GAP 4.16.1-beta1

[fingolfin]

Dear all,

I plan to release GAP 4.16.1 end of next week, assuming all goes well. To prepare for that, I've made a prerelease to allow testing.

This is a patch level release with mostly bug fixes, so I expect no major issues. However, a ton of packages also got updated. As usual an overview of the changes is in CHANGES.md.

Version 4.16.1-beta1 is mostly intended for use by people who package GAP for Linux distributions, or similar things (Homebrew, FreeBSD ports, Conda, SageMath, ...). The idea is to iron out issues related to packaging before the final release.

That said, everyone else is of course also welcome to give it a try. I don't expect major changes in the final release, though we'll still merge PRs and package updates if they don't appear "risky".

You can find this pre-release at https://github.com/gap-system/gap/releases/tag/v4.16.1-beta1

If you want all GAP sources and all packages, you need gap-4.16.1-beta1.tar.gz.

Some people who I know package GAP and might be interested in this include @antonio-rojas @isuruf @saraedum @jamesjer @orlitzky @collares @yurivict @kiwifb @mkoeppe

[orlitzky]

Upgraded all of our packages, ran tests, upgraded core to beta1, re-ran the tests. All normal except for gap-packages/images#41.