upper or lower triangular part to be specified.

common platforms: the speed-up may depend on the library version.

%% libdeflate 1.13 claims significant improvements in

Dynamic help now does a much better job of rendering package

for elapsed (real) time profiling on Unix (

Hexadecimal string colour specifications are now accepted

in short form, so, for example, we can use

intended to eventually allow information about

communicated to the interpreter, compiler, and code analysis

tools. The syntax for declarations is still being developed.

account that the permutation distributions of the one-sided

statistics can be different in the case of ties.  Consequence of

change, as it was documented previously to round real and

imaginary parts together on purpose, producing nicer looking

We have simplified the internal code and now basically format the

real and imaginary parts independently of each other.

to support writing stack-space-efficient recursive

Where characters are attempted to be plotted by

not in the selected 8-bit character set (most often Latin-1) and

session is using a UTF-8 locale, the warning messages will

show the UTF-8 character rather than its bytes and one dot will be

substituted per character rather than per byte.  (Platforms whose

In a UTF-8 locale some transliterations are now done with a

warning (e.g., dashes and Unicode minus to hyphen, ligatures are

although the OS may have got there first.  These are warnings as

they will continue to be replaced by dots in earlier versions of

are now also primitive and S3 generic, as

of compression if supported by the platform's

The list of base and recommended package names is now provided by

to catch errors and then continue in non-interactive use.

as documented, now also in the case of no

names the OS knows about (case-insensitively).

(hex) digits, rather than to 4 or 8.  (This seems to have become

the convention once Unicode restricted the number of Unicode

The information for the Euro glyph missing from the Adobe

files for the Courier, Helvetica and Times families