Release-20230622

Bug fixes

• Fixed bug in running Series/genip with time-varying std errors
• Fixed but in using option GrowFrom in Series/chainlink
• Fixed bugs in Explanatory/markdown

Minor bkw compatibility issues

• New default behavior of databank.copy when a source field exists in the
  target databank, throwing an error. Can be controled by the WhenTargetExists.

New features and enhancements

• Option Logo in rephrase.Report can be now assigned a struct with .Path and .Position
• Extended Series/retrieveColumns to work with column headings
• New option WhenFailed in Model/quickAssign
• New option WhenSourceMissing in databank.apply

Release-20230405

New features

• New low-level plotly option for rephrase line: Set the sub-properties of the line group in data[type=scatter]

Release-20230331

Bug fixes

• Fixed #364.
• Fixed bug in Model/beveridgeNelson
• Fixed bug in Series/convert when interpolating using method "last" or "first"
• Fixed invalid name of estimation summary column
• Fixed loading of time series with interger date frequency from CSV files
• Fixed num of alt parameterizations in VAR objects
• Fixed problems with singularities when estimating out-of-likelihood parameters in Kalman filter
• Fixed typos in SparseModel solver

New features

• Added new line property LineDash to rephrase.Series
• Added new options to rephrase.Matrix: NumDecimals, RowNames, ColumnNames, NaN
• New Kalman filter initialization method for unit root variables UnitRootInitials="preiterate"
• New VAR method addInstrument
• New function Explanatory/collectDescripts
• New implementation of the Kalman filter for VAR objects consistent with kalmanFilter in other objects
• New option WhenTargetExists in databank.copy
• New option axis= in visual.highlight
• New option columnClass= in rephrase.Series and rephase.DiffSeries
• New option func= in databank.minusControl and databank.plusControl
• New option removeSource= in databank.apply
• New option whenMissing= in databank.copy
• New setting initials="asymptotic" in VAR/kalmanFilter
• Output databank from Explanatory/simulate now returns comments in output time series based on equation descripts
• Short-hand Dater constructors yy, hh, qq, mm, ww, dd now accept ISO strings
• databank.fromSheet now accepts multiple file names (will be combined in the output databank)

Release-20221026

Bug fixes

• Fixed #342
• Fixed the Round option in the Series elements in +rephrase
• Fixed bug in rephrase.Highlight

New features

• Add Layout option to chart elements in +rephrase giving access to low-level Plotly option; see plotly.js documentation for details
• Fixed number of bkw variables reported to user by the Model function systemMatrices
• Improvements in the application of the PlotSettings options to in Chartpack
• Improvements in the screen output of the +databank function spy
• New Series method ascii to visualize time series data as simple ascii charts
• New time series constructor Series.fromData; this is a formal constructor to create time series from data array
• Added extra lines to Journal reporting on Explanatory/regress

Release-20220918

Bug fixes

• Fixed #335

New features

• New Series plotting function chartyy for plotting on LHS and RHS axes
• New behavior added to Chartpack property .Tiles: specify [Inf, n] results in a layout with n columns and as many rows as needed
• New databank functions databank.toSheet and databank.fromSheet: load and save time series with multiple date frequencies to a single sheet (XLSX or CSV)
• New dater and Dater functions dater.fromDefaultString and Dater.fromDefaultString: create dates for IrisT default dates strings
• New option Bands= to rephrase object Series: plot uncertainty bands around mid line
• New option ExcludeFromObjFunc in Model/kalmanFilter: use the option to list measurement variables to exclude from the objective (likelihood function)
• New function Explanatory/collectFittedName to list the names of fitted variables
• New functions dater.fromString and Dater.fromString: convert a strings to dates according to a user specified format/template
• New option WhenFailed in databank.merge: specify what to do when the method fails to merge a field across some input databanks

Release-20220818

Changes with minor backward compatibility problems

• Removed the startup flag numericDates, replaced with numericDailyDates; this startup flag causes the dd function to produce plain numeric representation of daily dates.

New features

• Modifiable configuration option FreqLetters brought back; the value needs to be a struct with the following fields (one for each frequency) containing a scalar string with the frequency letter: ii, dd, ww, mm, qq, hh, yy.

Release-20220720

Bug fixes

• Fix #323 Warning message because of a legacy option name used within a function
• Fixed bug affecting Model/checkSteady, steadydb and databank.forModel in models with multiple parameter variants
• Fixed bug in Kalman filter when input databank was empty
• Fixed incorrect setting of initial conditions in Series/genip

New features

• Added a new possible value "warning" as the first input argument into databank.merge
• Improved Model/simulate: accelerated first-order simulations with multiple parameter variants and/or multiple data pages
• New plotting function Series/bubblechart
• New function databank.forModel to create steady-state, zero or empty databank for a model object
• New named matrix class NamedMatrix
• New option UserFunc= in Model/steady; this option specifies a user function calculating the steady state.
• New utility visual.radar for plotting radar charts of vectors

Release-20220607

Bug fixes

• Fixed bug in applying measurement trends in nonlinear simulations in Model/simulate

• Fixed a number of compatibility issues with Matlab R2018a

Release-20220606

Bug fixes

• Error when clicking to expand charts created by databank.Chartpack when no legend existed

New features with backward incompatibility

• Reimplemented databank.generate; the fourth input argument sourceNames needs to be now structured differently.

• Added automatic resolution of the "Transform_Function" spec in Series/x13.season; the function is set to "log" whenever the X13 mode auto resolves to "mult".

Release-20220605

Bug fixes

• Fixed bug in legacy reporting function printmodelfile

New features

• Enhancements in databank.Chartpack

  • Callback visual.clickToExpand added to all axes created
  • New property .Grid=[true, true] to control the x-grid and y-grid
  • Property .Charts reimplemented to hold the input strings; can be manipulated or reassigned by the user at any time

• Improvement in Series plotting functions: the output arguments are suppressed if not requested by the caller

• New option in Series/band

  • ZData=1 to make the mid point line to visually appear above the bands

• New syntactic sugar m{"___"} for access(m, "___")

• New options in Series plotting functions to replace position arguments

  • AxesHandle=@gca
  • Range=Inf

• New Model methods changeGrowthStatus, changeLinearStatus

• New utility visual.matrix to visualize 2D matrices such as cross-correlation matrices

• New utility textual.compose