Hello! Following our recent trend of Sunday evening releases we are proud to announce the immediate availability of GiNaC 1.0.8 which you can get from ftp://ftpthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/pub/GiNaC Changes include, but are not limited to - Improvements in memory usage of the expand() methods. Hm, wait... that's the only change!? <searches CVS logs> Aha, sorting of vector<expair> is a little faster, and the namespace fix for is_ex_the_function() is in. Alas, long gone now are the days of 0.9.x where changelog pages filled screen after screen... Bye, Christian -- / Coding on PowerPC and proud of it \/ http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bauec002/