Re: Version 5.50?

The wxMaxima team is looking forward to the new release and has setup a ci job that every week compiles the newest Maxima release into a snap (basically Maxima and all it's dependencies in what 10 years ago would be named a zip file and today would be named a container or lightweight VM) that can easily be installed on most Linux systems. 

Kind regards, 

   Gunter. 

On 12 August 2026 20:21:28 CEST, David Scherfgen via Maxima-discuss <[email protected]> wrote:
>I have pushed the commit.
>If I have time, I will push another one that makes rtestezunits 12x as fast.
>
>David Scherfgen <[email protected]> schrieb am Mi., 12. Aug. 2026,
>09:32:
>
>> Hi Viktor,
>>
>> The pause from my side is mainly due to me being on vacation :)
>>
>> There's one issue with the directory cache that was discovered by Claude,
>> which I'd really like to fix before the release. I can probably do it
>> tonight, it's a small change.
>>
>> By the way, what are the (share) test errors you get on SBCL? I get none
>> with SBCL 2.6.7.
>>
>> After the release, there'll eventually be some more things I'm working on,
>> including:
>> - sign() deciding polynomials without factoring (today, sign(x^2+2*x+1) =
>> 'pos, because it factors to (x+1)^2, but add 1 to it and you get 'pnz)
>> - the Risch integrator no longer turning sqrt(x^2) into x, thereby
>> eliminating countless "integral has wrong sign" bugs
>> - correct integration of sin(x^3), which is currently wrong due to
>> incorrect antiderivative of %e^(%i*x^3)
>> - fixing the generally incorrect log(x^n) = n*log(x) rule
>>
>> Best regards and thanks!
>> David
>>
>> Viktor T. Toth <[email protected]> schrieb am Mi., 12. Aug. 2026, 09:09:
>>
>>> Now that there's a bit of a pause in changes... I just tested everything
>>> and Maxima builds fine, the testsuite (with share) completes with only
>>> trivial buglets in GCL/SBCL, and the RPMs also build so long as I
>>> disable Russian-language documentation for the time being.
>>>
>>> In other words, if there is consensus that this is a good time, I'm
>>> happy to prepare a 5.50 release this week. Please let me know.
>>>
>>>
>>> Viktor
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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