v1.8.1

SpecialFunctions v1.8.1

Diff since v1.8.0

Merged pull requests:

• Make sure to compute 1-x after converting to Float64 in beta_inc (#356) (@andreasnoack)
• Allow failures on nightly (#357) (@andreasnoack)

v1.8.0

SpecialFunctions v1.8.0

Diff since v1.7.0

Closed issues:

• ForwardDiff.Dual recurses with logabsgamma (#186)
• Confusing MethodError message (#228)
• erf(x::Vec{4,Float64}) infinitely recurses (#352)

Merged pull requests:

• Add derivatives for besselix, besseljx, and besselyx (#350) (@devmotion)
• Use mpfr_lngamma for loggamma(::BigFloat) (#351) (@devmotion)
• Avoid StackOverflowError with erf* functions (#353) (@devmotion)
• Improve beta_inc and beta_inc_inv (#354) (@devmotion)

v1.7.0

SpecialFunctions v1.7.0

Diff since v1.6.2

Closed issues:

• Gamma with Complex{BigFloat} throws StackOverflowError: (#233)
• Chain rules for certain functions does not respect numerical precision (#307)
• loggamma(::Complex{BigFloat}) causes StackOverflowError (#339)

Merged pull requests:

• Use IrrationalConstants and LogExpFunctions.log1mexp (#345) (@devmotion)
• Throw MethodError instead of StackOverflowError for gamma, loggamma, and logabsgamma (#347) (@devmotion)
• Add more ChainRules derivatives (#348) (@devmotion)

v1.6.2

SpecialFunctions v1.6.2

Diff since v1.6.1

Closed issues:

• SpecialFunctions do not work with CuArray (GPU) (#342)

Merged pull requests:

• Fix link to Github repo (#343) (@devmotion)
• Use OpenLibm_jll instead of Base.libm (#344) (@ararslan)
• Fix docstring of erfc (#346) (@devmotion)

v1.6.1

SpecialFunctions v1.6.1

Diff since v1.6.0

Merged pull requests:

• allow LogExpFunctions 0.3 in compat (#340) (@KristofferC)

v1.6.0

SpecialFunctions v1.6.0

Diff since v1.5.1

Closed issues:

• Derivatives of exponential integrals (#321)
• Returning a tuple will affect performance (#330)
• logbeta is type-unstable (#331)

Merged pull requests:

• Fix logabsbeta for BigFloat (#325) (@devmotion)
• Update Drone CI setup (#326) (@giordano)
• Add differentials for exponential integrals (#328) (@devmotion)
• fix type-instability of logabsbeta (#332) (@stevengj)
• Support ChainRulesCore v1 (#335) (@oxinabox)

v1.5.1

SpecialFunctions v1.5.1

Diff since v1.5.0

Merged pull requests:

• Replace DoesNotExist with NoTangent (#327) (@devmotion)

v1.5.0

SpecialFunctions v1.5.0

Diff since v1.4.2

Closed issues:

• besselj(-n,0.0) throws AmosException(1) (#60)
• factorial(::Float64) errors in 0.7 (#105)
• erfc(::BigFloat) crashes Julia (#127)
• ChainRulesCore dependency causes 4x load time regression (#310)

Merged pull requests:

• use new ChainRulesCore (#319) (@oxinabox)
• relax ChainRules test on polygamma (#320) (@oxinabox)
• Revert change of OpenSpecFun_jll compat bound (#323) (@devmotion)

v1.4.2

SpecialFunctions v1.4.2

Diff since v1.4.1

Closed issues:

• logic error in ncbeta, (so in ncF too) (#237)

Merged pull requests:

• Generalize three-argument version of beta_inc (#318) (@devmotion)

v1.4.1

SpecialFunctions v1.4.1

Diff since v1.4.0

Merged pull requests:

• Add ChainRules definitions for gamma(a, x), loggamma(a, x), and gamma_inc (#305) (@devmotion)
• Use ChainRulesCore.@not_implemented and extend tests (#308) (@devmotion)
• Some fixes and simplications to the beta function(s). (#316) (@andreasnoack)