SoftwareUpgrades

This page contains notes about new software upgrades.

2018-07-15

• (new) R packages: roperators and a couple from R Views 2018-07
• (upd) bazel 0.17.1
• (upd) nodejs 8.12 (+ npm package updates)
• (upd) relaxing browser compatibility check specifically for newest Firefox 60.2 ESR
• (upd) major changes in handling RMarkdown files
• (new) support for automatically processing PythonTeX code in LaTeX documents
• (new) additional Library entries for RMarkdown and LaTeX/PythonTeX examples
• (new) first iteration to support LEAN
• (upd) SageMath 8.4.beta5 (released on 2018-07-16)

2018-09-11

• (upd) GAP 4.9.3
• (new/py3) Python 3 RTree Spatial indexing used in geopandas

2018-09-08

• (fix) irregularities with man-pages introduces in previous update
• (compat) Firefox 62 was released, which works well again with CoCalc's websocket over Cloudflare
• (upd/py3) tensorflow 1.10.1
• (upd/node) npm 5.6.0 → 6.4.1, typescript 3.0.3, CoffeeScript 2.3.1 and a couple other global node packages
• (upd/linux) headless chrome 69, and a couple of linux system libs
• (upd/sage) SageMath development 8.4beta4 available
• (upd/anaconda) broad package upgrade of Anaconda5 environment
• (chg) Jupyter plots done via R in Sage output SVG by default

2018-09-01

• (new) stapler python tool, a successor of pdftk (which is discontinued) -- https://github.com/hellerbarde/stapler

• (new) julia 0.7 upgrade: either keep the existing 0.6 line, or select 0.7

  • (old) you can still select a 0.6 kernel or run julia-0.6
  • for 0.7, only a few global libraries installed, i.e. those where precompiling works without errors
  • upon opening a jupyter file, you have to explicitly select the version

• (upd) isochrones library: upgraded, and primarily updated a lot of datasets into $ISOCHRONES for dartmouth, but also some for "mist" -- https://isochrones.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

• (fix) no man/doc pages were installed. this is fixed now.

• (new) giac wrapper script to expose sage's binary globally in $EXT/bin/giac. Therefore cocalc provides giac again. https://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~parisse/giac.html

• (enh) web client: tightening browser requirements to inform affected users about https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1453204

• (exp) experimental support for LEAN -- https://leanprover.github.io/