libqalculate-5.8.0

[Bruce Dubbs]

New minor version.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Qalculate! version 5.8 (library and CLI)

Changes:

• Add output in scientific (sci), engineering (eng), ans simple notation as "to"-operator options
• Improve support (and fix segfault) for exponential notation in hexadecimal numbers
• Add TeX point, TeX scaled point, twip, and agate typography units, and change "ATA Pica" to "Johnson Pica" and "ATA Point" to "American Point"
• Add darcy, kayser, lambert, foot-lambert, and cc units
• Add compton wavelength constants for muon, neutron, proton, and tau
• Update calculation of fraction of year (with day counting basis 0 and 1) to match method used in spreadsheets other than Gnumeric
• Change default quantile algorithm from 8 to 7
• Improve accuracy for intervals in solutions to equations when using interval arithmetic
• Show warning about default assumptions the first time an equation is solved
• Show warning symbol when calculate as you type expression results in a question
• Show warning and ask for confirmation when deactivating interval arithmetic
• Improve completion
• Add "save config" option (if disabled qalc.cfg is never automatically updated) and relocate qalc.history to $XDG_STATE_HOME
• Increase speed when calculating many expressions from file
• Automatically recalculate expression with current time every second
• Fix support for prompt string containing Unicode characters, control characters, and/or escape sequences
• Fix poolvar(), ttest(), cor(), dollarde() and dollarfr() functions
• Fix inequality with 1/f(x) on one side, e.g. "1/(x-2) ≤ 2"
• Fix segfault with extremely small numbers and high number of bits in floating point conversion
• Fix crashes and freezes in some corner cases
• Fix value of Planck unit (was rounded to 7 decimals)
• Fix negative time zone in date and time input
• Many minor bug fixes and feature enhancements

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commits

873091cd81 Update to dos2unix-7.5.3.
4ea6b34666 Update to libqalculate-5.8.0.
a3564c82e6 Update to asciidoctor-2.0.24.
fb3709a7ae Update to whois-5.6.5.
48d0b9c647 Update to tumbler-4.20.1.
702bb44fbe Update to libdrm-2.4.127.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Milestone renamed