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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-8796
2013-05-22 00:35:10
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Name : scilab
Product : Fedora 18
Version : 5.4.1
Release : 4.fc18
URL :
http://www.scilab.org/
Summary : Scientific software package for numerical computations
Description :
Scilab is the free software for numerical computation providing a powerful
computing environment for engineering and scientific applications. It
includes hundreds of mathematical functions. It has a high level programming
language allowing access to advanced data structures, 2-D and 3-D graphical
functions.
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Update Information:
This release includes many bug fixes and performance improvements in Scilab graphics,
enabling Scilab to display bigger data sets and improve the portability of Scilab on
different graphic cards. New commands have been added to launch SciNotes and Xcos directly
from command line.
Xcos now includes new solvers for simulation:
* LSodar: Automatically switches methods to efficiently solve both stiff and nonstiff
problems. It includes a rootfinding feature.
* Dormand-Prince 4(5) and Runge-Kutta 4(5): Fixed-size step solvers added to the CVode
package, they also benefit from the rootfinding feature.
* Implicit Runge-Kutta 4(5): Fixed-size step solver added to the CVode package to benefit
from the CVode rootfinding feature.
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ChangeLog:
* Mon May 20 2013 Clément David <c.david86(a)gmail.com> - 5.4.1-4
- Enable matio 1.5
- Add some optional (QA) dependencies
* Fri May 17 2013 Orion Poplawski <orion(a)cora.nwra.com> - 5.4.1-3
- Add patch to fix i686 build by using dynamic stack
* Fri May 17 2013 Clément David <c.david86(a)gmail.com> - 5.4.1-3
- Fix the build, i686 built had failures on macro generation.
* Thu May 16 2013 Orion Poplawski <orion(a)cora.nwra.com> - 5.4.1-2
- Rebuild for hdf5 1.8.11
* Fri Mar 29 2013 Clément David <c.david86(a)gmail.com> - 5.4.1-1
- Update to 5.4.1
- disable matio 1.5
* Thu Feb 21 2013 Clément David <c.david86(a)gmail.com> - 5.4.0-4
- Remove the jdf5 dependency
* Thu Feb 14 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> -
5.4.0-3
- Rebuilt for
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_19_Mass_Rebuild
* Wed Dec 5 2012 Orion Poplawski <orion(a)cora.nwra.com> - 5.4.0-2
- Rebuild for hdf5 1.8.10
* Tue Oct 30 2012 Clément David <c.david86(a)gmail.com> - 5.4.0-1
- Update to 5.4.0
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update scilab' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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