[fricas-devel] Announce: FriCAS 1.3.4 has been released

[Waldek Hebisch]

This is courtesy copy of annoucement that I posted in comp.math.symbolic:

FriCAS is an advanced computer algebra system. Its capabilities
range from calculus (integration and differentiation) to abstract
algebra. It can plot functions and has integrated help system.

FriCAS 1.3.4 should build on Linux and many Unix like systems (for
example Mac OSX and Cygwin). FriCAS is build on top of Common Lisp;
several Lisps can compile and run FriCAS -- currently supported are
GCL, SBCL, Clisp, ECL, Closure CL (former OpenMCL).

Project page:

http://fricas.sf.net

Download pages:

http://fricas.sf.net/download.html
https://sourceforge.net/projects/fricas/files/

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Notable changes (compared to version 1.3.3):

- Implemented 'sqrt' for prime fields.

- Improved computation of characteristic polynomial.

- Added convertion from list of elements of a free group to
group presentation.

- Added 'extendedLLL'.

- Removed FreeAbelianGroup.

- Removed several old misfeatures.

Bug fixes, in particular:

- Fixed limit of Fresnel functions.

- Fixed few operations for matrices with specialised type.

- Fixed 'factor' for polynomials over finite fields.