NEWS
author Alpar Juttner <alpar@cs.elte.hu>
Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:52:22 +0200
branch1.2
changeset 921 b522385b2a0d
parent 883 87569cb5734d
child 926 7887be87f4a0
permissions -rw-r--r--
Merge #419 to branch 1.2
     1 2010-10-21 Version 1.2.1 released
     2 
     3         Bugfix release.
     4 
     5         #366: Fix Pred[Matrix]MapPath::empty()
     6         #371: Bug fix in (di)graphCopy()
     7               The target graph is cleared before adding nodes and arcs/edges.
     8 
     9         #364: Add missing UndirectedTags
    10         #368: Fix the usage of std::numeric_limits<>::min() in Network Simplex
    11         #372: Fix a critical bug in preflow
    12 
    13 2010-03-19 Version 1.2 released
    14 
    15         This is major feature release
    16 
    17         * New algorithms
    18           * Bellman-Ford algorithm (#51)
    19           * Minimum mean cycle algorithms (#179)
    20             * Karp, Hartman-Orlin and Howard algorithms
    21           * New minimum cost flow algorithms (#180)
    22             * Cost Scaling algorithms
    23             * Capacity Scaling algorithm
    24             * Cycle-Canceling algorithms
    25           * Planarity related algorithms (#62)
    26             * Planarity checking algorithm
    27             * Planar embedding algorithm
    28             * Schnyder's planar drawing algorithm
    29             * Coloring planar graphs with five or six colors
    30           * Fractional matching algorithms (#314)
    31         * New data structures
    32           * StaticDigraph structure (#68)
    33           * Several new priority queue structures (#50, #301)
    34             * Fibonacci, Radix, Bucket, Pairing, Binomial
    35               D-ary and fourary heaps (#301)
    36           * Iterable map structures (#73)
    37         * Other new tools and functionality
    38           * Map utility functions (#320)
    39           * Reserve functions are added to ListGraph and SmartGraph (#311)
    40           * A resize() function is added to HypercubeGraph (#311)
    41           * A count() function is added to CrossRefMap (#302)
    42           * Support for multiple targets in Suurballe using fullInit() (#181)
    43           * Traits class and named parameters for Suurballe (#323)
    44           * Separate reset() and resetParams() functions in NetworkSimplex
    45             to handle graph changes (#327)
    46           * tolerance() functions are added to HaoOrlin (#306)
    47         * Implementation improvements
    48           * Improvements in weighted matching algorithms (#314)
    49             * Jumpstart initialization
    50           * ArcIt iteration is based on out-arc lists instead of in-arc lists
    51             in ListDigraph (#311)
    52           * Faster add row operation in CbcMip (#203)
    53           * Better implementation for split() in ListDigraph (#311)
    54           * ArgParser can also throw exception instead of exit(1) (#332)
    55         * Miscellaneous
    56           * A simple interactive bootstrap script
    57           * Doc improvements (#62,#180,#299,#302,#303,#304,#307,#311,#331,#315,
    58                 #316,#319)
    59             * BibTeX references in the doc (#184)
    60           * Optionally use valgrind when running tests
    61           * Also check ReferenceMapTag in concept checks (#312)
    62           * dimacs-solver uses long long type by default.
    63         * Several bugfixes (compared to release 1.1):
    64           #295: Suppress MSVC warnings using pragmas
    65           ----: Various CMAKE related improvements
    66                 * Remove duplications from doc/CMakeLists.txt
    67                 * Rename documentation install folder from 'docs' to 'html'
    68                 * Add tools/CMakeLists.txt to the tarball
    69                 * Generate and install LEMONConfig.cmake
    70                 * Change the label of the html project in Visual Studio
    71                 * Fix the check for the 'long long' type
    72                 * Put the version string into config.h
    73                 * Minor CMake improvements
    74                 * Set the version to 'hg-tip' if everything fails
    75           #311: Add missing 'explicit' keywords
    76           #302: Fix the implementation and doc of CrossRefMap
    77           #308: Remove duplicate list_graph.h entry from source list
    78           #307: Bugfix in Preflow and Circulation
    79           #305: Bugfix and extension in the rename script
    80           #312: Also check ReferenceMapTag in concept checks
    81           #250: Bugfix in pathSource() and pathTarget()
    82           #321: Use pathCopy(from,to) instead of copyPath(to,from)
    83           #322: Distribure LEMONConfig.cmake.in
    84           #330: Bug fix in map_extender.h
    85           #336: Fix the date field comment of graphToEps() output
    86           #323: Bug fix in Suurballe
    87           #335: Fix clear() function in ExtendFindEnum
    88           #337: Use void* as the LPX object pointer
    89           #317: Fix (and improve) error message in mip_test.cc
    90                 Remove unnecessary OsiCbc dependency
    91           #356: Allow multiple executions of weighted matching algorithms (#356)
    92 
    93 2009-05-13 Version 1.1 released
    94 
    95         This is the second stable release of the 1.x series. It
    96         features a better coverage of the tools available in the 0.x
    97         series, a thoroughly reworked LP/MIP interface plus various
    98         improvements in the existing tools.
    99 
   100         * Much improved M$ Windows support
   101           * Various improvements in the CMAKE build system
   102           * Compilation warnings are fixed/suppressed
   103         * Support IBM xlC compiler
   104         * New algorithms
   105           * Connectivity related algorithms (#61)
   106           * Euler walks (#65)
   107           * Preflow push-relabel max. flow algorithm (#176)
   108           * Circulation algorithm (push-relabel based) (#175)
   109           * Suurballe algorithm (#47)
   110           * Gomory-Hu algorithm (#66)
   111           * Hao-Orlin algorithm (#58)
   112           * Edmond's maximum cardinality and weighted matching algorithms
   113             in general graphs (#48,#265)
   114           * Minimum cost arborescence/branching (#60)
   115           * Network Simplex min. cost flow algorithm (#234)
   116         * New data structures
   117           * Full graph structure (#57)
   118           * Grid graph structure (#57)
   119           * Hypercube graph structure (#57)
   120           * Graph adaptors (#67)
   121           * ArcSet and EdgeSet classes (#67)
   122           * Elevator class (#174)
   123         * Other new tools
   124           * LP/MIP interface (#44)
   125             * Support for GLPK, CPLEX, Soplex, COIN-OR CLP and CBC
   126           * Reader for the Nauty file format (#55)
   127           * DIMACS readers (#167)
   128           * Radix sort algorithms (#72)
   129           * RangeIdMap and CrossRefMap (#160)
   130         * New command line tools
   131           * DIMACS to LGF converter (#182)
   132           * lgf-gen - a graph generator (#45)
   133           * DIMACS solver utility (#226)
   134         * Other code improvements
   135           * Lognormal distribution added to Random (#102)
   136           * Better (i.e. O(1) time) item counting in SmartGraph (#3)
   137           * The standard maps of graphs are guaranteed to be
   138             reference maps (#190)
   139         * Miscellaneous
   140           * Various doc improvements
   141           * Improved 0.x -> 1.x converter script
   142 
   143         * Several bugfixes (compared to release 1.0):
   144           #170: Bugfix SmartDigraph::split()
   145           #171: Bugfix in SmartGraph::restoreSnapshot()
   146           #172: Extended test cases for graphs and digraphs
   147           #173: Bugfix in Random
   148                 * operator()s always return a double now
   149                 * the faulty real<Num>(Num) and real<Num>(Num,Num)
   150                   have been removed
   151           #187: Remove DijkstraWidestPathOperationTraits
   152           #61:  Bugfix in DfsVisit
   153           #193: Bugfix in GraphReader::skipSection()
   154           #195: Bugfix in ConEdgeIt()
   155           #197: Bugfix in heap unionfind
   156                 * This bug affects Edmond's general matching algorithms
   157           #207: Fix 'make install' without 'make html' using CMAKE
   158           #208: Suppress or fix VS2008 compilation warnings
   159           ----: Update the LEMON icon
   160           ----: Enable the component-based installer
   161                 (in installers made by CPACK)
   162           ----: Set the proper version for CMAKE in the tarballs
   163                 (made by autotools)
   164           ----: Minor clarification in the LICENSE file
   165           ----: Add missing unistd.h include to time_measure.h
   166           #204: Compilation bug fixed in graph_to_eps.h with VS2005
   167           #214,#215: windows.h should never be included by LEMON headers
   168           #230: Build systems check the availability of 'long long' type
   169           #229: Default implementation of Tolerance<> is used for integer types
   170           #211,#212: Various fixes for compiling on AIX
   171           ----: Improvements in CMAKE config
   172                 - docs is installed in share/doc/
   173                 - detects newer versions of Ghostscript
   174           #239: Fix missing 'inline' specifier in time_measure.h
   175           #274,#280: Install lemon/config.h
   176           #275: Prefix macro names with LEMON_ in lemon/config.h
   177           ----: Small script for making the release tarballs added
   178           ----: Minor improvement in unify-sources.sh (a76f55d7d397)
   179 
   180 2009-03-27 LEMON joins to the COIN-OR initiative
   181 
   182         COIN-OR (Computational Infrastructure for Operations Research,
   183         http://www.coin-or.org) project is an initiative to spur the
   184         development of open-source software for the operations research
   185         community.
   186 
   187 2008-10-13 Version 1.0 released
   188 
   189         This is the first stable release of LEMON. Compared to the 0.x
   190         release series, it features a considerably smaller but more
   191         matured set of tools. The API has also completely revised and
   192         changed in several places.
   193 
   194         * The major name changes compared to the 0.x series (see the
   195           Migration Guide in the doc for more details)
   196           * Graph -> Digraph, UGraph -> Graph
   197           * Edge -> Arc, UEdge -> Edge
   198           * source(UEdge)/target(UEdge) -> u(Edge)/v(Edge)
   199         * Other improvements
   200           * Better documentation
   201           * Reviewed and cleaned up codebase
   202           * CMake based build system (along with the autotools based one)
   203         * Contents of the library (ported from 0.x)
   204           * Algorithms
   205             * breadth-first search (bfs.h)
   206             * depth-first search (dfs.h)
   207             * Dijkstra's algorithm (dijkstra.h)
   208             * Kruskal's algorithm (kruskal.h)
   209           * Data structures
   210             * graph data structures (list_graph.h, smart_graph.h)
   211             * path data structures (path.h)
   212             * binary heap data structure (bin_heap.h)
   213             * union-find data structures (unionfind.h)
   214             * miscellaneous property maps (maps.h)
   215             * two dimensional vector and bounding box (dim2.h)
   216           * Concepts
   217             * graph structure concepts (concepts/digraph.h, concepts/graph.h,
   218               concepts/graph_components.h)
   219             * concepts for other structures (concepts/heap.h, concepts/maps.h,
   220               concepts/path.h)
   221           * Tools
   222             * Mersenne twister random number generator (random.h)
   223             * tools for measuring cpu and wall clock time (time_measure.h)
   224             * tools for counting steps and events (counter.h)
   225             * tool for parsing command line arguments (arg_parser.h)
   226             * tool for visualizing graphs (graph_to_eps.h)
   227             * tools for reading and writing data in LEMON Graph Format
   228               (lgf_reader.h, lgf_writer.h)
   229             * tools to handle the anomalies of calculations with
   230               floating point numbers (tolerance.h)
   231             * tools to manage RGB colors (color.h)
   232           * Infrastructure
   233             * extended assertion handling (assert.h)
   234             * exception classes and error handling (error.h)
   235             * concept checking (concept_check.h)
   236             * commonly used mathematical constants (math.h)