This version requires developers to be using at least .NET Core 2.0 or at least .NET Framework 4.6.1. Adding support of .NET Core to NMath has been in the works for over a year and was done at the request of many of our active developers.

Future development work will concentrate on the .NET Standard based NMath 7.0. However, NMath 6.2, build on .NET 4.0, but not supporting the .NET Standard Library, will be available for years to come.

Below is a list of major changes released in NMath 7.0:

• 32-bit support has been dropped. Demand has been waning for years for this. Dropping it has made usage simpler and easier.
• GPU support has been dropped. As developers, we liked the automatic GPU offloading. However, the technical advantages have dissipated as multi-core processors have improved. We believe that this is no longer compelling for a general math library.
• NMath Stats has been merged into NMath. This is for ease of use for our users.
• In summer of 2019, our pricing will be streamlined to reflect these changes. There will be one price for a perpetual NMath license and there will be one price for annual NMath maintenance which includes technical support and all upgrades available on NuGet. NMath Stats will no longer be sold separately.
• We have merged the four NMath namespaces into one, CenterSpace.NMath.Core, to simplify development. Originally, CenterSpace had four NMath products and four namespaces, these namespaces CenterSpace.NMath.Core, CenterSpace.NMath.Matrix, CenterSpace.NMath.Stats, CenterSpace.NMath.Analysis reflect that history. We have left stubs so users won’t have any breaking changes.
• We have dropped charting. The ecosystem is full of powerful visualization packages. We have only three main data structures in NMath, vectors, matrices and data frames, and all can be easily used with different charting packages.
• Some of our optimizations use Microsoft Solver Foundation. If you use these, you’ll need to be on the .NET Framework track and not on the .NET Core track.
• We have dropped the installers. The compelling ease of NuGet for our users has made these obsolete.

NMath 7.0 on Windows and Linux

NMath 7.0 on Windows

NMath 7.0 on Linux

NMath 7.0 on OSX

Please try the new versions on NuGet. Feedback welcome as always.

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With the release of NMath 6.2.0.41, on March 10, 2018, NMath no longer supports OSX or the Linux x86 operating systems. We are dropping the support of these operating systems due to a decline of demand by our customers. Please contact us with any concerns regarding this change. This release is currently available on NuGet.

Going forward NMath and NMath Premium will naturally continue to support both the 32-bit and 64-bit Windows and 64-bit Linux.

Adding .NET Standard and .NET Core Support

By the end of 2018, NMath will support both the .NET Core and .NET Standard. Supporting both of these .NET standards have been increasingly requested by our customers. If you are unfamiliar with these newest additions to the .NET world, the following briefly defines them.

• .NET Core: This is the latest .NET implementation. It’s open source and available for multiple OSes. With .NET Core, you can build cross-platform console apps and ASP.NET Core Web applications and cloud services.
• .NET Standard: This is the set of fundamental APIs (commonly referred to as base class library or BCL) that all .NET implementations must implement. By targeting .NET Standard, you can build libraries that you can share across all your .NET apps, no matter on which .NET implementation or OS they run.

For further reading on these .NET standards see this MSDN magazine article for an introduction.

Please don’t hesitate to contact us in the comments below or via email with any questions regarding these changes to the CenterSpace .NET NMath library.

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