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NEWS in SINGULAR VERSION
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News for version VERSION
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The version 4-0-0 is the first in the new release series version 4-0.

SINGULAR version 4 has a greater functionality and an improved architecture. Major new features are:

  * Dynamic modules

  * non-commutative extension Non-commutative subsystem

  * name spaces (package)

Besides theses internal changes, SINGULAR version 4 offers many new features and functionalities (which were partly already incorporated in the 3-1-6 pre-release series).

New commands
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  * sba: an F5 like Groebner base computation

Porting
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  * SINGULAR is available for ix86-Linux, SunOS-5, ix86-Win (runs on Windows), FreeBSD, Mac OS X, x86_64-Linux (AMD64/Opteron/EM64T), IA64-Linux