Update prospective release date (and other minor changes).
Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/commons-rng/repo Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/commons-rng/commit/aa0f3b49 Tree: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/commons-rng/tree/aa0f3b49 Diff: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/commons-rng/diff/aa0f3b49 Branch: refs/heads/master Commit: aa0f3b4909b0cd3a22c4ba8f04646ef264cee9d9 Parents: 8edbb4b Author: Gilles <er...@apache.org> Authored: Wed Aug 1 12:06:05 2018 +0200 Committer: Gilles <er...@apache.org> Committed: Wed Aug 1 12:06:05 2018 +0200 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- src/changes/changes.xml | 15 ++++++++------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/commons-rng/blob/aa0f3b49/src/changes/changes.xml ---------------------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml index dc454b5..8901f17 100644 --- a/src/changes/changes.xml +++ b/src/changes/changes.xml @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ If the output is not quite correct, check for invisible trailing spaces! </properties> <body> - <release version="1.1" date="2018-07-27" description=" + <release version="1.1" date="2018-08-05" description=" This is a minor release of Apache Commons RNG, containing a few new features and performance improvements. @@ -62,18 +62,19 @@ Apache Commons RNG 1.1 contains the following library modules: commons-rng-sampling (requires Java 6) The code in module 'commons-rng-core' should not be accessed -directly by applications as future release might make use of -the JPMS modularization feature available from Java 9. +directly by applications as a future release might make use of +the JPMS modularization feature available in Java 9+. Additional code is provided in the following module: commons-rng-examples (requires Java 9) It is however not part of the official API and no compatibility should be expected in subsequent releases. -We would like to also note that commons-rng-sampling has mildly 'flaky' tests due to the -non-deterministic nature of random number generation. For this purpose, we have set -failing tests to be re-run in the maven-surefire-plugin. Our current guess is that -the build process could fail somewhere in the realm of 1 - 5 in 100 runs. +We would like to also note that unit tests in module 'commons-rng-sampling' +are bound to fail with some probability; this is expected due to the nature +of random number generation. The 'maven-surefire-plugin' can be configured +to re-run tests that fail and pass the build if they succeed (the test will +be marked as 'flaky' in the report). "> <action dev="erans" type="add" issue="RNG-37"> Implementation of the "Ziggurat" algorithm for Gaussian sampling.
