Announcing Maxima 5.9.2
Maxima is an GPL'd branch of Macsyma, the venerable
symbolic computation system. Maxima 5.9.2 is a
bug fix and feature enhancement release.
Maxima has functions to work with polynomials, matrices,
finite sets, integrals, derivatives and differential
equations, linear algebra, plotting, arbitrary-precision
arithmetic, etc.
Maxima can run on MS Windows and various flavors of Unix.
There is a precompiled executable installer for Windows,
source and binary RPM's for Linux, and tar.gz and zip
files containing the source distribution.
Maxima is implemented in Common Lisp; several Lisps can compile
and run Maxima, including CMUCL, SBCL, Clisp, and GCL.
The Maxima project welcomes new participants. You can
contribute in several ways: reporting bugs, fixing bugs,
writing new add-on packages, revising core functions,
user interfaces, documentation, .... Why not see what's
happening on the mailing list and consider how
you might contribute to the project.
Regards,
Robert Dodier
Maxima developer and 5.9.2 release manager
Project page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/maxima
Documentation:
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/docs.shtml
Bug reports (please create a Sourceforge login before filing a bug
report):
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=4933&atid=104933
Mailing list (please sign up before posting a message):
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/maximalist.html
Download page:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4933
Project home page:
http://maxima.sourceforge.net
Detailed release notes:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=362736
Release notes summary:
(1) The Maxima parser is now entirely case-sensitive.
Built-in keywords, functions, and variables are all lowercase only
(2) Revision of reference manual
(3) Translation of reference manual to Spanish and Portuguese
(4) Enhancements to tensor packages (Atensor, Ctensor, Itensor)
(5) Enhancements and bug fixes in special functions
(Airy, Bessel, gamma, elliptic, and hypergeometric functions)
(6) Improved TeXmacs interface with 2-d input
(7) Discrete plots in plot2d
(8) Several new add-on packages
(9) Miscellaneous bug fixes
(10) Various source code clean-ups