A serious bug involving operator precedence was fixed. Existing users are recommended to upgrade. A fix was also made for a problem with the handling of decimal points in locales where the decimal character is not `.'. Internationalization support has been added, currently with British English and German translations.
Command history (including reverse search and more), full online help via the GNOME help system, configurable user interface, Matlab-style aliases to most commands, and a host of other minor improvements.