Release HeuristicLab 3.3.13

[ascheibe]

Codename:

• Windischgarsten

New Features:

• Hive Statistics
• New Algorithms:
  • Age-layered Population Structure (ALPS)
  • Offspring Selection Evolution Strategy (OSES)
• New Problems:
  • Multi-objective external evaluation problem
  • Gentic programming for code generation (Robocode)
  • Further genetic programming problems: Even Parity, Multiplexer, Koza-style symbolic regression
• Additional accuracy metrics for classification models (and comparison to baseline algorithms)
• Quantile Regression based on Gradient Boosted Trees
• Mathematica export for symbolic regression/classification solutions
• Improved complexity measures for multi-objective symbolic regression
• Improved persistence of data-analysis models (SVM, Gaussian Process, GBT, Random Forest)

Release Steps:

Stable Branch:

1. Increment plugin and application versions
2. Update versions in plugin dependencies
3. Increment assembly file versions
4. Increment installer versions
5. Check and if necessary update year of copyrights
6. Check and if necessary update build configurations and project dependencies
7. Check if all unit tests are passed
8. Update samples
9. Create release tag
10. Merge commits back into trunk

Release tag:

1. Update target path in CustomPostBuildTemplate_UpdateLocalInstallation.cmd in project HeuristicLab-3.3
2. Build configuration Release Any CPU
3. Check if it compiles with mono
4. Remove unnecessary files from build output (*.vshost.exe, *.vshost.exe.config, *.vshost.exe.manifest, *.pdb, *.dll.config (do not remove DotNetScilab-1.0.dll.config, that's a plugin dependency), app.config)
5. Hide HeuristicLab 3.3.exe.config
6. Create zip file

Trac:

1. Attach zip file to Download wiki page
2. Update wiki pages Download, ChangeLog, ChangeLogPending, etc. (download button for current version is always called HL-Download.png)
3. Create new milestone for the next release
4. Change description of the current milestone into changelog style
5. Update ChangeLogPending to display tickets of the next release milestone
6. Complete current milestone and retarget all its remaining open tickets
7. Update default version in the trac Admin module

Documentation:

1. Update tutorial slides (latest version, number of plugins, algorithms and problems, features)

Marketing and PR:

1. Post info about new release on HEAL homepage, ​HeuristicLab Facebook fan page and LinkedIn
2. Write a release announcement for the Blog and send a mail to our mailing list
3. Update Wikipedia page
4. Push to github
5. Update Features page
6. Inform everybody else who might be interested

[gkronber]

r12793: set svn:ignore

[ascheibe]

r13093 made access service configuration file public

[ascheibe]

r13133 removed unused installer files from slave tray icon

[ascheibe]

r13219 removed unused variable in orienteering instances to fix compile warning

[jkarder]

r13253: updated Test.cmd

[jkarder]

r13291: updated hl download images

[gkronber]

r13298: partial merge of r13160 from trunk to stable (see ticket:2504#comment:4)

[ascheibe]

r13305: merged r12793, r13093, r13219, r13253 into stable

[ascheibe]

r13306 merged r13133 into stable

[ascheibe]

r13316 updated version in

• assembly info
• plugin file
• installer files

Versions: 3.3.0. -> 3.3.13. 3.3.9. -> 3.3.13. 3.3.12. -> 3.3.13. 3.4.0. -> 3.4.1. 3.4.1. -> 3.4.2. 3.4.2. -> 3.4.3. 3.4.4. -> 3.4.5. 3.4.5. -> 3.4.6. 3.4.8. -> 3.4.9. 3.4.22. -> 3.4.23. 3.5.7. -> 3.5.8.

[ascheibe]

r13317 updated copyright year where it was missing

[ascheibe]

r13319 updated samples

[ascheibe]

r13320 created tag for 3.3.13

[ascheibe]

r13321 merged r13316, r13317, r13319 from stable back into trunk