GAP.jl 0.6.0 released

Today GAP.jl 0.6.0 has been released.

Diff since v0.5.2

Highlights:

• Update from GAP 4.11.0 to a prerelease of 4.12, which brings many improvements
• Add support for macOS on Apple M1
• Add support for Julia 1.7
• Add macros @gapattribute and @gapwrap
• Revise handling of GAP errors, fixing many bugs related to that
• Add support for using Julia’s random sources in GAP, and vice versa

Closed issues:

• Rename Julia function NewJuliaFunc (#330)
• GAP.Globals.Display once a GAP error has occured (#516)
• Automatically convert Julia strings into GAP strings (#523)
• side-effect of error traceback (#528)
• Idea: use Clang_jll to build GAP packages (#558)
• Refactor GAP kernel initialization (#591)
• Document how to override GAP_jll, provide a script (#592)
• More GAP error handling issues (#597)
• Document how to update GAP_jll etc. (#618)
• How to get on the Julia side a GAP object wrapping a Julia function? (#629)
• ConfluentMonoidPresentationForGroup (#639)
• problem with error handling (and related current test failures with Julia nightly) (#641)
• Broken on recent master (#646)
• Find a way so that Julia prints GapObj as GAP.GapObj not as GAP_jll.MPtr (#660)
• Error in 0.6.0-DEV when used with Oscar (#662)
• Crash doing GAP.Globals.Display( GAP.evalstr( "10^150" ) ) (#663)
• Crash when loading GAP_jll with Julia debug versions (#664)
• Crash when running the test suite twice (#666)
• Compile fail in Julia 1.7.0-beta3 Apple M1 (#673)

Merged pull requests:

• wrap GAP’s IsMersenneTwister RNG (#544) (@rfourquet)
• README.md: add contact section (#628) (@fingolfin)
• Don’t unwrap IS_JULIA_FUNC objects automatically (#630) (@fingolfin)
• Rename NewJuliaFunc -> WrapJuliaFunc, add UnwrapJuliaFunc (#631) (@fingolfin)
• Adjust tests for latest Singular.jl (#633) (@fingolfin)
• added deepcopy and copy for GapObj (#634) (@ThomasBreuer)
• new macro @gapwrap (#636) (@ThomasBreuer)
• CI: test with Julia 1.6 (#637) (@fingolfin)
• CompatHelper: add new compat entry for “MacroTools” at version “0.5” (#638) (@github-actions[bot])
• Align banner printing code to other Oscar packages (#640) (@fingolfin)
• support using Julia’s random sources in GAP (#642) (@ThomasBreuer)
• Fix handling of Julia error messages containing % (#643) (@fingolfin)
• extend the “doctestfilters” of JuliaInterface (#644) (@ThomasBreuer)
• new macro @gapattribute (#647) (@ThomasBreuer)
• Fix gmp include & library paths in Julia >= 1.6 (#648) (@fingolfin)
• Update to GAP 4.11.1 packages (#649) (@fingolfin)
• added quiet option to Packages functions (#651) (@ThomasBreuer)
• Switch to GAP 4.12dev (#652) (@fingolfin)
• ccall: explicitly state the source of each symbol we call (#653) (@fingolfin)
• regenerate_gaproot: use nicer regex (#654) (@fingolfin)
• Run CI tests against Julia 1.7.x (#656) (@fingolfin)
• Fix regneration of missing primary GAPROOT (#657) (@fingolfin)
• changed the definition of UnwrapJuliaFunc (#658) (@ThomasBreuer)
• Add UnwrapJuliaFunc to JuliaInterface (#659) (@fingolfin)
• GapObj now prints itself as GapObj (#665) (@ThomasBreuer)
• Some helper scripts for setting up JLL overrides (#667) (@fingolfin)
• Add InverseOp method for IsJuliaObject (#668) (@fingolfin)
• Simplify call_gap_func (#669) (@fingolfin)
• Resolve a TODO by removing some obsolete code (#670) (@fingolfin)
• Revise how we handle GAP errors. (#671) (@fingolfin)
• Replace Array by Vector or Matrix where appropriate (#672) (@fingolfin)
• Fix GAP.prompt() (#674) (@fingolfin)
• JuliaInterface: fix compilation with Julia >= 1.7 (#675) (@fingolfin)