In addition to thr numerous bugs that have been fixed, the following subsections detail some featured changes.

1. Base Reference Document

OpenAxiom is a descendent of the AXIOM computer algebra system as described by Richard Jenks and Robert Sutor in AXIOM: The Scientific Computation System. That book is the base reference document for OpenAxiom.

2. Changes From The Base Document

2.1. OpenAxiom-1.2.0

This release introduces the following changes from the base document

2.1.1 Interpreter

2.1.2. Compiler

2.1.3. Algebra

The following types have been added to OpenAxiom-1.2.0

2.2. Runtime System

Starting from OpenAxiom-1.2.0, new Lisp systems are supported: SBCL, and CLisp. This means that if GCL is not supported on your machine, but either of SBCL or CLisp is installed, then you can run OpenAxiom. OpenAxiom's configure script will automatically detected that if you're building from source code.

The Foreign Function Interface has been improved.