The PLplot development freeze that started on October 27th contines, i.e., do not push any topics other than documentation updates or well-tested bug fixes.
I am sorry to report that my pace for getting this release out has frankly slowed to a crawl, but there is some hope I will be able to restore a normal pace soon. The reason for this delay is I have been distracted in the last week by researching a chance to finally work around random lockups I have been encountering for my new Ryzen 7 1700 Linux box since I bought it in May. (For background information about Ryzen instability problems caused by a fundamentel AMD Ryzen hardware design flaw see <https://community.amd.com/thread/225795> and <https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196683>.) Those links state one possible workaround requires building a specially configured custom Linux kernel. I finally managed to do that today after many false starts, and I am running that custom kernel now. And with luck perhaps this lockup distraction will be considerably reduced or even eliminated by this custom kernel. In sum, time will tell, and in any case I will continue to keep you informed about how the plplot-5.14.0 release process is going with status reports like this one every week or so. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
