Open BEAGLE

This release fixes a bug in reading ephemeral random constants from XML files.

This release includes various bugfixes. In
particular, fixes were made for the CMA-ES
algorithm and mutation in Strongly Typed GP.

This release includes minor changes to allow compilation on Mac OS X and to take advantage of precompiled headers on gcc.

The PACC collection, a collection of portable
utilitary C++ classes, was incorporated. A new
integer-valued vector genetic algorithms
representation was added. Major improvements were
made to the genetic programming framework.
Miscellaneous bugfixes and minor improvements were
done. The manual, XML schema file, and compilation
HOWTO were updated.

This release focus is mainly on improvements of the GA framework, including the addition of the CMA-ES algorithm, SBX crossover, and enhanced parameters limits management for real-valued representations.