SAGE 2.8.14:

At least the following people contributed this release:

 - Michael Abshoff
 - Martin Albrecht
 - John Cremona
 - Alexander Dreyer
 - Bill Hart
 - David Joyner
 - Josh Kantor
 - William Stein
 - Carl Witty

Feedback and testing by Andrzej Giniewicz and Simon King, Jaap Spies,
Gregory Vanuxem and Justin Walker. Apologies to anybody I forgot.

Cheers,

Michael Abshoff (release chair), William Stein

* Major Features, New Spkgs and Bugfixes

Besides fixing the build process on OSX 10.5.1 (10.5 did work before)
John Cremona also updated g0n to compile with gcc 4.2.x. This did slip
through testing, which caused us to release a build so shortly after 2.8.13.

- #998:  segmentation fault doctesting crypto/mq/sr.py [Carl Witty]
- #1244: flint-0.9-r1075.p0.spkg [Bill Hart, Michael Abshoff] -
         fix corner cases on Core Duo
- #1246: mpfi-1.3.4-rc3.p10.spkg [Alexander Dreyer] - mpfi-1.3.4-rc3.p9
         fails to build on x86_64 SuSE 10.1
- #1247: cremona-20071124.spkg [John Cremona, William Stein] - gcc 4.2.x
         compile fixes, Solaris build fix
- #1250: multivariate polynomial factorization -- control-c to cancel
         out doesn't work [William Stein]
- #1251: tutorial out of date [David Joyner]
- #1252: cddlib-094b.p0.spkg [Michael Abshoff] - force cddlib to link
         against Sage's gmp
- #1253: gmp-4.2.1.p12.spkg, python-2.5.1.p9.spkg, clisp-2.41.p11.spkg
         [Michael Abshoff] - OSX 10.5.x build fixes
- #1254: revision to combinat.py [David Joyner, William Stein] - Hadamard
         matrices of certain types via guava, use combinat.py for
         permutations instead of GAP wrapper
- #1257: multi_polynomial_libsingular.pyx "random" segfault [Carl Witty]
- #1262: "make check" needs to depend on all [William Stein]

We closed a total of 10 tickets, see

 http://www.sagetrac.org/sage_trac/query?status=closed&milestone=sage-2.8.14

for details.

* Known Issues with 2.8.14

   - cvxopt still fails to import certain functionality on OSX PPC (ticket #1222)

* Upcoming Releases

2.8.15 is planned before Sage Bug Day 6 (which is on Saturday,
December 1st, 2007). Major spkg candidates for 2.8.15 are

 - Singular 3-0-4
 - PolyBoRi
 - ATLAS BLAS/Lapack

* Coverage

No changes from 2.8.13.

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