Highlighted changes in this version

UI changes

• The table viewer was improved and does now provide a categoricaly conditional cell colouring scheme

• The terminal history has now a search bar

• It is now possible to hide the main window using set windowshown=false and unhide it again. Using set appautoclose=true, the app will automatically close itself, once the last open window has been closed. Note that those settings are not saved and only affect NumeRe for the current running session.

New and improved functionalities

• remove may now also remove folders (and folder structures recursively)

• k means clustering is now available as table method TAB().kmeansof(...)

• New functions: uuid(), strjoin(), getdisplayscale(), is_void(), is_equal(), is_ordered(), is_unique()

• New statistical functions: rms(), skew(), exc(), stderr(), inv_pct()

• New time-specific functions: today(), get_utc_offset(), is_daylightsavingtime(), is_leapyear()

• New noise functions: ridgedmulti(), billownoise(), voronoinoise()

• Functions for converting between different numerical data types and for creating categories were added.

• NumeRe can now interact with databases using the command database. Available interfaces for now are: MySQL/MariaDB, SQLite, ODBC. PostGreSQL is NOT supported right now due to dependency issues.

• Table method updates: Table method modifiers .scwin() and .srwin() have been added and can be used to define a moving window for multi argument functions. Table method handling has been improved and chaining with the new internal method system is now possible. The new table method modifier .cells() together with .rows or .cols allows for selection of table cells along the direction of application.

• Table columns can now have (physical) units to represent data even better. The units will be detected automatically (if possible), or you can use the dedicated methods to modify the unit of each column.

• Tables may now be exported in MarkDown and HTML format and it's now also possible to copy only a part of a table to another table at a desired location using TAB(i1:i2,j1:j2) = TAB2(i1:i2,j1:j1) syntax.

• Local variables may now also be declared within control flow blocks. Note that they are only declared for the first time per execution the control reaches their command.

• Index-based for loops can now have an additional condition as their second argument (i.e. for (i = 1:0, a != b)), which is checked before each loop iteration.

• The interaction between custom windows and the window command has been cleaned and improved. Some interactions will now return more fitting data types. It might be possible that this change will break some existing solutions. Furthermore, the textfield can now be configured as type=markup to support simplified markdown styling.

• The tabs created with group -style=tabs ... in window layouts can now have an ID and an onchange event handler firing when the user changes the tab. It is also possible to access the properties of the tab group using window ... -get and window ... -set.

• The window command option options={KEY-VALUE-LIST} can be used to modify additional window element properties. This option is currently only supported for tablegrid elements, where one can change the minimal number of rows and cols.

Experimental features

• Clusters can now be created as hierarchical data structures, i.e. clusters can now contain clusters in their fields. You can use the .sel(ID) method for navigating and .unwrap to unwrap the whole structure in a single-level cluster. Writing a set of values into a single cluster element will embed them as a sub-structure. Reading this single element, will return the embedded structure.

General changes

• The kernel was greatly rewritten and supports much more different types and functionalities. Strange typing problems shouldn't appear any more. Overall performance should be improved (although at the cost that some segments might run slower)

• We now only provide a 64 bit version due to limitations of external libraries

• We'll now provide an up-to-date PDF documentation with every new release (including this one)

• A Report an issue feature has been added, which you can use even without an GitHub account

• Many improvements and fixes

Remarks

• This is a beta version. Some features are subject to change. If you experience problems, please let us know

• If you experience troubles with downloads from SourceForge (esp. via MS Edge for Business), consider downloading from Github directly (see assets section at the end of the release notes).

If you have any wishes for the future, please let us know! Either by eMail, Discord or directly entered into the ticket system. They will be heard in any case!

The full list of changes can be found in the ChangesLog.

Highlighted changes in this version

UI changes

• Added feature of autowrapping for comments if line indicator is active.

• Using the new file dialog and selecting "App", one can create a custom app from some predefined templates

• The terminal rendering speed was increased, it provides global variables for autocompletion, autocompletion was improved generally

• The table viewer will now group common table header rows together, creating a virtual hierarchy. Strings are also automatically wrapped around and the grid lines can be hidden

• Folding has been enabled for LaTeX files and a simple lexer for INI files was added

New and improved functionalities

• getfilelist() and getfolderlist() may now follow shell links (*.LNK files)

• getuilang() returns the user's current language, getfilediff() returns the unified diff of two files, the functions to_utf8() and to_ansi() can be used to convert to and from UTF-8 encoded strings

• vectshift() and circshift() perform element shifts in matrices

• Weibull probability functions and probability density functions for all distributions

• Multiple new string functions with corresponding methods: firstch(), lastch(), startswith(), endswith()

• New table methods: TAB().insertXYZ(), TAB().removeXYZ(), TAB().reorderXYZ() (XYZ means rows, cols or cells) and TAB().shrink()

• TAB().convert() now provides an "auto" mode and may now convert more different number formats (notably EU and US separators for decimals and thousands). TAB().fndcols() can now be used with regular expressions

• The "value" column type of tables was extended to provide far more different fundamental data types, e.g. "value.f32" or "value.ui8". Some file types will now be loaded with the best fitting data type

• Loading and saving of regular file types with custom file extensions is now possible

• Procedures can now be called with relative namespaces

• Conditional expressions in if and while, which return multiple values, have now all return values being considered (implictly using and())

• leave extends the functionality of break by jumping out of all nested control flow statements (with exception of procedure ... endprocedure)

• One can create QR codes with qrcode

• More interaction possibilities to interact with and create custom windows, layouts can now be defined dynamically via strings and custom windows may now be used as dialogs.

Experimental features

• Conditional breakpoints (available via right-click in the editor)

• Column headlines are now usable for column indices, i.e. TABLE(:, "MY-COL-HEADLINE")

General changes

• We now provide 32 bit and 64 bit versions. The 64 bit version is likely to be faster and more versatile so switching is greatly encouraged

• We'll now provide an up-to-date PDF documentation with every new release (including this one)

• File loading was improved in many scenarios

• Many improvements and fixes

Remarks

• This is a release candidate. Some features are subject to change. If you experience problems, please let us know

• If you experience troubles with downloads from SourceForge (esp. via MS Edge for Business), consider downloading from Github directly (see assets section at the end of the release notes).

If you have any wishes for the future, please let us know! Either by eMail, Discord or directly entered into the ticket system. They will be heard in any case!

The full list of changes can be found in the ChangesLog.

Changes in this version

• A large number of table methods have been added: TAB().pcorrof(), TAB().scorrof(), TAB().covarof(), TAB().*rankof(), TAB().zscoreof(), TAB().anovaof(), TAB().fndcols(), TAB().indexof(), TAB().countif(), TAB().binsof(), TAB().categoriesof(), TAB().categorize(), TAB().rows, TAB().cols

• A filter() function was added to matop to filter a matrix with an arbitrary kernel

• A large number of random distributions (Laplace, Cauchy, Rayleigh, Landau, Levy (alpha stable), Fisher-F, Student-T) were added as functions

• Functions to work with time values were added: as_date(), as_time(), weekday(), weeknum()

• sha256() function calculates SHA-256 of strings and files

• to_time() and timeformat() now use automatic pattern matching if no pattern is given

• The range-based for loop has been added as for (ITER -> RANGE) and can also have multiple iterators at once

• archive files can be packed with pack and unpacked with unpack

• diff can now differentiate numerically up to the third order

• hist2d now also supports time axes (experimental)

• vect can now also generate vector plots from complex functions and complex data grids

• With the new plot options ohlc ("Open-High-Low-Close") and candlestick, plots can be generated for the display of price developments (stocks)

• Tables can now have columns with logical values and columns with categories. In addition, the Table Viewer has received further functionalities that further simplify the interaction with tables

• External files are now under automatic version control. Furthermore, restoring a previous version has been improved so that the current file is now automatically overwritten. In addition, a menu option has been added to compare two different files with each other

• It is now possible to disable the "floating" of most windows on the main window

• Procedures in the file tree now show their signature and documentation (if available) as tooltip

• It is now possible to copy text with styling information from the editor to MS-Word or MS-PowerPoint with an appropriate menu option

• It is now possible to drag code with comments into the terminal. The code is executed normally

• When creating a new file, a helpful dialog with more information about the file types now appears

• The support of Excel files and JCAMP-DX files has been improved

• The help command and the documentation browser have been improved and now also show function and procedure documentation

• Toolbar icons have been updated and modernized. Three selectable styles are available in the options (Purist, Focused (default) and Colourful). It is also possible to extend the toolbar over the entire window width

• Many improvements and fixes

If you have any wishes for the future, please let us know! Either by eMail, Discord or directly entered into the ticket system. They will be heard in any case!

The main changes can be found in the ChangesLog.