Release Notes for CmdStan v2.2.0
The Stan Development Team is happy to announce CmdStan v2.2.0.
RStan and PyStan will follow shortly.
This is a minor release with a mix of bug fixes and features. For a full list of changes, please see the v2.2.0 milestone on stan-dev/stan's issue tracker. Some of the bug fixes and issues are listed below.
Bug Fixes
- increment_log_prob is now vectorized and compiles with vector arguments
- multinomial random number generator used the wrong size for the return value
- fixed memory leaks in auto-diff implementation
- variables can start with the prefix 'inf'
- fixed parameter output order for arrays when using optimization
Features
- suppress command line output with refresh <= 0
- added 1 to treedepth to match usual definition of treedepth
- added distance, squared_distance, diag_pre_multiply, diag_pre_multiply to Stan modeling lnaguage
- added a 'fixed_param' sampler for use with the generated quantities block
- Stan Development Team