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Julia v0.2.0 Release Notes

New language features

  • Keyword & optional function arguments (#485, #1817).

  • Immutable types (#13).

  • Triple-quoted string literals (#70).

  • New variable bindings on each for loop and comprehension iteration (#1571). For example, before this change:

    julia> map(f->f(), { ()->i for i=1:3 })
3-element Any Array:
 3
 3
 3

    and after:

    julia> map(f->f(), { ()->i for i=1:3 })
3-element Any Array:
 1
 2
 3

  • Explicit relative importing (#2375)

New library functions

  • Sampling profiler (#2597).

  • Multimedia I/O API (display, writemime, etcetera) (#3932).

  • Sort API changes (#3665 and others).

  • New half-precision IEEE floating-point type, Float16 (#3467).

  • mapslices (#2204)

  • varm, stdm (#2265)

  • Collections.PriorityQueue type and Collections.heap functions (#2920).

  • quadgk 1d-integration routine (#3140).

  • erfinv and erfcinv functions (#2987).

  • names for C-compatible types: Cchar, Clong, etc (#2370).

  • unsafe_pointer_to_objref (#2468) and pointer_from_objref (#2515)

  • Other new functions: readandwrite, versioninfo, methodswith, logdet

  • readbytes and readbytes! functions (#3878).

  • flush_cstdio function (#3949).

Library improvements

  • MPFR-based BigFloat (#2814), and many new BigFloat operations.

  • Linear-algebra factorization routines (lu, chol, etc.) now return Factorization objects (and lud, chold, etc. are deprecated) (#2212).

  • More linear algebra fixes and eigensolver hooks for SymTridiagonal, Tridiagonal and Bidiagonal matrix types (#2606, #2608, #2609, #2611, #2678, #2713, #2720, #2725)

  • Change to isinteger, isreal, etc.: now different than Matlab/Octave (#3071).

  • Transitive comparison of floats with rationals (#3102).

  • Fast primality testing (da670c4).

  • isreadable/iswritable functions added for more IO types (#3872).

  • combinations now returns an iterator instead of a task (#3989)

  • Documentation for writing packages (#2714, 2769, #2791) and linear algebra (#2807)

  • Support optional RTLD flags in dlopen (#2380)

Deprecated or removed

  • ! was added to the name of many mutating functions, e.g., push was renamed push! (#907).

  • ref renamed to getindex, and assign to setindex! (#1484).

  • writeable renamed to writable (#3874).

  • Many others ...

Bugfixes

Too numerous to mention.