Release of Singular version 3.0.0 is now available for most Unix platforms (including Mac PPC Darwin):
NEWS in SINGULAR 3.0.0
The current version 3.0.0 is the first in the new release series version 3-0.
Singular version 3 has a greater functionality and an improved architecture. Major new features are:
- Dynamic modules
- non-commutative extension PLURAL
- name spaces ( package)
- easy manipulation of rings ( ringlist)
- improved speed of maps ( subst, map)
- variant of Faugeres F4: slimgb.
- improved factorization (integration of NTL, factorization over algebraic extensions, zeroset.lib)
- improved gcd of polynomials (including bug fixes)
- ports to more architectures including automatic building from source (fink on Mac, ebuild on Gentoo)
- more help browsers supported, user extendable (help.cnf)
- better support of graded modules
- many bugs fixed
Besides theses internal changes, Singular version 3 offers many new features and functionalities (which were partly already incorporated in the 2-1 pre-release series).
