GNU Scientific Library 2.1 released

[Patrick Alken]

Version 2.1 of the GNU Scientific Library (GSL) is now available. GSL
provides a large collection of routines for numerical computing in C.

This release is primarily for fixing a few bugs present in the recent
2.0 release, but also provides a brand new module for solving large
linear least squares problems.

The full NEWS file entry is appended below.

The file details for this release are:

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gsl/gsl-2.1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gsl/gsl-2.1.tar.gz.sig

The GSL project homepage is http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/

GSL is free software distributed under the GNU General Public License.

Thanks to everyone who reported bugs and contributed improvements.

Patrick Alken

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* What is new in gsl-2.1:

** added test suite for example programs

** bug fix when compiling with #undef GSL_DISABLE_DEPRECATED

** bug fix in setting libtool age versioning

** bug fix in gsl_multifit_wlinear()

** added gsl_multifit_linear_rcond() to compute reciprocal
   condition number of least squares matrix

** added gsl_multilarge module for large linear least squares
   systems