Release 11.3 (June 2014, January 2015) of GEMPACK

Release 11.3 is mainly a maintenance upgrade, addressing some smaller bugs that were detected during the last year and building on previous improvements. Additional improvements are listed below.

• Source-code GEMPACK now works with "Intel Visual Fortran Composer XE 2013 SP1" also known as "Intel Fortran 14" -- the latest Intel Fortran.
• A new version of GFortran has been customized for source-code GEMPACK. It appears to run slightly quicker than previous GFortran and the LTG stage is a LOT faster. Details here.
• The Condensation Information file now includes an additional Closure section similar to that generated by TABmate's Tools...Closure command, but using runtime set sizes.
• Revisions to help files and to the GEMPACK manual, updating obsolete URLs.

GUI programs like ViewHAR and ViewSOL have a Help..What's New menu item which lists recent improvements. These include:

• ViewSOL: A new item on the File menu, Open SL4 file in ViewHAR, lets you view a solution instead in ViewHAR. You might wish to do this if if you wanted to examine results for variables with more than 2 dimensions (subscripts), which are inconvenient in ViewSOL.
• ViewHAR is now more forgiving if you try to view a HAR file which is too large to fit in memory. Even if some headers are too large to store and view, smaller remaining headers can still be viewed. There is also a way to view just one header from a HAR file -- which may assist in viewing very large arrays.
• Both TABmate and ViewHAR now by default delete BAK files more than 2 days old.

Further improvements for GEMPACK 11.3.004, January 2015

GEMPACK 11.3.004 includes some bug fixes to correct problems noticed during the last 6 months. The most notable problem concerned display problems on high-resolution screens. Recently some tablet and other PCs have become available which use very high resolution screens. We noticed that some GEMPACK Windows programs did not display properly on such screens, especially under Windows 8. Latest GEMPACK Windows programs have been modified to address this problem.

GEMPACK 11.3.004 now includes support for Intel Fortran 15.0 (Sold as "Intel Parallel Studio XE Composer Edition for Fortran Windows")

Availability

Release 11.3 will be supplied to all new GEMPACK purchasers from June 2014. Current subscribers to the annual payment scheme for the source-code version of GEMPACK are advised to download a free upgrade -- they should email sales@gempack.com (specifying their licence number) for further details.

See also:
Improvements for GEMPACK Release 11.2 (May 2013)
Improvements for GEMPACK Release 11.1 (May 2012)
New features of GEMPACK Release 11.0 (October 2011)
Improvements for GEMPACK Release 10.0-001 (April 2009)
All GEMPACK release notes
Different versions of GEMPACK