SoftwareUpgrades

This page contains notes about new software upgrades.

2018-09-29

(upd) broad Linux software packages update, including minor updates to bazel, chrome, curl and python3.6
(upd/py3) "pip3" 18.0, seaborn 0.9.0, geopandas 0.4.0, and scikit-learn 0.20.0
(upd/py2) "pip2" 18.0, seaborn 0.9.0, tensorflow 1.10.1
(rem/ac5) removing broken pandas-datareader from anaconda5 (no update available yet, use Ubuntu's Python 3)
(npm) tldr pages

(upd) broad round of updating Anaconda 5 packages
(rem) Removal of PostgreSQL 9.6. We provide the 10.x series by default.
- for the purpose of upgrading, the old install is kept in /usr/lib/postgresql/9.6/ for a little while.
(fix) pandas-datareader incompatibility resolved
(upd/py3) dask/distributed, SymPy 1.3, Numba 0.38.1/llvmlite, and pandas-datareader 0.7.0
(upd/py2) pandas 0.23.4 and pandas-datareader 0.7.0
(upd) LEAN (https://leanprover.github.io/) mathlib to rev d0f1b21a9df64f, located in /ext/lean/lean-3.4.1-linux/mathlib/.
(new/py2+py3) pyLADvis
(new) C++ 17 Jupyter kernel via xeus-cling
(upd) SageMath release 8.4.beta6 2018-09-22

(new) R packages: roperators and a couple from R Views 2018-07
(upd) bazel 0.17.1
(upd) nodejs 8.12 (+ npm package updates)
(upd) relaxing browser compatibility check specifically for newest Firefox 60.2 ESR
(upd) major changes in handling RMarkdown files
(new) support for automatically processing PythonTeX code in LaTeX documents
(new) additional Library entries for RMarkdown and LaTeX/PythonTeX examples
(new) first iteration to support LEAN
(upd) SageMath 8.4.beta5 (released on 2018-07-16)

(fix) irregularities with man-pages introduces in previous update
(compat) Firefox 62 was released, which works well again with CoCalc's websocket over Cloudflare
(upd/py3) tensorflow 1.10.1
(upd/node) npm 5.6.0 → 6.4.1, typescript 3.0.3, CoffeeScript 2.3.1 and a couple other global node packages
(upd/linux) headless chrome 69, and a couple of linux system libs
(upd/sage) SageMath development 8.4beta4 available
(upd/anaconda) broad package upgrade of Anaconda5 environment
(chg) Jupyter plots done via R in Sage output SVG by default

(new) stapler python tool, a successor of pdftk (which is discontinued) -- https://github.com/hellerbarde/stapler
(new) julia 0.7 upgrade: either keep the existing 0.6 line, or select 0.7
- (old) you can still select a 0.6 kernel or run julia-0.6
- for 0.7, only a few global libraries installed, i.e. those where precompiling works without errors
- upon opening a jupyter file, you have to explicitly select the version
(upd) isochrones library: upgraded, and primarily updated a lot of datasets into $ISOCHRONES for dartmouth, but also some for "mist" -- https://isochrones.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
(fix) no man/doc pages were installed. this is fixed now.
(new) giac wrapper script to expose sage's binary globally in $EXT/bin/giac. Therefore cocalc provides giac again. https://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~parisse/giac.html
(enh) web client: tightening browser requirements to inform affected users about https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1453204
(exp) experimental support for LEAN -- https://leanprover.github.io/

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