Dear Dynare friends,
We are pleased to announce the release of Dynare 5.5.
This maintenance release fixes various bugs.
The Windows, macOS and source packages are already available for
download at the Dynare website.
All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade.
This release is compatible with MATLAB versions ranging from 8.3
(R2014a) to 23.2 (R2023b), and with GNU Octave version 8.3.0 (under
Windows).
Note for macOS users with an Apple Silicon processor: this is the first
Dynare release that comes with native Apple Silicon (arm64) support
under MATLAB. Please download the corresponding package, to be used
with MATLAB R2023b for Apple Silicon.
Here is a list of the problems identified in version 5.4 and that have
been fixed in version 5.5:
* In a stochastic context, results could be incorrect if an endogenous
with a lead ⩾ 2 or an exogenous with a lead ⩾ 1 appeared in the
argument(s) of a call to a (nonlinear) external function
* With the use_dll option of the model block, the expression
sign(x)would evaluate to ±1 instead of 0 if x=0
* If the guess value given to the steady command was such that the
residuals were all below tolerance, except some that are NaN, then
this guess value was incorrectly accepted as the solution to the
steady state problem
* The method_of_moments command with GMM was ignoring
theanalytic_standard_errors option when using mode_compute=4
* Homotopy with the extended_path command at order=0 was broken
* The parallel_use_psexec command-line option was ignored
* With the bytecode option of the model block, using the operators
abs(),cbrt() and sign() would lead to a crash
* The fast command-line option was broken under MATLAB with Windows
* Ramsey steady state computation could fail if an expectation or
diffoperator was present in the model
* A crash could occur if some external function call was present in an
auxiliary variable
* The endogenous_prior option of the estimation command could
erroneously display a warning message about missing observations
* The model_comparison command would crash if the .mod file name had
less than four characters
* The shock_decomposition command would overwrite previously stored
smoother results
* The x13 interface in dseries did not handle missing values,
particularly at the beginning of a series
* The x13 interface in dseries would occasionally crash under Windows
with segmentation violations
* OccBin: estimation would crash if a previous shocks(surprise)
simulation was conducted
* The internals command would not find the location of the
_results.matfile
* The prior optimize command would not work with mode_compute=5
As a reminder, the list of new features introduced in versions 5.x can
be found in the release notes for 5.0.
On behalf of the Dynare Team,
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Sébastien Villemot
Economist at CEPREMAP
Dynare developer
https://sebastien.villemot.name
