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Release Digest: GNU, November 14, 2003

glpk 4.2

GLPK 4.2 — Release Information

Release date: Nov 14, 2003

GLPK (GNU Linear Programming Kit) is intended for solving
large-scale linear programming (LP), mixed integer linear
programming (MIP), and other related problems. It is a set of
routines written in ANSI C and organized in the form of a callable
library.

In GLPK 4.2:

  • preliminary implementation of GLPK Integer Optimization Suite
    (IOS) was included in the package.
  • new API routine lpx_print_sens_bnds contributed by Brady
    Hunsaker <hunsaker@engr.pitt.edu> was
    included. It is intended for bounds sensitivity analysis. This
    function is also available in the solver glpsol via –bounds
    command-line option.
  • improved version of GLPK JNI (Java Native Interface)
    contributed by Chris Rosebrugh <cpr@pobox.com> was included.
  • GLPK DELI (Delphi Interface) contributed by Ivo van Baren
    <i.van.baren@freeler.nl> was
    included.
  • several makefiles were added to build GLPK on some non-GNU
    32-bit platforms:

    • Windows single-threaded static library, MS Visual C++ 6.0
    • Windows multi-threaded dynamic library, MS Visual C++ 6.0
    • Windows single-threaded static library, Borland C++ 5.2
    • DOS single-threaded static library, Digital Mars C++ 7.50
  • some bugs were fixed.

For more details please see ChangeLog.

See GLPK web page at <http://www.gnu.org/software/glpk/glpk.html>.

GLPK distribution can be ftp’ed from <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glpk/>
or from some mirror ftp sites; see <http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html>.

MD5 check-sum is the following:

91687659163237aa9c051c715b4f5c66 *glpk-4.2.tar.gz

GLPK is also available as a Debian GNU/Linux package. See its
web page at <http://packages.debian.org/stable/math/glpk.html>.

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