28 Distribution

28.1.0 Major release (August 02, 2019)

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank all of our users who have reported problems and made suggestions for improving this release. In particular, we thank Johan Löfberg, Hans Mittelmann, and José Luis Vilar Zanón.

Platforms

  • We plan to drop support for macOS 10.12 (Sierra) with the next GAMS major release.

GAMS System

GAMS

Documentation

  • Improved ranking of results in offline search by minimizing the effect of the length of a document on the importance of a search term in that document.
  • When searching the index, only relevant results are shown for subcategories as well.
  • The full-text search now shows also results for a search in the index.

Solvers

ANTIGONE, Bonmin, Couenne, Ipopt, SCIP

  • Downgraded Intel MKL libraries to version 2018.3 on Windows 64-bit.

ANTIGONE

  • The timelimit is now applied to the wallclock time and wallclock time is reported in the log and back to GAMS.

BARON

  • New libraries 19.7.13.
    • New relaxations and branching rules for nonconvex mixed-integer quadratic programs, leading to significant speedups for this class of problems.
    • Increased robustness in various range reduction routines.
    • Increased solvability of large-scale problems by BARON's cut generators.
    • Enhanced convexity recognition routines.
    • Updated to IPOPT 3.12.13 and CBC 2.10.1.
  • Fixed passing constant equations to BARON.

CBC

CONOPT

  • CONOPT3 accepts models with empty rows. The GAMS/CONOPT3 link sets the hidden option LSAZRW to true.

Convert

IPOPT

  • Fixed handling of Ipopt's feasible-point-found status.

LocalSolver

  • Added option logfreq.

MOSEK

SCIP

  • New libraries 6.0 (f79421d).

Tools

GAMS Studio

  • New version 0.12.3.
    • Stability and performance improvements.
    • Added GAMS Solver Option Editor to view and edit a solver-specific option file.
    • Renamed Option Editor to Parameter Editor to better distinguish solver options and GAMS parameters.
    • Added menu entry GAMS -> Delete scratch directories to delete all scratch directories in current working directory. A similar dialog will also be triggered if GAMS returns 110 ("Too many scratch directories").
    • Added file associations and icons for .gms and .gdx files on macOS.
    • Changed shortcut to focus Main widget from Ctrl+H to CTRL+E (there was a collision on macOS).
    • Improved keyboard navigation between files and widgets.
  • We plan to drop Studio for 32 bit Windows with the next major release.

APIs

  • As announced, dropped support for Python 2.6.
  • We plan to increase the minimum version requirement of the Java Runtime Environment to Java SE 8 with the next major release.

Model Libraries

GAMS Model Library

  • Changed model sigma in immun to minimize standard-deviation instead of variance.
  • Added missing nonnegativity requirement on variables in model wall.

Solver/Platform availability matrix

x86 32bit
MS Windows
x86 64bit
MS Windows
x86 64bit
Linux
x86 64bit
macOS
Sparc 64bit
SOLARIS
IBM Power 64bit
AIX
ALPHAECP
ANTIGONE 1.1
BARON 18.5.8
BDMLP
BONMIN 1.8
CBC 2.10
CONOPT 3
CONOPT 4
COUENNE 0.5
CPLEX 12.9 12.6 12.6
DECIS
DICOPT
GLOMIQO 2.3
GUROBI 8.1 7.5
GUSS
IPOPT 3.12
KESTREL
KNITRO 11.1 11.0
LGO
LINDO 12.0
LINDOGLOBAL 12.0
LOCALSOLVER 8.5
MILES
MINOS
MOSEK 9
MSNLP
NLPEC
ODHCPLEX 4
PATH
SBB
SCIP 6.0
SNOPT
SOLVEENGINE
SOPLEX 4.0
XA
XPRESS 33.01 32.01 29.01

28.2.0 Minor release (August 19, 2019)

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank all of our users who have reported problems and made suggestions for improving this release. In particular, we thank Nayeem Chowdhury, Salvador Doménech Martínez, Michael Ferris, Antti Lehtila, Evangelos Panos, Jochen Uhrich, and Alexey Ziuzin.

GAMS System

GAMS

  • Setting $onMultiR allows the redefinition of macros as well now.
  • Fixed a problem finding the Python interpreter, that comes with GAMS, in certain cases.
  • Fixed a bug in the model generation, which could have caused a crash or wrong results in some cases.

Solvers

CPLEXD

  • Corrected reporting of solution for (MI)QCP problems when using feasopt.
  • CplexD now reports the objective of the feasible relaxation in the solution summary when using feasopt.

Tools

GAMS Studio

  • New version 0.12.4
    • Stability and performance improvements.
    • Improved robustness of glb file parser (see User Libraries).
    • Added "What's new" menu entry to show latest changes of Studio.

Object Oriented APIs

  • Fixed a problem, where GAMSDatabase.Export triggered an exception because of domain violations, even if only relaxed domains were used.

Java