SymEngine 0.5.0 released

[Isuru Fernando]

Source tarball is at https://github.com/symengine/symengine/releases/tag/v0.5.0  and the release notes are at the end of this message.

Pre-compiled binaries for x86_64, i686, aarch64, arm, ppc64le for are available at https://github.com/symengine/SymEngineBuilder. They are compiled with GMP, MPFR and MPC. Links to these dependencies can be found at https://github.com/symengine/SymEngineBuilder/blob/master/build_tarballs.jl#L39-L41

conda packages are available in conda-forge channel. You can do,

   conda install symengine -c conda-forge

to get symengine compiled with GMP (unix only), MPIR (windows only), MPFR, MPC, FLINT (unix only) and LLVM.

Thanks to everybody who contributed to the release.

• Björn Dahlgren
• Ondřej Čertík
• Isuru Fernando
• Connor Behan
• Jialin Ma
• Brandon Bocklund
• Marcello Mansueto
• Steven Lee

Isuru Fernando

Release Notes

Bug Fixes

• Fix LLVMDoubleVisitor save->load->save->load bug - #1549
• Fix coeff(x+1, x, 0) - #1564
• Fix finding LLVM in SymEngineConfig.cmake - #1553
• Fix path prefix in Binder-based environments - #1554
• Add a virtual destructor to Visitor - #1580

Build system changes

• Modified parser to use re2c and bison - #1588, #1591, #1593, #1594
• LLVM 8 support - #1531
• Removed -march=native from default flags - #1569
• Versioned the DLL - #1604

New Functionality

• Multi precision support for upper and lower gamma using MPFR 4 - #1544, #1545
• 32-bit and 80-bit floating point support to LLVMVisitor - #1606
• Option to cache intermediate expression in diff and subs - #1592, #1582
• Add loggamma function to C wrapper API - #1556
• Add truncate function - #1555
• Avoid revisit in CountOpsVisitor - #1557
• Add mathml, latex, ccode, jscode to cwrapper - #1562
• Add kronecker_delta, lowergamma, uppergamma, beta, polygamma to cwrapper - #1603
• Allow symengine rcp even in debug mode - #1548