ChangeLog-5.16

   Maxima 5.16 change log
   Compiled 2008-08-13


   Major changes:

 * ECL can build Maxima via autoconf machinery


   Other revisions:

 * Revision and extension of code for exponential integral functions

 * Revision and extension of code for hypergeometric functions

 * share/contrib/amatrix: revisions

 * share/contrib/gf: bug fixes
 
 * share/contrib/sarag: revisions

 * share/contrib/zeilberger: revisions

 * share/contrib/graphs: revisions

 * share/contrib/distrib: revisions and new test script

 * share/contrib/maximaMathML: revisions

 * share/tensor: additional demonstrations

 * Patches for Lispworks and MCL

 * Revisions and extensions of reference manual and its translations


   Bug fixes:

 * 2030675: fourier_elim([f(abs(x)) > 0],[x]) --> error

 * 2022681: error en unit package

 * 2021422: reset & error

 * 2020618: tex( limit(...,plus) ) wrong

 * 2018722: error message typo in eliminate

 * 2010843: diff of Taylor poly

 * 2014436: at with empty list / Fix

 * 2013654: bfloat(NaN) => finite number

 * 1995595: sign(max(7,x) - max(6,x)) --> error

 * 1981626: a misprint about radcan() in the manual

 * 1981518: Calling desolve inside a "for...do" makes it loop endlessly
 
 * 1980715: wrong radcan-simplification

 * 1955976: opproperties

 * 1954846: bessel_i(1/2,0) -> divide by zero error

 * 1951964: Describe (? xxx) depends on ibase

 * 1951128: curious warning from allroots(x=0)

 * 1947806: ilt documented variable order incorrect
 
 * 1943756: ezgcd() never returns

 * 1920177: Problems with the bessel functions

 * 1847543: Integration problem of a special periodic function

 * 1811968: echelon error

 * 1755550: trig inconsistent about periodicity rules
 
 * 1668087: integrate(1/cosh(x/R)^4,x,-inf,inf) = 0

 * 1663537: newton & listconstvars

 * 1605201: wronskian documentation + FIX

 * 1553866: %piargs inconsistent behavior

 * 1358239: taylor(exp(sqrt(log(x)*log(log(x))))@inf > stack overflow

 * 1384806: factor((x^15+1)^15-(x^15-1)^15) wrong

 * 1309432: integrate(1/cosh(a*x)^2,x,-inf,inf)

 *  903190: sin(%pi+%pi*x) doesn't simplify
 
 *  679435: local(func) should be emphasised in the documentation

 *  580721: trigexpand bug
 
 * unnumbered: restore behavior of definite products

 * unnumbered: handle MTIMES and MNCTIMES correctly in tex2ooo