Hello folks,

Sage 3.1.4 was released on October 20th, 2008. It is available at

           http://www.sagemath.org/download.html

* About Sage (http://www.sagemath.org)

Sage is developed by volunteers and combines 71 open source packages.
It is available for download from www.sagemath.org and its mirrors in
source or binary form. If you have any questions and/or problems,
please report them to the Google groups sage-devel or sage-support.
You can also drop by in #sage-devel or #sage-support in freenode.

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The following 5 people contributed to this release:

 * Michael Abshoff
 * Robert Bradshaw
 * Robert Miller
 * William Stein
 * Paul Zimmermann

Cheers,

Michael Abshoff (release chair), William Stein

* Major Features, New Spkgs and Bugfixes

This release was a bug fix release only that fixed a problem introduced in 3.1.3 
that caused start up failures of Sage in case the user had an init.sage file.

For details see the Sage 3.1.4 Release Tour at

  http://wiki.sagemath.org/sage-3.1.4

* Known Issues with 3.1.4:

 * RHEL 5 clisp build issue: the latest clisp.spkg does not build 
   so please use the clisp.spkg from Sage 3.0.3.

* Bug Statistics

We closed 6 tickets. For details see

   http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/milestone/sage-3.1.4

or check out the closed ticket section at the end of the 
announcement. 

* Upcoming Releases

The next release will be 3.2, chaired by Michael Abshoff. It will 
be focused on major new features and the usual set of bug fixes.

* Doctesting Coverage

For 3.1.3 we had:

Overall weighted coverage score:  60.5%
Total number of functions:  20584

The doctest coverage was unchanged in Sage 3.1.4.

* Closed Tickets:

Merged in Sage 3.1.4.final:

#4289: Robert Bradshaw: Fix bug in EllipticCurve constructor [Reviewed by Paul Zimmermann]
#4291: Mike Hansen: Fix problem with IPython and init.sage [Reviewed by Paul Zimmermann]
#4292: William Stein: graphics_array -- stupid bug introduced by somebody cleaning up the code [Reviewed by Michael Abshoff]
#4295: Michael Abshoff: delete mercurial-howto.txt [Reviewed by Robert Miller]
#4300: Michael Abshoff: Update HISTORY.txt with Sage 3.1.2 and 3.1.1 [Reviewed by Robert Miller]