v1.0.0-rc.2

• fixed linestyle +psym problem when NaN in data (#678)
• fixes for path separators on Windows
• cleanup of map projections resource files (much reduced tarball size)
• cleanup of GSHHS leftovers (GDL no longer depends on GSHHS)
• clarification of projection resource licensing information
• fix for SMOOTH() making it work correctly with complex arrays (#685)
• fix for SMOOTH() curing segfault condition with large arrays (#682)
• fix for POLYFILL and log axes (#674)
• fixing build failures on s390x (#676)
• fix for segmentation fault on total(,/double) (#680)
• removed confusing message about graphic magick compiled only with 8 BPP
• improved management of input to RANDOM( ... poisson=)
• fixed WRITE_JPEG so it creates 2-dim jpg by default instead of 3-dim (#710)
• fix in HELP so it does not free memory twice when used like help,/obj,out=xxx
• corrected behaviour of '...' in string truncation in HELP
• fixed OBJ_CLASS so it does not include structures in the list of objects (#173)
• added "compile_opt idl2, hidden" to numerous GDL-written library routines
• VALUE_LOCATE: speedup + better error message
• XMANAGER: many new features supported
• improved IDL compatibility in the idlneturl class
• added FILE_CHMOD
• improvements in PRT_VALID and OBJ_VALID (e.g. correct support of /CAST)
• new implementation of WordExp for use in path expansion
• better integration of !NULL type (#589)
• added WIDGET_INFO(/display) and WIDGET_INFO(/map)
• SPAWN modified to allow immediate return when background job
• multiple choice support in list widget
• better HELP,/HEAP
• FILE_MOVE improvements
• FSTAT() improvements
• fixed HDF_VD_READ segfault issue (#664)
• fixed FindXdr.cmake
• support for SORT()-ing pointers (#698)
• STRUCT_ASSIGN fixed so it assigns correctly parts of structs that were themselves structs
• some compiler warnings eliminated
• fixed crash in REPLICATE_INPLACE (#574)

v1.0.0-rc.1

News:

• entirely rewritten mapping support (thank to Gilles Duvert)
• major improvements on the Windows compatibility (thanks to Greg Jung and Gilles Duvert)
• shift to Python 3 (thanks to Orion Poplawski and Ole Streicher)
• added READ_CVS, SCOPE_VARNAME
• fixes in CONGRID, FILE_MKDIR, FX_ROOT, INTRPOLATE, LINFIT, MAKE_ARRAY, RESTORE, TAG_NAMES, ...
• numerous other fixes and performance improvements and increased test coverage

v0.9.9

For list of changes, see: https://github.com/gnudatalanguage/gdl/blob/master/NEWS#L688

Important information for packagers:

• C++11 and CMake 3 are now required
• OpenMP required by default
• dropped support for OLDPLPLOT
• support for using eccodes instead of grib_api