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2017-07-18 version 2017c
- MIDAS support: several small fixes and refinements
- "panel" command: add an --unbalanced option to inflect
  random effects estimation for unbalanced panels
- Extend the $ahat accessor to support retrieval of the
  individual effects from random effects panel data models
- Rename the $fcerr accessor as $fcse (but keep $fcerr as an
  alias)
- Creation of lists: support '?' as wildcard standing for a
  single character
- GUI: add "Packages" item under the Help menu: basic info on
  Addons and contributed function packages
- GUI: add an easy way to scale both the menu font and the
  monospaced font for formatted output
- GUI: move the file-related function-package items from
  the Tools menu to the File menu
- GUI: move the Preferences submenu to the top of the Tools
  menu
- GUI: increase the default size of the main window somewhat
- GUI: forecast window, add button: enable saving of forecast
  standard errors when available
- GUI: add display of name of working directory
- GUI editor for "foreign" scripts: some usability enhance-
  ments
- library: add some internal functions to support operations
  on complex matrices using LAPACK
- library: add functionality to make use of an mpi block
  from a function package as seamless as possible
- Fix buglet re. text coloring in script output window
- Tweak naming of auto-generated list for midasreg in the
  GUI program
- Fix bug: failure on repeated assignment of a constant
  string under a bundle key in a loop
- Fix bug: "Up to date" indicator for function packages got
  broken
- Fix bug: "boxplot" command with matrix argument: should
  default to plotting all columns
- Fix bug: nested calls to a given function were failing in
  cases where the inner call occurred at the second or higher
  argument slot
- Fix bug: the seq() function not producing correct output with
  decreasing arguments
- Fix bug: crash when viewing forecasts with confidence
  intervals under Russian translation
- MS Windows: upgrade to mkstemp() for tmp file creation (was
  missing from mingw)
