SoftwareUpgrades - DrXyzzy/cocalc GitHub Wiki

This page contains notes about new software upgrades.

2018-09-11

(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/