Wolfram Language 14
  |   January 2024   |   Reference

Version 14.0 continues to expand the scope and breadth of our computational coverage while streamlining and polishing existing areas.

• Apply a list of functions to an expression with Comap and ComapApply
• DigitSum computes the sum of the individual digits in an integer
• UnitConvert is now faster
• Create intermediate tests inside TestCreate using IntermediateTest
• Compute numerical vector line integrals, vector surface integrals or complex contour integrals using NLineIntegrate, NSurfaceIntegrate and NContourIntegrate, respectively
• UnilateralConvolve performs unilateral (AKA causal, one-sided) convolutions
• TruncateSum makes it easy to work with infinite sum representations produced by DSolve and other functions
• Convert expressions to and from finite field versions with ToFiniteField and FromFiniteField
• Convert to and from finite field index representation with FiniteFieldIndex and FromFiniteFieldIndex
• Several new structured matrix types added: SymmetricMatrix, HermitianMatrix, OrthogonalMatrix and UnitaryMatrix
• TextSummarize automatically produces different types of summarization of text data
• Multiple new visualization functions added for plotting all pairwise 2D projections of data: PairwiseListPlot, PairwiseDensityHistogram, PairwiseSmoothDensityHistogram, PairwiseQuantilePlot and PairwiseProbabilityPlot
• SolarEclipse has been overhauled; support was added for more than seventy thousand eclipses and 50 new properties
• Functions for computing the date of a new moon, a full moon or any moon phase added: NewMoon, FullMoon and MoonPhaseDate
• Create a graph represented as a layered plot with LayeredGraph and LayeredGraph3D
• Specify named texture mappings for graphics with TextureMapping
• ImageSegmentationComponents segments an image into components
• ImageSegmentationFilter filters an image for the foreground components
• Create a tour around 3D graphics with Tour3DVideo
• Several new PDE modeling functions added: SchrodingerPDEComponent, FluidFlowPDEComponent, ElectrostaticPDEComponent and more
• Create detailed simulation results for discrete, continuous or mixed control systems with InputOutputResponse
• Plot outcome uncertainties from uncertain parameters, initial values and inputs in a control system model with SystemModelUncertaintyPlot
• Support added for importing DOCX, MOBI, RData and RDS formats
• Support for subtitle import and export added to the MP4, QuickTime and Matroska formats
• New data structures added: RedBlackTree and StringVector
• Spline-related graphics primitives BezierCurve, BSplineCurve and BSplineSurface are now also valid geometric regions for computational geometric operations, such as ArcLength and RegionMeasure

In addition to the features introduced in Version 14.0, 2,037 bugs were fixed in this release cycle.

• Element[ArcCos[5 Sqrt[3]], Algebraics] crashes the kernel if the Suggestions Bar is enabled (442256)
• Save Graphic As EPS with file name that already exists causes the front end to become unresponsive (442572)
• FindClusters[RandomVariate[ExponentialDistribution[1], 100]] throws strange ArrayComponents error message (442018)
• Classify fails to evaluate for more than 1,000 classes (438909)
• BinomialDistribution with n = 1 does not equal BernoulliDistribution (404655)
• JLink doesn't handle Java NaNs well (78789)
• Manipulates with ControlType -> TogglerBar don't autorun correctly (70794)
• RegionPlot and RegionPlot3D clip ImplicitRegion (304783)

Sample of customer-reported bugs addressed in this release

Wolfram Language 13.3
  |   June 2023   |   Reference

Version 13.3 introduces new functions that utilize large language models, as well as expands functionality for machine learning, mathematical computations, foreign function interface and more.

• Added many new functions for calling large language model (LLM) functionality programmatically and for allowing LLMs to access Wolfram Language tools: ChatObject, ChatEvaluate, LLMFunction, LLMSynthesize, LLMTool and more.
• Edit properties for a given kernel with KernelConfigurationEdit.
• Symbolic representation and manipulation of unit tests with TestCreate, TestObject, TestEvaluate and TestEvaluationFunction.
• Compute vector line integrals with LineIntegrate and vector surface integrals with SurfaceIntegrate.
• Perform complex contour integration with ContourIntegrate.
• Support for the Appell bivariate hypergeometric special functions: AppellF2, AppellF3 and AppellF4.
• Multiple new functions added and updated to represent finite fields and finite field elements and perform polynomial computations over finite fields, including FiniteField, FiniteFieldElement, FiniteFieldEmbedding, FiniteFieldElementNorm, MinimalPolynomial and MultiplicativeOrder.
• Multiple linear algebra functions have been updated to support structured matrices with compact representation and fast computation, controlled by the new TargetStructure option.
• Statically or dynamically highlight specific elements in visualizations with Highlighted and set global highlighting effects for visualizations with PlotHighlighting.
• Calibrate a system model's parameters with measurement data using SystemModelCalibrate.
• Publish 3D graphics and geometries to AR devices with ARPublish.
• Added support for the "USD" and "GLTF" AR formats for mobile devices.
• Measure how different two regions are with RegionHausdorffDistance and compute the farthest distance between two regions with RegionFarthestDistance.
• Compute the minimal enclosing ball for a set of points with CircumscribedBall and compute the maximum inscribed ball with InscribedBall.
• Haloing creates a halo around a graphics object, typically used for text labels.
• ImageSynthesize generates an image from a textual prompt.
• FindImageShapes finds common shapes (lines, circles, ellipses, ...) in an image.
• New functions to represent, load and get pointers to functions in dynamic libraries: ForeignFunction, ForeignFunctionLoad and ForeignPointerLookup.
• Several functions added for raw memory operations: RawMemoryAllocate, RawMemoryFree, RawMemoryRead, RawMemoryWrite, RawMemoryImport and RawMemoryExport.
• Support for memory-managed objects with ManagedObject, CreateManagedObject and UnmanageObject.

Wolfram Language 13.2
  |   December 2022   |   Reference

Version 13.2 introduces new functionality in astronomy and compilation, as well as substantially enhancing functions for machine learning, trees, mathematical computations, video and more. This release also includes over a thousand bug fixes, documentation enhancements and significant performance improvements.

• Improved performance of several Quantity operations.
• Uniformly distributed random sampling of dates and times with RandomDate and RandomTime.
• Fine-tuned abort handling using PropagateAborts.
• Faster univariate and multivariate polynomial operations.
• Added support for modular factoring of multivariate polynomials.
• Faster symbolic linear algebra involving matrices with univariate rational functions.
• Two new structured matrix types: VandermondeMatrix and CauchyMatrix.
• Numerical fractional differentiation with NFractionalD.
• Numerical Caputo differentiation with NCaputoD.
• Many functions and options related to astronomical computation and visualization have been added, including AstroPosition, AstroDistance, AstroAngularSeparation and AstroGraphics.
• Soften or hide features in graphics using Blurring.
• Analyze the result of a clustering process with ClusteringMeasurements.
• Represent an external model that can be used for inference with NetExternalObject.
• FileSystemTree creates a tree of subdirectories and files in a directory.
• Compute step response analytics for control systems with SystemModelMeasurements.
• Support for geographical data formats "GXF" and "OSM".
• Support for popular chess game formats "FEN" and "PGN".
• Build, load and install components, such as a shared library, from a compiled component with CompiledComponent, DeclareCompiledComponent, BuildCompiledComponent and LoadCompiledComponent.
• Additional support for migration from evaluated code to compiled code with TypeHint and IfCompiled.

Wolfram Language 13.1
  |   June 2022   |   Reference

Version 13.1 includes 90 completely new functions—plus 203 functions with substantial updates, new user interface features and enhanced compiler functionality.

• Thread arrays at deep levels of other arrays with Threaded
• New language convenience functions for list manipulation: DeleteElements, DeleteAdjacentDuplicates, SymmetricDifference and UniqueElements
• Added functional programming convenience functions: ReplaceAt, MapApply, Until and SameAs
• Compute change of variables in integrals and differential equations with IntegrateChangeVariables and DSolveChangeVariables
• Support for fractional derivatives and fractional differential equations with FractionalD, CaputoD and an update to DSolve
• Compute derivatives of implicitly defined functions using ImplicitD
• Added several new types of structured arrays: PermutationMatrix, BlockDiagonalMatrix, LowerTriangularMatrix, UpperTriangularMatrix, BlockLowerTriangularMatrix and BlockUpperTriangularMatrix
• Interval evaluation via CenteredInterval or Interval added to multiple special mathematical functions
• Plot ratios of quantities with TernaryListPlot
• Enhanced support for the ScalingFunctions option in visualization functions, and added NominalScale and OrdinalScale
• VoronoiMesh now supports 3D Voronoi decompositions
• Reconstruct 1D, 2D and 3D meshes from point clouds using ReconstructionMesh
• EstimatedPointNormals can estimate normals to points in a point cloud
• Added functions for operations on graphs: GraphProduct, GraphJoin and GraphSum
• Emoji and more multilingual support
• Create 2D drop shadow effects with DropShadowing
• Several new shaders for graphics added: FlatShading, GouraudShading and PhongShading
• Interactive video recording from webcams and other devices with VideoCapture
• Interactive screen video recording with VideoScreenCapture
• New machine learning functions to plot impact of features on a model result: FeatureValueImpactPlot, FeatureImpactPlot, CumulativeFeatureImpactPlot and FeatureValueDependencyPlot
• New tree-related functions RootTree, UnlabeledTree, TreeLeafCount and numerous options to style and label trees
• Represent a family of chemical reactions symbolically with PatternReaction and apply such a reaction to a set of molecules with ApplyReaction
• Perform chemical conversions with ChemicalConvert
• ModelPredictiveController performs explicit constrained MPC controller design with 1-, 2- and ∞-norms
• DiscreteInputOutputModel implements a general nonlinear input output model
• New functions for type declaration and type specification syntax in compiled code and libraries: TypeDeclaration, CompiledExpressionDeclaration, LibraryFunctionDeclaration and TypeSpecifier
• Expanded support for type representation in compiled code with ForAllType, LiteralType, TypeEvaluate, CreateTypeInstance and TypeOf
• Call the evaluator from compiled code with InertEvaluate
• Create and dereference pointers for interacting with external libraries with ToRawPointer and FromRawPointer
• Added an "ExprStruct" data structure that represents an expression that can be modified without evaluation
• QuestionGenerator and QuestionSelector add further support for question & answer interfaces
• New default toolbar, annotation overlay and custom guide page creation
• All new and updated features since 13

Wolfram Language 13.0.1
  |   February 2022   |   Reference

Version 13.0.1 continues an ongoing effort of incremental quality development of the Wolfram Language. This release includes hundreds of bug fixes, feature enhancements and performance improvements, including a security update for log4j.

Wolfram Language 13
  |   December 2021   |   Reference

Version 13.0 adds a total of 117 completely new functions, but also many hundreds of updated and upgraded functions, several thousand bug fixes and small enhancements, and a host of new ideas to make the system ever easier and smoother to use.

• Create convenient aliases for context names using $ContextAliases
• New linear algebra functions: Adjugate, DrazinInverse and CoreNilpotentDecomposition
• Implemented several Coulomb wavefunctions: CoulombF, CoulombG, CoulombH1 and CoulombH2
• Perform interval computations for real and complex centered intervals using CenteredInterval
• Compute the bilateral or double-sided Z transform and the inverse transform using BilateralZTransform and InverseBilateralZTransform
• Create 2D and 3D displacement plots using new functions VectorDisplacementPlot, VectorDisplacementPlot3D, ListVectorDisplacementPlot and ListVectorDisplacementPlot3D
• Visualize geo flows via GeoGraphValuePlot
• New constructive solid geometry region CSGRegion, built by Boolean operations on basic regions
• Create regions from a set of points using RegionFit, GradientFittedMesh and ConcaveHullMesh
• Find an affine transform from one region to another with FindRegionTransform and check for congruity and similarity for two regions using RegionCongruent and RegionSimilar
• New functions for finding isomorphic subgraphs and subgraph isomorphisms: IsomorphicSubgraphQ, FindSubgraphIsomorphism, FindIsomorphicSubgraph
• Find minimal edge and vertex colorings for graphs with FindEdgeColoring and FindVertexColoring
• Find face coloring for a planar graph layout using FindPlanarColoring
• Compute dominators for directed graphs using DominatorTreeGraph and DominatorVertexList
• New lighting options for three-dimensional graphics: AmbientLight, DirectionalLight, PointLight and SpotLight
• Create spatial predictions with SpatialEstimate
• Estimate the best variogram model for location-tagged data with EstimatedVariogramModel
• New video processing functions: SnippetsVideo, TourVideo, GridVideo and OverlayVideo
• Preview videos in a Wolfram Language notebook with a new built-in video player
• Stitch a list of images together with ImageStitch
• Efficiently train custom content detectors using TrainImageContentDetector and TrainTextContentDetector
• Extract a repeating operation in a folded neural net with NetUnfold
• New additions to the Tree framework: TreeScan, TreeMapAt, TreeTraversalOrder and TreeLayout
• Convert between different time systems with TimeSystemConvert
• Get real-time information on airplane flights using FlightData
• New solid mechanics PDE model functions, including SolidMechanicsPDEComponent, SolidMechanicsStrain, SolidMechanicsStress and more
• Added symbolic representations for chemicals and chemical reactions: ChemicalFormula, ChemicalReaction
• Compute a chemically balanced reaction with ReactionBalance and check if a given reaction is balanced with ReactionBalancedQ
• Improved import of PDF pages as vector graphics
• Use QuestionInterface to specify an interface for answering questions
• Represent an HTML element containing an expression with WebItem and arrange such elements into rows and columns with WebRow and WebColumn
• Submit remote batch jobs to the Azure Batch service
• GeoGraphics now returns maps with vector labels by default

Wolfram Language 12.3.1
  |   June 2021   |   Reference

Version 12.3.1 continues an ongoing effort of incremental quality development of the Wolfram Language.

• Native support for macOS for Apple Silicon
• Streamlined product activation for site licenses supporting single sign-on
• New Wolfram|Alpha-Mode notebook features, including 2D typesetting for math constructs, additional support for chemical computations and biomolecular sequences and interactive plot quizzes
• Numerous other feature enhancements, bug fixes and performance improvements

Wolfram Language 12.3
  |   May 2021   |   Reference

With more than a hundred new functions, a thousand bug fixes and many substantially updated and enhanced functions, Version 12.3 delivers an important incremental release that makes the Wolfram Language more complete, faster, smoother and more convenient to use across many different areas.

• Get direct solution values for equations with SolveValues and NSolveValues
• Carlson elliptic integral functions have been implemented, as well as the Fox H-function
• Compute the bilateral or double-sided Laplace transform and its inverse with BilateralLaplaceTransform and InverseBilateralLaplaceTransform
• Plot streamlines for vector field functions and vector field data with StreamPlot3D and ListStreamPlot3D
• Plot lines through 3D data with ListLinePlot3D
• Display a graph plot with geographic vertices on a map with GeoGraphPlot
• New framework for the construction and manipulation of symbolic trees
• Solve and Reduce now support systems of transcendental equations
• Root now supports multivariate roots
• DSolve now solves any linear system of ODEs with rational function coefficients and any linear ODE with q-rational function coefficients
• New AxisObject to represent a generalized quantitative axis
• MaterialShading allows for realistic rendering of surface material
• Change the representation of a region with CanonicalizeRegion and RegionConvert
• Test whether geometric objects satisfy given properties or relations with GeometricTest
• Generate different kinds of videos with AnimationVideo, SlideShowVideo and FrameListVideo
• Improved video processing capabilities, including addition of VideoRecord, VideoTimeStretch, VideoInsert and VideoReplace
• Parse date strings using locale, time zones and more with FromDateString
• Implemented SystemsModelControllerData, generated from control design functions with rich data needed to connect and analyze the closed-loop system
• New computational chemistry functions including MoleculeName, MoleculeSubstructureCount and MoleculeAlign
• Improvements to several import and export formats and additions of new formats such as SAS7BDAT, DTA and POR
• Support for Java, Octave and system shells added to ExternalEvaluate
• Control the overall appearance of Dataset output with DatasetTheme
• New data structures added: "ImmutableVector" and "KDTree"
• The function Around has been reimplemented and is now significantly faster
• New features since 12.2

Wolfram Language 12.2
  |   December 2020   |   Reference

Version 12.2 adds 228 new functions, expanding the Wolfram Language's functionality in biomolecular sequence operations, PDE modeling, spatial statistics, remote batch job evaluation and more.

• Represent a biological sequence such as DNA with BioSequence and perform operations on it with functions BioSequenceTranscribe, BioSequenceComplement, etc.
• New PDE modeling framework for solving a wide variety of partial differential equations both symbolically and numerically
• Analyze spatial data and work with point processes with new spatial statistics functions such as SpatialPointData, RandomPointConfiguration, MeanPointDensity, PointCountDistribution and more
• Submit batch jobs for asynchronous evaluation on external computation providers with RemoteBatchSubmit and RemoteBatchMapSubmit
• Use Enclose and Confirm to write code with more robust error handling
• CheckArguments and ArgumentsOptions help check for valid positional and optional arguments in function definitions
• New x|->f syntax for defining pure functions with named variables
• Use ApplyTo (//=) to apply a function to a variable and update its value
• Conveniently select dates from date intervals or lists with DateSelect
• Improve code debugging and tuning with new EchoEvaluation, EchoLabel and EchoTiming functions
• New theories and properties added to AxiomaticTheory
• Solve general convex optimization problems with ConvexOptimization
• Find solutions to robust optimization problems with RobustConvexOptimization and to parametric convex optimization problems with ParametricConvexOptimization
• Test for various function properties with FunctionInjective, FunctionSign, FunctionContinuous, etc.
• Improved support for elliptic functions, including addition of the JacobiEpsilon and JacobiZN (Jacobi zeta) functions
• Mathematical Lamé functions LameS, LameC, LameSPrime, LameCPrime, LameEigenvalueA and LameEigenvalueB for solving boundary value problems for Laplace's equation in ellipsoidal and spheroconal coordinates
• Create radar plots with RadialAxisPlot
• ParallelAxisPlot creates parallel coordinate plots
• Represent 2D geographic regions with GeoPolygon, a new GeoGraphics primitive
• Artistically fill 2D graphics primitives with LinearGradientFilling, RadialGradientFilling and ConicGradientFilling
• Test convexity and compute the convex hull of any region with ConvexRegionQ and ConvexHullRegion
• Check if a set of points is positively oriented, negatively oriented, collinear or coplanar with PositivelyOrientedPoints, NegativelyOrientedPoints, CollinearPoints and CoplanarPoints, respectively
• Greatly improved support for video computation, with new functions such as VideoGenerator, VideoIntervals, VideoDelete, VideoMap, VideoMapTimeSeries and more
• New AnimatedImage object to represent animated GIF, PNG, etc.
• Use FaceRecognize to find and recognize faces in an image using machine learning
• Support for several new neural network layer types, including FunctionLayer, CompiledLayer, NetArrayLayer and RandomArrayLayer
• Several new methods for DimensionReduction and DimensionReduce have been added, including t-SNE, principal component analysis and latent semantic analysis
• Support for compression and archival formats 7z, ISO, RAR and ZSTD
• Represent public-key security certificates with SecurityCertificate and import them from common variants of the PEM file format
• Significant improvement to PDF import
• Improved Import with support for URLs, updates to FileFormat and addition of FileFormatQ and more
• Create on-demand license entitlements to run standalone Wolfram Engine kernels on a pay-as-you-go basis with CreateLicenseEntitlement
• Improved Microcontroller Kit with new support for many 32-bit targets from Arduino, Adafruit and SparkFun
• New features since 12.1

Wolfram Language 12.1.1
  |   June 2020   |   Reference

Version 12.1.1 is the result of an ongoing effort of incremental quality development of the Wolfram Language. It includes almost a thousand bug fixes, feature enhancements and performance improvements in cryptography, video processing, data science, visualization and more.

Wolfram Language 12.1
  |   March 2020   |   Reference

Version 12.1 is our biggest point release so far, expanding the Wolfram Language's functionality in mathematical visualization, audio and image processing, machine learning and neural networks, data access/storage, and more, as well as introducing new systems for video processing and paclet management.

• Spreadsheet-like viewing, editing and manipulation of tabular data with TableView
• Detailed control of appearance, sorting, data storage and other options for Dataset
• New DataStructure framework for efficient creation, storage and manipulation of common data structures
• Compute asymptotic approximations and expansions for mathematical expressions with Asymptotic and DiscreteAsymptotic
• Mathematical HeunG function representing the regular solution of the general Heun equation
• Generate distributions over unordered classes with CategoricalDistribution
• Use GeometricOptimization to find positive values that minimize the posynomial objective subject to given constraints
• Plot functions, regions and vectors in the complex plane with ComplexRegionPlot, ComplexContourPlot, ComplexVectorPlot, etc.
• Support for generating proofs from arbitrary predicates (first-order logic) with FindEquationalProof
• Several improvements and new options for vector visualization
• Artistically fill 2D polygons with HatchFilling and PatternFilling, and shade 3D objects with StippleShading, ToonShading, HatchShading and other new graphics directives
• Improved support for geometric operations on geographic regions
• Display values on maps as smoothly varying colors with GeoDensityPlot or as contours with GeoContourPlot
• Explore the topology of meshes with MeshConnectivityGraph and NearestMeshCells
• Train generative models on various types of data with NetGANOperator
• Include anomaly detection in machine learning functions with AnomalyDetector
• Set styled annotations for graphs and other objects with Annotate
• Use Splice to automatically splice expressions into a list
• Operate on subsets/sublists with functions such as SubsetCases, SubsetPosition, SubsetCount, etc.
• Represent operator forms with OperatorApplied and CurryApplied, and use ReverseApplied to apply a function with arguments reversed
• TimeRemaining for retrieving the seconds until a TimeConstrained computation will be terminated
• DateInterval for representing time intervals continuously or at a given granularity, InfinitePast/InfiniteFuture for representing indefinite time intervals and MinDate/MaxDate for finding extrema in an interval or list of dates
• View tree graphs of expressions at any level with ExpressionGraph
• ExternalIdentifier for representing and referencing resources in external identifier systems
• Search and retrieve values from Wikidata's SPARQL endpoint with WikidataSearch and WikidataData
• Support for Julia, Ruby and R languages through ExternalEvaluate
• Identify molecular structures in an image with MoleculeRecognize
• Upload files to an external storage such as Dropbox with ExternalStorageUpload
• View and analyze ARK blockchain data and submit transactions
• Combine and separate entity classes with UnionedEntityClass, IntersectedEntityClass and ComplementedEntityClass
• Improved support for ZIP and TAR through CreateArchive and ExtractArchive
• Securely store system passwords, secrets, keys, etc. locally with SystemCredential, and create digital file signatures from a given key with GenerateFileSignature
• Paclet framework for representing, installing and managing local and remote paclets with functions such as PacletInstall, PacletFind, PacletSites, etc.
• Improved support for MicrosoftSQL, MySQL and other relational database formats
• Solve the max-cut problem for a graph with FindMaximumCut
• Use FaceAlign to align faces in images based on facial landmarks
• FindImageText for detecting the regions of an image containing a character, word, line or block of text
• Use SpeechCases and SpeechInterpreter to identify text and entities in spoken audio, and compare speech with a reference clip with SpeakerMatchQ
• Sophisticated video framework for programmatic viewing, processing and analysis of a range of multimedia types
• Use CharacterNormalize to convert text to various Unicode normalization forms
• Support for user-provided CUDA Toolkits
• New features since 12

Wolfram Language 12
  |   April 2019   |   Reference

Version 12.0 greatly expands the Wolfram Language's functionality in mathematics and geometry, geographic visualization, audio and image processing, machine learning and more, including system-wide performance improvements.

• Major OS integration updates to Mac and Linux notebook interfaces using the 64-bit Cocoa API and Qt 5, respectively, with the Linux interface no longer requiring a supporting X server
• Optimization solvers such as LinearOptimization, QuadraticOptimization, SemidefiniteOptimization, etc. for optimizing convex functions over convex constraints, including vector inequalities such as VectorGreater for modeling vector-valued variables
• Expanded asymptotics functionality, including asymptotic solutions to algebraic and difference equations and asymptotic approximations to sums
• Added support for generating arbitrary constants in Integrate, Sum and Product
• Improved elementary functions support for Integrate, support for large structured systems in Solve and Reduce, DSolve support for nonlinear first-order ODEs and extended coverage and support in FunctionDomain
• Extended numerical PDE-solving capabilities of NDSolve to solve nonlinear PDEs over arbitrary-shaped regions with the finite element method, and automated idealized n-body interactions using NBodySimulation
• Geometric capabilities have been further enhanced with the addition of general polygons with holes and polyhedra primitives, as well as improved support across the board
• Access built-in axiomatic theories for use in symbolic proofs with AxiomaticTheory
• Visualize complex-valued data and functions using ComplexListPlot, plot real and imaginary components of a function using ReImPlot and plot the modulus of a complex function of a real variable colored by its argument using AbsArgPlot
• Use Around to describe uncertainty in measured values, with built-in support in visualization functions
• Create, analyze and modify chemical species using the Molecule function, and visualize structures in two and three dimensions with MoleculePlot and MoleculePlot3D
• Represent geodetic vectors with GeoVector, and visualize geodetic vector fields using GeoVectorPlot and GeoStreamPlot
• Generate randomly distributed geo positions in any region using RandomGeoPosition, and analyze distance, area and angular distortion of geo projections using GeoGridUnitDistance, GeoGridUnitArea and GeoGridDirectionDifference
• Updated default appearance for GraphPlot visualizations, as well as new plot themes and updated properties
• Color-processing functions such as FindMatchingColor, ImageRecolor and ColorDetect, all powered by the new ColorsNear wrapper to represent a color neighborhood
• High-level recognition functions such as ImageCases, FacialFeatures, AudioIdentify and SpeechRecognize, and performance enhancements to FindFaces, FeatureSpacePlot, AudioMFCC, etc.
• Performance improvements in audio analysis functions such as AudioIntervals and windowing functions such as HannWindow, and a new AudioAnnotate framework for annotating audio objects
• Multi-language support for SpeechSynthesize, as well as improved discovery and searching of available voices through VoiceStyleData
• ShortTimeFourier for computing and storing properties of short-time Fourier transforms, and InverseSpectrogram for approximating a signal from a magnitude spectrogram
• The neural network framework has been enhanced with additional pre-trained models, new layers, new encoders and decoders, multi-GPU support and automatic early stopping of training to prevent overfitting
• ClassifierMeasurements can now handle uncertainties and multi-class averaging, and the "NeuralNetwork" method for Classify has been vastly improved using a self-normalizing net
• Learn a generalized probability distribution from arbitrary data using LearnDistribution, replace missing values in data by generated values using SynthesizeMissingValues and find anomalous examples in data using FindAnomalies
• Interact with relational databases symbolically using RelationalDatabase, integrating out-of-core and in-memory techniques to access terabyte-scale data and automatically generating SQL code for popular databases
• Query remote or in-memory RDF graph databases using SPARQL queries, and import/export RDF data from a variety of RDF formats
• Support for "on-the-fly" properties, filtering and sorting, aggregation, combining types and sampling of classes in the entity framework
• Expanded and enhanced data for built-in entities across all domains, including geographic, cultural and historic, life science and medical, financial, astronomical, earth science, transportation, engineering, linguistic and mathematical
• Efficient partial import and other improvements in scientific formats such as "FITS" and "HDF5", as well as tabular formats such as "CSV" and "XLS"
• NumericArray for creating the most compact representation of a numeric array
• Pass arguments to functions in any order or bracket structure with Curry, or map vector functions onto sublists of elements with SubsetMap
• Information has been greatly extended and modernized to provide information on different object types
• Initial version of Wolfram Compiler for translating portions of Wolfram Language code into optimized native machine code
• Improvements to the external evaluation framework, including core performance enhancements, ExternalFunction to directly call external code and WebExecute to control web browsers
• Create, sign and deploy custom blockchain transactions and interact with computational contracts using BlockchainTransaction, BlockchainTransactionSign, BlockchainTransactionSubmit and BlockchainContractValue
• New Microcontroller Kit for automating the generation and deployment of code to microcontrollers
• Bidirectional interface to the Unity game engine
• Create, store and instantly access functions through the public Wolfram Function Repository and the ResourceFunction system
• And more

Wolfram Language 11.3
  |   March 2018   |   Reference

Version 11.3 expands the Wolfram Language's functionality in mathematical computation, audio and image processing, machine learning and neural networks, system modeling and more.

• Expanded asymptotics functionality, including relational operators and approximate solutions to integrals and differential equations
• Apply algebraic operations to both sides of equations and inequalities with ApplySides, and find proofs for equational logic theorems from axioms with FindEquationalProof
• Create smooth intensities of locations on a map with GeoSmoothHistogram
• FeatureSpacePlot3D for plotting dimension-reduced feature spaces in 3D
• CurrentImage support for simultaneous multi-device capture and Linux image capture
• FacialFeatures extracts facial characteristics such as age, emotion and landmarks, and FindFaces can filter based on these features
• Efficient audio net encoding and feature extraction for in-core and out-of-core audio objects
• SpeechSynthesize supports native OS synthesis, and AudioDistance can be used to compute distance measures for audio signals
• FindTextualAnswer for finding the part of a text that answers a question, improved automation for Classify and Predict and new methods for DimensionReduction
• Additional pre-trained models, faster RNN training, efficient sequence generation, training session summaries, array sharing, 3D and variable-length convolutions and surgery on networks have been added to the neural network framework
• Browse, import or generate simulation-ready system models for data extraction, analysis and visualization
• Blockchain framework for accessing current information about blockchains (e.g. Ethereum or Bitcoin) and storing/retrieving data using a Wolfram blockchain
• New systems-level functionality for remote process execution, user authentication, process management and network packet capture
• Directly process mail in live mailboxes by searching, flagging, moving, deleting, etc.
• SendMail supports HTML emails and automatically embeds objects such as Dataset, TimeSeries and more
• Improved support for system modeling, raster image, audio, tabular, spreadsheet, systems and network formats
• Prefetch entities and register custom entities and entity types for immediate computation using the EntityStore system
• New features since 11.2

Wolfram Language 11.2
  |   September 2017   |   Reference

Version 11.2 expands the Wolfram Language's cutting-edge functionality in audio and image processing, mathematical computation, task handling and machine learning—plus much more.

• Compute undirected and multivariate limits, upper and lower limits or discrete limits
• Solve directly for limiting values in continuous or discrete equations
• FourierTransform support for periodic functions
• Perform 3D Boolean operations on regions
• New methods and options for automated machine learning, with support for extracting word vectors, audio and sequences
• Expanded neural network layer types with new options and methods
• Additional support for neural network import/export formats
• ImageRestyle to recreate one image based on the features of another
• Get satellite images with GeoImage
• RegionImage for 3D rasterization of regions
• Capture the current screen or notebook with CurrentScreenImage and CurrentNotebookImage
• SpeechSynthesize for generating spoken audio from expressions
• Support for stereo audio, programmatic audio playback and Linux audio capture
• Connect to external language interpreters with ExternalEvaluate and StartExternalSession
• ZeroMQ network programming through the SocketConnect framework
• Framework for configuring initialization values and computations
• Manage asynchronous and background tasks with the TaskObject framework
• Additional documentation for low-level numerical linear algebra
• New features since 11.1

Wolfram Language 11.1.1
  |   April 2017   |   Reference

Version 11.1.1 resolves critical issues identified in Version 11.1 and includes performance improvements.

• Reenabled GPU support for neural networks for Mac
• Several updates and fixes to neural networks, including proper support for HDF5 format
• LinearModelFit no longer uses excessive memory
• Fixed rendering issue with ListPlot3D
• Region operations on rectangles with packed array coordinates no longer crash

Wolfram Language 11.1
  |   March 2017   |   Reference

Version 11.1 extends the Wolfram Language's state-of-the-art capabilities in machine learning, neural nets, audio processing, robust statistics and much more.

• Over 130 new functions across a wide range of application areas
• 20 new neural net layer types, and seamless support for recurrent nets and variable-length sequences
• NetModel to access a growing repository of complete trained and untrained neural nets
• FeatureSpacePlot for machine-learning-based visualization of spaces of data, images, text, etc.
• New machine learning functions, including SequencePredict, ActiveClassification and ActivePrediction
• Record audio directly using AudioCapture, readying it for immediate processing and analysis
• Do arithmetic (with *, -, etc.) directly on 2D and 3D images
• Extended support for computational photography and computational microscopy
• ImageGraphics to find vector graphic approximations to bitmaps
• Space-filling and fractal region constructors such as HilbertCurve and SierpinskiMesh
• New robust and spatial statistics, including WinsorizedMean and SpatialMedian
• GeoBubbleChart, as well as extended support for Callout, ScalingFunctions, etc.
• Support for derivatives with symbolic orders
• Higher-resolution geo elevation data
• Seamlessly integrated external services for web search, web image search and text translation
• Broad PersistentValue system for storing values between sessions locally, in the cloud, etc.
• Self-executing Wolfram Language scripts extended to Windows

Wolfram Language 11.0.1
  |   September 2016   |   Reference

• New Audio support for Linux, and improved audio behavior on all platforms
• Fixed Graphics3D rotation and magnification bug that caused system to crash
• Significantly improved GIF import performance
• Fixed regression in Plot and dramatic slowdowns in ParametricPlot, ParametricPlot3D
• ListPlot labeling and callout functionality now exhibit expected behavior
• Improved performance and stability of Dataset and related functionality
• Over 9,000 words added to the English spelling dictionary
• TextRecognize now correctly supports all documented languages
• Fixed an issue with WolframScript's ability to differentiate between options and script names
• Resolved partial evaluation and other errors thrown by CenterArray
• Enabled SetOptions for URLRead, URLExecute and URLDownload

Wolfram Language 11
  |   August 2016   |   Reference

Introduces functionality for major new areas, including 3D printing, audio processing, machine learning and neural networks.

• Over 500 new functions significantly broaden scope in new and existing areas
• Algorithmically generate, import and directly print 3D models to local or cloud 3D printers
• New computational audio synthesis, processing and analysis for applications in music and speech
• New neural network framework gives access to GPU-accelerated deep learning
• Expanded and enhanced machine learning functionality, including feature extraction and Bayesian optimization
• Numerous extensions and improvements to web operations and data storage
• Vast new array of visualizations, from statistical to geographic to anatomical, and improved presentation options
• Performance and feature enhancements to already industry-leading symbolics, numerics and geometry
• Expanded geographics, including new geo data entities, map backgrounds, projections and more
• New computational photography, plus more tools for image and signal processing
• New and improved support for random matrices, time series and quantities in probability and statistics
• Experimental Wolfram channel framework for asynchronous communications between cloud, desktop and embedded systems
• Execute Wolfram Language code from anywhere—locally or in the cloud—with new WolframScript command-line interpreter
• Richer functional programming constructs thanks to list- and array-processing enhancements
• More powerful text and language processing, and increased multilingual support
• Faster, more flexible access to the growing Wolfram Knowledgebase, including support for arbitrary datasets
• And more

Wolfram Language 10.4.1
  |   April 2016   |   Reference

• Addresses several critical issues identified in recent releases.
• Resolves OpenGL issues that were causing graphics instability and failures, especially with regard to Graphics3D and Manipulate rendering, rotation and dynamics
• Corrects evaluation errors returned by ListPlot [Table[…]] and CoefficientRules
• Show now works with GeoGraphics objects
• Refines support for DateFormat when using Interpreter

Wolfram Language 10.4
  |   March 2016   |   Reference

• Support for pattern matching and significant speedup in many operations for Association
• Ability to implicitly define an Entity by value and property
• New CloudExpression for representation of an expression whose value is persistently stored in the cloud
• Experimental user interface functionality for creating interactive applications using AskFunction
• Scaled plots can now be generated using ListPlot, ListLinePlot and DateListPlot through the ScalingFunctions option, plus all-new Dendrogram for constructing a dendrogram from the hierarchical clustering of list elements
• New textual computation and data functionality for spellchecking and word frequency analysis, plus substantially improved TextSearch and Snippet
• New graphs and networks capabilities for PlanarGraph construction, and for determination of ConnectedGraphComponents for many different graph types
• Experimental ClusterClassify to generate a ClassifierFunction based on clusters found in numerical, textual and image data, as well as dates and times
• New symbolic computation functions DifferenceQuotient and GreenFunction, plus additional functionality for number theory and signal processing
• Added geometric computation formats and functions for constructing meshes from arrays, as well as for computing region properties such as inertia or general integral moments, bounding regions for point sets and measures of regions defined by parameter formulas
• Expanded support for Quantity data in probability and statistics, including new function QuantityDistribution
• Experimental DynamicGeoGraphics function for creating dynamic, interactive 2D geographic images that can be panned and zoomed
• New DynamicImage interactive image viewer for panning and zooming in large images, and dramatically expanded HighlightImage functionality for highlighting specified regions of interest
• Function and data labeling capability improvements for some functions through the Labeled wrapper or the PlotLabels option
• Support for Arduino Yun to directly interface with the Wolfram Data Drop
• API connectivity via ServiceConnect to seven more external services—including Google Analytics, SurveyMonkey, FRED and PubMed—for data retrieval and analysis
• Over 20 new interpreter types for use in Interpreter and related constructs, including deployed smart form fields
• Added support for 24 new font families for additional customization of web and print work

Wolfram Language 10.3.1
  |   December 2015   |   Reference

• Restored performance when sending strings using WSTP (Wolfram Symbolic Transfer Protocol)
• Stability improvements to image processing functionality, including Image3D, ColorConvert and HighlightImage
• Resolved slowdowns in evaluation time for numerical interpolation functions
• More robust import of image file formats, including JPEG and TIFF
• Restored expected behavior for some arguments of TravelDirections and Nearest
• Many user interface updates, including to DynamicModule, ActionMenu and Frames

Wolfram Language 10.3
  |   October 2015   |   Reference

• Access to identities and properties of the extensive collection of mathematical functions in the Wolfram Language, via MathematicalFunctionData
• New geocomputation functionality such as TravelDirections, TravelDistance and more for computing travel times, methods and related data
• New AnatomyData and AnatomicalStructure interpreter types for computation and deployment
• Ability to group, copy and identify specific instances of entities for more automated and efficient computation
• Support for random matrix distributions and properties of random matrices
• Comparative operator forms such as GreaterThan, LessThan and EqualTo for testing expressions
• Enhanced natural language understanding with added linguistic data for string manipulation of words and alphabets
• New date and time functionality for representation and handling of time zones
• Symbolic support for solving partial differential equations and eigenproblems
• More convenient network programming options for host lookup, IP address representation and socket connection
• Improved functionality for processing and analysis of text elements and structure, including definitions, parts of speech, translations and more
• New service connection options to GoogleCalendar, GoogleContacts and Yelp data, as well as to arXiv and CrossRef for academic research

Wolfram Language 10.2
  |   July 2015   |   Reference

• New volume and discrete data visualization functionality: SliceDensityPlot3D and ListStepPlot
• Numerical solving of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions for ODEs and PDEs
• New capabilities for text search and analysis
• New and updated methods for both supervised and unsupervised machine learning
• Automatic mail processing with MailReceiverFunction and MailResponseFunction
• Time series and statistics updates, including support for intensity measures in Histogram
• Added operations for lists and associations, including automatic removal of elements using Nothing
• Expanded cloud usage and deployment options for permissions control, scheduled tasks, data logging and local objects
• Image processing techniques for computational photography including tone mapping, exposure combination and more
• Extensive geometric computing enhancements for basic and mesh regions
• An international Alphabet, plus a full range of technical and other character sets and encodings
• Support for more geometry and data file formats, with dramatically improved STL import/export and streamlined JSON

Wolfram Language 10.1
  |   March 2015   |   Reference

Version 10.1 adds many enhancements to performance, coverage and convenience—as well as several major new algorithmic achievements such as image identification and user-defined grammar rule deployment.

See the complete list of what's new in Version 10.1

Developer Insights blog series

• Support for the Wolfram Data Drop universal data accumulator
• Automatic object identification: ImageIdentify
• Built-in automatic dimensionality reduction for data
• New information visualization: WordCloud, TimelinePlot and themes for gauges
• Programmable Linguistic Interface for user-defined grammars and actions
• New constructs for building complex forms and interpreters with CompoundElement and RepeatingElement
• Support for many operations on irregularly spaced time series
• New list operations for handling sequences, taking largest elements, etc.
• Language-level support for OpenSSL-backed cryptography
• Built-in access to Wikipedia content
• 31 new string manipulation functions, including word and sentence splitting
• Direct support for byte arrays, raw image formats, etc.
• Streamlined support for Arduino connectivity
• Performance and interoperability improvements to Dataset

Wolfram Language 10.0.2
  |   December 2014   |   Reference

• New EmbedCode support for languages, including R, Scala, Perl and Ruby
• New optimizations, supported inputs, performance improvements and bug fixes for geometric computation
• Additional options for DocumentGenerator, including DocumentDescription, GeneratedDocumentBinding, GeneratedDocumentHistoryLength and more
• Additional options for DateFunction, SunPosition and MoonPosition
• Performance enhancements and bug fixes for statistics
• Numerous visualization bug fixes, new icons for maps and a wider range of inputs for NumberLinePlot
• Replace, ReplaceAll and ReplacePart now work with Associations
• Thirty-four new Interpreter types
• Additional desktop and cloud support for ScheduledTask
• Several fixes and updates to VerificationTest
• New options for Animator, including AnimationRunTime and AnimationTimeIndex

Wolfram Language 10.0.1
  |   September 2014   |   Reference

• Image processing updates and enhancements, including new image effects, Image3D options for WatershedComponents and built-in color support for Nearest and FindClusters
• Simplified SendMail syntax for easier usability
• New operators and compositions of operators enabled for associations functions such as Dataset and Query
• RLink compatibility update for R 3.1.
• New Interpreter types such as "Beach", "CountryClass", "OilField" and "Reef"
• New optimizations, supported inputs and path types for geographic computation and regions
• Machine learning functions Classify and Predict now support NeuralNetwork as a built-in classification method
• Stability and performance improvements for smoother user interface experience on all platforms
• Improved coverage of supported types in SemanticImport and optimizations for handling anonymous columns, empty fields, headerless data and import of files with long file names
• Updates and improvements to a wide range of areas including weather data, associations, symbolic integration and measure computations over implicit regions
• Stability and performance updates for select plot and chart types and for numerical solvers including NDSolve, ParametricNDSolve, SparseArray and MatrixExp

Wolfram Language 10.0.0
  |   July 2014   |   Reference

• Highly automated machine learning, including pre-trained models for a variety of tasks
• Integrated geometric computation, including symbolic geometry, mesh-based regions and named and formula regions
• Advanced geographic computation, including the powerful new GeoGraphics function for map construction
• Computation with structured datasets and semantic data import
• Ability to create and deploy powerful forms on the web that understand natural language input
• Fundamental new associations construct allows highly efficient lookup and updating
• Expanded random process framework, including hidden Markov models and automated time series analysis
• Flexible system for representing dates and times symbolically and performing computations on them
• Built-in plot themes to easily tailor plots for specific audiences, from business reports to technical articles
• Enhanced 2D and 3D image processing with extended color support
• Nonlinear control systems and enhanced signal processing
• Finite element analysis, enhanced PDEs, symbolic delay differential equations and hybrid differential equations
• Formal math operators, dimensional variables and extended algebra and graph computation
• Automatic report generation and string, file and HTML templating
• Connectivity for working with external devices, services and APIs, plus URL manipulation
• Built-in unit testing
• Integration with the Wolfram Cloud
• Access to the expanded Wolfram Knowledgebase
• And more

Wolfram Language 9.0.1
  |   January 2013   |   Reference

• Improved performance and stability for image processing functions, extending coverage for Image3D
• Installation workflow and stability improvements for Linux configurations
• Increased the performance and robustness of many random processes functions

Wolfram Language 9.0.0
  |   November 2012   |   Reference

• Highly integrated units support, including free-form linguistic entry, conversions and dimensional consistency checking across graphics and numeric and symbolic calculations
• New graph and network analysis, including a built-in link for Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and more
• Major new data science, probability and statistics functionality—including survival and reliability analysis, Markov chains, queueing theory, time series and stochastic differential equations
• 3D volumetric image processing and out-of-core technology that scales up performance to very large 2D and 3D images and video
• Integrated analog and digital signal processing
• Built-in symbolic tensors with support for arrays of any rank, dimension and symmetry
• Highly customizable interactive gauges for dashboards and controls
• Systemwide support for automatic legends for plots and charts
• R fully integrated into the Wolfram Language for seamless data and code exchange
• Full client-side web access for exchanging data with remote servers and interacting with web APIs
• And more

Wolfram Language 8.0.4
  |   October 2011   |   Reference

• New functions CDFInformation and CDFDeploy for programmatically deploying CDF files
• Improved memory use of the Share function when storing large sets of data
• Updated MKL library to improve performance
• Performance improvements to citation functions
• Improved behavior of optimized variables in compiled conditional statements

Wolfram Language 8.0.1
  |   March 2011   |   Reference

• Many new automatic simplifications for derived distributions, including affine transformations, sums of variables, parameter mixtures and censored and truncated distributions
• Improved results for Dot with large (> 1,000,000 elements) lists of integers
• Improved stability with a new version of the Intel Math Kernel Library
• Performance and robustness improvements for many graph and network operations
• Improved the creation of MathLink TCPIP connections under certain special network conditions
• Improved export of Real and "Real33" images to TIFF, to be compatible with more external TIFF image viewers

Wolfram Language 8.0
  |   November 2010   |   Reference

• Integration with Wolfram|Alpha
• Automated probability and expectation computation
• Over a hundred new statistical distributions and many statistics visualizations
• Generation of new statistical distributions directly from data, formulas or other distributions
• Enhanced graphs and networks and linear algebra capabilities
• More than 60 exotic equity option solvers, and over 100 built-in financial indicators
• Built-in control systems capabilities
• Enhanced image analysis features
• Integrated wavelet analysis
• Built-in CUDA and OpenCL support
• Automatic C code generation
• Symbolic C code manipulation and optimization
• Enhanced 2D and 3D graphics, including texture mapping and hardware-accelerated 3D rendering
• And more

Wolfram Language 7.0.1
  |   March 2009   |   Reference

• Performance enhancements to core image-processing functions

Wolfram Language 7.0
  |   November 2008   |   Reference

• Built-in parallel high-performance computing (HPC)
• Integrated image processing
• New on-demand curated data, including genomic data, protein data and current and historical weather data
• Many new usability and productivity features
• Charting and information visualization
• Vector field visualization
• Comprehensive spline support, including NURBS
• Industrial-strength Boolean computation
• Statistical model analysis
• Integrated geodesy and GIS data
• Many symbolic computation breakthroughs, including discrete calculus, sequence recognition and transcendental roots
• And more

Wolfram Language 6.0.3
  |   June 2008   |   Reference

• Improved options handling for MatrixForm and TableForm
• Improved options handling for ListPlot
• Improved handling of AxesLabel and Ticks combinations
• Improved handling of numerical data without spaces in Protein Data Bank (PDB) import
• Changed winding in LightWave Object (LWO) export to better adhere to industry standards

Wolfram Language 6.0.2
  |   February 2008   |   Reference

• Improved performance of Import and Export converters on Mac and Unix
• Significant speedup in import of binary data files
• Improved handling of graphics when exporting to TeX and PDF
• Enhanced import of metadata from FITS astronomical image files

Wolfram Language 6.0.1
  |   July 2007   |   Reference

• Enhanced automatic and manual proxy settings for internet connectivity
• Significantly improved WSTP (Wolfram Symbolic Transfer Protocol) performance on Mac and Unix systems
• Improved performance of various Import and Export converters
• Faster ListPlot, ListPlot3D and Plot3D for large numbers of points
• Extensions to automatic file type recognition for Import
• Complete support for scaled FontSize values
• Enhancements to Table, CSV, TSV and MathML import
• Updates to curated data

Wolfram Language 6.0
  |   May 2007   |   Reference

• Dynamic interactivity, allowing sophisticated interactive interfaces to be created from single lines of input
• High-impact adaptive visualization for automated creation of high-fidelity function and data graphics
• Framework for data integration, including automatic integration of hundreds of standard data formats
• Load-on-demand curated data for math, physics, chemistry, finance, geography, linguistics and more
• Symbolic interface construction for immediate creation of arbitrary interfaces from simple programs
• Automated computational aesthetics, with algorithmic optimization for visual presentation
• Unification of active graphics and controls with flowing text and input
• And more

Wolfram Language 5.2
  |   July 2005   |   Reference

• All-platform support for 64-bit addressing
• Multicore support on major platforms
• Multithreaded numerical linear algebra
• 64-bit-enhanced arbitrary-precision numerics
• Vector-based performance enhancements
• Automatic binary installation selection
• SSH support for secure remote kernels
• vCard and RSS import
• New algorithms for symbolic differential equations
• Enhanced performance for linear Diophantine systems
• Enhanced quadratic quantifier elimination
• Singular-case support for high-level special functions
• Enhanced statistics charts

Wolfram Language 5.1
  |   November 2004   |   Reference

• Industrial-strength string manipulation
• Built-in universal database connectivity
• Highly optimized binary data I/O
• Additional import-export formats, including XLS and AVI
• Integrated web services support
• 2D and 3D automated network visualization
• High-performance array visualization
• Numerical linear algebra performance enhancements
• Fully integrated piecewise functions
• Integration over implicitly defined regions
• Event handling in numerical differential equations
• New algorithms for symbolic differential equations
• Cluster analysis capabilities added
• GUIKit interface and application builder built in

Wolfram Language 5.0
  |   June 2003   |   Reference

• Record-breaking speed through processor-optimized numerical linear algebra
• Full support for high-speed sparse linear algebra
• New-generation optimized numerical solvers for ordinary and partial differential equations
• Major new algorithms for solving equations and inequalities symbolically over different domains
• Fully integrated solver for differential algebraic equations
• High-performance optimization and linear programming, including interior point method
• More generalized numeric solvers expanded to accept vector and general array variables
• Industry-leading solver for recurrence equations
• Broader support for assumptions in symbolic computation
• Included .NET/Link, providing full integration with Microsoft's .NET Framework
• Flexible import and export of DICOM, PNG, SVG and sparse matrix formats

Wolfram Language 4.2
  |   June 2002   |   Reference

• Transparent Java integration with J/Link 2.0 and built-in Java Runtime Engine
• Improved linear programming and optimization
• Speed and robustness improvements for many numerical functions
• Improved simplifier
• Statistics enhancements, including new ANOVA package
• New bundled Combinatorica package for combinatorics and graph theory
• New bundled AuthorTools package for technical publishing
• New import and export formats, including FITS and STDS
• XML extensions that allow Wolfram Language expressions to be stored as XML
• New bundled XML tools package for symbolic XML manipulation
• Support for XHTML export, including stylesheets
• Extended MathML 2.0 support

Wolfram Language 4.1
  |   November 2000   |   Reference

• Greatly enhanced symbolic differential equation solvers
• Enhanced Wolfram Language pattern matcher and compiler, increasing speed and minimizing memory consumption
• New standard package for integration over inequality-defined regions and piecewise functions
• Dramatic speed improvements in statistics functions
• Conversion between linear systems of equations and matrices
• Java integration with J/Link 1.1
• Improved MathML integration on the web
• Support for saving in IBM techexplorer format
• New and faster import and export filters for Excel files, tabular data and compressed BMP, DXF and STL
• Support for real-time manipulation of 3D graphics on Linux and Unix platforms
• Routines for plotting graphics defined by inequalities
• Discrete trigonometric package

Wolfram Language 4.0
  |   May 1999   |   Reference

• Extensive enhancements in speed and efficiency in numerical calculation
• Publishing documents in a variety of formats
• Direct import and export from over 20 standard data, graphics and sound file formats
• Extended range and improved functions for data analysis including correlation, convolution and a new Fourier transform algorithm
• Support for handling computations in specified algebraic domains
• Enhancements to many built-in Wolfram Language functions

Wolfram Language 3.0
  |   September 1996 Reference

• Interactive mathematical typesetting system
• Algebraic numbers
• Wolfram Language compiler extended to work with arrays of machine numbers
• Support for nonlinear least squares with Levenberg–Marquardt technique
• Improved interpolation (important in finding the result of numerical ordinary differential equations)
• Interval arithmetic
• New functions for simplifying and transforming expressions
• Optimized Groebner basis functions
• Many new special functions
• Exception-based programming flow control

Wolfram Language 2.2
  |   June 1993   |   Reference

• WSTP (Wolfram Symbolic Transfer Protocol) for Windows
• Isocontour plotting routine added
• Package for symbolic solutions of first-order partial differential equations added
• Ten other packages added in areas such as three-dimensional contour plotting, variational calculus and music
• Faster numerical solutions of sparse linear systems of equations
• Symbolic definite integration expanded to include tests for nonintegrable singularities and also handle branch cuts in the range of integration

Wolfram Language 2.1
  |   June 1992   |   Reference

• Upgrade of contour plotting algorithm
• Unix WSTP (Wolfram Symbolic Transfer Protocol) enhancements
• WSTP (Wolfram Symbolic Transfer Protocol) for Macintosh
• New packages added in areas such as nonlinear fitting, binary file manipulation, Dirac delta functions and sound synthesis

Wolfram Language 2.0
  |   January 1991 (first major update)
Reference

• Numerical ordinary differential equation solver
• Numerical compiler
• Linear algebra improvements
• Implementation of Risch algorithm for Integrate
• Symbolic ordinary differential equation solver
• Series extended to many special functions
• ParametricPlot3D added
• Many extra embellishments for graphics
• Improved hidden-surface elimination for 3D graphics
• Many string and file operations
• WSTP (Wolfram Symbolic Transfer Protocol) protocol for interprocess and network-based communication
• Sound support
• Support of foreign character sets
• Error detection and debugging

Wolfram Language 1.2
  |   August 1989   |   Reference

• Support for remote kernels
• Symbolic integration greatly enhanced
• Rudimentary differential equation-solving capabilities with DSolve
• Solving of transcendental and other equations that require explicit use of inverse functions
• Exact interpolating polynomials
• LinearProgramming, ConstrainedMax and ConstrainedMin added
• MatrixPower and MatrixExp added
• Groebner bases added
• Modulus options added to Det, Inverse and LinearSolve
• Statistics and Graphics standard packages added
• Many new graphics options and features, including axes and labels for 3D graphics
• Much more efficient multivariate polynomial GCD (greatest common divisor) and factorization

Wolfram Language 1.0
  |   June 1988   |   Reference

• Initial release of the Wolfram Language