This is the official announcement of the release of gnuplot 3.7. (Version 3.6 was renamed to 3.7 to avoid confusion with the many BETA versions which are circulating within the Internet.) The official date and time of this version is: Date: Thu Jan 14 19:34:53 BST 1999 Version: 3.7, Patchlevel 0 One of the most important changes in this release is the revised copyright statement. gnuplot can now be distributed in binary form even if the sources were modified, provided that the conditions in the copyright statement are satisfied. There are now two new official web sites for gnuplot: http://members.theglobe.com/gnuplot/ and http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Foothills/6647/ Please note that the official gnuplot FAQ at http://wwwfg.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/~ig25/gnuplot-faq.html/ is seriously out of date! By the time you receive this, copies of gnuplot-3.7.tar.gz should be at the official repositories. Binary versions for various non-Unix platforms will be made available in the same places. Please allow a couple of days for these distributions to appear. All distribution archives are signed with a public key, which is available from public key servers. For more information, see the REAME and PGPKEYS file at the distribution sites. DISTRIBUTION SITES NORTH AMERICA Anonymous ftp to ftp.gnuplot.vt.edu: ftp://ftp.gnuplot.vt.edu/pub/gnuplot/gnuplot-3.7.tar.gz Alternatively, you can use your web browser to get gnuplot from the gnuplot web pages at http://members.theglobe.com/gnuplot/gp37tar.gz http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Foothills/6647/gp37tar.gz Anonymous ftp to ftp.dartmouth.edu. Please try the other sites first! ftp://ftp.dartmouth.edu/pub/gnuplot/gnuplot-3.7.tar.gz AUSTRALIA: Anonymous ftp to ftp.cc.monash.edu.au: ftp://ftp.cc.monash.edu.au/pub/gnuplot/gnuplot-3.7.tar.gz EUROPE: Anonymous ftp to ftp.irisa.fr: ftp://ftp.irisa.fr/pub/gnuplot/gnuplot-3.7.tar.gz Anonymous ftp to ftp.ucc.ie: ftp://ftp.ucc.ie/pub/gnuplot/gnuplot-3.7.tar.gz OTHER: The Macintosh version will be available from http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~schooley/gnuplot.html Source and binary distributions for the Amiga will be available on Aminet and its mirrors. ---- During the more than 5 years since the release of gnuplot version 3.5, many new features have been added: o integration of Carsten Grammes' gnufit extension o support for Win32/NT, OS9 o new terminal drivers (eg. djsvga, emx, gif[1], HP 75550, Linux SVGA, png[2], texdraw) o dates and/or times, in various formats, can be used as input data o multiplot mode to plot several plots on the same page, window, or screen o greatly enhanced terminal drivers (X11, Amiga, OS/2, postscript, fig, pslatex) o new errorbar styles: boxerrorbars, financebars, candlesticks o greatly improved (mostly automatic) configuration on Unix platforms o greatly improved hidden3d algorithm o better postscript documentation o ... and a lot more [1] the gif terminal driver requires third party software. The gd graphics library version 1.3 or later can be downloaded from http://www.boutell.com/gd/ [2] the png terminal driver requires third party software. The png graphics library and zlib can be downloaded from http://www.cdrom.com/pub/png/pngcode.html and http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/ respectively. The gnuplot team would like to thank everybody who has contributed to this release through discussions, suggestions, bug reports, and patches, on Usenet and mailing lists. Special thanks go to Alex Woo for setting up and maintaining the new gnuplot web sites. -Thomas Williams- -Alex Woo- -David Denholm- -Lars Hecking-