Great!  What needs to be done for this to be pushed up to fink and the other 
package managers?  According to fink, the fink package maintainer for sympy is 
Lev Givon <l...@columbia.edu>.

Aaron Meurer
On Dec 20, 2009, at 2:56 PM, Vinzent Steinberg wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> we just released a new version of SymPy, get it here [0].
> Many things got changed, including:
> 
>    * many documentation improvements, including docstrings and doctests
>    * new assumptions system (GSoC) (See assumptions documentation for
> more information or have a look at Fabian's blog [1].)
>          o Note: This is going to replace the old assumption system.
> It is encouraged to use it for new code, however it is not completely
> finished and parts of sympy have yet to be rewritten to use it; this
> scheduled for the 0.7 release.
>    * improvements to test runner
>    * printing improvements (especially LaTeX, but also mathml and
> pretty printing)
>    * discriminant of polys
>    * block diagonal methods for matrices
>    * vast improvements to solving of ODEs (GSoC) (See ODE
> documentation for full details or Aaron's blog [2]).
>    * logcombine function
>    * improvements to sets
>    * better trigonometric simplification
>    * improvements to piecewise functions
>    * improvements to solve() and nsolve()
>    * improvements to as_numer_denom()
>    * much better quartic and cubic polynomial rootfinding
>    * code refactoring and cleanup
>    * physics: coupled clusters and wick expansion
>    * matrices: symbolic QR solving
>    * mpmath updated
>    * pyglet updated
>    * many, many bug fixes and small improvements
> 
> For a more detailed changelog see the git history [3].
> 
> The following 22 people have contributed patches to this release
> (sorted alphabetically):
> 
>    * Aaron Meurer
>    * Alan Bromborsky
>    * Andy R. Terrel
>    * Bill Flynn
>    * Chris Smith
>    * Eh Tan
>    * Fabian Pedregosa
>    * Fredrik Johansson
>    * Jorn Baayen
>    * Julio Idichekop Filho
>    * Kevin Goodsell
>    * Łukasz Pankowski
>    * Luke Peterson
>    * Øyvind Jensen
>    * Ondrej Certik
>    * Oscar Benjamin
>    * Priit Laes
>    * Renato Coutinho
>    * Ronan Lamy
>    * Ryan Krauss
>    * Ted Horst
>    * Toon Verstraelen
>    * Vinzent Steinberg
> 
> The following 10 people helped reviewing patches:
> 
>    * Aaron Meurer
>    * Andy R. Terrel
>    * Chris Smith
>    * Fabian Pedregosa
>    * Fredrik Johansson
>    * Luke Peterson
>    * Mateusz Paprocki
>    * Ondrej Certik
>    * Ronan Lamy
>    * Vinzent Steinberg
> 
> Also many thanks to the people that helped testing: Aaron Meurer and
> David Joyner.
> 
> The next release will be 0.7.0. We intend to completely replace the
> old assumptions system with the new one and to merge Mateusz's polys
> branch [4], which will bring many improvements to SymPy's
> functionality.
> 
> Happy Christmas to you all
> Vinzent
> 
> [0] http://sympy.googlecode.com/files/sympy-0.6.6.tar.gz
> [1] http://fseoane.net/blog/?cat=16
> [2] http://asmeurersympy.wordpress.com/
> [3] http://git.sympy.org/?p=sympy.git;a=summary
> [4] http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=1598
> 
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