History of MPFR and Past Events

22 August 2023

Version 4.2.1 is released.

6 January 2023

Version 4.2.0 is released.

17 November 2022

Version 4.1.1 is released.

10 July 2020

Version 4.1.0 is released.

31 January 2019

Version 4.0.2 is released.

21 to 23 November 2018

GNU MPFR / GNU MPC / iRRAM workshop in Trier, Germany.

18 to 20 April 2018

iRRAM-MPFR-MPC developers meeting in Schloss Dagstuhl, Wadern, Germany.

7 February 2018

Version 4.0.1 is released.

25 December 2017

Version 4.0.0 is released.

7 September 2017

Version 3.1.6 is released.

27 September 2016

Version 3.1.5 is released.

23 and 24 May 2016

MPFR-MPC developers meeting in Toulouse, France.

6 March 2016

Version 3.1.4 is released.

19 June 2015

Version 3.1.3 is released.

20 to 22 January 2014

MPFR-MPC developers meeting in Nancy, France.

13 March 2013

Version 3.1.2 is released.

3 July 2012

Version 3.1.1 is released.

25 to 27 June 2012

MPFR-MPC developers meeting in Bordeaux, France.

3 October 2011

Version 3.1.0 is released.

28 August 2011

Presentation of GNU MPFR at the GNU Hackers Meeting in Paris.

4 April 2011

Version 3.0.1 is released.

13 and 14 January 2011

MPFR-MPC developers meeting in Paris, France.

10 June 2010

Version 3.0.0 is released.

30 November 2009

Version 2.4.2 is released.

25 and 26 June 2009

CNC'2 Summer School on MPFR and MPC at LORIA, Nancy, France.

3 March 2009

The MPFR trunk switches to the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 or later.

25 February 2009

Version 2.4.1 is released.

27 January 2009

Using MPFR, Keith Briggs found a new worst approximable pair (new record) in the problem of constructing an explicit pair of irrationals with sup-norm simultaneous approximation constant as large as possible.

26 January 2009

Version 2.4.0 is released. MPFR is now a GNU package.

12 September 2008

Version 2.3.2 is released.

5 March 2008

GCC 4.3.0 release: GCC now uses MPFR in its middle-end.
This has been announced on linuxfr.org.

29 January 2008

Version 2.3.1 is released.

25 and 26 October 2007

CEA-EDF-INRIA School Certified Numerical Computation (Calcul numérique certifié) at LORIA, Nancy, France.

29 August 2007

Version 2.3.0 is released.

29 November 2006

Version 2.2.1 is released.

3 and 4 October 2005

The MPFR team has won the Many Digits Friendly Competition, that took place at Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

• The results and the detailed final timings and rankings.
• Programs used by the MPFR team.
• Press release.

20 September 2005

Version 2.2.0 is released.

3 August 2005

Version 2.1.2 is released.

23 February 2005

Version 2.1.1 is released.

3 November 2004

Version 2.1.0 is released.

6 August 2004

GFortran now uses MPFR to evaluate constant expressions at compile time (fixing PR 15515); it will be included in the future GCC 4.0.0 release.

23 February 2004

Version 2.0.3 is released.

21 November 2003

Version 2.0.2 is released.

25 May 2002

GMP 4.1 is released, with MPFR included (a version very similar to MPFR 2.0.1). Configure GMP with --enable-mpfr to get MPFR installed.

15 April 2002

Version 2.0.1 is released.

22 December 2000

Version 2001 is released (new features with respect to version 1.0).

24 August 2000

Version 1.0 is released (new features with respect to version 0.4).

July 2000

GMP 3.1 is released, with an experimental version of MPFR, available with configure --enable-mpfr.

June 2000

The copyright of MPFR is assigned to the Free Software Foundation.

4 February 2000

The first public version, MPFR 0.4, is released.

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