NEWS
author Alpar Juttner <alpar@cs.elte.hu>
Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:46:01 +0100
changeset 1021 4980b05606bd
parent 712 e652b6f9a29f
child 1005 ffc2d2559fc9
child 1281 c08d0f04c117
permissions -rw-r--r--
Merge
     1 2010-03-19 Version 1.2 released
     2 
     3         This is major feature release
     4 
     5         * New algorithms
     6           * Bellman-Ford algorithm (#51)
     7           * Minimum mean cycle algorithms (#179)
     8             * Karp, Hartman-Orlin and Howard algorithms
     9           * New minimum cost flow algorithms (#180)
    10             * Cost Scaling algorithms
    11             * Capacity Scaling algorithm
    12             * Cycle-Canceling algorithms
    13           * Planarity related algorithms (#62)
    14             * Planarity checking algorithm
    15             * Planar embedding algorithm
    16             * Schnyder's planar drawing algorithm
    17             * Coloring planar graphs with five or six colors
    18           * Fractional matching algorithms (#314)
    19         * New data structures
    20           * StaticDigraph structure (#68)
    21           * Several new priority queue structures (#50, #301)
    22             * Fibonacci, Radix, Bucket, Pairing, Binomial
    23               D-ary and fourary heaps (#301)
    24           * Iterable map structures (#73)
    25         * Other new tools and functionality
    26           * Map utility functions (#320)
    27           * Reserve functions are added to ListGraph and SmartGraph (#311)
    28           * A resize() function is added to HypercubeGraph (#311)
    29           * A count() function is added to CrossRefMap (#302)
    30           * Support for multiple targets in Suurballe using fullInit() (#181)
    31           * Traits class and named parameters for Suurballe (#323)
    32           * Separate reset() and resetParams() functions in NetworkSimplex
    33             to handle graph changes (#327)
    34           * tolerance() functions are added to HaoOrlin (#306)
    35         * Implementation improvements
    36           * Improvements in weighted matching algorithms (#314)
    37             * Jumpstart initialization
    38           * ArcIt iteration is based on out-arc lists instead of in-arc lists
    39             in ListDigraph (#311)
    40           * Faster add row operation in CbcMip (#203)
    41           * Better implementation for split() in ListDigraph (#311)
    42           * ArgParser can also throw exception instead of exit(1) (#332)
    43         * Miscellaneous
    44           * A simple interactive bootstrap script
    45           * Doc improvements (#62,#180,#299,#302,#303,#304,#307,#311,#331,#315,
    46                 #316,#319)
    47             * BibTeX references in the doc (#184)
    48           * Optionally use valgrind when running tests
    49           * Also check ReferenceMapTag in concept checks (#312)
    50           * dimacs-solver uses long long type by default.
    51         * Several bugfixes (compared to release 1.1):
    52           #295: Suppress MSVC warnings using pragmas
    53           ----: Various CMAKE related improvements
    54                 * Remove duplications from doc/CMakeLists.txt
    55                 * Rename documentation install folder from 'docs' to 'html'
    56                 * Add tools/CMakeLists.txt to the tarball
    57                 * Generate and install LEMONConfig.cmake
    58                 * Change the label of the html project in Visual Studio
    59                 * Fix the check for the 'long long' type
    60                 * Put the version string into config.h
    61                 * Minor CMake improvements
    62                 * Set the version to 'hg-tip' if everything fails
    63           #311: Add missing 'explicit' keywords
    64           #302: Fix the implementation and doc of CrossRefMap
    65           #308: Remove duplicate list_graph.h entry from source list
    66           #307: Bugfix in Preflow and Circulation
    67           #305: Bugfix and extension in the rename script
    68           #312: Also check ReferenceMapTag in concept checks
    69           #250: Bugfix in pathSource() and pathTarget()
    70           #321: Use pathCopy(from,to) instead of copyPath(to,from)
    71           #322: Distribure LEMONConfig.cmake.in
    72           #330: Bug fix in map_extender.h
    73           #336: Fix the date field comment of graphToEps() output
    74           #323: Bug fix in Suurballe
    75           #335: Fix clear() function in ExtendFindEnum
    76           #337: Use void* as the LPX object pointer
    77           #317: Fix (and improve) error message in mip_test.cc
    78                 Remove unnecessary OsiCbc dependency
    79           #356: Allow multiple executions of weighted matching algorithms (#356)
    80 
    81 2009-05-13 Version 1.1 released
    82 
    83         This is the second stable release of the 1.x series. It
    84         features a better coverage of the tools available in the 0.x
    85         series, a thoroughly reworked LP/MIP interface plus various
    86         improvements in the existing tools.
    87 
    88         * Much improved M$ Windows support
    89           * Various improvements in the CMAKE build system
    90           * Compilation warnings are fixed/suppressed
    91         * Support IBM xlC compiler
    92         * New algorithms
    93           * Connectivity related algorithms (#61)
    94           * Euler walks (#65)
    95           * Preflow push-relabel max. flow algorithm (#176)
    96           * Circulation algorithm (push-relabel based) (#175)
    97           * Suurballe algorithm (#47)
    98           * Gomory-Hu algorithm (#66)
    99           * Hao-Orlin algorithm (#58)
   100           * Edmond's maximum cardinality and weighted matching algorithms
   101             in general graphs (#48,#265)
   102           * Minimum cost arborescence/branching (#60)
   103           * Network Simplex min. cost flow algorithm (#234)
   104         * New data structures
   105           * Full graph structure (#57)
   106           * Grid graph structure (#57)
   107           * Hypercube graph structure (#57)
   108           * Graph adaptors (#67)
   109           * ArcSet and EdgeSet classes (#67)
   110           * Elevator class (#174)
   111         * Other new tools
   112           * LP/MIP interface (#44)
   113             * Support for GLPK, CPLEX, Soplex, COIN-OR CLP and CBC
   114           * Reader for the Nauty file format (#55)
   115           * DIMACS readers (#167)
   116           * Radix sort algorithms (#72)
   117           * RangeIdMap and CrossRefMap (#160)
   118         * New command line tools
   119           * DIMACS to LGF converter (#182)
   120           * lgf-gen - a graph generator (#45)
   121           * DIMACS solver utility (#226)
   122         * Other code improvements
   123           * Lognormal distribution added to Random (#102)
   124           * Better (i.e. O(1) time) item counting in SmartGraph (#3)
   125           * The standard maps of graphs are guaranteed to be
   126             reference maps (#190)
   127         * Miscellaneous
   128           * Various doc improvements
   129           * Improved 0.x -> 1.x converter script
   130 
   131         * Several bugfixes (compared to release 1.0):
   132           #170: Bugfix SmartDigraph::split()
   133           #171: Bugfix in SmartGraph::restoreSnapshot()
   134           #172: Extended test cases for graphs and digraphs
   135           #173: Bugfix in Random
   136                 * operator()s always return a double now
   137                 * the faulty real<Num>(Num) and real<Num>(Num,Num)
   138                   have been removed
   139           #187: Remove DijkstraWidestPathOperationTraits
   140           #61:  Bugfix in DfsVisit
   141           #193: Bugfix in GraphReader::skipSection()
   142           #195: Bugfix in ConEdgeIt()
   143           #197: Bugfix in heap unionfind
   144                 * This bug affects Edmond's general matching algorithms
   145           #207: Fix 'make install' without 'make html' using CMAKE
   146           #208: Suppress or fix VS2008 compilation warnings
   147           ----: Update the LEMON icon
   148           ----: Enable the component-based installer
   149                 (in installers made by CPACK)
   150           ----: Set the proper version for CMAKE in the tarballs
   151                 (made by autotools)
   152           ----: Minor clarification in the LICENSE file
   153           ----: Add missing unistd.h include to time_measure.h
   154           #204: Compilation bug fixed in graph_to_eps.h with VS2005
   155           #214,#215: windows.h should never be included by LEMON headers
   156           #230: Build systems check the availability of 'long long' type
   157           #229: Default implementation of Tolerance<> is used for integer types
   158           #211,#212: Various fixes for compiling on AIX
   159           ----: Improvements in CMAKE config
   160                 - docs is installed in share/doc/
   161                 - detects newer versions of Ghostscript
   162           #239: Fix missing 'inline' specifier in time_measure.h
   163           #274,#280: Install lemon/config.h
   164           #275: Prefix macro names with LEMON_ in lemon/config.h
   165           ----: Small script for making the release tarballs added
   166           ----: Minor improvement in unify-sources.sh (a76f55d7d397)
   167 
   168 2009-03-27 LEMON joins to the COIN-OR initiative
   169 
   170         COIN-OR (Computational Infrastructure for Operations Research,
   171         http://www.coin-or.org) project is an initiative to spur the
   172         development of open-source software for the operations research
   173         community.
   174 
   175 2008-10-13 Version 1.0 released
   176 
   177         This is the first stable release of LEMON. Compared to the 0.x
   178         release series, it features a considerably smaller but more
   179         matured set of tools. The API has also completely revised and
   180         changed in several places.
   181 
   182         * The major name changes compared to the 0.x series (see the
   183           Migration Guide in the doc for more details)
   184           * Graph -> Digraph, UGraph -> Graph
   185           * Edge -> Arc, UEdge -> Edge
   186           * source(UEdge)/target(UEdge) -> u(Edge)/v(Edge)
   187         * Other improvements
   188           * Better documentation
   189           * Reviewed and cleaned up codebase
   190           * CMake based build system (along with the autotools based one)
   191         * Contents of the library (ported from 0.x)
   192           * Algorithms
   193             * breadth-first search (bfs.h)
   194             * depth-first search (dfs.h)
   195             * Dijkstra's algorithm (dijkstra.h)
   196             * Kruskal's algorithm (kruskal.h)
   197           * Data structures
   198             * graph data structures (list_graph.h, smart_graph.h)
   199             * path data structures (path.h)
   200             * binary heap data structure (bin_heap.h)
   201             * union-find data structures (unionfind.h)
   202             * miscellaneous property maps (maps.h)
   203             * two dimensional vector and bounding box (dim2.h)
   204           * Concepts
   205             * graph structure concepts (concepts/digraph.h, concepts/graph.h,
   206               concepts/graph_components.h)
   207             * concepts for other structures (concepts/heap.h, concepts/maps.h,
   208               concepts/path.h)
   209           * Tools
   210             * Mersenne twister random number generator (random.h)
   211             * tools for measuring cpu and wall clock time (time_measure.h)
   212             * tools for counting steps and events (counter.h)
   213             * tool for parsing command line arguments (arg_parser.h)
   214             * tool for visualizing graphs (graph_to_eps.h)
   215             * tools for reading and writing data in LEMON Graph Format
   216               (lgf_reader.h, lgf_writer.h)
   217             * tools to handle the anomalies of calculations with
   218               floating point numbers (tolerance.h)
   219             * tools to manage RGB colors (color.h)
   220           * Infrastructure
   221             * extended assertion handling (assert.h)
   222             * exception classes and error handling (error.h)
   223             * concept checking (concept_check.h)
   224             * commonly used mathematical constants (math.h)