From 5eaf5ae684d29a4e40440972c1a5606a119b0db2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christoph Ruegg <git@cdrnet.ch>
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 15:20:48 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Update RELEASNOTES and CONTRIBUTORS

---
 CONTRIBUTORS.md |  2 ++
 RELEASENOTES.md | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.md b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
index ff65972b..ca48a977 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ The Math.NET project is a community effort. We accept contributions and pull req
 - Phil Cleveland (Phil)
 - Scott Stephens
 - Patrick van der Valde
+- Robin Neatherway
 - Anders Gustafsson (cureos)
 - Andrew Kazyrevich
 - Iain McDonald (lifebeyondfife)
@@ -39,6 +40,7 @@ The Math.NET project is a community effort. We accept contributions and pull req
 - VicPara
 - bstrausser
 - nyuriks
+- Paul Varkey
 - seahearman
 
 ### dnAnalytics Contributors
diff --git a/RELEASENOTES.md b/RELEASENOTES.md
index d0fb3021..e23cfcc3 100644
--- a/RELEASENOTES.md
+++ b/RELEASENOTES.md
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ NuGet Packages, available in the [NuGet Gallery](https://nuget.org/profiles/math
 
 - `MathNet.Numerics` - core package, including both .Net 4 and portable builds
 - `MathNet.Numerics.FSharp` - optional extensions for a better F# experience
+- `MathNet.Numerics.Data.Text` - optional extensions for text-based matrix input/output (CSV for now)
+- `MathNet.Numerics.Data.Matlab` - optional extensions for Matlab matrix file input/output
 - `MathNet.Numerics.MKL.Win-x86` - optional Linear Algebra MKL native provider
 - `MathNet.Numerics.MKL.Win-x64` - optional Linear Algebra MKL native provider
 - `MathNet.Numerics.MKL.Linux-x86` - optional Linear Algebra MKL native provider
@@ -28,30 +30,45 @@ Over time some members and classes have been replaced with more suitable alterna
 v2.6.0 - TBA, work in progress
 ------------------------------
 
-### Root Finding:
+### New: Linear Curve Fitting
 
-- We now provide basic root finding algorithms
+- Linear least-squares fitting to lines, polynomials and linear combinations of arbitrary functions. To be extended in future versions.
+- Accompanying idiomatic F# module.
+
+### New: Root Finding
+
+- We now provide basic root finding algorithms. To be extended in future versions.
+- Accompanying idiomatic F# module.
 - Brent algorithm. *~Candy Chiu*
 - Bisection algorithm. *~Scott Stephens*
 - Hybrid versions of Newton-Raphson and Bisection that try to recover automatically in cases where they usually would fail. This modification makes them more robust e.g. in the presence of singularities and less sensitive to the search range/interval.
 - Most algorithms support a TryFind-pattern which returns success instead of throwing an exception. Simplifies  common fall-back scenarios and works with F# pattern matching (similar to TryParse from BCL).
 - Basic bracketing algorithm
 
-### Linear Algebra:
+### Linear Algebra
 
 - Native eigenvalue decomposition (EVD) support with our MKL packages *~Marcus Cuda*
 - Add missing scalar-vector operations (s-v, s/v, s%v) *~Thomas Ibel*
+- Support for new F# 3.1 row/column slicing syntax on matrices
+- Matrices learned proper OfColumn/RowVectors, analog also in F#.
+- Documentation Fixes *~Robin Neatherway*
 - BUG: Fixed exception text message when creating a matrix from enumerables (rows vs columns) *~Thomas Ibel*
+- We're phasing out MathNet.Numerics.IO that used to be included in the main package for matrix file I/O for text and Matlab formats. Use the new .Data.Text and .Data.Matlab packages instead.
 
-### Statistics & Distributions:
+### Statistics & Distributions
 
 - Spearman Rank Correlation Coefficient *~Iain McDonald*
+- Covariance function, in Array-, Streaming- and common Statistics.
+- Categorical: distribution more consistent, no longer requires normalized pdf/cdf parameters
+- Categorical: inverse CDF function *~Paul Varkey*
 - BUG: Fixed static sampling methods of the `Stable` distribution. *~Artyom Baranovskiy*
 
-### Misc:
+### Misc
 
 - The F# extensions now have a strong name in (and only in) the signed package as well (previously had not been signed). *~Gauthier Segay*
 - Evaluate.Polynomial with new overload which is easier to use.
+- Fixed a couple badly designed unit tests that failed on Mono.
+- Repository now Vagrant-ready for easy testing against recent Mono on Debian.
 
 v2.5.0 - April 14, 2013
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