Hello, pleased to meet you. I am personally working on rewriting PSPP in Rust to increase its robustness and portability and to avoid the security reports that have plagued it for a while now. It will take time for the rewrite to attain feature parity with the current released version.
In the meantime, the other PSPP developers might be interested in working on the features you mention, but I do not hear from them often so I do not know how actively they are working on PSPP. I am interested in your feedback on the experience with larger datasets. It has always been a goal of PSPP to work well with large datasets, so I'd like to hear about what you have actually seen in practice. On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 7:53 AM Dirkjan Klumper < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear PSPP developers, > > > > On behalf of Kien Onderzoek (research agency in the Netherlands), I would > like to thank you for maintaining and developing PSPP as a free and > open-source alternative to SPSS. We are making active use of PSPP in our > research projects and are very interested in its future development. > > > > We were wondering if there are any upcoming releases planned, and if so, > whether you could share some insights into possible improvements or new > features. In particular, we are curious about: > > > > - Support for *Welch’s ANOVA* and related post-hoc tests (e.g., > *Games–Howell*) > - Additional non-parametric tests such as *Spearman’s rank correlation* > - Enhancements in *performance and handling of larger datasets* > > > > Any information on whether these are on the roadmap (and if a timeline is > known) would be very helpful for us to plan our future research workflows. > > > > Thank you in advance for your time and for your great work on PSPP. > > > > Best regards, > > > > Dirkjan Klumper > > > > Dirkjan Klumper - Senior Projectleider marktonderzoek - *Kien * > > *T *0503171771 - *W *www.kienonderzoek.nl > > *(afwezig op donderdag) * > > > > *volg ons op:* > > [image: LinkedIn] <https://www.linkedin.com/company/230008> > > >
