Announcing Maxima 5.12.0
Maxima is a GPL'd branch of Macsyma, the venerable symbolic
computation system. Maxima 5.12.0 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,
including MacOS X.
There is a precompiled executable installer for Windows,
source and binary RPM's for Linux, and tar.gz 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 5.12.0 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
Ports page:
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Maxima%20ports
Project home page:
http://maxima.sourceforge.net
Change log:
http://maxima.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/maxima/maxima/ChangeLog-5.12.0
Short change log:
* New lapack package (BLAS and LAPACK functions)
* Bug fixes and enhancements to plotting code
* Bug fixes and enhancements to Xmaxima user interface
* Revise Maxima reference manual (all languages)
* Some new add-on packages
* Several minor improvements
* Many bug fixes