Release HeuristicLab 3.3.15

[swagner]

Codename:

• Berlin

New Features:

• Barnes-Hut t-SNE (C# port of Laurens van der Maaten's C++ implementation contributed by Bernhard Werth)
• Kernel Ridge Regression (contributed by Bernhard Werth)
• Elastic-net Regression (glmnet wrapper)
• Support for categorical variables for symbolic regression and multiple data analysis algorithms
• Graph Coloring Problem
• PSO improvements (compatible with standard PSO 2011)
• New functionalities for data preprocessing
• New functionality for run analysis (e.g. RLD/ECDF)
• Extreme-point based packing algorithm for 3D bin packing

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. Build configuration Release Any CPU
2. Check if it compiles with mono
3. 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)
4. Hide HeuristicLab 3.3.exe.config
5. 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. Create release annotation in Google Analytics and update download analysis
5. Push to github
6. Update Features page
7. Inform everybody else who might be interested

[gkronber]

r14227: moved NSGA-II to category: 'population-based algorithms' and moved random search to category: 'single-solution algorithms'

[gkronber]

r14786: small fixes in IndexedItem

[mkommend]

r14959: Added global ignore properties.

[gkronber]

r14972: merged r14160 from trunk to stable (was omitted when merging #2594)

[gkronber]

r14973: added r12973 and its reverse merge r12977 to mergeinfo of stable (only record the merge)

[gkronber]

r14974: merged r13268 from trunk to stable (was omitted in merging #2442)

[gkronber]

r15252: merged r14227 and r14786 from trunk to stable

[gkronber]

Comparison of stable and trunk shows several changesets which have presumably not been merged (tortoisesvn > Merge, trunk->stable, 'Specific range': 0-HEAD, 'Show log', 'Hide non-mergeable revisions') The following tickets are affected:

• #2553:
• #2664:
• #2726:
• #2739:
• #2743:
• #2748: contains two changesets which should be merged with #2797 (see last ticket:2797#comment:18)
• #2762:
• #2784:
• #2791:
• #2797:

EDIT: not up to date

[gkronber]

r15258: added r14479 to the merge info of the stable branch (this changeset was never merged but a later changesets which copied files introduced the changes anyway)

[jkarder]

r15363: updated hl download images

[abeham]

r15397: Added .editorconfig file

[abeham]

r15398: fixed interactive merge config

[swagner]

r15581: Updated year of assembly copyrights

[swagner]

r15582: Updated year of assembly copyrights on stable

[swagner]

r15583: Updated year of copyrights in license headers

[swagner]

r15584: Updated year of copyrights in license headers on stable

[swagner]

r15587: Updated versions