v2.8.0

v2.8.0 (8 September 2015)

New Features

• Added standard normal quantile function (#148)
• Add sparse matrix (csr format) by dense vector multiplication (#127)
• Faster derivative calculation for cholesky (#125)
• Fixes for MSVC 2008 and 2010 (#134)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed unit test for mdivide_right_spd (#153)
• Reduced compiler warnings for sing comparisons for sign functions (#151)
• Fixed gitignore for test directory (#149)
• Better assignment error messages (#146)

v2.7.0

Stan Math 2.7.0 (first independent release)

8 July 2015

First release

• Previously included as part of Stan
• Release numbering started at release number of Stan
• All work done up to and including the release of Stan Math 2.7.0
  is documented under the Stan C++ 2.7.0 release notes