The Apache Jakarta Commons Project has released Commons Math 2.0, an open source library providing many mathematical functions for statistics, random data generation, linear algebra, root finding, interpolation, erf, gamma and beta functions, arrays, factorials, complex numbers, distributions, matrices, and solving linear systems. 2.0 "combines bug fixes, new features and changes to existing features. Most notable among the new features are: decomposition algorithms in the linear algebra package (LU, QR, Cholesky, SVD, eigen decomposition) which are based on the popular JAMA API (but much faster); support for sparse matrices and vectors; support for any field-based matrix (Complex, Fraction ...); support for genetic algorithms; several new optimization algorithms (Dantzig's simplex for linear constrained problems, conjugate gradient, Brent); support for curve fitting with special cases for harmonic and polynomial functions; support for state derivative in ODE step handlers; new multistep integrators (Adams-Bashforth and Adams-Moulton) with variable stepsize; regression algorithms; rank transformations; Mersenne twister pseudo random number generator. This release is NOT source and binary compatible with earlier versions of Commons Math. Starting with version 2.0 of the library, the minimal version of the Java platform required to compile and use commons-math is Java 5. Users are encouraged to upgrade to this version, as in addition to new features, this release includes numerous bug fixes. Users of Commons Math 1.0-1.2 should recompile their code against the 2.0 jar. Most of the compilation errors users will encounter after the switch will be due to classes moved due to package reorganization. These errors are simply solved by adjusting the import statements in users code." Commons Math is published under the Apache 2.0 license.