GAP.jl 0.5.2 released

Today GAP.jl 0.5.2 has been released.

Diff since v0.5.1

Summary of changes

From the user’s point of view, the main changes in this release are better documentation and better error handling.

Closed issues:

• Document ForeignGAP.MPtr (#471)
• Find a way to merge GapObj / MPtr after all, or at least mitigate the performance penalty introduced by their split (#488)
• Feature request: add more Julia conversion constructors, e.g. for Set (#529)
• problem with handling of GAP errors (#580)
• Avoid .tar.bz2 artifact (#589)
• Add error message for Windows users (#612)
• Make things work if julia-config.jl is missing (#623)

Merged pull requests:

• try to make the Julia help available in a GAP session (#566) (@ThomasBreuer)
• CI: remove version restriction for AbstractAlgebra (#594) (@fingolfin)
• catch GAP errors in GAP.evalstr (#605) (@ThomasBreuer)
• Fix potential crashes in ccall (#606) (@fingolfin)
• added a description how doctestfilters work (#607) (@ThomasBreuer)
• get rid of a RadioMenu warning (#608) (@ThomasBreuer)
• Switch to new GAP_jll and GAP_lib_jll (#610) (@fingolfin)
• Add error message for Windows users (#613) (@ThomasBreuer)
• document the Julia help access from GAP (#615) (@ThomasBreuer)
• fix some tests (#616) (@ThomasBreuer)
• improvements to the JuliaInterface manual (#617) (@ThomasBreuer)
• Remove references to ForeignGAP (#620) (@fingolfin)
• mention that GapObj is printed as GAP_jll.MPtr (#622) (@ThomasBreuer)
• Ship our own copy of julia-config.jl (#625) (@fingolfin)
• Replace .tar.bz2 by .tar.gz archive (#626) (@fingolfin)