Release Tour for Sage 10.3 – Call for contributions

[Matthias Koeppe]

It's time to prepare the Release Tour for the upcoming release. So far we have:

Sage 10.3 Release Tour

• JupyterLab, Notebook 7, IPython 8.18
• Matroids
• Geometry
• Generic groups and rings
• Number Theory
• Elliptic Curves
• New developer tools
• Doctest failures are shown in the "Files changed" tab on PRs
• Dev container configurations for all tested Linux platforms
• OS-dependent doctest tags
• New sage --package subcommands metrics, properties, dependencies
• Modularization tooling: sage --fixdistributions
• sage_setup.autogen.flint
• Customizing GH Actions workflows in forked repositories
• Package upgrades, configuration changes, porting
• Python 3.12
• FLINT 3
• Other package upgrades
• Porting to the Pyodide (Web Assembly) platform
• Availability of Sage 10.3 and installation help
• Sources
• Known problems and workarounds
• Help
• More details

Some of these sections are only stubs. Ideally, each section will contain a readable and enjoyable narrative. Where it makes sense, short code examples or graphics can be included as well.

Please help, either by editing https://github.com/sagemath/sage/wiki/Sage-10.3-Release-Tour directly, or by posting comments or material here in this thread.

Including news on available packages maintained by Sage users is also welcome! (See also https://github.com/sagemath/sage/issues/31164)