned and the next release will be 3.3 a couple days after SD 12 in
San Diego, i.e. the
middle of next week if things go as planned. Overall you should still
upgrade to 3.2.3
since the number of bugs fixed is substantial and the regression is
hard to hit]

Hello folks,

Sage 3.2.3 was released on January 5th, 2009. It is available at

http://www.sagemath.org/download.html

* About Sage (http://www.sagemath.org)

Sage is developed by volunteers and combines 83 open source packages.
It is available for download from www.sagemath.org and its mirrors in
source or binary form. If you have any questions and/or problems,
please report them to the Google groups sage-devel or sage-support.
You can also drop by in #sage-devel or #sage-support in freenode.

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The following 17 people contributed to this release:

* Michael Abshoff
* Martin Albrecht
* Arnaud Bergeron
* Robert Bradshaw
* Craig Citro
* Timothy Clemans
* John Cremona
* Dan Drake
* Alex Ghitza
* Marshall Hampton
* Mike Hansen
* Alexander Hupfer [first contribution]
* Kiran Kedlaya
* Robert Miller
* Jaap Spies
* William Stein
* Chris Swierczewski

Cheers,

Michael Abshoff (release chair), William Stein

* Major Features, New Spkgs and Bugfixes

See the Sage 3.2.3 Release Tour at

http://wiki.sagemath.org/sage-3.2.3

* Known Issues with 3.2.3:

* RHEL 5 clisp build issue: the latest clisp.spkg does not build
so please use the clisp.spkg from Sage 3.0.3.
* Building from source fails on OpenSUSE 11.1 64 bit. Please check
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/4946

* Bug Statistics

We closed 40 tickets. For details see

http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/milestone/sage-3.2.3

or check out the closed ticket section at the end of the
announcement.

* Upcoming Releases

The next release will be 3.2.4, chaired by Michael Abshoff. It will
be a release focusing on merging existing patches from trac in
preparation for the big docstring Sphinx conversion planned for Sage
3.3.
The release cycle will be on the short side, i.e. about 7 days are
planned.

* Doctesting Coverage

For 3.2.2 we had:

Overall weighted coverage score: 64.2%
Total number of functions: 22034

We increased coverage by 0.1% in 3.2.3 while removing 52 functions:

Overall weighted coverage score: 64.3%
Total number of functions: 21982

* Closed Tickets:

Merged in Sage 3.2.3:

#4843: Michael Abshoff: Fix readline related build problems on
OpenSUSE 11.1 [Reviewed by William Stein]
#4934: William Stein: matrix1.pyx reference related doctest crash on
cicero [Reviewed by Michael Abshoff]
#4939: William Stein: massive performance regression to primes_first_n
[Reviewed by Craig Citro]

Merged in Sage 3.2.3.final:

#4870: Michael Abshoff: Sage 3.2.3: turn off FLINT test suite in the
final build [Reviewed by William Stein]
#4894: William Stein: save_session -- bug when saving %cython
functions, etc. [Reviewed by William Stein]
#4899: John Cremona: bug in sqrt(1) over GF(2^e) for e>15 [Reviewed by
William Stein]
#4929: Michael Abshoff: 3.2.3.rc0: remove sage/functions/elementary.py
from files to build in the documentation [Reviewed by Kiran Kedlaya]
#4930: Michael Abshoff: 3.2.3.rc0: Fix bug in ATLAS' spkg-install that
breaks the install target for dynamic libs [Reviewed by William Stein]
#4931: Michael Abshoff: Sage 3.2.3.final: Fix various Solaris 10 build
issues in the Sage library [Reviewed by William Stein]

Merged in Sage 3.2.3.rc0:

#3640: Michael Abshoff: optional spkg polymake is broken with Sage
3.0.3/3.0.4 [Reviewed by Marshall Hampton]
#3785: Michael Abshoff: upgrade atlas in sage to version 3.8.2
[Reviewed by William Stein]
#3787: Michael Abshoff: make ATLAS use extended cpuid [Reviewed by
William Stein]
#4862: Michael Abshoff: macaulay2 optional spkg is broken with
parallel make [Reviewed by William Stein]
#4872: William Stein: use sage_native_execute for dvipng, clean up
file handling [Reviewed by Arnaud Bergeron]
#4879: Michael Abshoff: Update FLINT to 1.0.21 (latest 1.0.x upstream)
[Reviewed by Jaap Spies]
#4882: Michael Abshoff: macaulay2 related doctest failure in sage/
rings/polynomial/multi_polynomial_ideal.py [Reviewed by Jaap Spies]
#4885: William Stein, Mike Hansen: fix fallout from sloppy review of
#4535 [Reviewed by Mike Hansen, William Stein]

Merged in Sage 3.2.3.alpha0:

#3237: Michael Abshoff: update ecm to 6.2.1 [Reviewed by Robert
Miller]
#3678: Alex Ghitza: fractional powers for polynomial variables bug
[Reviewed by John Cremona]
#4038: John Cremona: Problem in factor() and roots() for p-adic
polynomials [Reviewed by Alex Ghitza]
#4069: Alexander Hupfer: support "application shortcut" in chrome and
gears [Reviewed by Timothy Clemans]
#4218: Alex Ghitza: Extensions of Finite Fields don't work well
[Reviewed by John Cremona]
#4367: Robert Bradshaw: plot gamma bug [Reviewed by Michael Abshoff]
#4494: Alex Ghitza: conjugate method returns error on ZZ matrix
[Reviewed by John Cremona]
#4671: William Stein, Mike Hansen: sage-3.2.1 startup time: do not
import twisted on startup [Reviewed by Michael Abshoff]
#4749: Chris Swierczewski: improve coercion of points between elliptic
curves and reduction of points mod p [Reviewed by John Cremona]
#4776: Martin Albrecht: random element of multivariate polynomial ring
in one variable is totally broken [Reviewed by Alex Ghitza]
#4812: Mike Hansen: matrix_plot is broken for matrices with
"complicated" base rings [Reviewed by Dan Drake]
#4814: William Stein: serious bug in Sage/GMP-ECM interface [Reviewed
by Mike Hansen]
#4826: Craig Citro: change return type of G.cusps() for G a congruence
subgroup [Reviewed by John Cremona]
#4845: Craig Citro: sage 3.2.2 crashes on startup when init.sage
present [Reviewed by Michael Abshoff]
#4842: Robert Bradshaw: Fix performance regression in
eisenstein_submodule.py due to cyclotomic coercion [Reviewed by John
Cremona]
#4844: Michael Abshoff: Disable DSage doctests [Reviewed by Marshall
Hampton]
#4847: Michael Abshoff: Remove deadwood: sage/functions/elementary.py
and sage/rings/interval.py [Reviewed by Marshall Hampton, William
Stein]
#4848: Michael Abshoff: Remove deadwood: sage/schemes/elliptic_curves/
heegner.py [Reviewed by Marshall Hampton]
#4853: Michael Abshoff: Sage 3.2.2: numerical noise in sage/rings/
number_field/number_field_morphisms.pyx [Reviewed by Robert Miller]
#4861: Michael Abshoff: Update FLINT to 1.0.20 (latest 1.0.x upstream)
[Reviewed by Martin Albrecht]