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lmfit-6.1, released 2dec15:
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- docs:
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  - new man page lmfit(7)
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  - 'BUGS' section in man pages
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- code cleanup:
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  - lmcurve_tyd in separate source file
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lmfit-6.0, released 24nov15:
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- API changes:
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  - a few more 'const' qualifiers in lmmin and lmcurve.
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  - new wrapper function lmcurve_tyd, for use in GROMACS
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- code cleanup:
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  - further unify code layout
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  - use temporary variable for readability in lmcurve (suggested by T. Klauser)
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lmfit-5.3, released 24nov15:
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- autotools:
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  - set default optimization -O3
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- monitoring:
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  - detect if norm is not finite, new outcome code 12 = "found nan"
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  - print parameters before invoking callback functiion
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- docs:
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  - correct typo in lmmin(3)
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- code cleanup:
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  - uniform code layout, starting from clang-format
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  - correct and improve comments, especially in qrfac
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  - uppercase matrix names
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- testing:
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  - new unit test directory test/, for development purposes only
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lmfit-5.2, released 23oct14:
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- bug fix:
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  - correct man page (5.0 API change)
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- acceleration(?):
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  - revert to just one malloc for all workspaces, now based on a char array
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lmfit-5.1, released 29aug13:
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- bug fix:
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  - FILE** initialization from &stdout was not standard compliant
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    (report by Jan Krieger, cf http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18505530);
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    now FILE* initialized to NULL
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- code cleanup:
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  - better wrapper for "extern C" declaration
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lmfit-5.0, released 9aug13:
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- API changes:
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  - removed callback function for printout
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  - removed control structure for printout; some par's go to lm_control_struct
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  - pivoting can no longer be switched off
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  - from now on, addition of par's to lm_control_struct is not an API change
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- bug fix:
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  - correct memory leak introduced by reversal of mallock trick
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  - restore default scale_diag=1
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- monitoring:
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  - improved text messages ("success" -> "converged", we should not say more)
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- demo: reworked examples
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  - new example nonlin1: solution of 2 nonlinear equations in 2 variables
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  - example surface1 improved and included in man page lmmin(3)
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  - otherwise testsuite started as new project fittest
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- packaging: configure now supports pkg-config
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lmfit-4.0, released 16jul13:
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- binary library renamed: lmmin -> lmfit
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- API changes:
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  - lmcurve.h no longer depends on lmmin.h, but only on new lmstruct.h
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  - low-level API lmdif is removed (code integrated in lmmin)
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  - lmcurve_fit -> lmcurve
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  - new control parameter 'pivot' (default: pivoting is used, as before)
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  - new structure lm_princon_struct, generalizing printflags
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  - in consequence thereof, new parameter lists for lmcurve and lmmin
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- code cleanup:
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  - ensure strict C90 compliance: no C++ comments; replace non-standard
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    struct assignement (reported by Elio Mazzocca, using LCC)
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  - revert malloc trick of release 3.4 (readability is more important)
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  - source code comment blocks moved around, to reduce duplications
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- build scripts cleanup:
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  - demo programs are no longer installed to $bindir
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  - configure.ac: cleaned up, and inserted comments
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- documentation:
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  - new web location: apps.jcns.fz-juelich.de/lmfit
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  - new entry page (dokuwiki) instead of man page
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  - man page split and largely rewritten: lmcurve(3), lmmin(3)
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lmfit-3.5, released 3feb13:
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- changed overall license to FreeBSD to facilitate inclusion in Linux
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  distributions (request by M. Hroncok)
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- directory doc renamed man
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lmfit-3.4, released 21jan13:
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- only one malloc call to allocate all arrays (proposal by F. Polchow)
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- liblmmin_la_LDFLAGS += -lm (required by Ubuntu, report by J. M. Agosta)
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- there is now an alternative ruby binding, using inline instead of swig
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  (contribution by I. Drozdov)
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- long message for degenerate case now suggests increasing epsilon
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  (suggestion by Nghia Ho)
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lmfit-3.3, released 12sep12:
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- moved "int" declarations to top of lm_printout_std() and lmmin()
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  (required by Visual Studio 2005: bug report M. Beek)
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- corrected typo 0.55 -> 0.5 (bug reports M. Kardas and D. Pescia)
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- man pages now produced by make; finally got rid of dmake
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- untabified code (hint by W. Pimenta)
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lmfit-3.2, released 28mar10 (preview 27mar10):
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- shared library is given correct version number (set in configure.ac)
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- man page lmfit(3) is copied by dmake to lmmin(3) and lmcurve_fit(3)
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lmfit-3.1, released 12mar10:
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- debian directory not part of tgz distribution
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- temporarily removed lmmin.3 (was symlink -> lmfit.3)
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lmfit-3.0, released 2mar10 (preview 27feb10):
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- for parameter close to zero, change step width for calculation of jabobian
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- outer iteration counter starting at zero (C style)
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- replace BUG by LMFIT_DEBUG_MESSAGES and .._MATRIX to allow control by -D
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- remove redundant calculation by exchanging workspaces and lm_lmpar output
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- eliminate unncessary wa1 = -wa1 computation
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- avoid passing wa3 to wa1, choose better names for work arrays in lm_par
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- migrate documentation from brain-damaged asciidoc to pod
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- rewrote interface documentation
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- API changes:
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  -- eliminate lm_initialize_control, provide defaults for float and double
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  -- separate limits and status records
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  -- separate generic minimization and one-dimensional curve fitting
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  -- simplify the latter
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- replace curve-fitting demo
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- provide surface-fitting demo (correspondence M. Rudolphi)
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- provide vector minimization demos
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- test for fnorm<=LM_DWARF, renumbered info values 0, 10, 11
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lmfit-2.6, released 29sep09:
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- nfev incrementation even if printout=0 (bug report C. Tanner)
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- correct t->tvec, y->yvec in man page  (bug report C. Tanner)
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lmfit-2.5, released 20sep09:
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- malloc==NULL ? (suggestion R. Strickland)
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- allow printout=NULL (suggestion J. Lodewyck)
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- improve infmsg (correspondence B. McHoull)
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- eliminate some static variables (p25, p5, p75, ..)
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- eliminate function data types; they obscure more than they help
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lmfit-2.4, released 27jul08:
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- clearer file headers
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- clearer licence (everything has ever been in the public domain)
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- machine-dependent arithmetic constants from float.h (suggestion M. Bydder)
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- minor improvements of comments
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lmfit-2.3, released 5apr08:
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- fixed bug sf#1817631: replaced confusing variable names in lmmin.c:lm_qrsolv()
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- accepted feature request 1814970: inclusion protection in headers
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- accepted feature request 1814976: cplusplus wrapper in headers
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- fixed bug sf#1868399: typos in debug messages
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- accepted proposal from M. Bydder:
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     improved calculation of differences in lmmin, lines 415-417
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- reverted comments in lmmin.c to pure C style
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- improved documentation of interfaces
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lmfit-2.2, released 20sep07:
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- no change log has been maintained,
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  there are just the sourceforge release notes
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