The first stable versions of these libraries are now available at: http://scilua.org The GitHub repositories can be found at: http://github.com/stepelu Please use the corresponding issue trackers to submit bug reports, feature request or to contribute to the development. ## Major changes: [Xsys] LuaJIT General Purpose Routines + table.join() and table.merge() has been renamed [Time] Manipulation of Dates and Periods in LuaJIT + full support of Windows, OSX, Linux for nowutc(), nowlocal(), sleep() [Rclient] LuaJIT Client for Rserve + simplified the API for exchanging data between LuaJIT and R + bugfixes (especially for Windows) [LJSQlite3] LuaJIT SQLite Binding + allow redirection of output for pseudo-sqlite-client mode ## Other updates: [Sci] General Purpose Scientific Computing in LuaJIT - beta6 + compatibility update to Xsys 1.0 [LuaJIT Universal Pack] LuaJIT 2.0 and 2.1 binaries for Windows, OSX, Linux + removed ZeroMQ, llthreads ## Going forward: + [Xsys] - REPL with autocomplete functionality (cdata included) - threads for Windows, OSX, Linux (no data exchange included) - package manager + [LuaJIT Universal Pack] - nanomsg (also to exchange data between threads) - LuaFilesystem + [Sci] - L-BFGS - custom syntax for vector / matrix operations - other statistical distributions - parallel computing (RNG, data exchange and merge) - 1D function minimisation - expand linear algebra routines - expand special functions coverage + release tseries: time series library + release bblab: automated inference framework Stefano