History of MPFR and Past Events

29 January 2008

Version 2.3.1 is released.

25 and 26 October 2007

CEA-EDF-INRIA School Certified Numerical Computation (Calcul numérique certifié) at LORIA, Nancy, France.

29 August 2007

Version 2.3.0 is released.

29 November 2006

Version 2.2.1 is released.

3 and 4 October 2005

The MPFR team has won the Many Digits Friendly Competition, that took place at Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

• The results and the detailed final timings and rankings.
• Programs used by the MPFR team.
• Press release.

20 September 2005

Version 2.2.0 is released.

3 August 2005

Version 2.1.2 is released.

23 February 2005

Version 2.1.1 is released.

3 November 2004

Version 2.1.0 is released.

23 February 2004

Version 2.0.3 is released.

21 November 2003

Version 2.0.2 is released.

25 May 2002

GMP 4.1 is released, with MPFR included (a version very similar to MPFR 2.0.1). Configure GMP with --enable-mpfr to get MPFR installed.

15 April 2002

Version 2.0.1 is released.

22 December 2000

Version 2001 is released (new features with respect to version 1.0).

24 August 2000

Version 1.0 is released (new features with respect to version 0.4).

July 2000

GMP 3.1 is released, with an experimental version of MPFR, available with configure --enable-mpfr.

June 2000

The copyright of MPFR is assigned to the Free Software Foundation.

4 February 2000

The first public version, MPFR 0.4, is released.

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