Re: Version 5.50 pre-announcement

Thank you, Viktor!

My most important changes have been pushed, including some significant
bigfloat fixes (bfloat(-1) was not equal to -1.0b0) and speed-ups (we were
multiplying by bigfloats 1.0 and -1.0 a lot).
I still have some fixes for other bugs in the pipeline, but it takes time,
and most of them are edge cases that nobody seems to have reported over
decades.

This will be a great release with lots of fixes and improvements.

Best regards and good luck with the release preparations!
David

Am So., 16. Aug. 2026 um 08:39 Uhr schrieb Viktor T. Toth <[email protected]
>:

> Dear All,
>
> I have created  branch-5_50 in git in anticipation of the 5.50 release.
> Maxima compiles fine and the testsuite runs including share, with
> minimal glitches.
>
> If there are any last-minute changes, please do not hesitate to commit
> them to this branch. In any case if there are no objections, I shall
> finish preparing 5.50 likely tomorrow (Sunday) night Eastern time.
>
>
> Viktor
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