CVM Class Library changes

• 5.6.1 April 17, 2008
  • 1. New Features:
    • Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 supported.
  • 1. Bug fixes:
    • Cygwin issues resolved.
    • DLL linking is now used for all versions due to some issues discovered while calling CVM DLLs from other ones.
  • 2. Documentation and package changes:
    • New features are documented.
    • All required redistributables are now parts of appropriate binary packages.
• 5.6 November 29, 2007
  • 1. New Features:
    • Symmetry and hermitianity tolerance added (see documentation for more details) as suggested by Claudio Piciarelli (thanks!).
    • "Managed C++" compatibility added. Use /clr switch only while building your managed code (reported by Johan Vium, thank you).
    • Native LAPACK/BLAS libraries built by Intel Fortran are now supported.
    • Upgraded to Intel MKL 10.0.
  • 2. Documentation changes:
    • New features are documented.
• 5.5.1 July 4, 2007
  • 1. Bug fixes:
    • AMD-related issues fixed.
    • Regression test utility coverage extended.
  • 2. Documentation changes:
    • Some functions were missed. Added.
• 5.5 June 10, 2007
  • 1. New Features:
    • QR factorization implementation added (contributed by Greg Reynolds, thank you).
    • Upgraded to Intel MKL 9.1.
  • 2. Bug fixes:
    • Due to its obvious ambiguity, 'reserve' function is now deprecated (reported by Jianguo Lee, thank you).
    • Matrices now can be used in STL containers (reported by Jianguo Lee, thank you).
    • Missing libguide.so is added to Linux package (reported by Ville Kyrki, thank you).
  • 3. Documentation changes:
    • New features are documented.
• 5.4.1 January 9, 2007
  • 1. New Features:
    • AMD ACML 3.6.0 support added.
    • Upgraded to Intel MKL 9.0.
  • 2. Bug fixes:
    • Intel finally fixed in MKL 9.0 their SVD bug causing crash for big non-square matrices.
  • 3. Documentation changes:
    • CVM documentation discrepancies about SVD algorithm are fixed.
• 5.4 September 23, 2006
  • 1. New Features:
    • Pseudo (generalized) inversion algorithm implemented for generic rectangular and band matrices (thanks to Greg Reynolds for the idea).
    • Unix makefiles reorganized and cleaned up.
    • STLport 5.0.2 compatibility added.
  • 2. Bug fixes:
    • Weird Intel compiler bug about passing complex numbers by referense is worked around.
    • Dot product functions returning complex numbers are wrapped by subroutines.
  • 3. Documentation changes:
    • New functions and makefiles are documented.
• 5.3 July 17, 2006
  • 1. New Features:
    • Intel Fortran 9.1 and Intel C++ 9.1 compilers for Windows and Linux supported.
    • GCC 4.1.x supported.
    • MKL 8.1 linked in, no external dependencies.
    • EM64T supported.Older compilers are no longer supported - please use the stable version 5.2.
• 5.2 June 3, 2005
  • 1. New Features:
    • 1.1 New sub-vector and sub-matrix assignment functions added.
    • 1.2 MS Visual Studio 2005 support added.
  • 2. Bug fixes:
    • 2.1 Matrix input operator was missing - added (thank you, Marie).
    • 2.2 Linux multithreading issues resolved.
    • 2.3 Annoying linker error while mixing debug and non-debug versions is fixed.
    • 2.4 svd routines now calculate working array's size automatically.
    • 2.5 Minor memory allocation issues for band matrices are fixed.
  • 3. Documentation changes:
    • 3.1 New functions are documented.
• 5.1.1 March 20, 2005
  • 1. New Features:
    • 1.1 gcc 3.4 compatibility achieved.
• 2. Bug fixes:
  • 2.1 *matrix::transp failed to run when called for itself - fixed.
• 5.1 November 15, 2004
  • 1. New features:
    • 1.1 Memory manager is no longer used by default.
    • 1.2 CVMAllocator is deprecated. Faster std::allocator is used instead.
  • 2. Documentation changes:
    • 3.1 Memory manager changes are documented.
  • 3. Package changes: new Win32 binaries have been generated.
• 5.0.2 October 24, 2004
  • 1. Bug fixes:
    • LAPACK/MKL documentation bug caused CVM to throw exceptions while calling "svd" function on ?ORGBR call. The problem was about work array size incorrectly defined in the documentation - the exceptions were thrown when either N>M*64 or M>N*64. It's fixed (thank you, Lee).
    • G77 has a bug causing FLOOR and CEILING functions to fail for arguments of type REAL*4 (C type float). It's worked around.
  • 2. Package changes:
    • New Win32 binaries have been generated.
• 5.0.1 October 8, 2004
  • 1. Bug fixes:
    • std::complex<TR> operator * (std::complex<TR>, const type_proxy<T,TR>&) is added to resolve the issue with multiplying complex number values by type_proxy values.
    • Minor issue with the warning generated by KDevelop IDE is fixed.
  • 2. Package changes:
    • No package changes needed, 5.0 binaries are valid to be used with 5.0.1 source code.
• 5.0 October 3, 2004
  • 1. New features:
    • Band matrices implementation.
    • Symmetric matrices implementation.
    • Hermitian matrices implementation.
    • User defined allocators support.
    • Full support of multithreading applications.
    • Submatrices support.
    • Numerous optimizations like removal of redundant memory clean-ups etc.
  • 2. Bug fixes:
    • Memory corruption issues caused by different working array sizes for LAPACK and MKL libraries are fixed.
  • 3. Package changes:
    • Singular value decomposition routines now return square matrices as sets of eigenvectors.
    • Assignment operator is now overloaded for objects of the library only. See the documentation for further details.
    • MKL 7.0 included. Now it could be used as sstatically linked library as well as a set of standalone DLLs.
    • STLport 4.6.2 included.
• 4.1.1 May 9, 2003
  • 1. Bug fixes and optimizations:
    • 1.1 Matrix indexing operators threw exceptions for some non-square matrices. It's fixed (thank you Marcin).
    • 1.2 MS .NET 2003 compatibility has been achieved.
    • 1.3 Intel MKL 6.0 is now supported.
  • 2. Package changes:
    • 2.1 mkl_support.dll was removed due to library transfer to utilization of MKL 6.0.
    • 2.2 MKL 6.0 redistributable dll files are included (in accordance with Intel Corp's License Agreement).
  • 3. Documentation changes:
  • 3.1 All package changes are documented.
• 4.1 August 25, 2002
  • 1. Bug fixes and optimizations:
    • 1.1 Sun WorkShop 6 C++ 5.3 and higher compilers are supported now.
    • 1.2 cvector::eig caused crash of Borland C++ Builder. It's fixed.
    • 1.3 Array<t_type>::norminf and Array<t_type>::norm2 functions are #ifdef'ed now in order to provide compatibility with Borland C++.
    • 1.4 Some minor fixes were made in order to provide gcc 3.1 compatibility.
  • 2. Package changes:
    • 2.1 Some additional libraries for Borland C++ Builder were created and added.
    • 2.2 KDevelop 2.1 sample project is created.
    • 2.3 Dev-C++ sample project is created.
    • 2.4 mkl_support.dll was upgraded to the version 5.2SP1.
  • 3. Documentation changes:
    • 3.1 All package changes are documented.
• 4.0.3 April 7, 2002
  • 1. Bug fixes and optimizations:
    • 1.1 Due to MS VC 6 glitches virtual functions Array<t_type>::stream_in and Array<t_type>::stream_out were replaced by template friend operators >> and <<
    • 1.2 srmatrix::det () and scmatrix::det () now catch cvmexception& instead of cvmexception.
    • 1.3 Win32 implementation of the CriticalSection class now contains mutex instead of critical section inside.
    • 1.4 gPool global object of the MemoryPool class is no longer exported due to some unexplainable problems with MS VC 6.
    • 1.5 Static object of class CriticalSection is removed now from MemoryPool class to the global scope.
    • 1.6 CygWin environment compatibility was achieved.
  • 2. Package changes:
    • 2.1 mkl_support.dll was upgraded to the version 5.2.
  • 3. Documentation changes:
    • 3.1 Template friend operators >> and << are documented
• 4.0.2 February 7, 2002
  • 1. Bug fixes:
    • 1.1 In constructor ComplexArray::ComplexArray (const treal*, const treal*, const int nSize, const int nIncr = 1) the nSize parameter was removed because of its uselessness.
    • 1.2 Microsoft .NET compiler compatibility was achieved.
  • 2. Package changes:
    • 2.1 ./lib/ftn*.lib and ./lib/lapack_missed*.lib libraries were added into Win32 package. It means that you can rebuild the library without any Fortran compiler.
  • 3. Documentation changes:
    • 3.1 .NET compatibility and package changes are documented.
• 4.0.1 November 24, 2001
  • 1. Bug fixes:
    • 1.1 CriticalSection::is_bad() now returns false in single-threaded apps.
    • 1.2 MemoryPool::Malloc now catches bad_alloc exception.
    • 1.3 Consts's constructor now calls std::numeric_limits<treal> for MS VC++ as well.
    • 1.4 Consts's members are protected now.
    • 1.5 CVM_ZERO, CVM_ONE and CVM_TWO #define's are fixed now
    • 1.6 MemoryPool::Malloc now begins with cs_enter (); call.
    • 1.7 Some missing global utilities were added.
    • 1.8 XERBLA callback routine implementation was fixed for Linux.
  • 2. Package changes:
    • 2.1 MKL 5.1 Service Pack 1 for Win32 was used.
    • 2.2 mkl_support.dll was included into the Win32 package according to the Intel Corp's License.
  • 3. Documentation changes:
    • 3.1 Some previously missed global utilities are documented.
• 4.0 October 23, 2001
  • 1. Complex number versions of all algorithms were added.
• 3.0 August 1998
  • 1. LAPACK support was added.
  • 2. Memory allocation engine was added.
• 2.0 June 1996
  • MKL support was added.
• 1.0 September 1992
  • Initial Release.

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