MATPOWER 4.0b5 is available for download from the MATPOWER home page ...
http://www.pserc.cornell.edu/matpower/
The primary changes from version 4.0b4 are:
* New features:
- Added support for MOSEK to solve LP and QP problems. Set option
OPF_ALG_DC = 600 to use MOSEK to solve the DC OPF. Requires the
Matlab interface to MOSEK, available from http://www.mosek.com/.
See 'help mpoption' for more MOSEK options.
- Added support for CPLEX to solve LP and QP problems. Set option
OPF_ALG_DC = 500 to use CPLEX to solve the DC OPF. Requires the
Matlab interface to CPLEX, available from
http://www.ibm.com/software/integration/optimization/cplex-optimizer/.
See 'help mpoption' for more CPLEX options.
- Added modcost() for shifting and scaling generator cost functions.
- Added load2disp() for converting from fixed to dispatchable loads.
- Added makeJac() to form the power flow Jacobian. Optionally returns
the system admittance matrices too.
- Performance optimizations in opf_consfcn() for large systems.
* Bugs fixed:
- When called without output arguments, uopf() was not printing any
output.
- Indexing bug in dcopf_solver() affecting certain cases with a mix
of polynomial and piecewise linear costs.
For a complete and detailed list of changes from previous versions, see the
CHANGES file in the distribution, also available at:
http://www.pserc.cornell.edu/matpower/CHANGES.txt
As always, please send any bug reports, suggestions and comments, to the
MATPOWER mailing list (instructions on MATPOWER home page).
Enjoy!
Ray Zimmerman
Senior Research Associate
211 Warren Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
phone: (607) 255-9645
