Patch provided by Aleksej Saushev in PR 38884.
5.1.22
Interface
* [DC] mention object type when asking for user's confirmation on delete
Parser
* [ES] added "LINCONV(set1, set2)" command - an equivalent of
Transformations->Linear convolution
* [ES] added "VOIGT(gamma, sigma, x)" function (rep. #2144)
Bug fixes
* [ES] in the grace_np library GraceClose() could kill all user processes
if by that time the Grace subprocess has exited (rep. #2035)
* [ES] certain hand-modified settings in project files might cause the GUI
crash (incl. rep. #2139)
* [ES] ungraceful closing of anonymous pipes could result in high CPU load
5.1.21
Functionality
* [ES] added IsoLatin5 (ISO 8859-9) encoding file
* [ES] now honor locale in number stringifications (rep. #2109)
* [ES] extended range of prefixes in the Engineering format up to 10^{+/-24}
* [HR] added "Computing" tick label format
Interface
* [ES] added "-maxpath" command line option for setting maximal drawing
path length
* [ES] allow for longer legend lines
Parser
* [ES] added "KILL BLOCK" command (deallocates the memory of the current
block data)
Bug fixes
* [ES] there was a misleading error message when attempting to redefine an
existing variable/keyword in the parser
* [ES] fixed rounding-off problem with zero labels (rep. #2098)
Portability/Compilation
* [IG] eliminated some of gcc-4.1 warnings (rep. #2111)
* [IG] man page cleaned (rep. #2110)
5.1.20
Parser
* [ES] added SGN() function
Defaults
* [ES] changed default major tick spacings to 0.2
Bug fixes
* [ES] command argument "-graphtype pie" wasn't recognized (rep. #2058)
* [ES] fixed openning of help documents when using an external browser
* [ES] "Geometric transforms" with order: "Rotate, scale, translate" in fact
was doing "Translate, scale, rotate"
* [ES] Grace might crash when using "Engineering" tick label format
(rep. #2094)
* [ES] file selection dialog wasn't closed when fit parameters file was
read in successfully
5.1.19
Functionality
* [ES] BARDY and BARDYDY sets are now allowed in XY graphs
Bug fixes
* [RL] loading a DL module could fail with an irrelevant error message
(rep. #2071)
* [ES] a bug in the PS driver caused CUPS to output empty page if printing
accounting was enabled in foomatic (rep. #2047)
* [ES] automatic data point purging (enabled when set length exceeds "Max
drawing path length" in Edit/Preferences) could fail silently
(rep. #2069)
* [ES] the point purging could result in wrong set filling when fill to
the baseline was selected
* [ES] configure's option --with-helpviewer was broken (rep. #1414)
5.1.18
Parser
* [ES] implemented concatenation of quoted strings and numerical expressions
Bug fixes
* [ES] some X font configurations could make Grace crash (rep. #1436)
* [ES] DEFAULT ... commands had no effect on new drawing objects (including
rep. #1437)
* [ES] DEFAULT CHAR SIZE had no effect on tick labels of new axes
5.1.17
Drivers
* [ES] changed default resolution of the PDF driver to 300 dpi
Documentation/Info
* [ES] minor documentation updates, including rep. #1421
Bug fixes
* [ES] with page fill disabled, the page frame line might be drawn with
wrong properties
* [ES] due to a bug in the Xbae widget, when a TrueType font was used,
several dialogs could become unusable (including rep. #1366)
* [ES] enabling patterned fills and PDF-1.4 compatibility mode could result
in crash when printing to PDF
5.1.16
Interface
* [ES] set scrolling of the custom ticks/labels table to 1 row per
click (rep. #1419)
Documentation/Info
* [ES] updates relevant to the status of mailing lists/forums
Portability/Compilation
* [ES] PDF driver updated to work with PDFlib-6 (rep. #1426). Minimal
supported version is now 5.0
Drivers
* [ES] added option to generate PDF-1.4 format (Acrobat5). Support for
PDF-1.2 (Acrobat3) removed
Bug fixes
* [ES] replaced meaningless error message issued when trying to load data
with a few string columns as a single set
* [ES] in the spreadsheet editor, the last entered cell's data wasn't
committed (rep. #1420)
5.1.15
Functionality
* [ES] increased max number of custom tick marks/labels to 256 per a
popular demand
Project files
* [ES] now using one-line format for saving graph's world and viewport
settings
Defaults
* [ES] changed default external help viewer to mozilla
Documentation/Info
* [ES] misc documentation updates (including rep. #1411)
Bug fixes
* [ES] fixed crash when number of custom tick marks/labels exceeded 100
* [ES] fixed evaluation of FWHM in "Feature extraction" (old version
might produce wrong results for multi-peak data)
* [ES] support for loadable functions of 4 and 5 parameters, introduced
in 5.1.14, was incomplete
* [ES] in correlation/covariance, only the absolute value at 0 is
normalized to 1, so for anti-correlation the sign is preserved
Package changes:
- add support for XmHTML.
- sort PLIST.
Changes since version 5.1.10 below.
5.1.12
Functionality
* [MO] implemented zooming and scrolling of log plots
Parser
* [ES] added INT(x,y) evaluating integral value of y dx
* [ES] added RSUM(vexpr) - running sum
Bug fixes
* [ES] fixed memory corruption when reading in block data (rep. #1258). The
bug was introduced in 5.1.11
* [ES] fixed a couple of tiny memory leaks associated with loading block
data
* [ES] fixed crash in histogram and interpolation dialogs with multiple sets
selected (rep. #1259)
* [TO] signal issues with the grace_np library fixed (rep. #1270)
* [ES] implied references to current graph in parser might crash Grace if
the graph didn't exist (including reps. #886 and #1267)
* [ES] removed extraneous accent glyphs in the 0x9? range of IsoLatin1 and
IsoLatin2 encodings (including rep. #1269)
* [MO] IsoLatin7 encoding file wasn't installed by "make install"
* [ES] entering negative values of set symbol skip could crash Grace
(rep. #1276)
5.1.11
Functionality
* [ES] hotlinks now work for all set types (rep. #572)
* [ES] updating hot-linked sets now works for all graphs, not the current
one only
* [YZ] added encoding files for Russian codepages koi8-r and cp1251 and for
Ukrainian codepage koi8-u
Interface
* [ES] use "+"/"-" instead of "shown"/"hidden" in the graph selectors
Parser
* [ES] added UPDATEALL command, equivalent of "View/Update all"
Drivers
* [ES] set resolution in the PNG output (rep. #1225)
Portability/Compilation
* [ES] updated auto* stuff to work with autoconf-2.5.* (rep. #1199)
Bug fixes
* [SR] precision used for special tick locations was insufficient
(rep. #1228)
* [ES] referring to "S_" in the parser with no sets in the current project
crashed the app
* [ES] GraceIsOpen() from the grace_np library returned true after the Grace
process exited (rep. #922)
* [ES] excluded .cvsignore files from source tarballs (rep. #1248)
* [ES] a minor memory leak fixed (40 bytes per set import/reading in)
* [ES] configure --with=f77=/absolute/path/to/f77 was broken (rep. #1243)
* [ES] in XY charts, explicitly check that abscissas of all sets are the same
