pari-2.17.2 (STABLE) released

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

Dear PARI lovers,

I would like to announce the release of pari-2.17.2 (STABLE). The sources
and Windows and MacOS binaries are available from

  http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/download.html

This is a BUGFIX release for the stable branch.
This release addresses significant problems that could be fixed in a
simple, harmless way. However we strongly encourage you to upgrade since
it fixes a number of cases where PARI was returning an incorrect result.

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Thanks to all those who reported problems, on the mailing lists or through
our Bug Tracking System. ( See http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/Bugs/ ), or
who tested the preleases.

Have fun and happy new years,

  Bill, Aurel and Karim

P.S: The Changelog:

Bug numbers refer to the BTS at http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/Bugs/

 [last column crossreferences current development release 2.18.1]

Done for version 2.17.2 (released 05/03/2025):
  Fixed
BA   1- ellrootno over number fields could be slow [#2595]                 [F2]
BA   2- matsolvemod could fail [#2604]                                     [F3]
BA   3- nfcompositum(nfinit(y-2),x^2-y,x^3-x-1) -> error [#2605]           [F4]
     4- Mod(a,A) == Mod(b,B) was checking a == b && A == B instead         [F6]
        of the documented Mod(a,A) - Mod(b,B) == 0 [F6]
     5- normlp(, oo): support components equal to oo or -oo                [F8]
     6- sqrtn(27+O(3^4),3) -> 1 + O(3) (wrong valuation in Qp_sqrtn_ram)  [F10]
     7- vectorsmall(5, i, 2^63-1).normfu -> SEGV                          [F11]
AP   8- alginit(nf,[a,b]) would reject a in basis form                    [F13]
BA   9- for(i=1,10^6,bernpol(5,1)) -> "no more variables" [#2611]         [F14]
BA  10- Flx_mod_Xn1(T,n), deg T >= 2*n -> wrong result                    [F15]
    11- forprime(p=1099505335069-100000,1099505335069+10000,) -> crash    [F16]