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### History and What's New

##### Boost-1.45.0

- Added warnings about potential ambiguity with std random library in distribution and function names.
- Added inverse gamma distribution and inverse chi_square and scaled inverse chi_square.
- Editorial revision of documentation, and added FAQ.

##### Boost-1.44.0

- Fixed incorrect range and support for Rayleigh distribution.
- Fixed numerical error in the quantile of the Student's T distribution: the function was returning garbage values for non-integer degrees of freedom between 2 and 3.

##### Boost-1.41.0

- Significantly improved performance for the incomplete gamma function and its inverse.

##### Boost-1.40.0

- Added support for MPFR as a bignum type.
- Added some full specializations of the policy classes to reduce compile times.
- Added logistic and hypergeometric distributions, from Gautam Sewani's Google Summer of Code project.
- Added Laplace distribution submitted by Thijs van den Berg.
- Updated performance test code to include new distributions, and improved the performance of the non-central distributions.
- Added SSE2 optimised Lanczos approximation code, from Gautam Sewani's Google Summer of Code project.
- Fixed bug in cyl_bessel_i that used an incorrect approximation for ν = 0.5, also effects the non-central Chi Square Distribution when ν = 3, see bug report #2877.
- Fixed minor bugs #2873.

##### Boost-1.38.0

- Added Johan Råde's optimised floating point classification routines.
- Fixed code so that it compiles in GCC's -pedantic mode (bug report #1451).

##### Boost-1.37.0

- Improved accuracy and testing of the inverse hypergeometric functions.

##### Boost-1.36.0

- Added Noncentral Chi Squared Distribution.
- Added Noncentral Beta Distribution.
- Added Noncentral F Distribution.
- Added Noncentral T Distribution.
- Added Exponential Integral Functions.
- Added Zeta Function.
- Added Rounding and Truncation functions.
- Added Compile time powers of runtime bases.
- Added SSE2 optimizations for Lanczos evaluation.

##### Boost-1.35.0: Post Review First Official Release

- Added Policy based framework that allows fine grained control over function behaviour.
- Breaking change: Changed default behaviour for domain, pole and overflow errors to throw an exception (based on review feedback), this behaviour can be customised using Policy's.
- Breaking change: Changed exception thrown when an internal evaluation error occurs to boost::math::evaluation_error.
- Breaking change: Changed discrete quantiles to return an integer result: this is anything up to 20 times faster than finding the true root, this behaviour can be customised using Policy's.
- Polynomial/rational function evaluation is now customisable and hopefully faster than before.
- Added performance test program.

##### Milestone 4: Second Review Candidate (1st March 2007)

- Moved Xiaogang Zhang's Bessel Functions code into the library, and brought them into line with the rest of the code.
- Added C# "Distribution Explorer" demo application.

##### Milestone 3: First Review Candidate (31st Dec 2006)

- Implemented the main probability distribution and density functions.
- Implemented digamma.
- Added more factorial functions.
- Implemented the Hermite, Legendre and Laguerre polynomials plus the spherical harmonic functions from TR1.
- Moved Xiaogang Zhang's elliptic integral code into the library, and brought them into line with the rest of the code.
- Moved Hubert Holin's existing Boost.Math special functions into this library and brought them into line with the rest of the code.

##### Milestone 2: Released September 10th 2006

- Implement preview release of the statistical distributions.
- Added statistical distributions tutorial.
- Implemented root finding algorithms.
- Implemented the inverses of the incomplete gamma and beta functions.
- Rewrite erf/erfc as rational approximations (valid to 128-bit precision).
- Integrated the statistical results generated from the test data with Boost.Test: uses a database of expected results, indexed by test, floating point type, platform, and compiler.
- Improved lgamma near 1 and 2 (rational approximations).
- Improved erf/erfc inverses (rational approximations).
- Implemented Rational function generation (the Remez method).

##### Milestone 1: Released March 31st 2006

- Implement gamma/beta/erf functions along with their incomplete counterparts.
- Generate high quality test data, against which future improvements can be judged.
- Provide tools for the evaluation of infinite series, continued fractions, and rational functions.
- Provide tools for testing against tabulated test data, and collecting statistics on error rates.
- Provide sufficient docs for people to be able to find their way around the library.

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