[GAP Forum] GAP 4.7.9 release announcement

[Alexander Konovalov]

P.S. Just to add that both BOB and Homebrew installers are now providing GAP 4.7.9 as well.

BOB is an alternative GAP installer for Linux and OS X, for further instructions see http://gap-system.github.io/bob/

Homebrew (http://brew.sh/) is the package manager for OS X, and it has now a formula to install GAP, added by Alexey Muranov. Provided you've installed Homebrew, for the new GAP installation you need to call these two commands:

brew update
brew install homebrew/science/gap --with-InstPackages 

To upgrade existing GAP installation made with homebrew, call 

brew update
brew upgrade gap


Best wishes
Alexander


> On 2 Dec 2015, at 15:42, Alexander Konovalov <alexk at mcs.st-and.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> This is to announce the release of GAP 4.7.9, which 
> could be downloaded from
> 
> 	http://www.gap-system.org/Releases/
> 
> The main purpose of this release is to deliver updates 
> of 28 GAP packages, listed in the following table.
> 
> =====================================================
> Package name               | Version     | Date       
> -----------------------------------------------------
> 4ti2Interface              | 2015.11.06  | 06/11/2015
> AutoDoc                    | 2015.09.30  | 30/09/2015
> CRISP                      | 1.3.9       | 10/10/2015
> ExamplesForHomalg          | 2015.11.06  | 06/11/2015
> FGA                        | 1.3.0       | 25/08/2015
> Forms                      | 1.2.3       | 26/10/2015
> Gauss                      | 2015.11.06  | 06/11/2015
> GaussForHomalg             | 2015.11.06  | 06/11/2015
> GradedModules              | 2015.11.06  | 06/11/2015
> GradedRingForHomalg        | 2015.11.06  | 06/11/2015
> HAP                        | 1.11.12     | 11/11/2015
> homalg                     | 2015.11.05  | 05/11/2015
> HomalgToCAS                | 2015.11.06  | 06/11/2015
> IO_ForHomalg               | 2015.11.06  | 06/11/2015
> LocalizeRingForHomalg      | 2015.11.06  | 06/11/2015
> loops                      | 3.1.0       | 28/10/2015
> MatricesForHomalg          | 2015.11.06  | 06/11/2015
> Modules                    | 2015.11.06  | 06/11/2015
> PatternClass               | 2.1         | 27/08/2015
> permut                     | 1.03        | 30/07/2015
> QPA                        | 1.23        | 05/11/2015
> RingsForHomalg             | 2015.11.06  | 06/11/2015
> SCO                        | 2015.11.06  | 06/11/2015
> simpcomp                   | 2.1.1       | 04/06/2015
> SONATA                     | 2.8         | 29/07/2015
> ToolsForHomalg             | 2015.11.23  | 23/11/2015
> Wedderga                   | 4.7.3       | 18/09/2015
> XMod                       | 2.44        | 13/11/2015
> =====================================================
> 
> GAP 4.7.9 also fixes an error in DataAboutSimpleGroup, 
> causing wrong result in the calculation of the automorphism 
> group of J_2 (reported by Fatemeh Koorepazan-Moftakhar).
> 
> Furthermore, GModuleByMats and some related functions now 
> work for infinite fields, in particular in characteristic 0. 
> However, this only applies for functions that do not need 
> the MeatAxe, as that is still tied to finite fields.
> 
> We encourage all users to upgrade to GAP 4.7.9. If you need 
> any help or would like to report any problems, please do not 
> hesitate to contact us at support at gap-system.org or submit 
> new issues on GitHub: 
> 
> 	https://github.com/gap-system/gap/issues
> 
> 
> Wishing you fun and success using GAP,
> 
> The GAP Group