I just updated the tarballs to fix an issue noted with the MSVC build.
Note, this only affects Windows when building with MSVC, hence I didn't
push the patch number.

Bill.

On 7 August 2015 at 23:33, Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We are very pleased to present Flint version 2.5.0. It can be downloaded
> from
> our website:
>
>    http://http://flintlib.org/
>
> FLINT is a C library for arithmetic in support of Number Theory, including
> polynomial
> arithmetic and linear algebra over Z, Z/nZ, Q, p-adics, q-adics, F_q, and
> univariate
> factorisation over those rings. It depends on GMP or MPIR and MPFR.
>
> New features/improvements in this release include:
>
>   * LLL (rational, Nguyen-Stehle, from Gram matrix, with_removal,
>     Storjohann/ULLL) [1]
>   * Hermite normal form (naive, xgcd, Domich-Kannan-Trotter,
> Kannan-Bachem,
>     Pernet-Stein) [1]
>   * Smith normal form (diagonal, Kannen-Bachem, Iliopoulos) [1]
>   * Paterson-Stockmeyer algorithm
>   * modular resultant
>   * half gcd style resultant
>   * polynomial discriminant
>   * multithreaded multimodular Taylor shift
>   * multithreaded Brent-Kung composition
>   * multithreaded Kaltofen-Shoup distinct degree factorisation
>   * multiplication based reduced row echelon form
>   * inline functions included in library for use by foreign function
> interfaces
>   * Primality tests for large integers (Pocklington, Morrison)
>   * Probable prime tests for large integers (Lucas, Baillie-PSW,
> strong-psp,
>     Brillhart-Lehmer-Selfridge)
>   * CRT for large integers
>   * Dixon algorithm for nullspace [1]
>   * Brent-Kung composition in irreducibility and distinct degree
> factorisation
>   * floating point QR decomposition
>   * Schwarz-Rutishauser Gram-Schmidt algorithm
>   * Ogita-Rump-Oishi dot product
>   * matrix window functions
>   * MSVC support (Brian Gladman)
>   * fast cube/nth-root (Newton, Kahan, magic number, Chebyshev)
>   * Bodrato matrix squaring
>   * matrix concatenation functions
>   * matrix content
>   * faster n_gcd
>   * faster n_sqrtmod and fmpz_sqrtmod
>   * additional functions for returning factor of modulus in polys over Z/nZ
>   * Hadamard matrix construction
>   * series addition/subtraction
>   * faster prime_pi bounds
>   * speedup creation of sparse polynomials
>   * speedup n_isprime and n_nextprime
>   * speedup n_isprime_pocklington
>   * speedups to fmpq_poly and fmpz_poly arithmetic
>   * speedup polynomial irreducibility testing over Z/pZ
>   * speedup of rank computation over ZZ
>   * made CPimport compile time dependency only
>   * teach flint_printf/sprintf about explicit width format specifiers
>   * support relative paths in configure
>   * library soname versioning
>   * ARM64 patches
>   * Support MSYS2
>   * Progress towards supporting MIPS64
>   * Many build system improvements
>   * Fix a serious bug in fmpz_poly_signature
>
> Contributors to this release include:
>
> Abinhav Baid, Alex Best, Fredrik Johansson, William Hart, Brian Gladman,
> Jean-Pierre Flori, Martin Lee, Curtis Bright, Daniel Fabian, Julian Ospald,
> Dan Grayson, Dana Jacobsen, Vladimir Glazachev, Kushagra Singh, Ashish
> Kedia,
> Anubhav Srivistava, Prabhdeep Singh, Alena Sergeicheva, Sebastian Pancratz,
> mgkurtz, Tommy Hofmann, Daniel Roche, Max Goldfar, Andreas Enge, Francois
> Bissey,
> Denis Kryskov, Anton Mellit,  and numerous others.
>
> [1] Thanks to Google for funding students through its Google Summer of
> Code. Abinhav
> Baid and Alex Best contributed to Flint through this program.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> The Flint Development Team.
>

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