<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: "Fernando Perez" <<a href="mailto:fperez.net@gmail.com">fperez.net@gmail.com</a>><br>Date: Jun 30, 2012 4:56 AM<br>Subject: [IPython-dev] [ANN] IPython 0.13 is officially out!<br>
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<br type="attribution">Hi all,<br>
<br>
on behalf of the IPython development team, and just in time for the<br>
imminent Debian freeze and SciPy 2012, I'm thrilled to announce, after<br>
an intense 6 months of work, the official release of IPython 0.13.<br>
<br>
This version contains several major new features, as well as a large<br>
amount of bug and regression fixes. The previous version (0.12) was<br>
released on December 19 2011, so in this development cycle we had:<br>
<br>
- ~6 months of work.<br>
- 373 pull requests merged.<br>
- 742 issues closed (non-pull requests).<br>
- contributions from 62 authors.<br>
- 1760 commits.<br>
- a diff of 114226 lines.<br>
<br>
This means that we closed a total of 1115 issues over 6 months, for a<br>
rate of almost 200 issues closed per month and almost 300 commits per<br>
month. We are very grateful to all of you who have contributed so<br>
enthusiastically to the project and have had the patience of pushing<br>
your contributions through our often lengthy review process.<br>
<br>
We've also welcomed several new members to the core IPython<br>
development group: Jörgen Stenarson (@jstenar - this really was an<br>
omission as Jörgen has been our Windows expert for a long time) and<br>
Matthias Bussonier (@Carreau), who has been very active on all fronts<br>
of the project.<br>
<br>
<br>
*Highlights*<br>
<br>
There is too much new work to write up here, so we refer you to our<br>
full What's New document<br>
(<a href="http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/rel-0.13/whatsnew/version0.13.html" target="_blank">http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/rel-0.13/whatsnew/version0.13.html</a>)<br>
for the full details. But the main highlights of this release are:<br>
<br>
* Brand new UI for the notebook, with major usability improvements<br>
(real menus, toolbar, and much more)<br>
<br>
* Manage all your parallel cluster configurations from the notebook<br>
with push-button simplicity (cluster start/stop with one button).<br>
<br>
* Cell magics: commands prefixed with %% apply to an entire cell. We<br>
ship with many cell magics by default, including timing, profiling,<br>
running cells under bash, Perl and Ruby as well as magics to interface<br>
seamlessly with Cython, R and Octave.<br>
<br>
* The IPython.parallel tools have received many fixes, optimizations,<br>
and a number of API improvements to make writing, profiling and<br>
debugging parallel codes with IPython much easier.<br>
<br>
* We have unified our interactive kernels (the basic ipython object<br>
you know and love) with the engines running in parallel, so that you<br>
can now use all IPython special tricks in parallel too. And you can<br>
connect a console or qtconsole to any parallel engine for direct,<br>
interactive execution, plotting and debugging in a cluster.<br>
<br>
<br>
*Downloads*<br>
<br>
Download links and instructions are at: <a href="http://ipython.org/download.html" target="_blank">http://ipython.org/download.html</a><br>
And IPython is also on PyPI: <a href="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ipython" target="_blank">http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ipython</a><br>
<br>
Those contain a built version of the HTML docs; if you want pure<br>
source downloads with no docs, those are available on github:<br>
<br>
Tarball: <a href="https://github.com/ipython/ipython/tarball/rel-0.13" target="_blank">https://github.com/ipython/ipython/tarball/rel-0.13</a><br>
Zipball: <a href="https://github.com/ipython/ipython/zipball/rel-0.13" target="_blank">https://github.com/ipython/ipython/zipball/rel-0.13</a><br>
<br>
<br>
Please see our release notes for the full details on everything about<br>
this release:<br>
<a href="http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/rel-0.13/whatsnew/version0.13.html" target="_blank">http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/rel-0.13/whatsnew/version0.13.html</a><br>
<br>
As usual, if you find any other problem, please file a ticket --or<br>
even better, a pull request fixing it-- on our github issues site<br>
(<a href="https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues" target="_blank">https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues</a>).<br>
<br>
Many thanks to all who contributed!<br>
<br>
Fernando, on behalf of the IPython development team.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://ipython.org" target="_blank">http://ipython.org</a><br>
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