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1/**@page RN10 Release notes for SCIP 10
2
3@section RN1010 SCIP 10.1.0
4***************************
5
6Features
7--------
8
9- added command line option `-t` to specify the number of threads, which triggers concurrent solving via SCIPsolveConcurrent()
10
11Performance improvements
12------------------------
13
14- implemented interval function evaluation callback in CONOPT interface
15- reduced complexity of SCIPundoBdchgsProof() during conflict analysis accelerating execution for many variables
16- terminate dynamic programming in the exact knapsack solver early once the optimal LP-based upper bound is reached
17
18Fixed bugs
19----------
20
21- include original objective offset when writing transformed problem
22- corrected random seed calculation in SCIPsetInitializeRandomSeed() in optimized mode
23- correct node selector for heuristic node preview in main solving loop
24- stop interrupted node without copying to child node to simplify continuation of solve
25- fixed bug with locking/unlocking aggregated variables in cons_orbisack/orbitope_full/orbitope_pp/symresack
26- fixed a bug in sassy/dejavu by adding a patch to dejavu/preprocess.h
27- fixed that registering branching candidates in the estimate callback of a nlhdlr was not accounted in the nlhdlr statistics
28- fixed that copying relaxation-only variable in SCIPgetVarCopy() was not rejected as intended
29- apply consistent arithmetic and tolerance to SCIPselectWeighted*() for stable critical item
30- fixed invalid memory access when calling SCIPgetStatus() in INIT stage
31- fixed that functions declared in pub_history.h were not included in optimized builds of SCIP
32- fixed that parameter changes were printed to the log when parsing emphasis settings via an "emphasis:" line in a settings file (other parameter settings are not printed)
33- disabled use of std::unchecked_array_iterator in amplmp's variant of fmt when using MSVC >= 2026
34- fixed compilation issue with MSVC 2026 when enabling C++20
35- fixed compilation issues with clang-based Intel compiler on Windows
36- fixed that check/check.sh did not reset EXECNAME before calling tmpfile configuration script
37
38Interface changes
39-----------------
40
41### New API functions
42
43- added SCIPcalcBestCut() to try multiple cut generation methods (FlowCover, KnapsackCover, CMIR) on an aggregation row and return the best cut by efficacy
44- added SCIPinitCutGenParams(), SCIPcreateCutGenResult(), and SCIPfreeCutGenResult() as helper functions for SCIPcalcBestCut()
45- added SCIPnlpiOracleEvalObjectiveInterval() and SCIPnlpiOracleEvalConstraintInterval()
46- added SCIPgetSolvingPhase() along with enum SCIP_SOLVINGPHASE to query the current solving phase tracked by the solvingphase event handler, phase evaluation requires solvingphases/enabled = TRUE or solvingphases/testmode = TRUE
47- added SCIPgetSolvingPhaseFlags() along with typedef SCIP_SOLVINGPHASEFLAG for flags SCIP_SOLVINGPHASEFLAG_NONE/RANK1/ESTIMATE/OPTIMAL/LOG to query which reached transition criteria have been detected by the solvingphase event handler, flag evaluation requires solvingphases/enabled = TRUE or solvingphases/testmode = TRUE
48- added SCIPiisGetSubscipCons() and SCIPiisGetSubscipVar() to get the variables and constraints of the IIS subscip corresponding to the main problem
49- added SCIPiisGetVarsmap() and SCIPiisGetConssmap()
50
51### New parameters
52
53- `presolving/milp/enableGF2`: whether to enable GF2 presolver in upcoming PaPILO 4
54- `concurrent/symmetrybefore`: whether symmetry should be computed before concurrent solving
55- `constraints/<handler>/copytypedcons` for knapsack, logicor, setppc, and varbound constraint handlers to copy constraints with their native type instead of as linear constraints (default: FALSE)
56
57### Data Structures
58
59- added struct \ref SCIP_CUTGENPARAMS for cut generation parameters
60- added struct \ref SCIP_CUTGENRESULT for cut generation result
61
62Build system
63------------
64
65- added build flag CHECKNAME=auto to control name checks in plugin function calls
66
67### Cmake
68
69- added workaround to avoid -isystem for ZLIB headers on macOS (leads to compilation issues for C++ code)
70
71### Makefiles
72
73- changed default compiler (COMP) from gnu to clang when on macOS and added make/make.darwin.arm.clang{.opt,.dbg,}
74- fixed makefiles for build with LPS=highs
75
76Miscellaneous
77-------------
78
79- added an example with a nonlinear handler for the potential function of the Lennard-Jones Cluster problem
80
81@section RN1003 SCIP 10.0.3
82***************************
83
84Fixed bugs
85----------
86
87- fixed statistic on added linear constraints in propagation
88- keep flag rangedrowpropagated of linear and exactlinear constraints for probing bound changes to avoid duplicate constraints by ranged row propagation
89- define result of SCIPconsProp() also if no propagation callback is available
90- keep variable for impossible substitution in cardinality constraint presolving to avoid duplication error
91- fix locking of indicator variables associated with cardinality constraints
92- free hashmap in cardinality constraints if problem is freed before transforming
93- fix CONSGETVARS and CONSGETNVARS callbacks of cardinality constraint handler
94- correct integer variable offset when removing duplicate variables from xor constraint
95- add applied clique as constraint when reformulating a binary product to avoid problem relaxation
96- round coefficients when aggregating integer variables with epsilon coefficient tolerance to ensure consistency of integrality
97- in the components constraint handler, avoid solving last component as a subproblem if all others components were trivial
98- when solving a node is interrupted, create a node branched event for the artificial child node
99- add missing capture of binary variable in indicator constraint handler
100- disregard deletable flag in IIS generation to reenable removal of unused variables
101- restore infeasible original problem in IIS addition filter if interrupted or hitting a limit
102- fixed that SCIP did not catch Ctrl+C in concurrent mode
103- SCIPsolveConcurrent() now returns with an error when reoptimization is enabled, since the concurrent sub-solvers do not perform reoptimization and the combination could segfault after SCIPfreeReoptSolve()
104- fixed indexing in the heap implementation in Dijkstra's algorithm; behavior of heap was and is correct
105
106Build systems
107-------------
108
109- fixed that the doc target in cmake builds was not available when using -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF
110- add /bigobj compiler flag when compiling with cmake, MSVC, LPS=spx, and in debug mode
111
112Miscellaneous
113-------------
114
115- added DEBUGTOOL=perf option for check scripts to collect perf statistics (new sections @06, @09, @10), including computation and comparison of non-memory-stalling frequency-normalized time
116- check scripts now write available memory (kB) and the current cumulative CPU ticks (from /proc/stat) before and after the solve to the .out file (new sections @07 and @08)
117- allow to return SCIP_CONSADDED when propagating constraints
118- cardinality constraint handler now parses and writes the indicator variables
119
120@section RN1002 SCIP 10.0.2
121***************************
122
123Fixed bugs
124----------
125
126- an error is now produced if the emphasis settings in parameter files are wrong
127- propagate focus lower bound to child nodes to avoid outdated global lower bound
128- set small coefficients in SCIPvarGetActiveRepresentatives() to zero, in particular for (multi-)aggregations
129- avoid flattening multi-aggregations twice
130- fixed that inttobinary presolver kept trying to aggregate variables that were marked as not to be aggregated
131- provide memory allocation for implied integral binary and integer variables in dks heuristic to avoid data corruption
132- fixed that violations of nonlinear constraints were not registered with solutions, and so were not included in the overview printed by the checksol command of the SCIP shell
133- fixed failing assert when assembling data for writing of JSON statistics and no plugins were included for some plugin types
134- fixed a bug in sassy/dejavu by updating version
135- add missing library exports of SCIPchgVarLbGlobalExact(), SCIPchgVarUbGlobalExact(), SCIPinferVarLbConsExact(), and SCIPinferVarUbConsExact()
136- add prefix TNY_ for tnycthread functions in order to avoid name clash with POSIX threads functions
137- keep sanitizers enabled if only unsupported for some language in cmake
138- fixed that header files and library of exact LP solver interface (lpiexact) and header files of TPI were not installed by make install (non-cmake build)
139- fixed that C++14 may not have been enforced when compiling with CppAD or Boost with makefiles
140
141Miscellaneous
142-------------
143
144- check scripts can now copy solution files to check/results/, functional for CPLEX, GAMS, and SCIP for now; new option KEEPSOL to disable writing and keeping solution files
145
146@section RN1001 SCIP 10.0.1
147***************************
148
149Fixed bugs
150----------
151
152- fixed that parameters passed on as variadic arguments to SCIPsolveNLP() and SCIPsolveNlpi() were ignored when compiling with MS compilers without -Zc:preprocessor
153- make more CONOPT output available when verbosity level is set to 2
154- turn off detection of definitional constraints in CONOPT for now, to work around a related issue in CONOPT 4.39.0
155- fixed call of SCIPcreateConsBasicSOCNonlinear() with coefs being NULL, and fixed check for offsets being finite
156- avoid crash when initial IIS solve fails while reporting errors explicitly
157- fixed that variable removal in IIS cleanup tried to delete variables that were marked as not deletable
158- fixed that some IIS info messages were not using a user's message handler
159- fixed use of interactive option (-i) of AMPL interface
160- fixed failure in nl writing on big endian machines
161- correct memory reallocation in storeSubproblemMasterVar() of benders.c to avoid errors when freeing memory
162- also set real solution in SCIPsolSetValExact() to maintain approximation
163- handle exact solutions in SCIPsolCheckOrig(), SCIPcheckSolOrig(), and SCIPrecomputeSolObj() to correctly check exact initial solutions in SCIPtransformProb()
164- fixed calculation of Euclidean norm in calcEfficacyDenseStorage() for use in exact solving
165- removed unnecessary explicit linking of GMP library for exact solving mode unittests
166- fixed bug with changing the type of the slack variable in indicator constraints while copying
167- signal extreme estimations in timeSeriesEstimate() and skip pruning estimations in eventExecEstim() to avoid unstable restarting
168- fixed parallelism computation of dynamic cut selector to use Euclidean norm instead of unsupported argument
169- fixed that non-efficacious cuts were not filtered out before checking dynamic parallelism in dynamic cut selector
170- fixes in nauty.h for 32bit systems
171- fixed SCIPgetDualSolVal() for a linear constraint with a single variable
172- adjust conflictAnalyzeLP() to inability of row aggregation to handle a change in the number of variables
173- propagate child lower bounds back to focus node to ensure consistent lower bound tracking
174
175Miscellaneous
176-------------
177
178- updated ampl/mp to version 4.0.4
179- switch from GetTempPath2A to GetTempPathA in nl writer for Windows for broader compatibility
180
181@section RN1000 SCIP 10.0.0
182***************************
183
184Features and Performance Improvements
185-------------------------------------
186
187### Exact Solving
188- added numerically exact solving mode for mixed-integer linear programs to the core framework including certification of branch-and-bound phase
189- core extensions:
190 - new wrapper struct SCIP_RATIONAL for rational arithmetic currently based on Boost, GMP, and MPFR
191 - new data structure SCIP_LPEXACT for handling rational LP relaxation and computing safe dual bounds
192 - new interfaces to exact LP solvers SoPlex and QSopt_ex
193 - safe dualproof version of conflict analysis
194 - new data structure SCIP_CERTIFICATE for certificate printing/proof logging
195- new plugins:
196 - new constraint handler "exactlinear" for handling linear constraints with rational data
197 - new constraint handler "exactsol" to post-process and repair solutions from floating-point heuristics
198- plugins revised for numerically exact solving mode:
199 - adjusted readers for MPS, LP, CIP, OPB/WBO, and ZIMPL files
200 - extended presolver "milp" to perform rational presolving with PaPILO
201 - adjusted constraint handler "integral" and default reliability pseudo-cost branching rule "relpscost"
202 - extended Gomory cut separator to separate and certify numerically safe MIR cuts
203 - adjusted all primal heuristics (except for five dedicated MINLP heuristics)
204- new interfaces to exact LP solvers SoPlex and QSopt_ex
205
206### Symmetry Handling
207- added more techniques to handle reflection symmetries, in particular, for orbitopes with column reflections and matrices whose rows and columns can be permuted by a symmetry
208- Dejavu can be used to compute symmetries; the source code is shipped with SCIP and incorporates sassy
209- implemented symmetry detection callbacks for disjunction and superindicator constraint handlers
210- detailed information about applied symmetry handling techniques can be printed to the terminal
211- improve memory usage by introducing different constraint handlers for full orbitopes and packing/partitioning orbitopes
212- symmetry detection no longer treats implicit integer variables separately, but computes symmetries based on the variable type inferred from variable bounds and implied integrality
213- extended the statistics to also include information about the number of variables (per type) affected by symmetry
214- implemented method to compute new permutations from a given list of symmetry group generators
215- cons_orbisack, cons_orbitope_full, cons_orbitope_pp, and cons_symresack now try to replace the stored aggregated variables by active ones at the end of presolving;
216 this should reduce the size of copies of the presolved problem
217- simplified symmetry detection graphs in case all edges have the same color
218
219### Presolve
220- distinguish implicit integrality of variables into strong and weak type, depending on whether integrality is implied for all feasible or only at least one optimal solution
221- added a new presolver "implint", which detects implied integral variables by detecting (transposed) network submatrices in the problem; for now, this plugin is disabled by default
222- added support for (transposed) network matrix detection
223- allow multi-aggregation of unbounded slack variables, which may enable more bound tightening due to a reduction in the number of unbounded variables
224- resolve all fixings in xor constraints also for an available integer variable
225
226### Conflict Analysis
227- added generalized resolution conflict analysis that operates directly on linear constraints instead of conflict graphs
228- disabled dualsol and dualray conflict upgrades to maintain conflict store
229- apply general conflict upgrades in conflict store
230
231### Cutting Planes
232- added a new separator "flower" to generate flower cuts from AND constraints and nonlinear product expressions
233- added functionality to deal with hypergraphs by means of efficient access to vertices, edges, and intersections edges
234
235### Primal Heuristics
236- added decomposition kernel search (DKS) heuristic (disabled by default), which implements a kernel search framework;
237 it can be used both as a construction heuristic as well as an improvement heuristic; existing decomposition information can be utilized
238- reduced maximal fraction of diving LP iterations relative to total node LP iterations
239
240### Branching
241- added a dynamic max-lookahead criterion for strong branching; a probability distribution is fitted to the observed candidate gains and
242 evaluating further candidates stops when the expected tree-size reduction no longer justifies the LP evaluation cost
243- added new fields in history to store ancestral pseudo cost updates, used in the pseudo costs branching rule to compute discounted pseudo costs
244
245### Nonlinearity
246- added an interface to the NLP solver CONOPT
247- implemented columnwise Jacobian sparsity computation in the NLP oracle
248- extended SOC detection to simple bilinear constraints, e.g., x*y >= 1
249
250### Infeasibility Analysis
251- added the possibility to search for irreducible infeasible subsystems (IIS)
252- added new plugin type for finding irreducible infeasible subsystems (IIS)
253- new iisfinder plugin "greedy", which implements a greedy addition and deletion based algorithm with dynamic batch sizing
254
255### Benders' Decomposition
256- when solving a problem with additional decomposition information (for example, when reading a DEC file) and enabling decomposition/applybenders,
257 the problem is now solved in a Benders' decomposition relaxator; instead of decomposing the original SCIP instance, the relaxator builds the decomposed problem in
258 sub-SCIPs and solves it via default Benders' Decomposition; a solution to the original (undecomposed) problem is now made available by the relaxator;
259 the SCIP shell dialog "display statistics" now also prints the statistics from solving the Benders' decomposition in the relaxator
260- adds objective types for Benders' decomposition; the choices are to sum the subproblems objectives (classical approach) and to use the maximum of the subproblems objectives
261- the linking master variables for each Benders' decomposition subproblem are now stored; these can be accessed for the generation of cuts and setting up the subproblems
262
263### Reading and Writing
264- added a new data structure SCIP_DATATREE that holds serializable data and a function to export to a JSON file
265- added ability to collect statistics from tables in a SCIP_DATATREE and write out as JSON file;
266 dialog write statistics now writes a JSON file if name of file to write ends with .json
267- added writing support for AMPL NL writer: currently only general and specialized linear and nonlinear constraints can be written
268- added support for AND-constraints to GAMS writer
269- simplify expressions of nonlinear constraints in MPS and LP writing to increase chance that they are recognized as quadratic
270
271### Applications
272- New application "PBSolver" to solve pseudoboolean instances in OPB and WBO format while complying with PB competition rules
273- Coloring: new parameter branching/coloring/strategy to choose the least/most fractional variable for branching
274
275### Miscellaneous
276- do not allow non-root restarts when no global fixings were found
277- reimplemented SCIPvarGetActiveRepresentatives() by using dense arrays to avoid repeated resorting
278- avoid unnecessary calls of constraint handlers components, benders, benderslp, propagator genvbounds, and heuristics ofins, subnlp, nlpdiving, indicator
279- inlined SCIPgetStatus() to reduce computational overhead
280- variable data pointer are now copied if no copy routine was supplied
281- add check that parameter value pointers are unique, i.e., no two are the same
282
283Interface changes
284-----------------
285
286### Deprecations
287
288- The variable type \ref SCIP_VARTYPE_IMPLINT is deprecated in favor of a new enum \ref SCIP_IMPLINTTYPE that indicates if a
289 variable is implied integral, independent of the variable type.
290 The problem variable arrays is still sorted as:
291 ```
292 (0) | binary | integer | implied integral | continuous | (nvars),
293 ```
294 where the implied integral subsection is now subdivided into 3 parts (left to right):
295 ```
296 | binary implied integral | integer implied integral | continuous implied integral |
297 ```
298 SCIP 10 still supports using `SCIP_VARTYPE_IMPLINT` for backward compatibility, see SCIPcreateVar() and SCIPchgVarType() for more details.
299 SCIP 11 will remove `SCIP_VARTYPE_IMPLINT`.
300- SCIPsubversion() is deprecated and will be removed
301
302### New and changed callbacks
303
304- added SCIP_DECL_IISFINDERCOPY(), SCIP_DECL_IISFINDERFREE(), and SCIP_DECL_IISFINDEREXEC() for iisfinder implementations
305- added a new callback SCIP_DECL_TABLECOLLECT() for the table plugin that collects the data for the specific statistics table in a SCIP_DATATREE object
306- for a table plugin, only one of the callbacks SCIP_DECL_TABLECOLLECT() or SCIP_DECL_TABLEOUTPUT() needs to be implemented, but implementing both is preferred;
307 if SCIP_DECL_TABLEOUTPUT() is omitted, then SCIP tries to print a table from the data given by SCIP_DECL_TABLECOLLECT()
308- the callback SCIP_DECL_EXPRINTEGRALITY(), which returns the integrality of an expression, had its fourth argument changed from `SCIP_Bool*` to `SCIP_IMPLINTTYPE*` to represent implied integrality in nonlinear expressions,
309 that is, an implied integral type of an auxiliary variable if the expression were assigned to it
310- added argument `filename` to the SCIP_DECL_READERWRITE() callback in the 4th position
311- the callback SCIP_DECL_READERWRITE() is equipped with `objoffset`, `objscale`, `objoffsetexact`, and `objscaleexact` as arguments 9 through 12 to write the exact objective offset and scale in exact mode
312
313### Deleted and changed API functions
314
315- SCIPgetProbvarLinearSum(): remove parameter `mergemultiples`, which is now automatically true with the new implementation of SCIPvarGetActiveRepresentatives()
316- `SCIPcreateRow*()`, SCIPaddVarToRow(), SCIPaddVarsToRow(), SCIPaddVarsToRowSameCoef() can now only be called in the solving stage, because otherwise the LP is not yet available and the row data is invalid
317- SCIPcreateConsPseudobooleanWithConss(), SCIPcreateConsPseudoboolean(), and SCIPcreateConsBasicPseudoboolean(): removed `intvar` from arguments because the non-linear objective reformulation with pseudoboolean constraints did not work
318- SCIPcleanupConssLinear() and SCIPcleanupConssKnapsack(): added argument `ndelconss` to directly delete empty redundant constraints before creating problem matrix
319- SCIPcopyPlugins(): added argument `copyiisfinders` (16th position)
320- SCIPcreateConsOrbitope(): deleted two arguments and changed position of another argument
321- SCIPvarCalcDistributionParameters(): argument `impltype` added (5th position)
322- SCIPpermuteProb(): argument `permuteimplvars` has been replaced by new arguments `permutebinimplvars`, `permuteintimplvars`, and `permutecontimplvars`
323- SCIPgetLPBranchCands(): implied integral variables with integrality constraints are included in `nlpcands` count and stored at the end of `lpcands`
324- SCIPgetNLPBranchCands(): implied integral variables with integrality constraints are included
325- SCIPgetSolVarsData(): argument `nimplvars` has been replaced by new arguments `nbinimplvars`, `nintimplvars`, and `ncontimplvars`
326- SCIPexprSetIntegrality(): replaced argument `SCIP_Bool integral` by `SCIP_IMPLINTTYPE integrality` (4th position)
327- SCIPcreateVar() (temporarily for SCIP 10 only): attempting to create a variable with type \ref SCIP_VARTYPE_IMPLINT creates a variable of type \ref SCIP_VARTYPE_CONTINUOUS and implied integral type \ref SCIP_IMPLINTTYPE_WEAK
328- SCIPchgVarType() (temporarily for SCIP 10 only): attempting to change a variable type to \ref SCIP_VARTYPE_IMPLINT leads to a call of SCIPchgVarImplType() with type \ref SCIP_IMPLINTTYPE_WEAK
329- `SCIPapplyBendersDecomposition()` has been removed; this was originally used to apply Benders' decomposition from a supplied decomposition structure; the application of Benders' decomposition now occurs in relax_benders
330- SCIPcalcMIR(), SCIPcutGenerationHeuristicCMIR(), SCIPcalcStrongCG(): replaced boolean argument `usevbds` by an integer argument `vartypeusevbds`, which indicates for which variables variable bound substitution should be performed
331- `SCIPchgAndConsCheckFlagWhenUpgr()`, `SCIPchgAndConsRemovableFlagWhenUpgr()`: removed to keep upgrade flags consistent; use SCIPconsAddUpgradeLocks() to control upgrades instead
332- SCIPaddConflict(): argument `cons` changed to type `SCIP_CONS**` to release the conflict constraint in a clean way
333- SCIPprintOrigProblem() and SCIPprintTransProblem(): moved declaration moved from scip_solvingstats.h to scip_prob.h
334- `SCIPnlpiOracleGetJacobianSparsity()`: renamed to SCIPnlpiOracleGetJacobianRowSparsity() and added arguments `colnlflags` and `nnlnz`
335- SCIPnlpiOracleGetHessianLagSparsity(), SCIPnlpiOracleEvalHessianLag(): added argument `colwise`
336- SCIPxmlProcess(), SCIPxmlNewNode(), SCIPxmlNewAttr(), SCIPxmlAddAttr(), SCIPxmlAppendChild(), SCIPxmlFreeNode(), SCIPxmlShowNode(), SCIPxmlGetAttrval(), SCIPxmlFirstNode(), SCIPxmlNextNode(), SCIPxmlFindNode(), SCIPxmlFindNodeMaxdepth(), SCIPxmlNextSibl(), SCIPxmlPrevSibl(), SCIPxmlFirstChild(), SCIPxmlLastChild(), SCIPxmlGetName(), SCIPxmlGetLine(), SCIPxmlGetData(), SCIPxmlFindPcdata(): renamed XML functions by adding `SCIP` prefix to avoid name clash with libxml2
337- `SCIPhashtableClear()`, `SCIPcomputeArraysIntersection()`, `SCIPcomputeArraysSetminus()`,
338 `SCIPgetRandomInt()`, `SCIPgetRandomReal()`, `SCIPgetRandomSubset()`, `SCIPpermuteIntArray()`, `SCIPpermuteArray()`,
339 `SCIPvarGetLbAtIndex()`, `SCIPvarGetUbAtIndex()`, `SCIPvarGetBdAtIndex()`, `SCIPvarWasFixedAtIndex()`,
340 `SCIPaddCut()`, `SCIPcreateRow()`, `SCIPcreateEmptyRow()`, `SCIPlpfeastol()`, `SCIPchgLpfeastol()`,
341 `SCIPsolveParallel()`, `SCIPwriteImplicationConflictGraph()`, `SCIPallowDualReds()`, `SCIPallowObjProp()`,
342 `SCIPcreateConsQuadratic()`, `SCIPcreateConsBasicQuadratic()`, `SCIPaddConstantQuadratic()`, `SCIPaddLinearVarQuadratic()`, `SCIPaddQuadVarQuadratic()`, `SCIPaddQuadVarLinearCoefQuadratic()`, `SCIPaddSquareCoefQuadratic()`, `SCIPaddBilinTermQuadratic()`, `SCIPgetNlRowQuadratic()`, `SCIPchgLhsQuadratic()`, `SCIPchgRhsQuadratic()`,
343 `SCIPcreateConsAbspower()`, `SCIPcreateConsBasicAbspower()`, `SCIPgetNlRowAbspower()`,
344 `SCIPcreateConsSOC()`, `SCIPcreateConsBasicSOC()`, `SCIPgetNlRowSOC()`: removed, previously deprecated
345- `SCIP_NLPTERMSTAT_TILIM`, `SCIP_NLPTERMSTAT_ITLIM`, `SCIP_NLPTERMSTAT_LOBJLIM`, `SCIP_NLPTERMSTAT_NUMERR`, `SCIP_NLPTERMSTAT_EVALERR`, `SCIP_NLPTERMSTAT_MEMERR`, `SCIP_NLPTERMSTAT_LICERR`: removed, these NLP termination status codes were previously deprecated
346- `SCIPselectPtrRealReal()`, `SCIPselectWeightedPtrRealReal()`, `SCIPsortPtrRealReal()`, `SCIPreoptAddGlbCons()`, `SCIPreoptnodeGetSplitCons()`, `SCIPcomprInitsol()`, `SCIPcomprExitsol()`,
347 `SCIPcertificatePrintSolExact()`, `SCIPincludeExLinconsUpgrade()`, `SCIPupgradeConsExactLinear()`, `SCIPgetRunningErrorStatsExactLinear()`, `SCIPcolExactGetMinPrimsol()`, `SCIPrationalarrayClear()`, `SCIPgetRowActivityExact()`, `SCIPgetRowFeasibilityExact()`, `SCIPvalsExactFree()`,
348 `SCIPbendersApplyDecomposition()`, `SCIPgetExprsdataBilinear()`, `SCIPgetVarCoefChg()`, `SCIPvarGetOrigIndex()`, `SCIPallocateSymgraphConsnodeperm()`, `SCIPwriteSto()`: removed the declaration because there was no implementation
349
350### New API functions
351
352Exact Solving:
353- SCIPenableExactSolving(): enable and disable exact solving mode; see below for a list of many new API functions added to support exact solving
354- `SCIPrational*()`: create and compute with rational numbers
355- SCIPintervalSetRational(): compute interval of rational number
356- SCIPstrToRationalValue(), SCIPrationalStrLen(), SCIPrationalToString(): handle string conversion of a rational number
357- SCIPrationalChgInfinity(), SCIPrationalGetInfinity(): handle infinity threshold of rational numbers
358- `SCIPrationalarray*()`: create and handle rational arrays
359- SCIPisExact(): query whether exact solving is enabled
360- SCIPisCertified(): query whether certification is enabled
361- `SCIPcertify*()`, `SCIP*Certificate()`: support proof logging/certificate generation
362- `SCIP*MarkExact()`: mark plugins as safe to use in exact solving mode
363- `SCIP*IsExact()` : query whether objects are ready for exact solving
364- SCIPincludeConshdlrExactLinear(): include the constraint handler for exact linear constraints
365- `SCIP*ExactLinear()`: create, query, and modify an exact linear constraint
366- SCIPconsGetLhsExact()`, SCIPconsGetRhsExact(), SCIPgetConsValsExact(): query exact sides and coefficients of a linear constraint
367- `SCIPmatrix*Exact()`: query matrix information in rational arithmetic
368- SCIPaddVarExactData(): add exact data to an existing variable
369- `SCIPvarGet*Exact()`: query variable information in rational arithmetic
370- `SCIP*Var*Exact*()`: handle variables exactly
371- SCIPchgVarLbExactDive(), SCIPchgVarUbExactDive(), SCIPisExactDivePossible(), SCIPinExactDive(), SCIPstartExactDive(), SCIPendExactDive(), SCIPsolveExactDiveLP(): handle exact LP diving
372- SCIPlpExactDiving(): query whether exact LP is in diving mode
373- SCIPlpExactIsSolved(): query whether the exact LP is solved
374- SCIPwriteLPexact(): write the exact LP
375- `SCIPcolExact*()`, `SCIProwExact*()`: handle the exact LP columns and rows
376- `SCIPlpiExact*()`: handle the exact LP interface
377- SCIPgetNExactLPs(): query the number of exact LP solves
378- SCIPgetLPExactSolstat(), SCIPgetLPExactObjval(): query solution status and objective value of the exact LP
379- SCIPaddOrigObjoffsetExact(), SCIPgetOrigObjoffsetExact(): add and query exact objective offset of the original problem
380- `SCIP*Sol*Exact()`: create and handle exact solutions
381- SCIPsolOrigAddObjvalExact(): add to exact objective of original solution
382- SCIPincludeConshdlrExactSol(): include the exact post-processing for solutions
383- `SCIP*Row*Exact*()`: create and handle exact LP rows
384- `SCIPaggrRow*Safely()`: compute safe real row aggregation
385- SCIPallowNegSlack(): query whether negative slacks are allowed
386- SCIPbranchLPExact(): branch exactly on the LP solution
387- SCIPeventGetOldboundExact(): query exact old bound for a bound change event
388- SCIPcalcIntegralScalarExact(): compute a scalar so that all given values become exactly integral
389- SCIPnodeGetLowerboundExact(): query the exact lower bound of a node
390- SCIPgetCutoffboundExact(), SCIPgetLowerboundExact(), SCIPgetUpperboundExact(), SCIPgetDualboundExact(), SCIPgetPrimalboundExact(): query exact best bounds on optimal value
391- SCIPvalidateSolveExact(): validate the exact solve
392
393Implicit Integrality:
394- SCIPincludePresolImplint(): include the new implied integral presolver
395- SCIPcreateVarImpl(), SCIPcreateObjVarImpl(): behave identically to SCIPcreateVar() and SCIPcreateObjVar(), respectively, but have an additional argument for the new implied integral type flag (8th position)
396- SCIPchgVarImplType(), SCIPvarGetImplType(), SCIPvarIsImpliedIntegral(), SCIPcolIsImpliedIntegral(): control and query implied integrality
397- SCIPvarIsNonimpliedIntegral(): query whether a variable is integral but not implied integral
398- SCIPgetNOrigBinImplVars(), SCIPgetNOrigIntImplVars(), SCIPgetNOrigContImplVars(): query the number of implied integral variables of each type in original problem;
399 note that SCIPgetNOrigBinVars(), SCIPgetNOrigIntVars(), and SCIPgetNOrigContVars() no longer include the implied integral variables in their counts
400- SCIPgetNBinImplVars(), SCIPgetNIntImplVars(), SCIPgetNContImplVars(): query the number of implied integral variables of each type in current problem;
401 note that SCIPgetNBinVars(), SCIPgetNIntVars(), and SCIPgetNContVars() no longer include the implied integral variables in their counts
402- SCIProwGetNumImpliedIntCols(): query number of implied integer columns in a row
403- SCIPvarsCountTypes(): determine the variable type count distribution for an array of variables
404- SCIPeventGetOldImplType(), SCIPeventGetNewImplType(): query implication type change for the new event \ref SCIP_EVENTTYPE_IMPLTYPECHANGED
405- SCIPexprGetIntegrality(): provides information about the presence of weakly implied integral variables, in addition to the existing function SCIPexprIsIntegral()
406
407Symmetry Handling:
408- SCIPincludeConshdlrOrbitopePP(), SCIPcreateConsOrbitopePP(), SCIPcreateConsBasicOrbitopePP(), SCIPincludeConshdlrOrbitopeFull(), SCIPcreateConsOrbitopeFull(), SCIPcreateConsBasicOrbitopeFull()
409- SCIPdisplaySymmetryGenerators(), SCIPdialogExecDisplaySymmetry(): display generators of symmetry group
410- SCIPclearSymgraph(), SCIPcopySymgraphAsSubgraph(): clear and copy a symmetry detection graph, respectively
411
412Conflict Analysis:
413- SCIPgetNResConflictConssApplied(): return the number of generalized resolution conflict constraints added to the problem
414- SCIPaddConsUpgrade(): add constraint upgrades while informing the conflict store
415
416Branching:
417- SCIPhistoryUpdateAncPseudocost(), SCIPvarUpdateAncPseudocost(): update the ancestral pseudo cost fields in variable history
418- SCIPhistoryGetAncPseudocost(), SCIPhistoryGetAncPseudocostCount(), SCIPhistoryIsAncPseudocostEmpty(), SCIPgetVarAncPseudocostVal(), SCIPvarGetAncPseudocost(): retrieve values related to ancestral pseudo cost fields in variable history
419- SCIPgetAvgDPseudocostScore(), SCIPgetVarDPseudocostScore(): compute discounted pseudo cost scores using ancestral pseudo costs
420- SCIPboundchgGetLPSolVal(): access LP solution value in the branching data of a bound change
421
422Cutting Planes:
423- SCIPincludeSepaFlower(): include the new flower cut separator
424- SCIPconsCreateRow(): to create and return the row of a linearly representable constraint
425- SCIPcreateRowKnapsack(), SCIPcreateRowLinear(), SCIPcreateRowLogicor(), SCIPcreateRowSetppc(), SCIPcreateRowVarbound(): create and get the row of linearly representable constraints
426
427Benders' Decomposition:
428- SCIPincludeRelaxBenders(): include the Benders' decomposition relaxator
429- SCIPgetMasterProblemRelaxBenders(): retrieve master problem SCIP instance from the Benders' decomposition relaxator
430- SCIPbendersGetSubproblemMasterVars(), SCIPbendersGetNSubproblemMasterVars(), SCIPbendersGetSubproblemMasterVarsData(): get the linking master variables for each subproblem and details about the number of binary and integer variables
431- SCIPsetBendersObjectiveType(), SCIPbendersGetObjectiveType(): set and get the objective type for the aggregation of the Benders' decompostion subproblems
432- SCIPbenderGetMasterAuxiliaryVar(): get master auxiliary variable
433- SCIPfreeReaderdataCor(), SCIPfreeReaderdataTim(), SCIPfreeReaderdataSto(): free the data for the COR, TIM, and STO readers, respectively; these readers are all used when reading an SMPS instance
434
435IIS:
436- SCIPincludeIISfinder(), SCIPincludeIISfinderBasic(), SCIPsetIISfinderCopy(), SCIPsetIISfinderFree(), SCIPgenerateIIS(), SCIPfindIISfinder(), SCIPgetIISfinders(), SCIPgetNIISfinders(), SCIPsetIISfinderPriority(), SCIPgetIIS()
437- SCIPiisfinderGetName(), SCIPiisfinderGetData(), SCIPiisfinderGetDesc(), SCIPiisfinderGetPriority(), SCIPiisfinderSetData(), SCIPiisfinderGetTime(), SCIPiisfinderInfoMessage(), SCIPiisGetTime(), SCIPiisIsSubscipInfeasible(), SCIPiisIsSubscipIrreducible(), SCIPiisGetNNodes(), SCIPiisSetSubscipInfeasible(), SCIPiisSetSubscipIrreducible(), SCIPiisAddNNodes(), SCIPiisGetRandnumgen(), SCIPiisGetSubscip(), SCIPiisGreedyMakeIrreducible()
438
439Hypergraphs:
440- SCIPhypergraphCreate(), SCIPhypergraphClear(), SCIPhypergraphFree(), SCIPhypergraphAddVertex(), SCIPhypergraphAddEdge(), SCIPhypergraphIsValid(), SCIPhypergraphComputeVerticesEdges(): build and delete hypergraphs
441- SCIPhypergraphComputeOverlaps(), SCIPhypergraphOverlapFind(), SCIPhypergraphIntersectEdges(), SCIPhypergraphComputeOverlapsEdges(), SCIPhypergraphComputeVerticesOverlaps(), SCIPhypergraphOverlapsDisjoint(): handle pair-wise intersections of hyperedges
442- SCIPhypergraphIterInit(), SCIPhypergraphIterClear(), SCIPhypergraphIterStart(), SCIPhypergraphIterValid(), SCIPhypergraphIterNext(), SCIPhypergraphIterBase(), SCIPhypergraphIterAdjacent(), SCIPhypergraphIterMinVertex(), SCIPhypergraphIterOverlap(): iterate over adjacent edges
443- SCIPhypergraphHasVertexEdges(), SCIPhypergraphHasOverlaps(), SCIPhypergraphHasOverlapsEdges(), SCIPhypergraphHasVertexOverlaps(), SCIPhypergraphGetNVertices(), SCIPhypergraphGetNEdges(), SCIPhypergraphBlkmem(), SCIPhypergraphGetNOverlaps(),
444 SCIPhypergraphVertexData(), SCIPhypergraphEdgeData(), SCIPhypergraphEdgeSize(), SCIPhypergraphEdgeVertices(), SCIPhypergraphVertexEdgesFirst(), SCIPhypergraphVertexEdgesBeyond(), SCIPhypergraphVertexEdgesGetAtIndex(), SCIPhypergraphOverlapData(),
445 SCIPhypergraphOverlapSize(), SCIPhypergraphOverlapVertices(), SCIPhypergraphEdgesOverlapsFirst(), SCIPhypergraphEdgesOverlapsBeyond(), SCIPhypergraphEdgesOverlapsGetAtIndex(), SCIPhypergraphOverlapsEdgesFirst(), SCIPhypergraphOverlapsEdgesBeyond(),
446 SCIPhypergraphOverlapsEdgesGetAtIndex(), SCIPhypergraphVertexOverlapsFirst(), SCIPhypergraphVertexOverlapsBeyond(), SCIPhypergraphVertexOverlapsGetAtIndex(): query information about vertices, edges, and overlaps as well as their incidences
447
448Network Matrix:
449- SCIPnetmatdecCreate(), SCIPnetmatdecFree(): create and delete a network matrix decomposition
450- SCIPnetmatdecTryAddCol(), SCIPnetmatdecTryAddRow(): add columns and rows to a matrix decomposition
451- SCIPnetmatdecContainsRow(), SCIPnetmatdecContainsColumn(): check if a matrix decomposition contains the given row or columns
452- SCIPnetmatdecRemoveComponent(): remove connected components from a matrix decomposition
453- SCIPnetmatdecCreateDiGraph(): expose underlying digraph of matrix decomposition
454- SCIPnetmatdecIsMinimal(), SCIPnetmatdecVerifyCycle(): check whether certain invariants of a matrix decomposition are satisfied and used in tests
455
456Solve Statistics:
457- functions to create, modify, and free SCIP_DATATREE objects and to print as JSON or table (see pub_datatree.h and scip_datatree.h)
458- `SCIPcollect*Statistics()`: for every `SCIPprint*Statistics()` in scip_solvingstats.h
459- SCIPprintStatisticsJson(): output a JSON string of the table statistics data
460
461Nonlinearity:
462- SCIPincludeNlpSolverConopt(), SCIPsetLicenseConopt(), SCIPgetSolverNameConopt(), SCIPgetSolverDescConopt(), SCIPisConoptAvailableConopt(): interact with the new CONOPT interface
463- SCIPnlpiOracleGetConstraintLinearCoef(): get a linear coefficient of a variable in a given constraint in the NLP oracle
464- SCIPnlpiOracleGetJacobianColSparsity(): get the column-wise sparsity pattern of the Jacobian from the NLP oracle
465- SCIPnlpiOracleGetObjGradientNnz(): get indices of nonzeroes in the objective gradient
466- `src/objscip/objexprhdlr.h`: C++ interface for expression handlers
467
468Miscellaneous:
469- SCIPsortRealPtrPtr(), ..., SCIPsortDownIntIntIntReal(): new sorting functions
470- `SCIPdebugClearSol()`: clear the debug solution
471- SCIPdialogIsHidden(), SCIPdialogSetHidden(): determine whether a dialog should be hidden in help list
472- SCIPstatusName() to get a string representation of SCIP_STATUS
473- SCIPconshdlrSetNeedsCons(): set whether constraint handler callbacks should also be called if there are no constraints
474- SCIPpropSetTimingmask(): set timing mask of a propagator
475- SCIPhashmapInsertLong(), SCIPhashmapGetImageLong()
476- SCIPvarGetMinAggrCoef(), SCIPvarGetMaxAggrCoef(): get bounds on absolute aggregation coefficients for a loose variable
477- SCIPisVarAggrCoefAcceptable(): check whether bounds on aggregation coefficients would exceed thresholds when using a loose variable in another aggregation
478- SCIPgetNRootIntFixings(): retrieve the number of integer fixings at the root node
479- SCIPcollectMemoryGarbage(): explicitly trigger garbage collection on block memory; before SCIP 10, this was done in SCIPtransformProb()
480
481### Data Structures
482
483\attention changed the numeric values in the \ref SCIP_STATUS enum
484
485- added struct \ref SCIP_RATIONAL for rational number arithmetic
486- added struct \ref SCIP_LPEXACT and many further data structures to support exact solving mode
487- added structs \ref SCIP_IISFINDER, \ref SCIP_IISFINDERDATA, \ref SCIP_IIS
488- added struct \ref SCIP_DATATREE to model generic serializable data; new enum \ref SCIP_DATATREE_VALUETYPE
489
490### Changes in Preprocessor Macros
491
492- `SCIP_EVENTTYPE_TYPECHANGED`: no longer generated if a variable becomes implied integral
493- `SCIP_EVENTTYPE_IMPLTYPECHANGED`: new event that is generated if a variable is declared implied integral, this event is included in the set \ref SCIP_EVENTTYPE_VARCHANGED
494- `SCIP_EVENTTYPE_DUALBOUNDIMPROVED`: new event that is generated whenever the global dual bound is improved
495- `SCIP_EVENTTYPE_GAPUPDATED`: new event mask for catching updates in primal or dual bound
496- `SCIP_PROPTIMING_NONE`: new propagator timing for never calling a propagator
497- `SCIP_HEURTIMING_NONE`: new heuristic timing for never call a primal heuristic
498- `strcasecmp`, `strncasecmp` (Windows builds): removed `#define` from scip/def.h; use SCIPstrcasecmp() and SCIPstrncasecmp() instead
499- \ref SCIP_VERSION_SUB, `SCIP_SUBVERSION`: deprecated
500- `SCIP_VARTYPE_IMPLINT_CHAR`: removed
501- `NO_RAND_R`: removed its use
502
503### SCIP Shell
504
505- `help <command>` now allows to display information on specific command
506- allow to hide certain commands in the help list
507- added the (hidden) command "exit" to exit the shell
508- added command `iis` to create an infeasible subsystem
509- added `write/iis` dialog to write out the infeasible subsystem to file
510- added `display/iis` dialog to write out the infeasible subsystem to console
511
512### Changed parameters
513
514- `heuristics/scheduler/heurtimelimit` removed to avoid indeterministic behavior of scheduler heuristic, uses main time limit instead
515- removed parameters `constraints/orbitope/checkpporbitope`, `constraints/orbitope/sepafullorbitope`, `constraints/orbitope/forceconscopy`, which became superfluous
516- removed `reading/gmsreader/signpower`
517- removed `benders/default/numthreads`: multi-threading support for Benders' decomposition has been temporarily disabled
518- restricted range of parameter `propagating/symmetry/sstleadervartype` to [1,7]; its new default value is 6
519- `propagating/∗/timingmask` extended by setting 0 to disable propagators completely
520- changed defaults of `constraints/components/propfreq` and `constraints/components/maxdepth` to -1 and 2147483647, respectively, to avoid unnecessary calls of components propagator by default
521- changed frequencies for the following heuristics: shifting, gins, crossover, rins, randrounding
522- changed default `maxlpiterquot` to 0.05 for all LP diving heuristics and feaspump, whereas adaptivediving uses 0.15 and rootsoldiving remains at 0.01
523- changed default of `presolving/restartminred` to 0.05
524- changed default of `presolving/immrestartfac` to 0.05
525- removed parameters `propagating/symmetry/{nautymaxncells,nautymaxnnodes}`
526- updated description of parameter `misc/usesymmetry`
527
528### New parameters
529
530- `exact/enable`: enable exact solving mode
531- `exact/improvingsols`: whether only improving exact solutions should be considered
532- `exact/safedbmethod`: method of safe dual bounding
533- `exact/interleavedbstrat`: interleaving strategy between safe dual bounding and exact LP solving
534- `exact/psdualcolselection`: project-and-shift strategy of dual column selection
535- `exact/cutapproxmaxboundval`: maximal absolute bound for which coefficients in exact cuts should be approximated
536- `exact/cutmaxdenom`: maximal denominator of coefficients in approximating exact cuts
537- `exact/allownegslack`: whether negative slack variables in exact Gomory cuts should be used
538- `exact/lpinfo`: whether the exact LP solver should display status messages
539- `constraints/exact{linear,sol}/{sepafreq,propfreq,proptiming,eagerfreq,maxprerounds,delaysepa,delayprop,presoltiming}`: functionality of constraint handlers exactlinear and exactsol
540- `constraints/exactlinear/sortvars`: whether binary variable coefficients should be sorted with decreasing absolute value in exactlinear constraints
541- `constraints/exactlinear/{tightenboundsfreq,propcont,limitdenom,boundmaxdenom}`: propagation of exactlinear constraints
542- `constraints/exactlinear/{maxrounds,maxroundsroot,maxsepacuts,maxsepacutsroot}`: separation of exactlinear constraints
543- `constraints/exactsol/solbufsize`: size of solution buffer in exactsol handler
544- `constraints/exactsol/{minimprove,checkfpfeasibility,checkcontimplint,abortfrac,unfixfrac}`: solution processing in exactsol handler
545- `constraints/exactsol/maxstalls`: maximal number of consecutive unsuccessful reparations in exactsol handler
546- `certificate/filename`, `certificate/maxfilesize`: certificate file
547- `branching/pscost/discountfactor`, `branching/relpscost/discountfactor`: discount factor for ancestral pseudo costs in pscost and relpscost branching rules
548- `branching/collectancpscost`: enable/disable recording of ancestral pseudo costs
549- `branching/relpscost/dynamiclookahead`, `branching/relpscost/dynamiclookaheadquot`, `branching/relpscost/dynamiclookdistribution`, `branching/relpscost/minsamplesize`:
550 configure the dynamic max-lookahead criterion for strong branching: enable flag, fraction threshold, distribution choice, and minimum sample size
551- `constraints/cumulative/maxtime`: limit the time horizon and avoid integer overflow for unbounded variables
552- `constraints/orbitope_full/forceconscopy`, `constraints/orbitope_pp/forceconscopy`: whether non-model constraints of type full orbitope and packing/partitioning orbitope are copied to sub-SCIPs, respectively
553- `propagating/symmetry/handlesignedorbitopes`: whether to apply special symmetry handling techniques for orbitopes whose columns can be (partially) reflected
554- `propagating/symmetry/usesimplesgncomp:` whether symmetry components all of whose variables are simultaneously reflected by a symmetry shall be handled by a special inequality
555- `propagating/symmetry/dispsyminfo`: whether to print information about applied symmetry handling methods
556- `propagating/symmetry/nautymaxlevel`: limit on depth level of Nauty's search tree
557- `presolving/implint/convertintegers`: whether implied integrality should also be detected for enforced integral variables
558- `presolving/implint/columnrowratio`: ratio of rows/columns where the row-wise network matrix detection algorithm is used instead of the column-wise network matrix detection algorithm
559- `presolving/implint/numericslimit`: limit for absolute integral coefficients beyond which the corresponding rows and variables are excluded from implied integrality detection
560- `write/implintlevel`: whether integrality constraints should be written for implied integral variables (regarded by cip, mps, lp, rlp, pip, fzn, and gms writers)
561- `iis/∗`
562- `presolving/milp/enablecliquemerging`: whether to enable clique merging in PaPILO
563- `presolving/milp/maxedgesparallel`: maximal number of edges in the parallel clique merging graph
564- `presolving/milp/maxedgessequential`: maximal number of edges in the sequential clique merging graph
565- `presolving/milp/maxcliquesize`: maximal size of cliques considered for clique merging
566- `presolving/milp/maxgreedycalls`: maximal number of greedy max clique calls in a single thread
567- `heuristics/dks/∗`: heuristic decomposition kernel search
568- `relaxing/benders/continueorig`: whether original problem should continue solving after the completion of the Benders' decomposition algorithm in the Benders' relaxator, if the problem is not solved to optimality
569- `relaxing/benders/nodelimit`: node limit for the Benders' decomposition master problem in the Benders' relaxator; by default the limits from the original SCIP instance are copied
570- `conflict/usegenres`, `conflict/reduction`, `conflict/mbreduction`, `conflict/maxvarsfracres`, `conflict/resfuiplevels`, `conflict/fixandcontinue`, `conflict/maxcoefquot`: control generalized resolution conflict analysis
571- `lp/minsolvedepth`: lower bound on the depth at which LPs are solved
572- `reading/opbreader/maxintsize`: maximal intsize above which an OPB instance is rejected
573- `reading/nlreader/binary`, `reading/nlreader/comments`: adjust writing of `nl` files
574- `nlpi/conopt/priority`: priority of the CONOPT NLP solver
575- `randomization/randomseedshiftmultiplier`: multiplier for the shift set by `randomization/randomseedshift`;
576 the shift is multiplied by (6*`randomseedshiftmultiplier`+1), with the default value for `randomseedshiftmultiplier` set to 10 now;
577 this default value is expected to change with every major release; setting the parameter to 0 restores SCIP 9 behavior
578
579### Other Changes
580
581- removed LP solver interface `lpi_spx1`, which used the old SoPlex interface; renamed `lpi_spx2` to `lpi_spx`
582- removed `cons_abspower.{h,c}`, `cons_quadratic.{h,c}`, and `cons_soc.{h,c}`
583
584Build system
585------------
586
587- new option `SYM=dejavu` to choose Dejavu for computing symmetries
588- changed the default for `TPI` to `tny`
589- added build flag `CHECKSTAGE=auto` to control stage checks in API function calls
590- removed `LPS` options `spx1` and `spx2`, only `LPS=spx` is available to select SoPlex now
591- removed previously deprecated `PARASCIP` option, use `THREADSAFE=false` instead to disable thread-safety
592
593### Makefile
594
595- added build flag `EXACTSOLVE=<true|false|auto>` to turn exact solving mode on, off, or turn it on if all necessary dependencies are available
596- added build flag `MPFR` (default: false) to link with the multiprecision floating-point library, needed when SoPlex is also built with `MPFR=true` for precision boosting in rational solving mode
597- added build flag `CONOPT` (default: false) to link to the CONOPT NLP solver
598- link-time-optimization can be enabled on Linux and macOS with gcc and clang by setting `LTO=true`, default is false
599- revised `SANITIZE` options: removed `SANITIZE=full`, added `SANITIZE=thread`, `SANITIZE=address`, and `SANITIZE=memory` to enable thread, address, and memory sanitizers, respectively, in addition to undefined behavior sanitizer;
600 changed default to `SANITIZE=false`
601- default settings for makefile variables in `make.project` are now only used if variable hasn't been set already
602- the symlink `$(LIBDIR)/include/papilo` should now point to the `src` subdirectory of a PaPILO repository or the headers directory of a PaPILO installation without TBB; pointing to the directory of a PaPILO repository still works, but is deprecated
603- removed option to link TBB library, as this is not used by default when PaPILO has not been built via cmake (use `USRCXXFLAGS=-DPAPILO_TBB USRLDFLAGS=-ltbb` to enable TBB for PaPILO)
604- `LPS=spx` is no longer mapped to `LPS=spx2`, which changes the name of the generated LPI libraries and binaries when using SoPlex
605- removed `OPENSOURCE` flag
606
607### Cmake
608
609- added build flag `EXACTSOLVE=<on|off|auto>` to turn exact solving mode on, off, or turn it on if all necessary dependencies are available
610- added build flag CONOPT (default: off) to link to the CONOPT NLP solver and variable `CONOPT_DIR` to specify the path to CONOPT
611- link-time-optimization can be enabled if supported by compiler by using `-DLTO=on`, default is `off`
612- replaced `SANITIZE_XYZ=(on|off)` options by `SANITIZE=(on|off|thread|address|memory)`;
613 undefined behavior sanitizer is always enabled if not `SANITIZE=off` (the default)
614- increased minimal required cmake version to 3.11
615- scip-config.cmake now defines a variable `SCIP_COMPILE_FLAGS`, which could be used to compile code that builds against SCIP via cmake;
616 currently, this only passes on the sanitizer flags that were used to build `libscip`
617- removed automatic download and build of Bliss during cmake configuration when `-DSYM=(s)bliss`;
618 a Bliss installation from https://github.com/scipopt/bliss can be specified with `-DBLISS_DIR`
619- removed option `LEGACY`
620
621Fixed bugs
622----------
623
624- fixed bug related to unreleased data for the Benders' decomposition framework; when reading an SMPS file and applying
625 Benders' decomposition, data is created that was not correctly released; also, data within the Benders' decomposition
626 framework was not appropriately reset; the data is now released/reset as expected
627- to fix a bug where duplicate cuts from different constraint handlers were not recognized, `SCIPrealHash()` was changed
628 to be stable around shortly representable numbers, and a numerical tolerance for comparing cutting plane efficacy for the aggregation
629 separator is introduced
630- accept fractional continuous implied integral variables in heuristic "completesol"
631- invalidate activity with contradicting infinity contributions
632- avoid integer overflow in cumulative constraints triggered by unbounded variables, see new parameter `constraints/cumulative/maxtime`
633- allow negative update in SCIPconsAddUpgradeLocks() to unlock constraint upgrade
634- fixed memory leaks when LP, MPS, and OPB/WBO readers abort unsuccessfully
635- removed erroneous catching of objective-changed events in intobj separator; instead, the separator no longer executes within probing with changed objective function
636- propagator dualfix no longer fixes variables to infinity to avoid issues when transferring the solution to the original problem
637- track and check bounds on the coefficients that is used for a variable in aggregations of other variables to improve numerical stability
638- corrected the upgrade of full orbitopes to packing/partitioning orbitopes in case the orbitopal symmetries form a proper subgroup of a component's symmetry group
639- aggregate integer variable to not in clique variable in cliquePresolve() of xor constraints to avoid infeasible solutions
640- fixed memory leak in dynamic partition search primal heuristic
641- fixed issue with file existence check in XML parser when SCIP was build with ZLIB support on Windows
642- fixed thread-safety issue when using CppAD and user-defined expression handler
643- fixed typo in `#pragma` directive of redistributed nauty.h
644
645Miscellaneous
646-------------
647
648- removed 4th number in SCIP version; the new format is major.minor.patch
649- changed sassy to the version included in Dejavu
650- updated ampl/mp to v4.0.3
651- the CIP reader now sets an objective offset instead of adding a variable fixed to the objective offset
652- the solchecker tool has been extended for rational values
653- SCIPclassifyConstraintTypesLinear() classify a varbound only when a binary variable is present
654- the internal limit `MAXGENNUMERATOR` has been increased to allow more generators of symmetry groups, especially for problems with many variables
655
656@page RN9 Release notes for SCIP 9
657
658@section RN924 SCIP 9.2.4
659*************************
660
661Fixed bugs
662----------
663
664- fixed bugs with counting changes in presolving of nonlinear and setppc constraints, which resulted in negative values
665- cut off dead end node to correctly track dual bound update during solving
666- no longer construct and flush the LP in SCIPwriteLP() and SCIPwriteMIP() to avoid unexpected side effects
667- apply multi-aggregations before detecting redundancy in propagation of varbound constraints to keep bound implications
668- skip bound changes when cutting off a branch-and-bound subtree
669- correct detection of doublelex matrices and their handling via orbitope constraints
670- skip attempting to free transformed problem if SCIPtransformProb() failed with an error in SCIPpresolve(), since freeing
671 the transformed problem is likely to fail as well
672- fixed memory leak in primal heuristic "scheduler" when there is a restart
673- fixed stopping when there is a candidate with a change in the LP bound for both children in strong branching of branch_fullstrong
674- fixed detection of sinks in varbound detection from cumulative constraints
675- fixed memory allocation when adding strong SBCs for enclosing orbit of symmetric subgroups (disabled by default)
676- free paths of branch-and-bound tree iteratively instead of recursively to avoid stack overflow
677- fixed rare invalid memory access when collecting symmetry information for indicator constraints
678- recompute activity bounds before checking infeasibility and redundancy in linear constraint presolving
679- skip integer variables with fractional value in reference solution when finding additional variable fixings in ALNS heuristic
680- fix call of SCIPaddExprsViolScoreNonlinear() with constant expressions (no variables)
681- fixed bug with concurrent solve w.r.t. variable indices that led to segmentation faults and fix termination test
682- adjust further bounds before checking feasibility in SCIPvarAddVlb() and SCIPvarAddVub() to detect integrality cutoff
683- fixed that the last fixed binary variable was not set after binary variables were created for linking constraints
684- fixed that when a linking constraint with only one binary variable was added during solving, it was not disabled
685- fixed set_search_limits call when using SYM=sbliss with an old patched Bliss version
686
687Build system
688------------
689
690### CMake
691
692- added workaround for recent ctest versions rejecting -R -default as arguments
693
694### Makefile
695
696- added experimental target to run cppcheck
697
698
699@section RN923 SCIP 9.2.3
700*************************
701
702Fixed bugs
703----------
704
705- avoid hashmap key error in removal of doubletons and singletons in dual presolve of setppc constraints by skipping tripleton locks
706- when upgrading to xor constraint require parity variable to be enforced integral
707- provide the depth of the applied effective root with SCIPtreeGetEffectiveRootDepth() to avert invalid globalization of constraint set changes
708- disable objective limit during lexicographic dual minimization to preserve feasibility status
709- declare infinite bound inference infeasible in SCIPinferVarLbCons() and SCIPinferVarUbCons() to maintain correct loose LP values
710- fixed update of consssorted flags in a variable expressions data when adding an additional constraint using this variable
711- corrected computation of number of variables affected by symmetry
712- fixed computation of symmetry group size
713- correct comparison conditions in checkRedundancySide() of cons_varbound.c to ensure pair redundancy
714- also for the initial LP solve force acceptance of Farkas row in SCIPlpGetDualfarkas() if all other means for obtaining a reliable Farkas proof have failed
715- avoid overwriting the cutoff flag in tightenCoefs(), preprocessConstraintPairs(), and applyFixings() of cons_varbound.c to reject infeasible solutions
716- fix memory leak in CppAD interface w.r.t. user expressions
717- adjust bound before checking feasibility in SCIPvarAddVlb() and SCIPvarAddVub() to detect integrality cutoff
718- choose incumbent solution as reference in varFixingsRins() and varFixingsDins() of ALNS heuristic to ensure integrality
719- consider variable type in selectInitialVariableRandomly() of GINS heuristic to count integral variables
720- correct fractionality sign when standardizing bounds in simplifyInequalities() of cons_linear.c
721
722Build system
723------------
724
725### CMake
726
727- disable setting the boolean variable MACOSX_RPATH to a string value to actually enable @rpath usage
728- define SOPLEX_NEEDED and ZIMPL_NEEDED to avoid syntax error in configuration file
729
730Miscellaneous
731-------------
732
733- when writing a problem with non-generic names, warnings are printed if variable or constraint names are not unique
734
735@section RN922 SCIP 9.2.2
736*************************
737
738Fixed bugs
739----------
740
741- fixed definition of slack variables of >= constraints and ranged rows in LP interface to Gurobi
742- free memory leaking singleton arrays for ignored variables in SCIPapplyHeurDualval()
743- use epsilon tolerance for bound implications of dual substitutions in dualPresolve() of cons_linear
744- fixed timeouts due to race conditions when using TPI=omp
745- fixed issues with indexing of concurrent solvers when a solver finishes (because SCIP is too fast) before others have been created when using TPI=tny
746- respect fixing if variable is declared binary in bounds section of mps file
747- fixed reading mps files with short row and column names and some fixed-form mps files with spaces in row names
748- force local bounds to adjusted value when fixing variable
749- adds missing NULL check for Benders' subproblems in feasalt cut
750- apply objective scale to pseudoboolean non-linear terms
751- impose pseudoboolean cost bound without intermediate casting
752- flatten aggregation graph before finishing presolve to accelerate evaluating an empty solution
753- respect fixed resultants in binvarGetActiveProbindex() of branch_relpscost
754- drop fixed resultants when copying pseudoboolean constraint
755- correct matrix entry when resolving aggregated variables in checkSystemGF2() of cons_xor
756- corrected symmetry detection graph of cons_and, cons_or, cons_xor, and cons_indicator
757- correct redundancy filter in consdataCreateRedundant() of cons_bounddisjunction
758- replaced unreliable comparison of node pointers by node numbers in prop_genvbounds
759- allocate memory for all integral variables in applyCliqueFixings() of heur_clique
760- fix conflict resolution for one particular case in cons_indicator
761- make interface to nauty thread safe
762- use relative epsilon tolerance to check Farkas row in SCIPlpGetDualfarkas() to avoid invalid cutoff
763- fixed bug with SOS2 constraints of size that avoided a correct enforcing
764
765Build system
766------------
767
768### Cmake
769
770- allow to set HIGHS_DIR via -D flag as well
771- reenable building and testing of SCFLP example
772- fixed that compiler flags for sanitizers were not used for compiling objects of SCIP library
773- prioritize local includes for unittests, examples, and applications to link the intended SCIP version
774- fix detection of Gurobi 11 and 12 libs on Linux
775
776### Makefile
777
778- fix use of SANITIZE=full for debug builds with GCC on Linux: removed -fsanitize=leak because it cannot be used together with -fsanitize=address
779- fix that make install SHARED=true missed to install libscipbase
780
781@section RN921 SCIP 9.2.1
782*************************
783
784Fixed bugs
785----------
786
787- apply same feasibility definition in PaPILO as in SCIP to avoid numerical inconsistencies
788- check variable cancellation in SCIPvarAddVlb() and SCIPvarAddVub() to avert wrong infeasibility
789- SCIPfreeReoptSolve() now also clears partial solutions
790- fixed bug in calculation of "fractionality score" for spatial branching candidates in cons_nonlinear
791- fixed bug with installing symmetry dialog in sub-SCIPs
792- added copy callbacks for presolvers dualagg and redvub, branching rules lookahead and cloud, primal heuristics dualval and repair, propagator nlobbt, and separators gauge and convexproj
793- respect maximal separation rounds setting by running remaining delayed separators in last round
794- replace terms consistently in applyFixings() of cons_linear to handle infinite aggregations
795
796Build system
797------------
798
799### Cmake
800
801- fix SCIP Optimization Suite build with -DSYM=(s)bliss and bliss being downloaded and built during configuration by cmake
802- fix use of a bliss cmake installation (from https://github.com/scipopt/bliss) specified via BLISS_DIR if -DSYM=(s)bliss
803
804### Makefile
805
806- the check/solchecker build can now use also GMP installations by Homebrew on macOS/arm64
807
808Miscellaneous
809-------------
810
811- the output precision for writing CIP/OPB files has been increased at several places for nonlinear constraints
812- the solchecker tool now also supports SCIP solutions without unknown or infinite values
813- generate an error if the same linear constraint is used by several indicator constraints
814
815@section RN920 SCIP 9.2.0
816*************************
817
818Features
819--------
820
821- added check for absolute and relative gap limits at end of synchronization in concurrent solving mode, in order to terminate earlier;
822 note that if the concurrent solve is stopped due to a gap limit, the "winner" solver will have an interrupted solution status and
823 its primal and dual bounds may not be the best possible ones (use SCIPgetConcurrentPrimalbound() and SCIPgetConcurrentDualbound() instead)
824- parse pseudoboolean constraint from CIP format (and add linear-"and"-reformulation)
825
826
827Performance improvements
828------------------------
829
830- reoptimization now also stores propagations from propagators if reoptimization/saveconsprop is enabled;
831 the parameter will be renamed to reoptimization/saveprop in a next major release
832- imposed stricter limits on the size of disconnected components which may be solved separately during presolve
833- use individual slack variables also for constraints indicated by a common binary variable to use tighter formulation by default
834- when computing symmetries using Nauty, iteration limits are now available to terminate Nauty early
835
836Fixed bugs
837----------
838
839- Benders' decomposition subproblems that are always infeasible are correctly handled and the complete problem is declared infeasible
840- skip linear constraint propagation if the residual activity bound cancels the side precision
841- correct bound tracking to make the evaluation of primal-dual-integrals work
842- skip aggregations on fixed variables in milp presolver to avoid errors for earlier versions of PaPILO
843- use indices of negation counterparts and accept fixings when ordering and-resultants of pseudoboolean constraints
844- update locks on model variables before removing pseudoboolean constraints in presolve
845- reformulate soft pseudoboolean constraints with linear constraints if the indicator decomposition is disabled
846- add workaround for recent HiGHS versions resetting the model status when changing the presolve option after a solve
847- avoid hashmap key error in removal of doubletons and singletons in dual presolve of setppc constraints by updating constraints and corresponding hashmaps after each multi-aggregation
848
849Interface changes
850-----------------
851
852### New API functions
853
854- added SCIPtpiIsAvailable() to check whether a working task processing interface is available (TPI != none)
855- added SCIPtpiGetLibraryName() and SCIPtpiGetLibraryDesc()
856- SCIPdelCons() can now also be called in SCIP_STAGE_TRANSFORMED
857- added SCIPstrcasecmp() and SCIPstrncasecmp() for case-insensitive string comparison
858- added SCIPbendersSubproblemsAreInfeasible() to return if at least one subproblem has been identified as being
859 infeasible prior to performing any variable fixing
860
861### New parameters
862
863- presolving/milp/abortfacexhaustive to control the abort threshold for exhaustive presolving in PAPILO
864- presolving/milp/abortfacmedium to control the abort threshold for medium presolving in PAPILO
865- presolving/milp/abortfacfast to control the abort threshold for fast presolving in PAPILO
866- constraints/components/maxcompweight to determine the maximum weight for a disconnected component that is solved during presolve
867- constraints/components/contfactor counts the contributing factor of a single continuous variables with respect to the weight limit specified by constraints/components/maxcompweight
868- constraints/indicator/usesameslackvar to decide whether the same slack variable should be used for indicators constraints with common binary variable
869- propagating/symmetry/nautymaxncells and propagating/symmetry/nautymaxnnodes to set iteration limits in Nauty (only available if build with SYM=nauty or SYM=snauty)
870
871### Changed parameters
872
873- presolving/milp/threads is now only available if PaPILO is built with TBB
874- changed default of numerics/recomputefac to 1e+6 to aim at relative epsilon precision
875
876Build system
877------------
878
879### Cmake
880
881- attempted to fix detection of CPLEX library on macOS and Windows systems
882
883Testing
884-------
885
886- added parameter FILTER for tests/Makefile to run only tests with a specific pattern (ctest with -R FILTER)
887
888Miscellaneous
889-------------
890
891- adjusted Gurobi interface for Gurobi 12
892- reordered events: BESTSOLFOUND/NODE_FEASIBLE are now processed before the nodes are cut off and before NODE_DELETE events are processed
893- removed `#define` of `getcwd` (in case of Windows builds) in scip/def.h
894- the `#define` of `strcasecmp` and `strncasecmp` (in case of Windows builds) in scip/def.h will be removed with SCIP 10;
895 use `SCIPstr(n)casecmp()` (scip/pub_misc.h) instead
896
897@section RN911 SCIP 9.1.1
898*************************
899
900Fixed bugs
901----------
902
903- fix bug in separator aggregation that caused incorrect terminations when for an integral objective the objective limit was set to a fractional value
904- fix bug in memory management of doublelex matrices where indices were set beyond array bounds
905- store relevance flags in consdataTightenCoefs() of cons_linear.c to avoid dropping variables unintentionally due to numerical changes
906- fix possible segmentation fault when resetting local and global bounds of original variables after abnormal termination
907- compare coefficient scales to detect parallelism to avoid integral relaxations in detectRedundantConstraints() of cons_linear.c
908- remove coefficient information from linear constraint hashes in order to compare keys with tolerances
909- fixed NULL pointer dereference in SCIPtpiGetNumThreads() of TinyCThread interface if called before SCIPtpiInit(); now returns 0 in this case
910- calling SCIPsolveConcurrent() when SCIP was compiled without a TPI now results in a plugin-not-found error
911- fixed LPI status functions of lpi_cpx if the barrier is called
912- check cuts for redundancy after scaling in cutTightenCoefs() and cutTightenCoefsQuad() of cuts.c
913- maintain definition of artificial integral variables in xor constraints to avoid invalidation of conflict constraints
914- free childless nodes only after the deactivation of the old focus path in treeSwitchPath() of tree.c
915- only normalize rows for column norm evaluations in shift-and-propagate heuristic to avoid unscaled violations
916- expression handler for absolute value computes now also a cut when one of the bounds is infinite as long as the sign of the argument is known
917- check for more data to be freed before modifying nonlinear constraints in SCIPaddExprNonlinear()
918- allow for terms with zero coefficients when checking sum in SCIPexprCheckQuadratic()
919- do not abort writing of constraints to lp/pip files (and forget to free buffer memory) when encountering unsupported nonlinear constraint
920- fixed that strings with names and descriptions of the LPI's were not null-terminated
921- fixed decision on when to enforce nonlinear constraints on relaxation solutions if integer variables are present
922- fixed reading of very long lines (>78000 characters) in FlatZinc reader
923- fixed write of strings with at least 1024 characters when compiling with MSVS 2015 (14.0) or later (still an issue with earlier MSVS, which will not be fixed)
924- keep epsilon coefficients in applyFixings() of cons_linear.c until multiples are merged to avoid loss of relevant contributions
925- fixed that some variable type changes were not accounted correctly in presolve of linear constraints
926- fix constraint sorting in setpp-orbitope upgrade in symmetry code
927- fixed that SCIPnodeGetConsProps() also counted bound changes from propagators
928- use original and-constraints of an untransformed pseudoboolean constraint when copying original problems to avert segmentation faults
929- sort and-constraints of a pseudoboolean constraint with respect to the resultant problem indices to avoid shuffled copies
930- treat pseudoboolean constraints as nonlinear constraints in OPB reader to prevent duplication mistakes
931
932Examples and applications
933-------------------------
934
935- in example Binpacking implement Farkas pricing for packings because branching can actually lead to infeasible restricted master LPs
936
937Testing
938-------
939
940- allow unknown parameters to let tests pass if only optional dependencies are missing
941
942Build system
943------------
944
945### Cmake
946
947- fixed compilation and linking with HiGHS; to use HiGHS, cmake now requires to specify the directory containing the `highs-config.cmake` file via `-DHIGHS_DIR`
948- extended identification of Ipopt library on Windows to also look for ipopt.dll.lib, as this is used since Ipopt 3.13.0 (2019)
949
950
951@section RN910 SCIP 9.1.0
952*************************
953
954Features
955--------
956
957- added constraint handler that checks and enforces bounds on original variables which have been fixed or aggregated in the transformed problem
958- allow for implicit integer variables in xor constraints
959- implemented symmetry detection callbacks for pseudoboolean constraints
960- added option to consider enforcement of nonlinear constraints (including spatial branching) before integrality has been enforced
961
962Fixed bugs
963----------
964
965- make sure that, in dual proof analysis, upgraded constraints can report their number of variables
966- check knapsack constraints as linear constraints to avoid violations based on implicit integrality
967- make sure that symmetry detection callbacks report success
968- make arithmetics in cuts.c more robust to avoid invalid scg cuts due to numerical rounding sensitivity
969- allow to copy pseudoboolean constraints even if no AND constraints are present in order to avoid a warning
970- set value for variable that is introduced to reformulate nonlinear objective function when reading .nl files with initial solution
971- fixed that multi-aggregations from PaPILO were accepted without ensuring that their bounds hold
972
973Examples and applications
974-------------------------
975
976- TSP: removed `gzstream.h/hpp` and parse gzipped files differently
977
978Interface changes
979-----------------
980
981### New callbacks
982
983- SCIP_DECL_NLHDLRENFO takes additional parameter branchcandonly to indicate whether only branching candidates should be registered,
984 without looking for cuts or boundchanges
985
986### New API functions
987
988- new function SCIPgetExprActivityNonlinear() to get activity of nonlinear constraint
989- new function SCIPincludeConshdlrFixedvar() to include new constraint handler that checks bounds on fixed original variables
990
991### New parameters
992
993- limits/primal to terminate the solve as soon as the primal bound is at least as good as this value, same as limits/objectivestop (deprecated)
994- limits/dual to terminate the solve as soon as the dual bound is at least as good as this value
995- presolving/milp/internalmaxrounds to control the maximal rounds for each call of the milp presolver (PaPILO)
996- constraints/fixedvar/∗ to control the new constraint handler that checks bounds on fixed original variables
997- constraints/nonlinear/branching/mixfractional to specify minimal average pseudo cost count for discrete variables
998 at which to start considering spatial branching before branching on fractional integer variables
999 (default infinity means that integrality is always enforced before nonlinear constraints)
1000- constraints/nonlinear/branching/fracweight to specify weight of fractionality of integer variables in spatial branching
1001
1002### New data structures
1003
1004- enum SCIP_Status has been extended by SCIP_STATUS_PRIMALLIMIT and SCIP_STATUS_DUALLIMIT to indicate termination at limits/primal and limits/dual respectively
1005
1006Build system
1007------------
1008- changed the default symmetry computation package from sassy+bliss to sassy+nauty
1009- bliss source is no longer included in the source tree, but can be linked as external library (https://github.com/ds4dm/Bliss)
1010- cmake now automatically downloads and installs the latest release version of SoPlex from GitHub if it is not found directly
1011
1012Miscellaneous
1013-------------
1014
1015- updated nauty to version 2.8.8
1016
1017
1018@section RN901 SCIP 9.0.1
1019*************************
1020
1021Fixed bugs
1022----------
1023
1024- fixed bug in detection of double lex matrices due to wrong memory allocation
1025- fixed bug where parameter `limits/objectivestop` was copied to subscips in plugins which have different objectives
1026- in count mode respect empty solution when problem is solved in presolving
1027- fixed that SCIP may have tried to pass a negative random seed to an LP solver
1028- fixed bug where conflict analysis in strong branching tried to analyze an unsuccessful LP solve
1029- enable parameter limits/restarts by allowing to reach the restart limit in restartAllowed()
1030- handle normalizing linear constraints in presolving with more caution to avoid numerical difficulties for integer variables with large coefficients
1031- use quad precision to calculate residual activity bounds to reduce numerical errors for large variable bounds in cons_linear.c
1032- in SCIPsolveProbingLP() when objective has been changed do not return cutoff due to exceeding the cutoff bound
1033- set probing LP to be a relaxation only when objective has not been changed
1034- declare contradicting infinities in getMinActivity() and getMaxActivity() as non-tight
1035- reject farkas solution with large values to bound magnification of errors in SCIPgetFarkasProof()
1036- if all variables are fixed, apply relative feasibility tolerance to avoid invalid infeasibility in applyFixings() of cons_linear.c
1037- delete empty redundant knapsack and linear constraints after cleanup in SCIPmatrixCreate()
1038- cleanup first constraints in SCIPcleanupConssVarbound(), SCIPcleanupConssSetppc(), and SCIPcleanupConssLogicor()
1039- symmetry handling methods have not been added immediately after computing symmetries, which has been fixed
1040- delay checking node limits after presolving to correctly continue up to the exceeding main node
1041- simplified the objective sense assumption for the subproblems in the Lagromory separator
1042- update effective root depth iteratively to avoid trapping it at a single child node
1043- fixed that dualsparsify presolver did not always check do-not-multiaggregate variable flag
1044- fixed bug in computing elements of orbits in orbital reduction
1045
1046Miscellaneous
1047-------------
1048
1049- redefine isrelax to istight in cons_linear.c
1050
1051Build system
1052------------
1053
1054### Cmake
1055
1056- A file cmake.log containing the changed options is written to the cmake build directory.
1057- removed replacement of the settings of RelWithDebInfo
1058- add compile option -ffp-contract=off or /fp:precise to enhance reproducibility across different systems
1059
1060### Makefile
1061
1062- add flags -ffp-contract=off and /fp:precise to enhance reproducibility across different systems
1063
1064Interface changes
1065-----------------
1066
1067### New parameters
1068
1069- added parameter "propagating/symmetry/symtiming" to determine when symmetries are computed and handled
1070
1071### Changed parameters
1072
1073- Disabled "propagating/symmetry/addconsstiming" since it is not used anymore.
1074- Disabled "propagating/symmetry/ofsymcomptiming" since it is not used anymore.
1075
1076@section RN900 SCIP 9.0.0
1077*************************
1078
1079Features
1080--------
1081
1082- added simplification of abs(x)^n to x^n when n is even (simplify rule POW12)
1083- in expression simplification, added possibility to expand power of sum with exponents larger than 2 (simplify rule POW7)
1084- in expression simplification, added possibility to expand products with sums as factor when there are more than two factors (simplify rule SP12b)
1085- in expression simplification, added possibility to allow expanding power of products with fractional exponent (simplify rule POW5a)
1086- can now build with Lapack (used for solving nonlinear problems) explicitly; if IPOPT is used, then Lapack is accessed through it;
1087 an interface to Lapack is available in lapack_calls.h
1088- added support for logical constraints in binary variables and basic logical operators (and, or, not, equal) to AMPL .nl reader
1089- indicator constraints now use the same slack variable for the linear constraints if binary variables are used multiple times
1090 for indicator constraints
1091- new diving heuristic indicatordiving that focuses on indicator variables which control semicontinuous variables
1092- updated statistics on NLP relaxation; information on convexity of NLP has been added
1093- added new bandit method (EXP.3-IX) that is the new default of the ALNS heuristic
1094- added dialog to display recognized permutation symmetries ("display symmetry")
1095- The symmetry detection code has been completely restructured. Instead of completely encoding symmetry information in
1096 prop_symmetry.c, there is a new callback for constraint handlers, which returns symmetry relevant information by
1097 encoding a constraint as a node and edge colored graph. This way, also custom constraint handlers can provide
1098 symmetry information.
1099- added special presolving step for logicor and set covering/packing for constraints with two variables and one independent variable
1100- increased the depth field of the tree structure from 16 to 30 bits and the max depth of the search tree from 65534 to 1073741822
1101- added new cut selector plugin called cutsel_ensemble. Performs a superset of hybrid cutsel. Implements new filtering methods and scoring options.
1102- added new branching rule based on Gomory mixed-integer cuts
1103- added new branching score to the reliability pseudo-cost branching rule
1104- added new cut selector plugin called cutsel_dynamic. Performs a superset of hybrid cutsel. Implements new filtering methods and scoring options.
1105- added monoidal strengthening to intersection cut generation of nlhdlr_quadratic
1106- extended heuristic dps to run after processing the node and to use strict limits for the reoptimization step
1107- extended obbt propagator to handle variables of the linear constraints corresponding to indicator constraints
1108- added new heuristic heur_scheduler that models the selection of LNS and diving heuristics as a multi-armed bandit problem
1109- added nonlinear handler for signomial expressions: adds cuts based on a difference of convex functions representation
1110- Delayed separators are now called if no other cuts have been found. Previously, such separators were only called near stalling or when the separation rounds limit was reached.
1111- added a new separator sepa_lagromory to generate Lagromory cuts in a relax-and-cut framework, i.e., GMI cuts generated
1112 at different bases that are explored in the process of solving the Lagrangian dual problem at a node. This separator
1113 is OFF by default.
1114- when parsing nonlinear constraints from CIP files, the * after the number in a term is now optional if followed by a variable,
1115 i.e., instead of 3*<x>*<y>, now also 3<x>*<y> can be read, but 3<x><y> is not supported;
1116 this allows to read some CIP files that were written with SCIP < 8
1117- when running bliss, we now limit the number of actually created generators and not the ones considered by bliss
1118
1119Performance improvements
1120------------------------
1121
1122- Variable conflict-based addition of Schreier-Sims cuts for symmetry handling in prop_symmetry.c does no longer use
1123 an expensive explicit conflict graph construction.
1124- Only run propagation of indicator constraints if relevant variables have changed.
1125- Propagation of indicator constraints propagates maximal activity of linear constraint to upper bound of slack variable.
1126- Added initialization of LP relaxation for SOC constraints.
1127- Avoided some numerical issues when separating SOC constraints.
1128- If differentation of convex expression fails in convex nlhdlr, then a perturbed point is tried.
1129- Use sassy/bliss as default symmetry computation package.
1130- No longer linearize indicator constraints in undercover heuristic by default.
1131- Deactivate pre-root heuristic zeroobj in undercover heuristic.
1132- Added new branching score tiebreaker for reliability pseudo-cost branching rule
1133- Try nearest bound if zero solution value is out of bounds in heuristic trivial.
1134
1135Interface changes
1136-----------------
1137
1138### New and changed callbacks
1139
1140- Added solution linearization callback for nonlinear handlers.
1141 The nonlinear handler may use this callback to add tight cuts that use the given solution as reference point to the cutpool.
1142 The callback is called if option constraints/nonlinear/linearizeheursol is enabled.
1143- The callback for copying problem data SCIP_DECL_PROBCOPY() now has a parameter "original" indicating whether the original
1144 or transformed problem should be copied. Similarly, SCIPprobCopy() in prob.h/c has such a parameter.
1145- Added CONSGETPERMSYMGRAPH and CONSGETSIGNEDPERMSYMGRAPH callback for constraint handlers, which provides symmetry information about constraints to SCIP.
1146
1147### Deleted and changed API functions
1148
1149- SCIPtpiInitLock(), SCIPtpiDestroyLock(), SCIPtpiInitCondition(), SCIPtpiDestroyCondition() now take a double
1150 pointer to SCIP_LOCK/SCIP_CONDITION, respectively.
1151- Renamed SCIPtpiSumbitJob() to SCIPtpiSubmitJob().
1152- SCIPcreateConsIndicatorLinCons(), SCIPcreateConsIndicatorGenericLinCons() do not allow binvar to be NULL anymore
1153- Replaced SCIPnlrowSetCurvature() by SCIPsetNlRowCurvature().
1154- SCIPsnprintf() now returns the required string length in case reallocation is necessary.
1155- SCIPcomputeCoverUndercover() receives three more arguments which nonlinearities to cover
1156- removed definition of SQRT
1157- SCIPincludeObjConshdlr(), SCIPincludeConshdlr(), SCIPconshdlrCreate() receive two more arguments for the
1158 conshdlr callbacks CONSGETPERMSYMGRAPH and CONSGETSIGNEDPERMSYMGRAPH
1159- removed SYM_VARTYPE, SYM_OPTYPE, SYM_CONSTTYPE, SYM_RHSTYPE, SYM_MATRIXDATA
1160- new parameter issigned for SCIPcomputeOrbitsSym()
1161- new parameter symtype for SCIPcomputeComponentsSym()
1162- new parameter symtype and permvardomaincenter for SCIPlexicographicReductionAddPermutation()
1163- replaced parameters matrixdata and exprdata of SYMcomputeSymmetryGenerators() by graph
1164
1165### New API functions
1166
1167- new functions for interfacing with Lapack: SCIPlapackIsAvailable(), SCIPlapackIsAvailable(), SCIPlapackComputeEigenvalues(), and SCIPlapackSolveLinearEquations
1168 These functions should be used instead of SCIPisIpoptAvailableIpopt(), SCIPcallLapackDsyevIpopt(), and
1169 SCIPsolveLinearEquationsIpopt() in the context of computing eigenvalues or solving linear equations.
1170 If IPOPT is available, the calls will be passed on to Ipopt's interface to Lapack.
1171- SCIPmultiplyBySumExprSum(), SCIPpowerExprSum()
1172- SCIPsetParam()
1173- SCIPgetPrimalDualIntegral() returns the primal dual integral stored in the statistics
1174- new functions SCIPcreateConsIndicatorLinConsPure() and SCIPcreateConsIndicatorGenericLinConsPure() that
1175 create indicator constraints from a linear constraint without a slack variable
1176- SCIPgetNLPNlRowsStat() to retrieve counts on linear, convex, and nonconvex rows in NLP
1177- SCIPnlhdlrSetSollinearize(), SCIPnlhdlrHasSollinearize()
1178- SCIPbendersGetNLPParam()
1179- new API functions SCIPlexicographicReductionGetStatistics(), SCIPlexicographicReductionPrintStatistics(),
1180 SCIPlexicographicReductionPropagate(), SCIPlexicographicReductionAddPermutation(), SCIPlexicographicReductionReset(),
1181 SCIPlexicographicReductionFree(), SCIPincludeLexicographicReduction(), for lexicographic reduction.
1182- new API functions SCIPorbitopalReductionGetStatistics(), SCIPorbitopalReductionPrintStatistics(),
1183 SCIPorbitopalReductionPropagate(), SCIPorbitopalReductionAddOrbitope(), SCIPorbitopalReductionReset(),
1184 SCIPorbitopalReductionFree(), SCIPincludeOrbitopalReduction(), SCIPorbitopalReductionGetDefaultColumnOrdering(),
1185 for orbitopal fixing.
1186- new API functions SCIPorbitalReductionGetStatistics(), SCIPorbitalReductionPrintStatistics(),
1187 SCIPorbitalReductionPropagate(), SCIPorbitalReductionAddComponent(), SCIPorbitalReductionReset(),
1188 SCIPorbitalReductionFree(), SCIPincludeOrbitalReduction(), for orbital fixing.
1189- new API functions SCIPgetShadowTreeEventHandlerExecutionTime(), SCIPshadowTreeGetShadowNodeFromNodeNumber(),
1190 SCIPshadowTreeGetShadowNode(), SCIPgetShadowTree(), SCIPactivateShadowTree(), SCIPincludeEventHdlrShadowTree(),
1191 for managing a copy of the branch-and-bound tree for symmetry handling purposes.
1192- SCIPdotWriteOpening(), SCIPdotWriteNode(), SCIPdotWriteArc(), SCIPdotWriteClosing()
1193- SCIPincludeCutselEnsemble(), SCIPselectCutsEnsemble() to include cutsel_ensemble or use the selection algorithm
1194- SCIPincludeBranchruleGomory() includes new gomory cut based branching rule
1195- SCIPgetVarAvgGMIScore(), SCIPincVarGMISumScore(), SCIPgetVarLastGMIScore(), SCIPsetVarLastGMIScore() set historical values used by SCIP's default branching rule
1196- SCIPincludeNlhdlrSignomial() includes the signomial nonlinear handler
1197- SCIPgetExprMonomialData() returns a monomial representation of a product expression
1198- SCIPestimateRoot() computes estimators for roots with exponent in [0,1]
1199- SCIPincludeCutselDynamic(), SCIPselectCutsDynamic() to include cutsel_dynamic or use the selection algorithm
1200- SCIPincludeSepaLagromory() to include the new Lagromory separator
1201- SCIPconsCompCheck() to compare two constraints based on their check priority
1202- SCIPgetConsPermsymGraph() and SCIPgetConsSignedPermsymGraph() to access the (signed) permutation symmetry detection graph of a constraint
1203- SCIPsetConshdlrGetPermsymGraph() and SCIPsetConshdlrGetSignedPermsymGraph() to set the (signed) permutation symmetry detection graph of a constraint
1204- SCIPconshdlrSupportsPermsymDetection() and SCIPconshdlrSupportsSignedPermsymDetection() to access whether a conshdlr supports detection of (signed) permutation symmetries
1205- new API functions for creating and manipulating a symmetry detection graph: SCIPcreateSymgraph(), SCIPfreeSymgraph(), SCIPcopySymgraph(), SCIPextendPermsymDetectionGraphLinear(),
1206 SCIPaddSymgraphVarAggregation(), SCIPaddSymgraphOpnode(), SCIPaddSymgraphValnode(), SCIPaddSymgraphConsnode(), SCIPgetSymgraphVarnodeidx(), SCIPgetSymgraphNegatedVarnodeidx(),
1207 SCIPupdateSymgraphLhs(), SCIPupdateSymgraphRhs(), SCIPfixSymgraphVarnode(), SCIPaddSymgraphEdge(), SCIPcomputeSymgraphColors(), SCIPgetSymgraphSymtype(), SCIPgetSymgraphVars(),
1208 SCIPgetSymgraphNVars(), SCIPgetSymgraphNConsnodes(), SCIPgetSymgraphNNodes(), SCIPgetSymgraphNEdges(), SCIPgetSymgraphEdgeFirst(), SCIPgetSymgraphEdgeSecond(),
1209 SCIPgetSymgraphVarnodeColor(), SCIPgetSymgraphNodeType(), SCIPgetSymgraphNodeColor(), SCIPisSymgraphEdgeColored(), SCIPgetSymgraphEdgeColor(), SCIPgetSymgraphNVarcolors(),
1210 SCIPhasGraphUniqueEdgetype(), SCIPcreateSymgraphConsnodeperm(), SCIPgetSymgraphConsnodeperm(), SCIPfreeSymgraphConsnodeperm(),
1211 SCIPgetSymActiveVariables(), SCIPfreeSymDataExpr(), SCIPgetSymExprdataNConstants(), SCIPgetSymExprdataConstants(), SCIPgetCoefSymData(),
1212 SCIPcreateSymOpNodeType(), SCIPgetSymOpNodeType()
1213- SCIPexprhdlrSetGetSymdata(), SCIPexprhdlrHasGetSymData(), SCIPgetSymDataExpr(), SCIPcallExprGetSymData() to access symmetry data of expressions
1214- SYMcheckGraphsAreIdentical() to check whether two symmetry detection graphs are identical
1215- new functions SYMbuildSassyGraph(), SYMbuildSassyGraphCheck()
1216- new type SYM_GRAPH
1217- new definitions SCIP_DECL_CONSGETPERMSYMGRAPH, SCIP_DECL_EXPRGETSYMDATA
1218- new member SYM_NODETYPE_CONS in SYM_NODETYPE enum
1219- new members SYM_CONSOPTYPE_SUM, SYM_CONSOPTYPE_SLACK, SYM_CONSOPTYPE_COEF, SYM_CONSOPTYPE_RHS, SYM_CONSOPTYPE_LAST in SYM_CONSOPTYPE enum
1220- new defintion SCIP_DECL_EXPRGETSYMDATA
1221- new function SCIPdetectSingleOrDoubleLexMatrices()
1222
1223### Command line interface
1224
1225- Added optional parameter -i when calling SCIP in AMPL-mode (-AMPL parameter).
1226 If -i is specified, a SCIP shell is started where normally SCIPsolve() would be called.
1227
1228### Interfaces to external software
1229
1230- added interface to nauty/traces for symmetry computation
1231- added interface to sassy, a preprocessor for symmetry computation
1232- The directory src/sassy contains the source code of sassy.
1233- Added interface to Lapack (used for solving nonlinear problems).
1234- The AMPL interface now supports parameters specified in AMPL command scripts via option scip_options.
1235 The value of scip_options is expected to be a sequence of parameter names and values, separated by a space, e.g.,
1236 `option scip_options 'limits/time 10 display/verblevel 1';`.
1237 String values should not be quoted and spaces in string values are not supported.
1238- sassy can be used now as preprocessor for nauty/traces
1239- The solution status codes written to AMPL solution files now match those from https://mp.ampl.com/details.html#_CPPv4N2mp3sol6StatusE.
1240
1241### Changed parameters
1242
1243- change default value of parameter separating/filtercutpoolrel to FALSE
1244- Shrunk range of parameter "propagating/symmetry/sstleaderrule" from [0,3] to [0,2], removed "MAXCONFLICTS"-option.
1245- Removed reading/gmsreader/freeints. A default upper bound of +inf is now assumed for integer variables in GAMS (which is the case since GAMS 23.1).
1246- Disabled "propagating/symmetry/symfixnonbinaryvars" since it is not used in the new symmetry code.
1247- Replaced "propagating/symmetry/onlybinarysymmetry" with "propagating/symmetry/enforcecomputesymmetry" and set to FALSE by default.
1248- Disabled "propagating/symmetry/performpresolving" since running orbital reduction during presolving is not effective.
1249- Repurposed "propagating/symmetry/usedynamicprop" since it now also applies to lexicographic reduction.
1250- Changed default value of parameter "propagating/symmetry/addsymresacks" from FALSE to TRUE.
1251
1252### New parameters
1253
1254- separating/maxcutsgenfactor and separating/maxcutsrootgenfactor as factors (w.r.t. separating/maxcuts and
1255 separating/maxcutsroot) for limits on the number of cuts generated (which used to be constants '2')
1256- expr/pow/expandmaxexponent to specify limit on exponent when to expand power of sum
1257- expr/pow/distribfracexponent to enable expanding power of products with fractional exponents
1258- expr/product/expandalways to enable expanding any product with sums as factor (that is, also when more than two factors)
1259- nlhdlr/convex/maxperturb to specify maximal perturbation of non-differential reference points
1260- benders/default/nlpiterlimit to adjust iteration limit for NLP solver for Benders' decomposition NLP subproblems
1261- limits/objectivestop to interrupt the solve as soon as a primal solution is found
1262 that is at least as good as the given value
1263- heuristics/undercover/{coverand,coverind,covernl} to control which nonlinearities to consider (by default only "and" and nonlinear constraints)
1264- cutselection/ensemble/∗ all parameters for new ensemble cut selector
1265- cutselection/dynamic/∗ all parameters for new dynamic cut selector
1266- branching/relpscost/gmiavgeffweight specifies the weight in the relpscost branching score of the normalized efficacy of all generated GMI cuts (for a variable)
1267 branching/relpscost/gmilasteffweight specifies the weight in the elpscost branching score of the normalized efficacy of the last generated GMI cut (for a variable)
1268- nlhdlr/quadratic/usemonoidal to enable monoidal strengthening when separating quadratics with intersection cuts
1269- nlhdlr/quadratic/trackmore to collect more statistics for monoidal strengthening when separating quadratics with intersection cuts
1270- nlhdlr/quadratic/useminrep to use the minimal representation to compute cut coefficients when separating quadratics with intersection cuts
1271- nlhdlr/quadratic/sparsifycuts to enable sparsification of intersection cuts for quadratics
1272- heuristics/dps/reoptlimits to set strict limits for the reoptimization step in dps
1273- heuristics/dps/timing to run dps after processing the node
1274- heuristics/scheduler/∗ all parameters for new scheduler heuristic
1275- nlhdlr/signomial/enabled, nlhdlr/signomial/maxnundervars, nlhdlr/signomial/mincutscale: parameters for the signomial nonlinear handler
1276- separating/lagromory/freq to denote the frequency for calling Lagromory separator
1277- separating/lagromory/away to denote the minimal integrality violation of a basis variable to try separation
1278- separating/lagromory/dynamiccuts to denote whether the generated cuts be removed from LP if they are no longer tight
1279- separating/lagromory/maxroundsroot to denote the maximal number of separation rounds in the root node
1280- separating/lagromory/maxrounds to denote the maximal number of separation rounds in a non-root node
1281- separating/lagromory/nmaxcutsperlproot to denote, in the root node, the maximal number of Lagromory cuts that can be
1282 separated per explored basis of the Lagrangian dual
1283- separating/lagromory/nmaxcutsperlp to denote, in a non-root node, the maximal number of Lagromory cuts that can be
1284 separated per explored basis of the Lagrangian dual
1285- separating/lagromory/perroundnmaxlpiters to denote the maximal number of separating LP iterations that are allowed per
1286 separation round
1287- separating/lagromory/dualdegeneracyratethreshold to denote the minimum dual degeneracy rate for the separator execution
1288- separating/lagromory/varconsratiothreshold to denote the minimum variable-constraint ratio on the optimal face for the
1289 separator execution
1290- many other advanced parameters for the Lagromory separator, which are also mentioned under separating/lagromory/∗
1291
1292### Data structures
1293
1294- new data structure SYM_GRAPH to encode symmetry information from a constraint
1295- new data structure SYM_EXPRDATA to encode symmetry information from expressions
1296- replaced enum SYM_SYMTYPE by a complete new one; removed SYM_RHSSENSE, added SYM_NODETYPE and SYM_CONSOPTYPE
1297
1298Deleted files
1299-------------
1300
1301- deleted the now unused files: tpi_none.h, tpi_openmp.h, tpi_tnycthrd.h, type_tpi_none.h, type_tpi_openmp.h, type_tpi_tnycthrd.h
1302
1303Unit tests
1304----------
1305
1306- new unittests for nlhdlr_quadratic that test monoidal strengthening and the use of the minimal representation to compute cut coefficients
1307- unittests for nlhdlr_signomial
1308
1309Testing
1310-------
1311
1312- changed `set lim obj` to `set lim objective` in ctest since `obj` is no longer unambiguous
1313
1314Build system
1315------------
1316
1317### Cmake
1318
1319- New flag -DLAPACK=on for linking with Lapack (must be available in the system)
1320- added flag option "SYM=sbliss" for using sassy/bliss as a graph automorphism package
1321- use SYM=sbliss by default, since sassy and bliss are now shipped with SCIP.
1322- added flag option "SYM=snauty" for using sassy/nauty as a graph automorphism package
1323
1324### Makefile
1325
1326- added flag option "nauty" for SYM variable to specify which graph automorphism package should be used
1327- added flag option "sbliss" (sassy/bliss) for SYM variable to specify which graph automorphism package should be used
1328- added flag option "snauty" (sassy/nauty) for SYM variable to specify which graph automorphism package should be used
1329- use SYM=sbliss by default, since sassy and bliss are now shipped with SCIP
1330- New flag LAPACK for linking with Lapack (must be available in the system)
1331- A file scip/config.h is created in the build directory ($(OBJDIR)/include) now.
1332 Defining NO_CONFIG_HEADER is no longer necessary and has no effect anymore.
1333
1334Fixed bugs
1335----------
1336
1337- Number of runs in which separation is enabled will now be correct as per "separating/maxruns" parameter. Earlier,
1338 separation was enabled for "maxruns + 1" number of runs, i.e., separation was enabled even when "maxruns = 0" was set.
1339- add safeguard for number of selected cuts
1340- use double double precision for delta in activity updates of cons_linear.c
1341- sort constraints in checkSolOrig() to keep the logic of constraint handlers intact
1342- fixed make install when SHARED=no and make uninstall
1343- check absolute coefficients relative to extremal average to avoid invalid unifications in normalizeCons()
1344- enforce and check symmetry-based constraints to take their locks (in dual reductions) into account
1345- flush changes at the end of SCIPlpiSetBase() in lpi_grb.c to apply the newly set basis correctly
1346
1347Miscellaneous
1348-------------
1349
1350- The TPI has been changed to become mostly independent from the actual parallel interface during compile time.
1351 For this, the locks and conditions are now pointers to abstract structs.
1352- fixed that scip/def.h, the header for C preprocessor definition (`#define`'s), included headers for some SCIP type and function definitions
1353 (scip/type_retcode.h, scip/type_message.h, scip/pub_message.h)
1354
1355
1356@page RN8 Release notes for SCIP 8
1357
1358@section RN810 SCIP 8.1.0
1359*************************
1360
1361Fixed bugs
1362----------
1363
1364- fixed that scaling of rows in Gurobi interface (SCIPlpiScaleRow()) changed infinite sides to large finite ones (1e20) when scale factor is negative
1365- check whether objective limit is truly reached in SCIPlpiIsStable()
1366- if an objective limit is set and Mosek claims that it is exceeded, check that this is indeed the case in SCIPlpiIsStable()
1367- the .mps file reader was extended to additionally accept .mps files with the objective sense section on one line
1368- ensure that delayed cutpool separation does not happen if enough cuts have been found already
1369- fixed that a Gurobi or Mosek interface (LPI) could not be freed from a thread different than the one it was created in, which lead to problems when, e.g., using the concurrent optimizer
1370- in cons_varbound if both variables are fixed, instead of propagating the constraint check the feasibility of the constraint since propagating can lead to unnecessary numerical troubles
1371- fixed memory leak in branching rule "distribution"
1372- fixed that undercover did not enforce that sufficiently many variables in an and-constraints were fixed to have it linearized in the generated sub-scip
1373- fixed two bugs in cons_varbound: avoid adding variable bounds if vbdcoef is infinite and unlock/lock variables if lhs/rhs/vbdcoef are changed
1374- globalize constraint changes before bound changes during the effective root shift in treeSwitchPath() to correctly update variable locks by avoiding global bounds with outstanding bound change events when deleting constraints
1375- fixed error when attempting to copy SCIP with activated pricers
1376- remove integrality check for implicit integral variables in cons_integral.c, updated the definition for variable type implicit integer to be more explicit that these variables can take fractional values, and updated FAQ entry
1377- updated and, or, and pseudoboolean constraint handlers to better handle fractional implicit integer variables in enforcement
1378- avoid invalid strong Chvatal-Gomory cuts by ceiling with tolerance in the calculation of parameter k and flooring slack coefficients with standard epsilon tolerance as well as quad precision
1379- add missing row links to columns in SCIPflushRowExtensions() required to maintain correct row norms
1380- restrict separator intobj to solutions for which there can be no better feasible integral objective values to avoid cutting them off
1381- delay removal of clique lists from SCIPvarRemoveCliquesImplicsVbs() into cliqueCleanup() to avoid segmentation faults by incomplete cleanups after variable conversions
1382- reject sub-solutions with invalid objectives in SCIPtranslateSubSols() due to contradicting infinite contributions
1383- correct column index in getMinMaxActivityResiduals() to make presolver dualinfer work
1384- copy quiet flag from main scip's message handler to the one of solverscip in concurrent optimization
1385- avoid bound tightening cycles towards huge redundancy bounds in fullDualPresolve() to avert fatal numerical trouble in representing vertices of linear relaxations with unbounded domains
1386- fix problem where debug solution did not work if branching constraints are present
1387- update index of dominating variable on coefficient deletion in dualPresolving() of constraint handler logicor
1388- pass on flags from a redundant to the implying varbound constraint in preprocessConstraintPairs() to avoid suboptimal fixings by model relaxations
1389- apply reductions of dualinfer only if a dual solution exists (primal is bounded)
1390- before presolving is finished check solutions before retransforming them including tiny values to keep check flags consistent
1391- disable heuristics before and during presolving in benders decomposition to avoid messing up the objective structure in the solution store by dropping auxiliary variables in the required retransformations
1392- correct local flag of singleton conflict constraints in tightenSingleVar() against invalid bound globalization
1393- respect unboundedness in the computation of activity bounds in conflict.c to avoid invalid huge bounds due to small coefficients on unbounded variables
1394- ensure positive sides of a linear constraint when recognizing a set partition in rangedRowSimplify() to account for redundancy issues
1395- relax numerical conditions for variable aggregations to avert invalid variable fixings
1396- fixed harmless read of uninitialized data when creating parameters
1397- fix call of SCIPnlpiOraclePrintProblem in nlpi_worhp
1398
1399Performance improvements
1400------------------------
1401
1402- Use sassy/bliss as default symmetry computation package.
1403
1404Interface changes
1405-----------------
1406
1407### Interfaces to external software
1408
1409- added interface to nauty/traces for symmetry computation
1410- added interface to sassy, a preprocessor for symmetry computation
1411- The directory src/sassy contains the source code of sassy.
1412
1413Build system
1414------------
1415
1416### Cmake
1417
1418- added flag option "SYM=sbliss" for using sassy/bliss as a graph automorphism package
1419
1420### Makefile
1421
1422- added flag option "nauty" for SYM variable to specify which graph automorphism package should be used
1423- added flag option "sbliss" for SYM variable to specify which graph automorphism package should be used
1424- use SYM=sbliss by default, since sassy and bliss are now shipped with SCIP
1425
1426Miscellaneous
1427-------------
1428
1429- the parameter change callback is no longer called at the moment a parameter is created
1430
1431@section RN804 SCIP 8.0.4
1432*************************
1433
1434Features
1435--------
1436
1437- use quad precision in cutsSubstituteMIR() for substituting slack variables into CMIR cuts
1438- use quad precision for activity computations in cons_linear.c
1439
1440### Deleted and changed API functions
1441
1442- SCIPshrinkDisjunctiveVarSet() no longer attempts to cutoff the current node if it finds the
1443 given disjunction to be infeasible; it is now in the responsibility of the caller to act accordingly
1444
1445### New API functions
1446
1447- added SCIPskipSpace
1448- added XML parser routines from src/xml/xml.h
1449
1450### Interfaces to external software
1451
1452- updated XPRESS interface to work with XPRESS 41 as well
1453- new interface to LP solver HiGHS (lpi_highs.cpp)
1454
1455### Changed parameters
1456
1457- changed integer parameter "propagating/symmetry/recomputrestart" from range {0, 1, 2} to being fixed at value 0
1458
1459Unit tests
1460----------
1461
1462- added new checks for objective, bounds and sides inside the scaling tests in lpi/change.c
1463
1464Fixed bugs
1465----------
1466
1467- relax condition of assert in lpSolve to hold only if lp/checkstability is true
1468- OPB reader: dynamically increase the size of the line buffer for reading in getMaxAndConsDim()
1469- Enabled the solution limit checks in SCIPsolveIsStopped in solve.c when in SCIP_STAGE_PRESOLVING
1470- fix quad precision comparison for the calculation of knapsackcover constraints.
1471- force copying of symmetry constraints for concurrent solve
1472- increase the precision of double multiplications in quad precision environments
1473- corrected handling of different variable types in symmetry
1474- orbitope detection: refine computation of overlap structure and fixed bug in finding orbitope generators
1475- ensure that winner is always determined in concurrent mode
1476- when a row with invalid index range is added to the global cutpool, update the indices instead of failing with an assert
1477- update of watched literals in cons_xor.c and ensure that fixed variables are counted in propacateCons()
1478- avoid some numerical issue in check for redundant variables in linear constraints (introduced with version 8.0.2)
1479- more rows are treated as being integral in cutsSubstituteMIR() for CMIR cuts
1480- fixed several relaxations of the rhs of cuts to 0 in cuts.c
1481- avoid aggregation into a single linear constraint if they should not be upgraded (needed for indicator constraints)
1482- apply effective root changes before fork is repropagated during treeSwitchPath() in tree.c
1483- avoid invalid objective value for solutions generated from an unbounded LP relaxation in case of a nonlinear objective function
1484- disable recomputing symmetries after a restart (constraint removal is not permitted)
1485- avoid cutting off optimal solutions for small feasibility tolerances in conflict analysis
1486- initialize variable in presol_dualsparsify.c
1487- fix in presolving of variable bound constraints to use absolute instead of relative difference
1488- free variable histories in reoptimization mode
1489- handle whitespaces in interactive shell history consistently
1490- check and enforce equalities on which the objective is projected in cons_linear.c
1491- ensure row feasibilities of solution shiftings in heur_oneopt.c and heur_twoopt.c
1492- remove rounded row check blocking tolerable primal solutions in cons_varbound.c
1493- fixed that presolve of logicor-constraints may have attempted to cutoff a root of the not yet existing branch-and-bound tree
1494- only consider positive slack variables as active in benders.c
1495- in the feasibility check of and/or constraints, allow for fractional values in operands
1496- fixed linear outer-approximation for some composite absolute-value expressions
1497
1498Miscellaneous
1499-------------
1500
1501- Extended documentation of the parameter limits/solutions to point out that the limit is first checked in presolving
1502- Added more information about using SCIPcache- and SCIPflushRowExtensions() to documentation and comments
1503- Extended the `how to add' sections of the documentation by adding information on how to include default plugins into SCIP
1504
1505@section RN803 SCIP 8.0.3
1506*************************
1507
1508Examples and applications
1509-------------------------
1510
1511- Externalize STP and PolySCIP applications
1512
1513Interface changes
1514-----------------
1515
1516### Command line interface
1517
1518- When running the AMPL interface, the .nl filename extension does not need to be omitted for the input file anymore.
1519
1520Build system
1521------------
1522
1523### Cmake
1524
1525- Forbid CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE nonstandard values
1526- Move -I/path/to/src/amplmp/include to front of compiler flags for include directories
1527
1528### Makefile
1529
1530Fixed bugs
1531----------
1532
1533- fixed an incorrect handling of xor constraints
1534- the feasibility checker for integrality constraints now uses checkintegrality even for implied integers
1535- skip integrality check in cons_integral for relaxation-only implicit-integer variables
1536- fixed an issue caused by aggregated variables not added to a hashmap in the xor constraint handler
1537- changed function solveRowEchelonGF2 in cons_xor.c to avoid errors if rank is 0
1538- fixed that the implication presolver tried to aggregate or tighten bounds of multiaggregated variables
1539- fixed a sign check in detection of linear constraints that are parallel to the objective
1540- fixed bug in Clp and lpi_clp with missing basis information when calling the barrier with crossover; needs new Clp version
1541- do not assume aggregation is successful in cons_setppc.c
1542
1543Miscellaneous
1544-------------
1545
1546- Changed license to Apache 2.0, see https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.
1547- When an LP could not be solved accurately, scaling is now turned off as a last fall-back method.
1548- Functions for using the debug solution mechanism SCIPdebugAddSolVal, SCIPdebugGetSol, SCIPdebugGetSolVal,
1549 SCIPdebugSolIsValidInSubtree, SCIPdebugIsMainscip, SCIPdebugSolEnable, SCIPdebugSolDisable, SCIPdebugSolIsEnabled,
1550 SCIPwithDebugSol are now exported
1551
1552@section RN802 SCIP 8.0.2
1553*************************
1554
1555Interface changes
1556-----------------
1557
1558### Deleted and changed API functions
1559
1560- added input parameter SCIP_Bool initiallp to SCIPcutselsSelect
1561- changed function type int to SCIP_Longint for SCIPcutpoolGetMaxNCuts
1562- replaced SCIPsepastoreGetNCutsFound with SCIPsepastoreGetNCutsAdded following the naming convention for the new statistics
1563- replaced SCIPsepaIncNAppliedCuts with SCIPsepaIncNCutsApplied
1564
1565### New API functions
1566
1567- added SCIPsepastoreGetNCutsAdded, SCIPsepastoreGetNCutsAddedViaPool, SCIPsepastoreGetNCutsAddedDirect
1568- added SCIPsepaIncNCutsAdded, SCIPsepaDecNCutsAdded, SCIPsepaIncNCutsApplied, SCIPsepaGetNRootCalls, SCIPsepaGetNCutsAdded, SCIPsepaGetNCutsAddedViaPool, SCIPsepaGetNCutsAddedDirect, SCIPsepaGetNCutsAppliedViaPool, SCIPsepaGetNCutsAppliedDirect
1569- added SCIPcutpoolGetNRootCalls, SCIPcutpoolGetNCutsAdded, SCIPcutpoolAddMaxNCuts, SCIPcutpoolSetTime, SCIPcutpoolAddNCalls, SCIPcutpoolAddNRootCalls, SCIPcutpoolAddNCutsFound, SCIPcutpoolAddNCutsAdded,
1570- added SCIPcutselGetNCalls, SCIPcutselGetNRootCalls, SCIPcutselGetNRootCuts, SCIPcutselGetNRootForcedCuts, SCIPcutselGetNRootCutsFiltered, SCIPcutselGetNLocalCuts, SCIPcutselGetNLocalForcedCuts, SCIPcutselGetNLocalCutsFiltered,
1571
1572### Interfaces to external software
1573
1574- Added compatibility with Mosek 10.0.18.
1575
1576### New parameters
1577
1578- new parameters to turn on more statistics: misc/showdivingstats (diving heuristics), heuristics/alns/shownbstats (ALNS), estimation/showstats (tree size estimation)
1579
1580### Data structures
1581
1582- added nrootcalls and ncutsadded to SCIP_Cutpool
1583- added fromcutpool flag to SCIP_Row and fixed 33 bit allocation
1584- added ncalls, nrootcalls, nrootcutsselected, nrootcutsforced, nrootcutsfiltered, nlocalcutsselected, nlocalcutsforced, nlocalcutsfiltered to SCIP_Cutsel
1585- added ncutsadded, ncutsaddedviapool, ncutsaddeddirect, ncutsappliedviapool, ncutsapplieddirect, nrootcalls to SCIP_Sepa
1586- added ncutsadded, ncutsaddedviapool, ncutsaddeddirect to SCIP_Sepastore
1587- fixed statistics of relaxators w.r.t. number of times conss/cuts were added
1588
1589Build system
1590------------
1591
1592### Cmake
1593
1594- new option `-DAUTOBUILD` that configures scip with dependencies on availability.
1595 Packages like Ipopt, PaPILO, Readline, Zimpl, ZLIB, GMP, Worhp are automatically found and linked, otherwise ignored.
1596 The individual flags for these packages are ignored. This makes a quick build easier. It is by default set to off.
1597
1598Fixed bugs
1599----------
1600
1601- read objective offset from ZIMPL files
1602- Make sure that objective limit is disabled if not all variables are in the LP. If we would run into
1603 an objective limit in this case, the results of the LP solver are unclear.
1604- fixed bug in reopt.c, which occurred for bounds outside of current valid bounds
1605- fixed problem with recomputing symmetries after a restart
1606- fixed bug in SCIPcalcMIR() with wrong order of arguments for removeZerosQuad()
1607- fixed segmentation fault in update of cut statistic
1608- fixed bug in presolving of and constraints by merging variables with multiple occurrences before cliquePresolve()
1609- fixed bug in dual presolving of linear constraints by setting implicit integers to integers in multi-aggregation
1610- fixed update of presolve statistics on added constraints and changed coefficients in constraint handler for nonlinear constraints
1611- fixed bug with reading CIP files with large constraints split over several lines
1612- fixed bug with infinite bounds in the computation of conflict cuts
1613- fixed check for unbounded solution constructed by SCIPlpGetUnboundedSol(): The constructed solution is very likely infeasible
1614 since scaling increases small numerical feasibility violations. Therefore, the solution is now always accepted. However, the
1615 feasibility of the ray is now checked. This fix now might lead to several rounds of separation in order to resolve unbounded solutions,
1616 whereas previously SCIP started to branch immediately.
1617- changed to absolute tolerances in all redundancy checks for linear constraints
1618
1619Miscellaneous
1620-------------
1621
1622- Added extended cutselector statistics splitting between root node specific and general statistics
1623- Added extended and refined cutpool statistics showing the number of cuts added from the cutpool to the sepastore
1624- Added extended and refined separator statistics to get a better view of the individual generators performance
1625- turned off output of statistics for the following information by default:
1626 diving heuristics, ALNS neighborhood information and tree size estimation statistics;
1627 they can be turned on using the following new parameters:
1628 misc/showdivingstats (diving heuristics), heuristics/alns/shownbstats (ALNS), estimation/showstats (tree size estimation)
1629
1630@section RN801 SCIP 8.0.1
1631*************************
1632
1633Features
1634--------
1635
1636- clique lifting in cons_setppc (parameter enablecliquelifting) is only disabled if it has been applied
1637- avoid warning if Mosek has reached/exceeded the objective limit
1638- improved curvature check for quadratic expressions when extended formulations are disabled
1639
1640Examples and applications
1641-------------------------
1642
1643- Fixed handling of enforcing in the TSP example.
1644
1645Interface changes
1646-----------------
1647
1648### Interfaces to external software
1649
1650- Added compatibility with Mosek 10.0.13.
1651
1652Build system
1653------------
1654
1655- BLISS is now built from the vendored version from https://github.com/ds4dm/Bliss
1656
1657### Cmake
1658
1659- avoid warnings about unrecognized compiler warning silencing options when compilation with GCC fails
1660- adjust mosek find module to version 9.3
1661- added cmake compatibility for ipopt versions 3.14.x
1662
1663### Makefile
1664
1665- avoid warnings about unrecognized compiler warning silencing options when compilation with GCC fails
1666- fixed that compilation with MS/Intel compilers on Windows and Cray compilers was broken when enabling PAPILO
1667
1668Fixed bugs
1669----------
1670
1671- fixed uninitialized array in detection of suborbitopes
1672- Fixed problem with reading long lines in LP/FZN/OPB/Diff-files. The buffer is now reallocated,
1673 which also should be much faster.
1674- fixed that recursive products in expressions were sometimes not flattened
1675- fixed that expressions in original variables could not be simplified
1676- fixed handling of objective limit with Mosek
1677- made SCIPlpiGetSolverName()/SCIPlpiGetSolverDesc() thread-safe for LP Solvers (Cplex,Gurobi,Glop,Mosek,SoPlex,Xpress)
1678- made SYMsymmetryGetName() thread-safe for Bliss
1679- fixed memory allocation issue in detection of SOC nlhdlr
1680- fixed that reaching the walltime limit in Ipopt was not handled properly
1681- Deactivated dual fixing of unlocked variables with zero objective in presol_milp that SCIP is unable to postsolve.
1682- set the column flag kImplInt for implicit integers in the papilo problem
1683- fixed bug in propagation of indicator constraints (one case always reported a change through propagation)
1684
1685@section RN800 SCIP 8.0.0
1686*************************
1687
1688Features
1689--------
1690
1691- Variables that were marked as relaxation-only and that were not used in any solution (SCIP_SOL)
1692 are now deleted when during a restart.
1693- New symmetry handling method, symmetry handling inequalities based on the Schreier Sims table,
1694 which is able to handle symmetries of arbitrary kinds of variables.
1695- Revise way in which external memory (e.g., of LP-solver) is estimated.
1696- The symmetry code can now heuristically search for orbitopes that do not completely handle
1697 a symmetry component and add certain Schreier Sims cuts to such components.
1698- The LPIs for Gurobi and Mosek are thread-safe now.
1699- The complete code is now thread-safe by default.
1700- New separator to generate mixing cuts (works well for stochastic programming with probabilistic constraint).
1701- New parsing routines for cons_orbisack and cons_symresack.
1702- Variables can now be marked to forbid aggregation.
1703- Heuristic PADM can now reoptimize found solution with original objective function.
1704- Added code to support debugging of catching or releasing of variables to var.c (prints backtrace
1705 when catching and releasing).
1706- SCIPintervalSin() and SCIPintervalCos() are now rounding-safe.
1707- Removed special handling of second-order cones in undercover heuristic for now.
1708- Removed use of Hessian sparsity pattern for nonquadratic nonlinear constraints in undercover heuristic.
1709- Added reader for AMPL .nl files.
1710- New separator sepa_rlt to compute cuts via the reformulation-linearization technique (RLT).
1711- New separator sepa_minor to compute cuts from 2x2 minors of a violated semidefiniteness constraint that is
1712 implied by the extended formulation for bilinear products.
1713- New separator sepa_interminor to compute intersection cuts from 2x2 (not only principle) minors of a violated
1714 rank-one constraint that is implied by the extended formulation for bilinear products.
1715- Symmetry handling has been extended to detect also symmetries between variables that also appear in nonlinear constraints.
1716- Improved OBBT propagator by only considering variables that are contained in at least one nonconvex expression that has an auxiliary variable.
1717- Default parameter settings for NLP solves are now defined independently of the NLP solver.
1718- Added table to print statistics on NLP solvers.
1719- Knapsack, linear, logicor, setppc, and varbound constraints now add themselves to the NLP relaxation, if enabled.
1720 And, linking constraints and bounddisjunctions in one variable are added to the NLP relaxation now.
1721- Ipopt interface now supports warmstarts from a full primal/dual solution pair.
1722- Extended data structure SCIP_ROWPREP and routines to assemble a linear inequality before it is turned into a SCIP row and
1723 made it available via the API.
1724- MIR procedure is now available for strengthening the Benders' optimality cut
1725- SCIPbranchcandCalcLPCands() now also returns fractional variables in unbounded solutions.
1726- New emphasis "benchmark" to avoid different solving paths that may come from checking remaining memory.
1727- New plugin type for cut selection: users can now include their own cut selection rules, default rule moved to cutsel_hybrid.
1728- New construction heuristic DPS which additionally needs a user-provided decomposition and splits the problem into several sub-SCIPs
1729 according to this decomposition. The sub-SCIPs are solved and updated repeatedly until a feasible solution of the original problem is found.
1730
1731Expressions:
1732- Removed support for expression types min and max for now. Removed support for expression type sign.
1733 Removed complex expression types sum, product, linear, quadratic, polynomial.
1734 Removed support for parameterized expressions.
1735- Added support for expression types sin, cos, and entropy. Added an expression type that stores a SCIP variable.
1736- Added handling of sin and cos expressions in OSiL reader.
1737- Added handling of sin, cos, and tan expressions in ZIMPL reader.
1738- Added expression handler plugin type, removed user expression type.
1739- Replaced expressions, expression trees, and expression graphs by a new implementation of expressions.
1740- Added differentiation methods (Gradients and Hessian directions) to expressions.
1741- Added integrality information to expressions.
1742- Added comparison and hashing of expressions.
1743- Improved simplification of expressions and identification of common subexpressions, in particular terms that appear
1744 equally in several quadratic functions are now identified.
1745- Expression simplification now expands powers also when the resulting exponents will be larger than 2.
1746- Added table to print statistics on expression handlers.
1747- Removed interval-arithmetic evaluation from expression interpreter (interfaces to automatic differentiation codes).
1748- Hessians for user-provided expression handlers are not available in the NLP solver interfaces for now.
1749- Sparse Hessians are now returned by expression interpreter. Removed dense Hessians.
1750
1751Constraint handlers for NLP:
1752- cons_nonlinear has been completely rewritten and now handles constraints of the form lhs <= expr <= rhs, where
1753 expr is an expression using the new expression type. A linear part of a nonlinear constraint is no longer distinguished.
1754- Methods that work on a particular nonlinear structure are now implemented via nonlinear handlers (nlhdlr).
1755 These handlers are plugins of cons_nonlinear and interact with cons_nonlinear by detecting structures in expressions and
1756 providing propagation and separation mechanisms.
1757- Added nlhdlr "default" as a mandatory nlhdlr: this is a nlhdlr that gets active on expressions that no other nlhdlr handles.
1758 It then uses the callbacks implemented in expression handlers to provide domain propagation and linear under/overestimates.
1759- Added nlhdlr for quadratic expressions: domain propagation that was previously part of cons_quadratic; separation via intersection cuts (currently disabled).
1760- Added nlhdlr for bilinear expressions: collects bilinear products and provides under/overestimation of a product over a 2D-projection of the LP.
1761- Added nlhdlr for convex and concave expressions: detection of convex/concave subexpressions and linear under/overestimation.
1762- Added nlhdlr for quotients: detects quotients, provides specialized linear under/overestimation and domain propagation for univariate quotients.
1763- Added nlhdlr for perspective reformulations: detects expressions in semi-continuous variables and tightens linear
1764 under/overestimates of these expressions by applying a perspective transformation.
1765- Added nlhdlr for second-order cones: detects second-order cone constraints (as ||x|| <= t or a quadratic that can written like that) and
1766 separates on a disaggregated reformulation (similar to cons_soc previously).
1767- Removed constraint handlers abspower, bivariate, quadratic, and soc.
1768- Removed simplification of duplicate abspower constraints for now.
1769 Removed simplification of abspower constraints with loose variables.
1770 Removed resolving of domain propagation (ConsResProp callback) and conflict analysis for abspower constraints.
1771 Removed propagation of varbounds for variables of abspower constraints.
1772 Removed reformulation of abs(x)^p * x into signpower expression for now.
1773- Removed reformulation of SOC constraints when adding to the NLP.
1774 Removed possibility to add linearizations a la Glineur or BenTal&Nemirovski for SOC constraints.
1775- Removed possibility to disaggregate quadratic constraints.
1776 Removed lifted tangent inequalities for bilinear terms in quadratic constraints.
1777 Removed option to project LP solution onto feasible region of a quadratic constraint via interior point or gauge function.
1778 Removed handling of unbounded LPs when enforcing quadratic constraints.
1779- Removed construction of cuts from interval gradients for nonlinear constraints.
1780 Removed possibility to pretend that all nonlinear constraints are convex.
1781 Removed possibility to create local or non-initial nonlinear constraints for now.
1782- Removed explicit reformulation of nonlinear constraints in presolve.
1783 An extended formulation is now generated implicitly and used to construct the LP relaxation,
1784 but the original formulation is used to check feasibility, propagate variable domains, etc.
1785 Variables that are added for the extended formulation are now marked as relaxation-only.
1786- Improved locking of nonlinear variables in nonlinear constraints by taking monotonicity into account.
1787- Improved mechanisms to detect and handle structures in nonlinear constraints, which allows for several algorithms
1788 to work simultaneously on equal or overlapping expressions.
1789- Improved linearization of (sums of) products of binary variables, e.g., clique information is now taken into account.
1790 Removed option to linearize products between a binary and a non-binary variable.
1791- Nonlinear constraints with the same function (but possibly different left- or right-hand-side) are now merged.
1792- When a variable appears in only one concave less-or-equal constraint, it will be fixed to one of its bounds in more cases now.
1793- New branching rule for variables in nonlinear constraints (implemented in cons_nonlinear) that scores candidates
1794 based on constraint violation, variable type, and pseudo-costs simultaneously.
1795- Added tables to print statistics of nonlinear constraint handler and nonlinear handlers.
1796
1797Performance improvements
1798------------------------
1799
1800- Use the objective cutoff row as base row for separation in sepa_aggregation.c.
1801- Separate lifted cover cuts based on newer lifting function of Letchford and Souli (2019) in sepa_aggregation.c.
1802- In-tree restarts due to tree size estimation have been made compatible with orbital fixing.
1803- Improved upgrade of orbisacks to packing/partitioning orbitopes.
1804- Improved running time of symresack cover separation.
1805- Improved propagation algorithm for orbisack and symresack.
1806- Improved handling for expressions of type signpower in CppAD interface by making use of CppADs conditional expressions.
1807- Faster reevaluation of Hessian for quadratic expressions in CppAD interface.
1808- Enabled optimization of taped expressions in the CppAD interface.
1809- Sparse Hessian evaluation for expressions with sparse Hessian in the CppAD interface.
1810- Disabled branching on variables that are added for the extended formulation of a nonlinear constraint.
1811- Prefer branching on variables in nonconvex terms of nonlinear constraints also if a cut could be generated but would yield a small reduction in the convexification gap only.
1812- When violations of nonlinear constraints are tiny, the feasibility tolerance for the LP relaxation may now be reduced temporarily to allow for cuts to have an effect.
1813- Improved under/overestimation of multidimensional vertex-polyhedral (e.g., multilinear or concave) functions by use of scaling and keeping the cut-generating LP around.
1814- Products in nonlinear constraints are no longer disaggregated for the extended formulation.
1815- No longer relax bounds of integral variables when computing bounds on activity in nonlinear constraints.
1816- Revised and improved Ipopt interface.
1817- Revised and improved subNLP primal heuristic, in particular choice of iteration limit and starting condition and reuse of subSCIP.
1818- Merge strongcg into the gomory separator to avoid computing the same base equality twice. The files
1819 sepa_strongcg.{h|c} have been removed.
1820- The RENS neighborhood in ALNS now fixes fractional variables if necessary for reaching its target fixing rate.
1821- Use cpsolver emphasis in sepa_rapidlearning.
1822- If decomposition/maxgraphedge = 0, the computation of the block graph is completely turned off.
1823- Fixed a performance bug in cons_integral.c where rounding information was passed incorrectly to the generic diving algorithm.
1824
1825Examples and applications
1826-------------------------
1827
1828- Add c++ Sudoku example
1829- Removed circle.c and renamed string.c to spring.c in CallableLibrary example.
1830- SCIP-Jack (Steiner tree application):
1831 Most files have been modified and many new ones have been added (code base more than doubled).
1832 Two new problem classes are supported: maximum-weight connected subgraph problem with budget constraints, partial-terminal node-weighted Steiner tree problem.
1833 Major performance improvements accross all problem classes that are supported.
1834
1835Interface changes
1836-----------------
1837
1838### New and changed callbacks
1839
1840- extend SEPAEXEC{LP,SOL} callbacks by parameter "depth", which should be used within separation instead of SCIPgetCurrentDepth()
1841- extend SCIPseparateSolCutpool() by parameter "pretendroot", which is passed to SCIPcutpoolSeparate() instead of SCIPtreeGetCurrentDepth(scip->tree) == 0
1842- removed SCIP_DECL_EXPRGRAPHVARADDED, SCIP_DECL_EXPRGRAPHVARREMOVE, SCIP_DECL_EXPRGRAPHVARCHGIDX
1843- removed SCIP_DECL_USEREXPRESTIMATE, SCIP_DECL_USEREXPREVAL, SCIP_DECL_USEREXPRINTEVAL, SCIP_DECL_USEREXPRCURV, SCIP_DECL_USEREXPRPROP, SCIP_DECL_USEREXPRCOPYDATA, SCIP_DECL_USEREXPRFREEDATA, SCIP_DECL_USEREXPRPRINT
1844- added SCIP_DECL_EXPR_OWNERFREE, SCIP_DECL_EXPR_OWNERPRINT, SCIP_DECL_EXPR_OWNEREVALACTIVITY, SCIP_DECL_EXPR_OWNERCREATE
1845- added SCIP_DECL_EXPR_INTEVALVAR, SCIP_DECL_EXPR_MAPEXPR
1846- added SCIP_DECL_EXPRCOPYHDLR, SCIP_DECL_EXPRFREEHDLR, SCIP_DECL_EXPRCOPYDATA, SCIP_DECL_EXPRFREEDATA, SCIP_DECL_EXPRPRINT, SCIP_DECL_EXPRPARSE, SCIP_DECL_EXPRCURVATURE, SCIP_DECL_EXPRMONOTONICITY, SCIP_DECL_EXPRINTEGRALITY, SCIP_DECL_EXPRHASH, SCIP_DECL_EXPRCOMPARE, SCIP_DECL_EXPREVAL, SCIP_DECL_EXPRBWDIFF, SCIP_DECL_EXPRFWDIFF, SCIP_DECL_EXPRBWFWDIFF, SCIP_DECL_EXPRINTEVAL, SCIP_DECL_EXPRESTIMATE, SCIP_DECL_EXPRINITESTIMATES, SCIP_DECL_EXPRSIMPLIFY, SCIP_DECL_EXPRREVERSEPROP
1847- removed SCIP_DECL_QUADCONSUPGD
1848- added SCIP_DECL_VERTEXPOLYFUN
1849- added argument nvarexprs to SCIP_DECL_NONLINCONSUPGD to inform upgrade method about number of variables in constraint
1850- removed SCIP_DECL_EXPRGRAPHNODEREFORM
1851- added SCIP_DECL_NLHDLRCOPYHDLR, SCIP_DECL_NLHDLRFREEHDLRDATA, SCIP_DECL_NLHDLRFREEEXPRDATA, SCIP_DECL_NLHDLRINIT, SCIP_DECL_NLHDLREXIT, SCIP_DECL_NLHDLRDETECT, SCIP_DECL_NLHDLREVALAUX, SCIP_DECL_NLHDLRINTEVAL, SCIP_DECL_NLHDLRREVERSEPROP, SCIP_DECL_NLHDLRINITSEPA, SCIP_DECL_NLHDLREXITSEPA, SCIP_DECL_NLHDLRENFO, SCIP_DECL_NLHDLRESTIMATE
1852- replaced BMS_BLKMEM* blkmem argument of SCIP_DECL_NLPICOPY by SCIP* scip, removed targetnlpi argument
1853- added SCIP* scip and SCIP_NLPIDATA** nlpidata arguments to SCIP_DECL_NLPIFREE
1854- added SCIP* scip to SCIP_DECL_NLPIGETSOLVERPOINTER, SCIP_DECL_NLPICREATEPROBLEM, SCIP_DECL_NLPIFREEPROBLEM, SCIP_DECL_NLPIGETPROBLEMPOINTER, SCIP_DECL_NLPIADDVARS, SCIP_DECL_NLPIADDCONSTRAINTS, SCIP_DECL_NLPISETOBJECTIVE, SCIP_DECL_NLPICHGVARBOUNDS, SCIP_DECL_NLPICHGCONSSIDES, SCIP_DECL_NLPIDELVARSET, SCIP_DECL_NLPIDELCONSSET, SCIP_DECL_NLPICHGLINEARCOEFS, SCIP_DECL_NLPICHGOBJCONSTANT, SCIP_DECL_NLPISETINITIALGUESS, SCIP_DECL_NLPISOLVE, SCIP_DECL_NLPIGETSOLSTAT, SCIP_DECL_NLPIGETTERMSTAT, SCIP_DECL_NLPIGETSOLUTION, SCIP_DECL_NLPIGETSTATISTICS
1855- replaced SCIP_DECL_NLPICHGEXPRTREE by SCIP_DECL_NLPICHGEXPR
1856- removed nquadelems, quadelems, exprvaridxs arguments from SCIP_DECL_NLPIADDCONSTRAINTS, changed exprtrees argument to exprs
1857- removed nquadelems, quadelems, exprvaridxs arguments from SCIP_DECL_NLPISETOBJECTIVE, changed exprtree argument to expr
1858- removed SCIP_DECL_NLPICHGQUADCOEFS, SCIP_DECL_NLPICHGNONLINCOEF, SCIP_DECL_NLPISETMESSAGEHDLR
1859- added SCIP_NLPIPROBLEM* problem to SCIP_DECL_NLPIGETSOLVERPOINTER
1860
1861### Deleted and changed API functions
1862
1863- When calling SCIPdelVar() in the SCIP_STAGE_PROBLEM stage, it is now documented as the user's responsibility to ensure
1864 the variable is not present in any constraints. Otherwise, SCIPsolve() now returns SCIP_INVALIDDATA.
1865- removed SCIPselectCuts(), replaced by SCIPselectCutsHybrid() of the hybrid cut selector plugin
1866- If SCIPvarMarkRelaxationOnly() is called for a variable, then this now need to happen before the
1867 variable is added to the transformed problem (SCIPaddVar()).
1868 SCIPvarMarkRelaxationOnly() will automatically call SCIPvarMarkDeletable().
1869- SCIPcomputeOrbitsFilterSym() and SCIPcomputeComponentsSym(): Type of argument componentblocked
1870 changed from SCIP_Shortbool* to unsigned*.
1871- removed SCIPsetParam()
1872- SCIPcreateConsOrbitope() and SCIPcreateConsBasicOrbitope() have two new arguments "usedynamicprop"
1873 and "mayinteract" to encode whether a dynamic reordering of the orbitope rows shall be used in
1874 full orbitope propagation and whether the orbitope might interact with other symmetry handling
1875 methods, respectively.
1876- internal function SCIPgetPropertiesPerm() has been replaced by SCIPisInvolutionPerm()
1877- internal function SCIPgenerateOrbitopeVarsMatrix() has new arguments "storelexorder", "lexorder",
1878 "nvarsorder", "maxnvarsorder" to compute and store the lexicographic order defined by an orbitope
1879- renamed SCIPcomputeArraysIntersection() and SCIPcomputeArraysSetminus() to
1880 SCIPcomputeArraysIntersectionInt() and SCIPcomputeArraysSetminusInt(), respectively, and changed
1881 their return type from SCIP_RETCODE (which _always_ was SCIP_OKAY) to void
1882- removed SCIPincludeDialogDefault(), use SCIPincludeDialogDefaultBasic() instead and check whether you also need SCIPincludeDialogDefaultSet() and SCIPincludeDialogDefaultFix()
1883- removed exprint argument from SCIPaddNlRowGradientBenderscutOpt()
1884- added copyexprhdlrs argument to SCIPcopyPlugins() (19th position)
1885- added copycutselectors argument to SCIPcopyPlugins() (10th position)
1886- removed refpoint argument from SCIPaddSquareSecant()
1887- added argument exprdata to SYMcomputeSymmetryGenerators()
1888- removed SCIPconsNonlinearGetRhs(), SCIPconsNonlinearGetLhs(), SCIPconsNonlinearAddLinearCoef()
1889- removed arguments timelimit, minimprove, itercontingent, and iterused from SCIPapplyHeurSubNlp()
1890- removed SCIPresolveSolHeurSubNlp(), SCIPgetSubScipHeurSubNlp(), SCIPgetVarMappingScip2SubScipHeurSubNlp(), SCIPgetVarMappingSubScip2ScipHeurSubNlp()
1891- SCIPlockVarCons() and SCIPunlockVarCons() are now allowed in stage TRANSFORMED as well
1892- Added functions SCIPsetSepaIsParentsepa(), SCIPsetSepaParentsepa() [in scip_sepa.h], SCIPsepaSetIsParentsepa(), SCIPsepaSetParentsepa() [in sepa.h],
1893 SCIPsepaIsParentsepa(), SCIPsepaGetParentsepa() [in pub_sepa.h]
1894- Added function SCIPpruneTree() to immediately delete nodes that were marked to be deleted with SCIPcutoffNode
1895
1896NLP:
1897- SCIPhasNLPContinuousNonlinearity() now returns SCIP_RETCODE and has additional argument result
1898- removed SCIPnlrowGetNQuadVars(), SCIPnlrowGetQuadVars(), SCIPnlrowSearchQuadVar(), SCIPnlrowGetNQuadElems(), SCIPnlrowGetQuadElems(), SCIPnlrowGetQuadData()
1899- renamed SCIPnlrowGetExprtree() to SCIPnlrowGetExpr() and changed return type to SCIP_EXPR*
1900- removed arguments nquadvars, quadvars, nquadelems, quadelems from SCIPcreateNlRow(); argument expr(ession) is now of type SCIP_EXPR*
1901- removed SCIPaddQuadVarToNlRow(), SCIPaddQuadVarsToNlRow(), SCIPaddQuadElementToNlRow(), SCIPaddQuadElementsToNlRow(), SCIPchgNlRowQuadElement(), SCIPsetNlRowExprtreeParam(), SCIPsetNlRowExprtreeParams()
1902- renamed SCIPsetNlRowExprtree() to SCIPsetNlRowExpr() and changed type of expr(tree) argument to SCIP_EXPR*
1903- SCIPenableNLP() is no longer allowed in stages INITSOLVE and SOLVING
1904- removed SCIPaddLinearConsToNlpHeurSubNlp()
1905- SCIPhasNLPSolution() now returns true also if a infeasible solution to the NLP exists; SCIPcreateNLPSol() can now also be used when only an infeasible solution to the NLP exists
1906- renamed SCIPsolveNLP() to SCIPsolveNLPParam() and added parameter SCIP_NLPPARAM param
1907- removed SCIPsolveDiveNLP(), use SCIPsolveNLPParam() instead
1908
1909NLPI:
1910- removed SCIPnlpiCopy(), SCIPnlpiFree(), SCIPnlpiChgQuadCoefs(), SCIPnlpiChgNonlinCoef(), SCIPnlpiSetMessageHdlr()
1911- removed SCIPnlpiCreate() from public API, use SCIPincludeNlpi() instead
1912- removed SCIPnlpiGetSolverPointer() from public API, use SCIPgetNlpiSolverPointer() instead
1913- removed SCIPnlpiCreateProblem() from public API, use SCIPcreateNlpiProblem() instead
1914- removed SCIPnlpiFreeProblem() from public API, use SCIPfreeNlpiProblem() instead
1915- removed SCIPnlpiGetProblemPointer() from public API, use SCIPgetNlpiProblemPointer() instead
1916- removed SCIPnlpiAddVars() from public API, use SCIPaddNlpiVars() instead
1917- removed SCIPnlpiAddConstraints() from public API, use SCIPaddNlpiConstraints() instead
1918- removed SCIPnlpiSetObjective() from public API, use SCIPsetNlpiObjective() instead
1919- removed SCIPnlpiChgVarBounds() from public API, use SCIPchgNlpiVarBounds() instead
1920- removed SCIPnlpiChgConsSides() from public API, use SCIPchgNlpiConsSides() instead
1921- removed SCIPnlpiDelVarSet() from public API, use SCIPdelNlpiVarSet() instead
1922- removed SCIPnlpiDelConsSet() from public API, use SCIPdelNlpiConsSet() instead
1923- removed SCIPnlpiChgLinearCoefs() from public API, use SCIPchgNlpiLinearCoefs() instead
1924- removed SCIPnlpiChgExprtree() from public API, use SCIPchgNlpiExpr() instead
1925- removed SCIPnlpiChgObjConstant() from public API, use SCIPchgNlpiObjConstant() instead
1926- removed SCIPnlpiSetInitialGuess() from public API, use SCIPsetNlpiInitialGuess() instead
1927- removed SCIPnlpiSolve() from public API, use SCIPsolveNlpiParam() instead
1928- removed SCIPnlpiGetSolstat() from public API, use SCIPgetNlpiSolstat() instead
1929- removed SCIPnlpiGetTermstat() from public API, use SCIPgetNlpiTermstat() instead
1930- removed SCIPnlpiGetSolution() from public API, use SCIPgetNlpiSolution() instead
1931- removed SCIPnlpiGetStatistics() from public API, use SCIPgetNlpiStatistics() instead
1932- removed SCIPnlpiGetWarmstartSize()
1933- removed SCIPnlpiGetWarmstartMemo()
1934- removed SCIPnlpiSetWarmstartMemo()
1935- removed SCIPnlpiGetIntPar()
1936- removed SCIPnlpiSetIntPar()
1937- removed SCIPnlpiGetRealPar()
1938- removed SCIPnlpiSetRealPar()
1939- removed SCIPnlpiGetStringPar(),
1940- removed SCIPnlpiSetStringPar()
1941- removed SCIPnlpiSetPriority() from public API, use SCIPsetNlpiPriority() instead
1942- removed argument nlpi from SCIPincludeNlpi() and added name, description, priority,
1943 nlpicopy, nlpifree, nlpigetsolverpointer, nlpicreateproblem, nlpifreeproblem, nlpigetproblempointer, nlpiaddvars, nlpiaddconstraints, nlpisetobjective, nlpichgvarbounds, nlpichgconssides, nlpidelvarset, nlpidelconsset, nlpichglinearcoefs, nlpichgexpr, nlpichgobjconstant, nlpisetinitialguess, nlpisolve, nlpigetsolstat, nlpigettermstat, nlpigetsolution, nlpigetstatistics, nlpidata
1944- removed SCIPcreateNlpSolverAll(), use SCIPincludeNlpSolverAll() instead
1945- removed SCIPcreateNlpSolverFilterSQP(), use SCIPincludeNlpSolverFilterSQP() instead
1946- removed SCIPcreateNlpSolverIpopt(), use SCIPincludeNlpSolverIpopt() instead
1947- removed SCIPcreateNlpSolverWorhp(), use SCIPincludeNlpSolverWorhp() instead
1948- replaced argument BMS_BLKMEM* blkmem of SCIPnlpiOracleCreate() by SCIP* scip
1949- added argument SCIP* scip to SCIPnlpiOracleFree(), SCIPnlpiOracleSetProblemName(), SCIPnlpiOracleAddVars(), SCIPnlpiOracleAddConstraints(), SCIPnlpiOracleSetObjective(), SCIPnlpiOracleChgVarBounds(), SCIPnlpiOracleChgConsSides(), SCIPnlpiOracleDelVarSet(), SCIPnlpiOracleDelConsSet(), SCIPnlpiOracleChgLinearCoefs(), SCIPnlpiOracleChgObjConstant(), SCIPnlpiOracleGetEvalCapability(), SCIPnlpiOracleEvalObjectiveValue(), SCIPnlpiOracleEvalConstraintValue(), SCIPnlpiOracleEvalConstraintValues(), SCIPnlpiOracleEvalObjectiveGradient(), SCIPnlpiOracleEvalConstraintGradient(), SCIPnlpiOracleGetJacobianSparsity(), SCIPnlpiOracleEvalJacobian(), SCIPnlpiOracleGetHessianLagSparsity(), SCIPnlpiOracleEvalHessianLag(), SCIPnlpiOraclePrintProblem(), SCIPnlpiOraclePrintProblemGams()
1950- removed arguments nquadelems, quadelems, exprvaridxs, exprtrees from SCIPnlpiOracleAddConstraints(), added argument SCIP_EXPR** exprs
1951- removed arguments nquadelems, quadelems, exprvaridxs, exprtree from SCIPnlpiOracleSetObjective(), added argument SCIP_EXPR* expr
1952- replaced arguments isnewx of SCIPnlpiOracleEvalHessianLag() by two arguments isnewx_obj and isnewx_cons
1953- removed SCIPnlpiOracleChgExprtree(), use SCIPnlpiOracleChgExpr() instead
1954- removed SCIPnlpiOracleSetInfinity(), SCIPnlpiOracleGetInfinity(), SCIPnlpiOracleChgQuadCoefs(), SCIPnlpiOracleChgExprParam(), SCIPnlpiOracleGetMaxDegree()
1955- removed SCIPnlpiOracleGetVarDegree() and SCIPnlpiOracleGetVarDegrees(), use SCIPnlpiOracleIsVarNonlinear() and SCIPnlpiOracleGetVarCounts(), respectively, instead
1956- removed SCIPnlpiOracleGetConstraintDegree(), use SCIPnlpiOracleIsConstraintNonlinear() instead
1957- removed argument messagehdlr from SCIPnlpiOraclePrintProblem() and SCIPnlpiOraclePrintProblemGams()
1958- removed SCIPcreateNlpiProb(), use SCIPcreateNlpiProblemFromNlRows() instead
1959- renamed SCIPupdateNlpiProb() to SCIPupdateNlpiProblem() and moved into scip_nlpi.{h,c}
1960- renamed SCIPaddNlpiProbRows() to SCIPaddNlpiProblemRows() and moved into scip_nlpi.{h,c}
1961- removed SCIPsetModifiedDefaultSettingsIpopt()
1962- removed SCIPgetIpoptApplicationPointerIpopt(), use SCIPgetNlpiSolverPointer() instead
1963- removed SCIPnlpStatisticsCreate(), SCIPnlpStatisticsFree(), SCIPnlpStatisticsGetNIterations(), SCIPnlpStatisticsGetTotalTime(), SCIPnlpStatisticsSetNIterations(), SCIPnlpStatisticsSetTotalTime(), the struct is public now
1964- renamed LapackDsyev() to SCIPcallLapackDsyevIpopt()
1965- renamed SCIPsolveLinearProb() to SCIPsolveLinearEquationsIpopt()
1966
1967Expression interpreter:
1968- removed functions that operated with SCIPInterval
1969- changed first argument of SCIPexprintCreate() to SCIP*
1970- added SCIP* as first argument to SCIPexprintFree()
1971- added SCIP* as first argument to SCIPexprintCompile(), changed third argument to SCIP_EXPR*, added fourth argument SCIP_EXPRINTDATA**
1972- added arguments SCIP*, SCIP_EXPRINT*, and SCIP_EXPR* as first arguments to SCIPexprintFreeData()
1973- renamed SCIPexprintGetExprtreeCapability() to SCIPexprintGetExprCapability();
1974 added SCIP* as first argument, changed third argument to SCIP_EXPR*, added fourth argument SCIP_EXPRINTDATA*
1975- removed SCIPexprintNewParametrization()
1976- SCIPexprintEval(): added SCIP* as first argument, changed third argument to SCIP_EXPR*, added fourth argument SCIP_EXPRINTDATA*
1977- removed SCIPexprintEvalInt()
1978- SCIPexprintGrad(): added SCIP* as first argument, changed third argument to SCIP_EXPR*, added fourth argument SCIP_EXPRINTDATA*
1979- removed SCIPexprintGradInt()
1980- removed SCIPexprintHessianSparsityDense() and SCIPexprintHessianDense, use SCIPexprintHessianSparsity() and SCIPexprintHessian() instead
1981
1982Expressions:
1983- removed SCIPexpropGetName(), use SCIPexprhdlrGetName() instead
1984- removed SCIPexpropGetNChildren()
1985- removed SCIPexprGetOperator(), use SCIPexprGetHdlr() instead
1986- removed SCIPexprGetOpIndex(), SCIPexprGetOpReal(), SCIPexprGetOpData(), use SCIPexprGetData() instead
1987- removed SCIPexprGetRealPowerExponent(), SCIPexprGetIntPowerExponent(), SCIPexprGetSignPowerExponent(), use SCIPgetExponentExprPow() instead
1988- removed SCIPexprGetLinearCoefs(), SCIPexprGetLinearConstant(), use SCIPgetCoefsExprSum() and SCIPgetConstantExprSum() instead
1989- removed SCIPexprGetQuadElements(), SCIPexprGetQuadConstant(), SCIPexprGetQuadLinearCoefs(), SCIPexprGetNQuadElements(), use SCIPexprGetQuadraticData(), SCIPexprGetQuadraticQuadTerm(), SCIPexprGetQuadraticBilinTerm() instead
1990- removed SCIPexprGetMonomials(), SCIPexprGetNMonomials, SCIPexprGetPolynomialConstant(), SCIPexprGetMonomialCoef(), SCIPexprGetMonomialNFactors(), SCIPexprGetMonomialChildIndices(), SCIPexprGetMonomialExponents()
1991- removed SCIPexprGetUserData(), SCIPexprHasUserEstimator(), SCIPexprGetUserEvalCapability()
1992- removed SCIPexprCreate(), use SCIPcreateExpr() instead
1993- removed SCIPexprCopyDeep(), use SCIPduplicateExpr() instead
1994- removed SCIPexprFreeDeep(), use SCIPreleaseExpr() instead
1995- removed SCIPexprFreeShallow()
1996- removed SCIPexprAdd(), SCIPexprMulConstant()
1997- removed SCIPexprCreateLinear(), use SCIPcreateExprSum() instead
1998- replaced SCIPexprAddToLinear() by SCIPappendExprSumExpr()
1999- replaced SCIPexprCreateQuadratic() by SCIPcreateExprQuadratic()
2000- removed SCIPexprSortQuadElems()
2001- removed SCIPexprCreatePolynomial(), SCIPexprAddMonomials(), SCIPexprChgPolynomialConstant(), SCIPexprMultiplyPolynomialByConstant(), SCIPexprMultiplyPolynomialByMonomial(), SCIPexprMultiplyPolynomialByPolynomial(), SCIPexprPolynomialPower()
2002- removed SCIPexprMergeMonomials(), SCIPexprFreeMonomial(), SCIPexprSortMonomialFactors(), SCIPexprFindMonomialFactor(), SCIPexprAreMonomialsEqual(), SCIPexprAddMonomialFactors(), SCIPexprChgMonomialCoef(), SCIPexprMultiplyMonomialByMonomial(), SCIPexprMonomialPower(), SCIPexprMergeMonomialFactors(), SCIPexprSortMonomials()
2003- replaced SCIPexprCreateMonomial() by SCIPcreateExprMonomial()
2004- removed SCIPexprCreateUser(), use SCIPincludeExprhdlr() instead
2005- removed SCIPexprHasParam(), SCIPexprGetMaxDegree(), SCIPexprGetVarsUsage()
2006- replaced SCIPexprAreEqual() by SCIPcompareExpr()
2007- replaced SCIPexprSimplify() by SCIPsimplifyExpr()
2008- replaced SCIPexprEvalShallow() by SCIPcallExprEval()
2009- replaced SCIPexprEval() by SCIPevalExpr()
2010- replaced SCIPexprEvalIntShallow() by SCIPcallExprInteval()
2011- replaced SCIPexprEvalInt() by SCIPevalExprActivity()
2012- removed SCIPexprEvalUser(), SCIPexprEvalIntUser(), SCIPexprEstimateUser()
2013- replaced SCIPexprCheckCurvature() by SCIPcomputeExprCurvature()
2014- removed SCIPexprSubstituteVars(), use SCIPcopyExpr() instead
2015- removed SCIPexprReindexVars(), SCIPexprReindexParams()
2016- replaced SCIPexprPrint() by SCIPprintExpr()
2017- replaced SCIPexprParse() by SCIPparseExpr()
2018
2019Expression tree:
2020- removed SCIPexprtreeGetVars(), SCIPexprtreeSetVars(), SCIPexprtreeAddVars(), SCIPexprtreePrintWithNames(), SCIPexprtreeFindVar()
2021- removed SCIPexprtreeGetRoot(), SCIPexprtreeGetNVars(), SCIPexprtreeGetNParams(), SCIPexprtreeGetParamVals(), SCIPexprtreeSetParamVal(), SCIPexprtreeHasParam()
2022- removed SCIPexprtreeGetInterpreterData(), SCIPexprtreeSetInterpreterData(), SCIPexprtreeFreeInterpreterData()
2023- removed SCIPexprtreeGetMaxDegree()
2024- removed SCIPexprtreeEval(), use SCIPevalExpr() instead
2025- removed SCIPexprtreeEvalInt(), use SCIPevalExprActivity() instead
2026- removed SCIPexprtreePrint(), use SCIPprintExpr() instead
2027- removed SCIPexprtreeCreate()
2028- removed SCIPexprtreeCopy(), use SCIPduplicateExpr() instead
2029- removed SCIPexprtreeFree(), use SCIPreleaseExpr() instead
2030- removed SCIPexprtreeSetParams(), SCIPexprtreeGetVarsUsage()
2031- removed SCIPexprtreeSimplify(), use SCIPsimplifyExpr() instead
2032- removed SCIPexprtreeAddExpr()
2033- removed SCIPexprtreeCheckCurvature(), use SCIPcomputeExprCurvature() instead
2034- removed SCIPexprtreeSubstituteVars(), use SCIPcopyExpr() instead
2035- removed SCIPquadelemSort(), SCIPquadelemSortedFind(), SCIPquadelemSqueeze()
2036
2037Expression graph:
2038- removed SCIPexprgraphCaptureNode(), use SCIPcaptureExpr() instead
2039- removed SCIPexprgraphIsNodeEnabled()
2040- removed SCIPexprgraphGetNodeNChildren(), use SCIPexprGetNChildren() instead
2041- removed SCIPexprgraphGetNodeChildren(), use SCIPexprGetChildren() instead
2042- removed SCIPexprgraphGetNodeNParents(), SCIPexprgraphGetNodeParents(), SCIPexprgraphGetNodeDepth(), SCIPexprgraphGetNodePosition()
2043- removed SCIPexprgraphGetNodeOperator(), use SCIPexprGetHdlr() instead
2044- removed SCIPexprgraphGetNodeOperatorIndex(), SCIPexprgraphGetNodeOperatorReal(), use SCIPexprGetData() instead
2045- removed SCIPexprgraphGetNodeVar(), use SCIPgetVarExprVar() instead
2046- removed SCIPexprgraphGetNodeRealPowerExponent(), SCIPexprgraphGetNodeIntPowerExponent(), SCIPexprgraphGetNodeSignPowerExponent(), use SCIPgetExponentExprPow() instead
2047- removed SCIPexprgraphGetNodeLinearCoefs(), SCIPexprgraphGetNodeLinearConstant(), use SCIPgetCoefsExprSum(), SCIPgetConstantExprSum() instead
2048- removed SCIPexprgraphGetNodeQuadraticConstant(), SCIPexprgraphGetNodeQuadraticLinearCoefs(), SCIPexprgraphGetNodeQuadraticQuadElements(), SCIPexprgraphGetNodeQuadraticNQuadElements(), use SCIPexprGetQuadraticData(), SCIPexprGetQuadraticQuadTerm(), SCIPexprGetQuadraticBilinTerm() instead
2049- removed SCIPexprgraphGetNodePolynomialMonomials(), SCIPexprgraphGetNodePolynomialNMonomials(), SCIPexprgraphGetNodePolynomialConstant(), SCIPexprgraphGetNodePolynomialMonomialCurvature()
2050- removed SCIPexprgraphGetNodeUserData(), SCIPexprgraphHasNodeUserEstimator()
2051- removed SCIPexprgraphGetNodeBounds(), use SCIPexprGetActivity() instead
2052- removed SCIPexprgraphGetNodeVal(), use SCIPexprGetEvalValue() instead
2053- removed SCIPexprgraphGetNodeCurvature(), use SCIPexprGetCurvature() instead
2054- removed SCIPexprgraphCreateNode()
2055- removed SCIPexprgraphCreateNodeLinear(), use SCIPcreateExprSum() instead
2056- removed SCIPexprgraphCreateNodeQuadratic(), use SCIPcreateExprQuadratic() instead
2057- removed SCIPexprgraphCreateNodePolynomial(), SCIPexprgraphNodePolynomialAddMonomials()
2058- removed SCIPexprgraphCreateNodeUser(), removed SCIPexprgraphNodeSplitOffLinear(), SCIPexprgraphMoveNodeParents()
2059- removed SCIPexprgraphReleaseNode(), use SCIPreleaseExpr() instead
2060- removed SCIPexprgraphFreeNode(), use SCIPreleaseExpr() instead
2061- removed SCIPexprgraphEnableNode(), SCIPexprgraphDisableNode()
2062- removed SCIPexprgraphHasNodeSibling(), SCIPexprgraphAreAllNodeChildrenVars(), SCIPexprgraphHasNodeNonlinearAncestor()
2063- removed SCIPexprgraphPrintNode(), SCIPprintExpr() instead
2064- removed SCIPexprgraphTightenNodeBounds()
2065- removed SCIPexprgraphUpdateNodeBoundsCurvature(), use SCIPevalExprActivity() and SCIPcomputeExprCurvature() instead
2066- removed SCIPexprgraphGetDepth(), SCIPexprgraphGetNNodes(), SCIPexprgraphGetNodes(), SCIPexprgraphGetNVars(), SCIPexprgraphGetVars()
2067- removed SCIPexprgraphGetVarNodes(), SCIPexprgraphSetVarNodeValue(), SCIPexprgraphSetVarsBounds(), SCIPexprgraphSetVarBounds(), SCIPexprgraphSetVarNodeBounds(), SCIPexprgraphSetVarNodeLb(), SCIPexprgraphSetVarNodeUb(), SCIPexprgraphGetVarsBounds()
2068- removed SCIPexprgraphCreate(), SCIPexprgraphFree()
2069- removed SCIPexprgraphAddNode(), SCIPexprgraphAddVars(), SCIPexprgraphAddConst(), SCIPexprgraphAddExprtreeSum()
2070- removed SCIPexprgraphReplaceVarByLinearSum(), SCIPexprgraphFindVarNode(), SCIPexprgraphFindConstNode()
2071- replaced SCIPexprgraphPrintDot() by SCIPprintExprDotInit[2](), SCIPprintExprDot(), SCIPprintExprDotFinal()
2072- removed SCIPexprgraphEval(), use SCIPevalExpr() instead
2073- removed SCIPexprgraphPropagateVarBounds(), SCIPexprgraphPropagateNodeBounds()
2074- removed SCIPexprgraphCheckCurvature(), use SCIPcomputeExprCurvature() instead
2075- removed SCIPexprgraphSimplify(), use SCIPsimplifyExpr() instead
2076- removed SCIPexprgraphGetTree(), SCIPexprgraphGetSeparableTrees(), SCIPexprgraphGetSubtreeVarsUsage(), SCIPexprgraphGetSumTreesNSummands(), SCIPexprgraphGetSumTrees()
2077
2078Constraint handlers for NLP:
2079- removed SCIPincludeConshdlrAbspower()
2080- deprecated SCIPcreateConsAbspower() and SCIPcreateConsBasicAbspower(), use SCIPcreateConsBasicSignpowerNonlinear() instead
2081- deprecated SCIPgetNlRowAbspower(), use SCIPgetNlRowNonlinear() instead
2082- removed SCIPgetNonlinearVarAbspower(), SCIPgetLinearVarAbspower(), SCIPgetExponentAbspower(), SCIPgetOffsetAbspower(), SCIPgetCoefLinearAbspower(), SCIPgetLhsAbspower(), SCIPgetRhsAbspower()
2083- removed SCIPgetViolationAbspower(), use SCIPgetAbsViolationNonlinear() instead
2084- removed SCIPisConvexAbspower(), use SCIPhasExprCurvature() instead
2085- removed SCIPincludeConshdlrBivariate(), SCIPcreateConsBivariate(), SCIPcreateConsBasicBivariate()
2086- removed SCIPgetLinearVarBivariate(), SCIPgetLinearCoefBivariate(), SCIPgetExprtreeBivariate(), SCIPgetLhsBivariate(), SCIPgetRhsBivariate()
2087- removed SCIPincludeConshdlrQuadratic(), use SCIPincludeNlhdlrQuadratic() instead
2088- removed SCIPincludeQuadconsUpgrade()
2089- removed SCIPcreateConsQuadratic2(), SCIPcreateConsBasicQuadratic2()
2090- deprecated SCIPcreateConsBasicQuadratic(), use SCIPcreateConsBasicQuadraticNonlinear() instead
2091- deprecated SCIPcreateConsQuadratic(), use SCIPcreateConsQuadraticNonlinear() instead
2092- deprecated SCIPaddConstantQuadratic(), use SCIPgetLhsNonlinear() and SCIPgetRhsNonlinear() instead
2093- deprecated SCIPaddLinearVarQuadratic(), use SCIPaddLinearVarNonlinear() instead
2094- deprecated SCIPaddQuadVarQuadratic(), use SCIPaddLinearVarNonlinear() and SCIPaddExprNonlinear() instead
2095- deprecated SCIPaddQuadVarLinearCoefQuadratic(), use SCIPaddLinearVarNonlinear() instead
2096- deprecated SCIPaddSquareCoefQuadratic(), use SCIPaddExprNonlinear() instead
2097- deprecated SCIPaddBilinTermQuadratic(), use SCIPaddExprNonlinear() instead
2098- deprecated SCIPchgLhsQuadratic(), use SCIPgetLhsNonlinear() instead
2099- deprecated SCIPchgRhsQuadratic(), use SCIPgetRhsNonlinear() instead
2100- deprecated SCIPgetNlRowQuadratic(), use SCIPgetNlRowNonlinear() instead
2101- removed SCIPgetNLinearVarsQuadratic(), SCIPgetLinearVarsQuadratic(), SCIPgetCoefsLinearVarsQuadratic(), SCIPgetNQuadVarTermsQuadratic(), SCIPgetQuadVarTermsQuadratic(), SCIPsortQuadVarTermsQuadratic(), SCIPfindQuadVarTermQuadratic(), SCIPgetNBilinTermsQuadratic(), SCIPgetBilinTermsQuadratic(), SCIPgetLhsQuadratic(), SCIPgetRhsQuadratic()
2102- removed SCIPgetLinvarMayDecreaseQuadratic(), SCIPgetLinvarMayIncreaseQuadratic()
2103- removed SCIPcheckCurvatureQuadratic() and SCIPisConvexConsQuadratic(), use SCIPcomputeExprQuadraticCurvature() instead
2104- removed SCIPisConvexQuadratic(), SCIPisConcaveQuadratic()
2105- removed SCIPgetViolationQuadratic() and SCIPgetFeasibilityQuadratic(), use SCIPgetAbsViolationNonlinear() instead
2106- removed SCIPisLinearLocalQuadratic(), SCIPaddToNlpiProblemQuadratic()
2107- removed SCIPchgLinearCoefQuadratic(), SCIPchgSquareCoefQuadratic(), SCIPchgBilinCoefQuadratic()
2108- renamed SCIPgetNAllBilinearTermsQuadratic() to SCIPgetNBilinTermsNonlinear() and changed argument from SCIP* to SCIP_CONSHDLR*
2109- renamed SCIPgetAllBilinearTermsQuadratic() to SCIPgetBilinTermsNonlinear() and replaced arguments by SCIP_CONSHDLR* and changed return type to SCIP_CONSNONLINEAR_BILINTERM*
2110- removed SCIPaddBilinearIneqQuadratic(), use SCIPinsertBilinearTermImplicitNonlinear() instead
2111- renamed SCIPcreateConsQuadratic() to SCIPcreateConsQuadraticNonlinear() and removed argument stickingatnode
2112- removed SCIPincludeConshdlrSOC()
2113- replaced SCIPcreateConsBasicSOC() by SCIPcreateConsBasicSOCNonlinear()
2114- deprecated SCIPcreateConsSOC(), use SCIPcreateConsBasicSOCNonlinear() instead
2115- deprecated SCIPgetNlRowSOC(), use SCIPgetNlRowNonlinear() instead
2116- removed SCIPgetNLhsVarsSOC(), SCIPgetLhsVarsSOC(), SCIPgetLhsCoefsSOC(), SCIPgetLhsOffsetsSOC(), SCIPgetLhsConstantSOC(), SCIPgetRhsVarSOC(), SCIPgetRhsCoefSOC(), SCIPgetRhsOffsetSOC(), use SCIPisSOCNonlinear() instead
2117- removed SCIPaddToNlpiProblemSOC()
2118- renamed SCIPincludeNonlinconsUpgrade() to SCIPincludeConsUpgradeNonlinear() and removed nodereform argument
2119- removed arguments nlinvars, linvars, lincoefs, nexprtrees, exprtrees, nonlincoefs, stickingatnode from SCIPcreateConsNonlinear() and added SCIP_EXPR* argument
2120- removed arguments nlinvars, linvars, lincoefs, nexprtrees, exprtrees, nonlincoefs from SCIPcreateConsBasicNonlinear() and added SCIP_EXPR* argument
2121- removed SCIPcreateConsNonlinear2(), SCIPcreateConsBasicNonlinear2()
2122- removed SCIPsetExprtreesNonlinear(), use SCIPchgExprNonlinear() instead
2123- removed SCIPaddExprtreesNonlinear()
2124- removed SCIPgetNLinearVarsNonlinear(), SCIPgetLinearVarsNonlinear(), SCIPgetLinearCoefsNonlinear()
2125- removed SCIPgetNExprtreesNonlinear(), SCIPgetExprtreesNonlinear(), SCIPgetExprtreeCoefsNonlinear(), SCIPgetExprgraphNodeNonlinear(), use SCIPgetExprNonlinear() instead
2126- removed argument scip from SCIPgetLhsNonlinear() and SCIPgetRhsNonlinear()
2127- removed SCIPcheckCurvatureNonlinear(), SCIPgetCurvatureNonlinear(), and SCIPgetExprtreeCurvaturesNonlinear(), use SCIPhasExprCurvature() instead
2128- renamed SCIPgetViolationNonlinear() to SCIPgetAbsViolationNonlinear()
2129- added arguments var and coef to SCIPgetLinvarMayDecreaseNonlinear() and SCIPgetLinvarMayIncreaseNonlinear() and changed return type to void
2130- removed SCIPgetExprgraphNonlinear()
2131- removed SCIPcomputeHyperplaneThreePoints(), use SCIPcomputeFacetVertexPolyhedralNonlinear() instead
2132
2133### New API functions
2134
2135- added SCIPallocClearMemory() and SCIPallocClearBlockMemory() to allocate a chunk of (block) memory
2136 that is initialized to zeros
2137- New internal functions for changing the default values of parameters:
2138 SCIPparamsetSetDefaultLongint(), SCIPparamsetSetDefaultReal(), SCIPparamsetSetDefaultChar(),
2139 SCIPparamsetSetDefaultString() and
2140 SCIPparamSetDefaultLongint(), SCIPparamSetDefaultReal(), SCIPparamSetDefaultChar(),
2141 SCIPparamSetDefaultString()
2142- new internal function SCIPisPackingPartitioningOrbitope() to check whether an orbitope is of
2143 packing or partitioning type
2144- new internal function SCIPcomputeOrbitVar() to compute the symmetry orbit of a variable
2145- added SCIPcalcFibHash(SCIP_Real) to hash a floating-point value to an unsigned integer
2146- added SCIPcomputeArraysIntersectionPtr() to compute intersection of two sorted arrays of pointers
2147- new function SCIPinterruptLP() (intended to be called from a different thread) that interrupts ongoing lp solve
2148- added SCIPcreateConsIndicatorGeneric() and SCIPcreateConsIndicatorGenericLinCons()
2149 which copy the interface of SCIPcreateConsIndicator() and SCIPcreateConsIndicatorLinCons() and
2150 add an activeone argument to specify whether the indicator constraint should be activated on 0 or 1.
2151 SCIPcreateConsIndicator() also adds a lessthanineq flag to choose whether the linear constraint is a less-than or greater-than inequality.
2152- added SCIPmarkDoNotAggrVar() to mark that a variable should not be aggregated
2153- added SCIPdoNotAggrVar() to query whether a variable should not be aggregated
2154- added SCIPdecompGetNBorderVars() and SCIPdecompGetNBorderConss() to get number of border variables/constraints
2155- added SCIPdecompGetVarsSize() and SCIPdecompGetConssSize() to get variable/constraint size for each block of a decomposition
2156- added SCIPincludeDialogDefaultBasic()
2157- added SCIPintervalAreDisjointEps(), SCIPintervalIntersectEps()
2158- added SCIPintervalEntropy()
2159- added SCIPintervalPropagateWeightedSum()
2160- added SCIPcalcRootNewton()
2161- added SCIPvarGetImplicVarBounds()
2162- added SCIPcreateRowprep(), SCIPfreeRowprep(), SCIPcopyRowprep(),
2163 SCIProwprepGetNVars(), SCIProwprepGetVars(), SCIProwprepGetCoefs(), SCIProwprepGetSide(), SCIProwprepGetSidetype(), SCIProwprepIsLocal(), SCIProwprepGetName(), SCIProwprepGetNModifiedVars(), SCIProwprepGetModifiedVars(),
2164 SCIProwprepReset(), SCIProwprepAddSide(), SCIProwprepAddConstant(), SCIProwprepSetSidetype(), SCIProwprepSetLocal(), SCIProwprepRecordModifications(),
2165 SCIPprintRowprep(), SCIPprintRowprepSol(), SCIPensureRowprepSize(), SCIPaddRowprepTerm(), SCIPaddRowprepTerms(), SCIPgetRowprepViolation(), SCIPisRowprepViolationReliable(),
2166 SCIPmergeRowprepTerms(), SCIPcleanupRowprep(), SCIPcleanupRowprep2(), SCIPscaleupRowprep(), SCIPscaleRowprep(),
2167 SCIPgetRowprepRowConshdlr(), SCIPgetRowprepRowCons(), SCIPgetRowprepRowSepa()
2168- added SCIPsetClockEnabled()
2169- added SCIPisSolveInterrupted() to check whether SCIPinterruptSolve() has been called
2170- added SCIPgetNPresolRounds()
2171- added SCIPgetNUnfixedLPCols()
2172- moved SCIPhistoryGetInferenceSum() and SCIPhistoryGetAvgConflictlength() from internal to public API
2173
2174Expression handler:
2175- added SCIPincludeExprhdlr(), SCIPgetExprhdlrs(), SCIPgetNExprhdlrs(), SCIPfindExprhdlr()
2176- added SCIPgetExprhdlrVar(), SCIPgetExprhdlrValue(), SCIPgetExprhdlrSum(), SCIPgetExprhdlrProduct(), SCIPgetExprhdlrPower()
2177- added SCIPexprhdlrSetCopyFreeHdlr(), SCIPexprhdlrSetCopyFreeData(), SCIPexprhdlrSetPrint(), SCIPexprhdlrSetParse(), SCIPexprhdlrSetCurvature(), SCIPexprhdlrSetMonotonicity(), SCIPexprhdlrSetIntegrality(), SCIPexprhdlrSetHash(), SCIPexprhdlrSetCompare(), SCIPexprhdlrSetDiff(), SCIPexprhdlrSetIntEval(), SCIPexprhdlrSetSimplify(), SCIPexprhdlrSetReverseProp(), SCIPexprhdlrSetEstimate()
2178- added SCIPexprhdlrGetName(), SCIPexprhdlrGetDescription(), SCIPexprhdlrGetPrecedence(), SCIPexprhdlrGetData(), SCIPexprhdlrHasPrint(), SCIPexprhdlrHasBwdiff(), SCIPexprhdlrHasFwdiff(), SCIPexprhdlrHasIntEval(), SCIPexprhdlrHasEstimate(), SCIPexprhdlrHasInitEstimates(), SCIPexprhdlrHasSimplify(), SCIPexprhdlrHasCurvature(), SCIPexprhdlrHasMonotonicity(), SCIPexprhdlrHasReverseProp()
2179- added SCIPexprhdlrComp()
2180- added SCIPexprhdlrGetNIntevalCalls(), SCIPexprhdlrGetIntevalTime(), SCIPexprhdlrGetNReversepropCalls(), SCIPexprhdlrGetReversepropTime(), SCIPexprhdlrGetNCutoffs(), SCIPexprhdlrGetNDomainReductions(), SCIPexprhdlrIncrementNDomainReductions(), SCIPexprhdlrGetNEstimateCalls(), SCIPexprhdlrGetEstimateTime(), SCIPexprhdlrGetNBranchings(), SCIPexprhdlrIncrementNBranchings(), SCIPexprhdlrGetNSimplifyCalls(), SCIPexprhdlrGetSimplifyTime(), SCIPexprhdlrGetNSimplifications()
2181- added SCIPprintExpressionHandlerStatistics()
2182- added SCIPincludeExprhdlrEntropy(), SCIPcreateExprEntropy(), SCIPisExprEntropy()
2183- added SCIPincludeExprhdlrErf(), SCIPcreateExprErf(), SCIPisExprErf()
2184- added SCIPcreateExprAbs(), SCIPincludeExprhdlrAbs(), SCIPisExprAbs()
2185- added SCIPcreateExprExp(), SCIPincludeExprhdlrExp(), SCIPisExprExp()
2186- added SCIPcreateExprLog(), SCIPincludeExprhdlrLog(), SCIPisExprLog()
2187- added SCIPcreateExprPow(), SCIPcreateExprSignpower(), SCIPincludeExprhdlrPow(), SCIPincludeExprhdlrSignpower(), SCIPisExprSignpower(), SCIPgetExponentExprPow(), SCIPisExprPower()
2188- added SCIPincludeExprhdlrProduct(), SCIPcreateExprProduct(), SCIPgetCoefExprProduct(), SCIPisExprProduct()
2189- added SCIPincludeExprhdlrSum(), SCIPcreateExprSum(), SCIPsetConstantExprSum(), SCIPappendExprSumExpr(), SCIPmultiplyByConstantExprSum(), SCIPgetCoefsExprSum(), SCIPgetConstantExprSum(), SCIPisExprSum()
2190- added SCIPincludeExprhdlrSin(), SCIPcreateExprSin(), SCIPincludeExprhdlrCos(), SCIPcreateExprCos(), SCIPisExprSin(), SCIPisExprCos()
2191- added SCIPincludeExprhdlrValue(), SCIPcreateExprValue(), SCIPgetValueExprValue(), SCIPisExprValue()
2192- added SCIPincludeExprhdlrVar(), SCIPcreateExprVar(), SCIPgetVarExprVar(), SCIPisExprVar()
2193- added SCIPincludeExprhdlrVaridx(), SCIPcreateExprVaridx(), SCIPisExprVaridx(), SCIPgetIndexExprVaridx(), SCIPsetIndexExprVaridx()
2194
2195Expression:
2196- added SCIPcaptureExpr(), SCIPreleaseExpr(), SCIPexprGetNUses()
2197- added SCIPexprGetHdlr(), SCIPexprGetData(), SCIPexprSetData(), SCIPexprGetOwnerData()
2198- added SCIPevalExpr(), SCIPgetExprNewSoltag(), SCIPexprGetEvalValue(), SCIPexprGetEvalTag()
2199- added SCIPevalExprGradient(), SCIPevalExprHessianDir(), SCIPexprGetDerivative(), SCIPexprGetDot(), SCIPexprGetBardot(), SCIPexprGetDiffTag()
2200- added SCIPevalExprActivity(), SCIPexprGetActivity(), SCIPexprGetActivityTag(), SCIPexprSetActivity()
2201- added SCIPcomputeExprCurvature(), SCIPexprGetCurvature(), SCIPexprSetCurvature()
2202- added SCIPcomputeExprIntegrality(), SCIPexprIsIntegral(), SCIPexprSetIntegrality()
2203- added SCIPcheckExprQuadratic(), SCIPfreeExprQuadratic(), SCIPevalExprQuadratic(), SCIPprintExprQuadratic(), SCIPcomputeExprQuadraticCurvature()
2204- added SCIPexprGetQuadraticData(), SCIPexprGetQuadraticQuadTerm(), SCIPexprGetQuadraticBilinTerm(), SCIPexprAreQuadraticExprsVariables()
2205- added SCIPcreateExpr(), SCIPcreateExpr2(), SCIPcreateExprQuadratic(), SCIPcreateExprMonomial()
2206- added SCIPappendExprChild(), SCIPreplaceExprChild(), SCIPremoveExprChildren()
2207- added SCIPduplicateExpr(), SCIPduplicateExprShallow(), SCIPcopyExpr()
2208- added SCIPparseExpr()
2209- added SCIPprintExpr(), SCIPdismantleExpr()
2210- added SCIPprintExprDotInit(), SCIPprintExprDotInit2(), SCIPprintExprDot(), SCIPprintExprDotFinal(), SCIPshowExpr()
2211- added SCIPcompareExpr(), SCIPhashExpr()
2212- added SCIPsimplifyExpr(), SCIPreplaceCommonSubexpressions()
2213- added SCIPgetExprNVars(), SCIPgetExprVarExprs()
2214- added SCIPcallExprPrint(), SCIPcallExprCurvature(), SCIPcallExprMonotonicity(), SCIPcallExprEval(), SCIPcallExprEvalFwdiff(), SCIPcallExprInteval(), SCIPcallExprEstimate(), SCIPcallExprInitestimates(), SCIPcallExprSimplify(), SCIPcallExprReverseprop()
2215- added SCIPexprcurvPowerInv(), SCIPexprcurvMonomialInv()
2216
2217Expression iterator:
2218- added SCIPcreateExpriter(), SCIPfreeExpriter()
2219- added SCIPexpriterIsInit(), SCIPexpriterInit()
2220- added SCIPexpriterRestartDFS(), SCIPexpriterSetStagesDFS(), SCIPexpriterGetCurrent(), SCIPexpriterGetStageDFS(), SCIPexpriterGetChildIdxDFS(), SCIPexpriterGetChildExprDFS(), SCIPexpriterGetParentDFS()
2221- added SCIPexpriterGetCurrentUserData(), SCIPexpriterGetChildUserDataDFS(), SCIPexpriterGetExprUserData(), SCIPexpriterSetCurrentUserData(), SCIPexpriterSetExprUserData(), SCIPexpriterSetChildUserData()
2222- added SCIPexpriterGetNext(), SCIPexpriterSkipDFS(), SCIPexpriterIsEnd()
2223- added SCIPexprintHessianSparsity(), SCIPexprintHessian()
2224
2225Constraint handlers for NLP:
2226- added SCIPgetCurBoundsTagNonlinear(), SCIPgetLastBoundRelaxTagNonlinear(), SCIPincrementCurBoundsTagNonlinear()
2227- added SCIPgetVarExprHashmapNonlinear()
2228- added SCIPprocessRowprepNonlinear()
2229- added SCIPassumeConvexNonlinear()
2230- added SCIPcollectBilinTermsNonlinear(), SCIPgetBilinTermIdxNonlinear(), SCIPgetBilinTermNonlinear(), SCIPevalBilinAuxExprNonlinear(), SCIPinsertBilinearTermExistingNonlinear(), SCIPinsertBilinearTermImplicitNonlinear()
2231- added SCIPcomputeFacetVertexPolyhedralNonlinear()
2232- added SCIPgetExprNonlinear()
2233- added SCIPcheckQuadraticNonlinear(), SCIPchgLhsNonlinear(), SCIPchgRhsNonlinear(), SCIPchgExprNonlinear(), SCIPaddExprNonlinear()
2234- added SCIPgetRelViolationNonlinear()
2235- added SCIPgetExprNLocksPosNonlinear(), SCIPgetExprNLocksNegNonlinear(), SCIPgetExprAuxVarNonlinear(), SCIPgetExprNEnfosNonlinear(), SCIPgetExprEnfoDataNonlinear(), SCIPsetExprEnfoAuxValueNonlinear()
2236- added SCIPgetExprNPropUsesActivityNonlinear(), SCIPgetExprNSepaUsesActivityNonlinear(), SCIPgetExprNAuxvarUsesNonlinear(), SCIPregisterExprUsageNonlinear()
2237- added SCIPgetExprAbsOrigViolationNonlinear(), SCIPgetExprAbsAuxViolationNonlinear(), SCIPgetExprRelAuxViolationNonlinear()
2238- added SCIPgetExprBoundsNonlinear(), SCIPtightenExprIntervalNonlinear(), SCIPmarkExprPropagateNonlinear()
2239- added SCIPaddExprViolScoreNonlinear(), SCIPaddExprsViolScoreNonlinear(), SCIPgetExprViolScoreNonlinear()
2240- added SCIPgetExprPartialDiffNonlinear(), SCIPgetExprPartialDiffGradientDirNonlinear()
2241- added SCIPevalExprQuadraticAuxNonlinear()
2242- added SCIPincludeNlhdlrNonlinear(), SCIPfindNlhdlrNonlinear(), SCIPgetNNlhdlrsNonlinear(), SCIPgetNlhdlrsNonlinear(), SCIPgetNlhdlrExprDataNonlinear()
2243- added SCIPcreateConsQuadraticNonlinear() and SCIPcreateConsBasicQuadraticNonlinear() to create a nonlinear constraint that is quadratic
2244- added SCIPcreateConsBasicSignpowerNonlinear() to create a nonlinear constraint that looks like the former abspower or signpower constraints
2245
2246Nonlinear Handler:
2247- added SCIPincludeNlhdlrBilinear(), SCIPgetExprsBilinear(), SCIPgetNExprsBilinear(), SCIPaddIneqBilinear()
2248- added SCIPincludeNlhdlrConvex(), SCIPincludeNlhdlrConcave(), SCIPhasExprCurvature()
2249- added SCIPincludeNlhdlrDefault()
2250- added SCIPincludeNlhdlrPerspective()
2251- added SCIPincludeNlhdlrQuadratic()
2252- added SCIPincludeNlhdlrQuotient()
2253- added SCIPincludeNlhdlrSoc(), SCIPisSOCNonlinear(), SCIPfreeSOCArraysNonlinear()
2254- added SCIPnlhdlrSetCopyHdlr(), SCIPnlhdlrSetFreeHdlrData(), SCIPnlhdlrSetFreeExprData(), SCIPnlhdlrSetInitExit(), SCIPnlhdlrSetProp(), SCIPnlhdlrSetSepa()
2255- added SCIPnlhdlrGetName(), SCIPnlhdlrGetDesc(), SCIPnlhdlrGetDetectPriority(), SCIPnlhdlrGetEnfoPriority(), SCIPnlhdlrIsEnabled(), SCIPnlhdlrGetData()
2256- added SCIPnlhdlrHasIntEval(), SCIPnlhdlrHasReverseProp(), SCIPnlhdlrHasInitSepa(), SCIPnlhdlrHasExitSepa(), SCIPnlhdlrHasEnfo(), SCIPnlhdlrHasEstimate()
2257- added SCIPnlhdlrComp()
2258
2259NLPI:
2260- added SCIPgetNlpiSolverPointer(), SCIPcreateNlpiProblem(), SCIPfreeNlpiProblem(), SCIPgetNlpiProblemPointer(), SCIPaddNlpiVars(), SCIPaddNlpiConstraints(), SCIPsetNlpiObjective(), SCIPchgNlpiVarBounds(), SCIPchgNlpiConsSides(), SCIPdelNlpiVarSet(), SCIPdelNlpiConsSet(), SCIPchgNlpiLinearCoefs(), SCIPchgNlpiExpr(), SCIPchgNlpiObjConstant(), SCIPsetNlpiInitialGuess(), SCIPsolveNlpiParam(), SCIPgetNlpiSolstat(), SCIPgetNlpiTermstat(), SCIPgetNlpiSolution(), SCIPgetNlpiStatistics()
2261- added SCIPincludeNlpSolverAll()
2262- added SCIPincludeNlpSolverFilterSQP(), SCIPgetSolverNameFilterSQP(), SCIPgetSolverDescFilterSQP(), SCIPisFilterSQPAvailableFilterSQP()
2263- added SCIPincludeNlpSolverIpopt()
2264- added SCIPincludeNlpSolverWorhp()
2265- added SCIPnlpiOracleChgExpr()
2266- added SCIPcreateNlpiProblemFromNlRows()
2267- added SCIPnlpiOracleGetObjectiveConstant()
2268- added SCIPnlpiOracleIsVarNonlinear(), SCIPnlpiOracleGetVarCounts(), SCIPnlpiOracleIsConstraintNonlinear()
2269- added SCIPnlpiGetNProblems(), SCIPnlpiGetProblemTime(), SCIPnlpiGetNSolves(), SCIPnlpiGetSolveTime(), SCIPnlpiGetEvalTime(), SCIPnlpiGetNIterations(), SCIPnlpiGetNTermStat(), SCIPnlpiGetNSolStat(), SCIPnlpiMergeStatistics()
2270- added SCIPmergeNLPIStatistics(), SCIPprintNLPIStatistics()
2271- added SCIPnlpiOracleResetEvalTime(), SCIPnlpiOracleGetEvalTime()
2272- added SCIPaddNlpiProblemNlRows()
2273
2274Cut Selector:
2275- added SCIPincludeCutsel(), SCIPincludeCutselBasic(), SCIPsetCutselCopy(), SCIPsetCutselFree(), SCIPsetCutselInit(), SCIPsetCutselExit(), SCIPsetCutselInitsol(), SCIPsetCutselExitsol(), SCIPfindCutsel(), SCIPgetCutsels(), SCIPgetNCutsels(), SCIPsetCutselPriority()
2276- added SCIPcutselGetName(), SCIPcutselGetData(), SCIPcutselGetDesc(), SCIPcutselGetPriority(), SCIPcutselSetData(), SCIPcutselIsInitialized(), SCIPcutselGetSetupTime(), SCIPcutselGetTime()
2277
2278### Command line interface
2279### Interfaces to external software
2280
2281- removed GAMS interface (originally in interfaces/gams) and reading capability of gms reader;
2282 the removed interface was a poorly maintained copy of the GAMS/SCIP interface that is available at
2283 https://github.com/coin-or/GAMSlinks
2284- integrated AMPL interface into main SCIP executable, that is, added possibility to use SCIP executable as solver in AMPL
2285 (AMPL calls solver with name of .nl file and -AMPL as arguments; SCIP will then attempt to solve the problem and write an AMPL solution file)
2286- the ZIMPL interface has been updated to support ZIMPL 3.4.1;
2287 the minimal required ZIMPL version is now 3.4.1
2288
2289### Changed parameters
2290
2291- Extended range of parameter "misc/usesymmetry" from [0,3] to [0,7], changed default from 3 to 5
2292- deleted parameter "constraints/orbitope/usedynamicprop"
2293- changed type of parameter "propagating/symmetry/recomputerestart" from SCIP_Bool to int with range [0,2]
2294- deleted parameter "propagating/symmetry/disableofrestart"
2295- parameter "heuristics/padm/original" is now an advanced parameter
2296- removed constraints/nonlinear/linfeasshift, constraints/nonlinear/reformulate, constraints/nonlinear/maxexpansionexponent, constraints/nonlinear/sepanlpmincont
2297- removed constraints/nonlinear/upgrade/abspower
2298- removed constraints/nonlinear/upgrade/and, use constraints/nonlinear/reformbinprodsand instead
2299- removed constraints/nonlinear/upgrade/bivariate
2300- removed constraints/nonlinear/upgrade/quadratic, use nlhdlr/quadratic/enabled instead
2301- changed default of constraints/nonlinear/maxproprounds from 1 to 10
2302- replaced constraints/nonlinear/enfocutsremovable by constraints/nonlinear/rownotremovable
2303- replaced constraints/nonlinear/cutmaxrange by separating/maxcoefratiofacrowprep
2304- removed constraints/quadratic/sepafreq, constraints/quadratic/propfreq, constraints/quadratic/proptiming, constraints/quadratic/eagerfreq, constraints/quadratic/maxprerounds, constraints/quadratic/delaysepa, constraints/quadratic/delayprop, constraints/quadratic/presoltiming
2305- removed constraints/quadratic/replacebinaryprod, use constraints/nonlinear/reformbinprodsfac instead
2306- removed constraints/quadratic/empathy4and, use constraints/nonlinear/reformbinprodsand instead
2307- removed constraints/quadratic/binreforminitial, constraints/quadratic/binreformbinaryonly, constraints/quadratic/binreformmaxcoef
2308- removed constraints/quadratic/cutmaxrange, constraints/quadratic/mincurvcollectbilinterms, constraints/quadratic/linearizeheursol, constraints/quadratic/checkcurvature, constraints/quadratic/checkfactorable, constraints/quadratic/checkquadvarlocks, constraints/quadratic/linfeasshift
2309- removed constraints/quadratic/maxdisaggrsize, constraints/quadratic/disaggrmergemethod, constraints/quadratic/maxproprounds, constraints/quadratic/maxproproundspresolve, constraints/quadratic/enfolplimit, constraints/quadratic/sepanlpmincont, constraints/quadratic/enfocutsremovable
2310- removed constraints/quadratic/gaugecuts, constraints/quadratic/interiorcomputation, constraints/quadratic/projectedcuts, constraints/quadratic/branchscoring, constraints/quadratic/usebilinineqbranch, constraints/quadratic/bilinineqmaxseparounds,
2311- removed constraints/quadratic/minscorebilinterms, use nlhdlr/bilinear/enabled instead
2312- removed constraints/quadratic/upgrade/linear, constraints/quadratic/upgrade/abspower, constraints/quadratic/upgrade/bivariate, constraints/quadratic/upgrade/bounddisjunction
2313- removed constraints/quadratic/upgrade/soc, use nlhdlr/soc/enabled instead
2314- renamed constraints/quadratic/upgrade/setppc to constraints/nonlinear/upgrade/setppc
2315- removed constraints/abspower/sepafreq, constraints/abspower/propfreq, constraints/abspower/proptiming, constraints/abspower/eagerfreq, constraints/abspower/maxprerounds, constraints/abspower/delaysepa, constraints/abspower/delayprop, constraints/abspower/presoltiming
2316- removed constraints/abspower/cutmaxrange, constraints/abspower/projectrefpoint, constraints/abspower/preferzerobranch, constraints/abspower/branchminconverror, constraints/abspower/addvarboundcons, constraints/abspower/linfeasshift, constraints/abspower/dualpresolve, constraints/abspower/sepainboundsonly, constraints/abspower/sepanlpmincont, constraints/abspower/enfocutsremovable
2317- removed constraints/bivariate/sepafreq, constraints/bivariate/propfreq, constraints/bivariate/proptiming, constraints/bivariate/eagerfreq, constraints/bivariate/maxprerounds, constraints/bivariate/delaysepa, constraints/bivariate/delayprop, constraints/bivariate/presoltiming
2318- removed constraints/bivariate/cutmaxrange, constraints/bivariate/linfeasshift, constraints/bivariate/maxproprounds, constraints/bivariate/ninitlprefpoints, constraints/bivariate/enfocutsremovable
2319- removed constraints/soc/sepafreq, constraints/soc/propfreq, constraints/soc/proptiming, constraints/soc/eagerfreq, constraints/soc/maxprerounds, constraints/soc/delaysepa, constraints/soc/delayprop, constraints/soc/presoltiming
2320- removed constraints/soc/projectpoint, constraints/soc/nauxvars, constraints/soc/glineur, constraints/soc/sparsify, constraints/soc/sparsifymaxloss, constraints/soc/sparsifynzgrowth, constraints/soc/linfeasshift, constraints/soc/nlpform, constraints/soc/sepanlpmincont, constraints/soc/enfocutsremovable, constraints/soc/disaggregate
2321- removed constraints/soc/generalsocupgrade, use nlhdlr/soc/compeigenvalues instead
2322- changed default of presolving/qpkktref/maxrounds from -1 to 0
2323- changed default of propagating/obbt/onlynonconvexvars from FALSE to TRUE
2324- changed default of heuristics/subnlp/resolvetolfactor from 0.001 to 1.0
2325- removed heuristics/subnlp/nlpoptfile, use nlpi/ipopt/optfile instead
2326- removed separating/convexproj/nlptimelimit
2327- removed separating/gauge/nlptimelimit
2328- removed heuristics/subnlp/nlptimelimit and heuristics/subnlp/nlpiterlimit
2329- removed heuristics/subnlp/resolvetolfactor and heuristics/subnlp/resolvefromscratch
2330- changed default of heuristics/subnlp/itermin to 20
2331- renamed heuristics/subnlp/iteroffset to heuristics/subnlp/nodesoffset
2332- renamed heuristics/subnlp/iterquotient to heuristics/subnlp/nodesfactor
2333- removed heuristics/subnlp/runalways, use heuristics/subnlp/nodesoffset=INT_MAX and heuristics/subnlp/successrateexp = 0.0 instead
2334- removed heuristics/subnlp/minimprove, heuristics/multistart/nlpminimpr
2335- Removed parameters for strongcg separator: separating/strongcg/..., i.e.,
2336 maxrounds, maxroundsroot, maxsepacutsroot, maxsepacuts, dynamiccuts. One can control the
2337 strongcg behavior throught the parameters of sepa_gomory.
2338- renamed separating/{minortho,minorthoroot,objparalfac,intsupportfac} to cutselection/hybrid/{minortho,minorthoroot,objparalweight,intsupportweight}
2339
2340### New parameters
2341
2342- It is now possible to add orbitope constraints to handle symmetries even if not all variables
2343 in a component of the symmetry group are binary. This feature can be enabled using the
2344 parameter "propagating/symmetry/onlybinorbitope".
2345
2346- new parameter "propagating/symmetry/sstleaderrule" to select a rule for selecting the
2347 leader in SST cuts
2348- new parameter "propagating/symmetry/ssttiebreakrule" to select a tiebreak rule for selecting the
2349 leader in SST cuts
2350- new parameter "propagating/symmetry/sstleadervartype" to select the possible variable types
2351 for a leader in SST cuts
2352- new parameter "propagating/symmetry/addconflictcuts" to control whether SST cuts are added if
2353 a binary leader variable is in conflict with a variable in its orbit
2354- new parameter "propagating/symmetry/sstaddcuts" to control whether SST cuts are added
2355- new parameter "propagating/symmetry/sstmixedcomponents" to control whether SST cuts are added
2356 if a symmetry component contains variables of different types
2357- new parameter "propagating/symmetry/detectsubgroups" to search for orbitopes defined by subgroups
2358- new parameter "propagating/symmetry/addweaksbcs" to add Schreier Sims cuts for a single
2359 variable orbit in case an orbitope subgroup is detected
2360- new parameter "propagating/symmetry/addstrongsbcs" to add symretope facets for a single
2361 variable orbit on which the symmetry group acts like a symmetric group
2362- new parameter "propagating/symmetry/maxnconsssubgroup" to control up to which number of
2363 constraints subgroups are detected
2364- new parameter "propagating/symmetry/preferlessrows" to control whether orbitopes with
2365 smallest number of rows shall be computed by the subgroup detection heuristic
2366- new parameter "propagating/symmetry/usedynamicprop" to control if rows of full orbitope
2367 shall be ordered dynamically in propagation
2368- new parameter "separating/filtercutpoolrel" to control whether cutpool uses
2369 a dynamic strategy to separate only cuts with high relative efficacy
2370- if run from AMPL: display/statistics to enable printing detailed solve statistics after solve
2371- if run from AMPL: display/logfile to specify name of file to write SCIP log to (additionally to writing to stdout)
2372- constraints/nonlinear/propauxvars, constraints/nonlinear/varboundrelax, constraints/nonlinear/varboundrelaxamount, constraints/nonlinear/conssiderelaxamount
2373- constraints/nonlinear/vpmaxperturb, constraints/nonlinear/vpadjfacetthresh, constraints/nonlinear/vpdualsimplex
2374- constraints/nonlinear/bilinmaxnauxexprs, constraints/nonlinear/forbidmultaggrnlvar, constraints/nonlinear/checkvarlocks, constraints/nonlinear/violscale
2375- constraints/nonlinear/reformbinprods, constraints/nonlinear/reformbinprodsand, constraints/nonlinear/reformbinprodsfac
2376- constraints/nonlinear/tightenlpfeastol, constraints/nonlinear/propinenforce, constraints/nonlinear/weakcutthreshold, constraints/nonlinear/strongcutmaxcoef, constraints/nonlinear/strongcutefficacy, constraints/nonlinear/forcestrongcut, constraints/nonlinear/enfoauxviolfactor, constraints/nonlinear/weakcutminviolfactor
2377- constraints/nonlinear/branching/aux, constraints/nonlinear/branching/external, constraints/nonlinear/branching/highviolfactor, constraints/nonlinear/branching/highscorefactor, constraints/nonlinear/branching/violweight, constraints/nonlinear/branching/dualweight, constraints/nonlinear/branching/pscostweight, constraints/nonlinear/branching/domainweight, constraints/nonlinear/branching/vartypeweight, constraints/nonlinear/branching/scoreagg, constraints/nonlinear/branching/violsplit, constraints/nonlinear/branching/pscostreliable
2378- constraints/nonlinear/linearizeheursol
2379- nlhdlr/default/enabled
2380- nlhdlr/convex/enabled, nlhdlr/convex/detectsum, nlhdlr/convex/extendedform, nlhdlr/convex/cvxquadratic, nlhdlr/convex/cvxsignomial, nlhdlr/convex/cvxprodcomp, nlhdlr/convex/handletrivial
2381- nlhdlr/concave/enabled, nlhdlr/concave/detectsum, nlhdlr/concave/cvxquadratic, nlhdlr/concave/cvxsignomial, nlhdlr/concave/cvxprodcomp, nlhdlr/concave/handletrivial
2382- nlhdlr/bilinear/enabled, nlhdlr/bilinear/useinteval, nlhdlr/bilinear/usereverseprop, nlhdlr/bilinear/maxseparoundsroot, nlhdlr/bilinear/maxseparounds, nlhdlr/bilinear/maxsepadepth
2383- nlhdlr/perspective/enabled, nlhdlr/perspective/maxproprounds, nlhdlr/perspective/mindomreduction, nlhdlr/perspective/minviolprobing, nlhdlr/perspective/probingonlyinsepa, nlhdlr/perspective/probingfreq, nlhdlr/perspective/convexonly, nlhdlr/perspective/tightenbounds, nlhdlr/perspective/adjrefpoint
2384- nlhdlr/quadratic/enabled, nlhdlr/quadratic/useintersectioncuts, nlhdlr/quadratic/usestrengthening, nlhdlr/quadratic/useboundsasrays, nlhdlr/quadratic/ncutslimit, nlhdlr/quadratic/ncutslimitroot, nlhdlr/quadratic/maxrank, nlhdlr/quadratic/mincutviolation, nlhdlr/quadratic/minviolation, nlhdlr/quadratic/atwhichnodes, nlhdlr/quadratic/nstrengthlimit, nlhdlr/quadratic/ignorebadrayrestriction, nlhdlr/quadratic/ignorehighre
2385- nlhdlr/quotient/enabled
2386- nlhdlr/soc/enabled, nlhdlr/soc/mincutefficacy, nlhdlr/soc/compeigenvalues
2387- propagating/obbt/createlincons
2388- propagating/symmetry/onlybinarysymmetry
2389- separating/minor/priority, separating/minor/freq, separating/minor/maxbounddist, separating/minor/delay, separating/minor/expbackoff, separating/minor/maxminorsconst, separating/minor/maxminorsfac, separating/minor/mincutviol, separating/minor/maxrounds, separating/minor/maxroundsroot, separating/minor/ignorepackingconss
2390- separating/rlt/priority, separating/rlt/freq, separating/rlt/maxbounddist, separating/rlt/delay, separating/rlt/expbackoff, separating/rlt/maxncuts, separating/rlt/maxunknownterms, separating/rlt/maxusedvars, separating/rlt/maxrounds, separating/rlt/maxroundsroot, separating/rlt/onlyeqrows, separating/rlt/onlycontrows, separating/rlt/onlyoriginal, separating/rlt/useinsubscip, separating/rlt/useprojection, separating/rlt/detecthidden, separating/rlt/hiddenrlt, separating/rlt/addtopool, separating/rlt/goodscore, separating/rlt/badscore, separating/rlt/objparalweight, separating/rlt/efficacyweight, separating/rlt/dircutoffdistweight, separating/rlt/goodmaxparall, separating/rlt/maxparall
2391- separating/interminor/usestrengthening, separating/interminor/usebounds, separating/interminor/mincutviol, separating/interminor/maxrounds, separating/interminor/maxroundsroot
2392- table/cons_nonlinear/active, table/nlhdlr/active, table/exprhdlr/active, table/nlpi/active, table/nlhdlr_bilinear/active, table/nlhdlr_quadratic/active
2393- expr/log/minzerodistance, expr/pow/minzerodistance
2394- benders/default/maxslackvarcoef to specify maximal coefficient for slack variables; if exceeded, slack variables are fixed to zero
2395- nlpi/ipopt/optfile to specify name of Ipopt options file to use for every solve with Ipopt
2396- nlpi/ipopt/print_level, nlpi/ipopt/hsllib, nlpi/ipopt/pardisolib, nlpi/ipopt/linear_solver, nlpi/ipopt/linear_system_scaling, nlpi/ipopt/nlp_scaling_method, nlpi/ipopt/mu_strategy, nlpi/ipopt/hessian_approximation
2397- nlpi/ipopt/warm_start_push
2398- timing/nlpieval
2399- heuristics/subnlp/iterinit, heuristics/subnlp/ninitsolves, heuristics/subnlp/successrateexp
2400- heuristics/subnlp/expectinfeas, heuristics/subnlp/opttol, heuristics/subnlp/feastolfactor
2401- heuristics/subnlp/presolveemphasis, heuristics/subnlp/setcutoff
2402- new parameters "branching/inference/conflictprio" and "branching/inference/cutoffprio" that allow
2403 using the different score criteria in inference branching hierarchically
2404- new parameters "heuristics/alns/nodesquotmin", "heuristics/alns/maxcallssamesol" and "heuristics/alns/initduringroot"
2405 to control neighborhoods in ALNS
2406- new parameter "benders/default/benderscut/optimality/mir" to control whether mixed-integer rounding procedure is applied to Benders optimality cuts
2407- new parameter "misc/avoidmemout" to try to avoid running into memory limit
2408- cutselection/hybrid/dircutoffdistweight, cutselection/hybrid/efficacyweight, cutselection/hybrid/intsupportweight, cutselection/hybrid/objparalweight, cutselection/hybrid/priority
2409- new parameter "decomposition/disablemeasures" to disable expensive measures in SCIPcomputeDecompStats()
2410- new parameter "presolving/milp/probfilename" filename to write the problem to a file before MILP presolving starts
2411
2412### Data structures
2413
2414- removed quadratic terms from NLROWs
2415- removed SCIP_NLPPAR_INFINITY from SCIP_NLPPARAM enum
2416- added types SYM_OPTYPE, SYM_CONSTTYPE, SYM_RHSTYPE, SYM_EXPRDATA
2417- removed class SCIPInterval
2418- removed enum SCIP_EXPROP
2419- removed union SCIP_EXPROPDATA, added SCIP_EXPRDATA
2420- removed struct SCIP_EXPRTREE, use SCIP_EXPR instead
2421- removed structs SCIP_QUADELEM, SCIP_EXPRDATA_QUADRATIC, SCIP_EXPRDATA_MONOMIAL, SCIP_EXPRDATA_POLYNOMIAL, SCIP_EXPRDATA_USER
2422- removed structs SCIP_EXPRGRAPHNODE, SCIP_EXPRGRAPH
2423- removed type SCIP_EXPRBOUNDSTATUS
2424- removed struct SCIP_USEREXPRDATA
2425- added enum SCIP_MONOTONE
2426- added structs SCIP_EXPRHDLR, SCIP_EXPRHDLRDATA
2427- added union SCIP_EXPRITER_USERDATA
2428- added enum SCIP_EXPRITER_TYPE
2429- added structs SCIP_EXPRITERDATA, SCIP_EXPRITER
2430- added type SCIP_EXPRPRINT_WHAT, struct SCIP_EXPRPRINTDATA
2431- removed enum SCIP_BIVAR_CONVEXITY
2432- removed structs SCIP_QUADVAREVENTDATA, SCIP_QUADVARTERM, SCIP_BILINTERM
2433- added structs SCIP_CONSNONLINEAR_AUXEXPR, SCIP_CONSNONLINEAR_BILINTERM
2434- added type SCIP_NLHDLR_METHOD
2435- added structs SCIP_NLHDLR, SCIP_NLHDLRDATA, SCIP_NLHDLREXPRDATA
2436- enum SCIP_NLPPARAM has been changed to a struct that holds values of parameters for an NLP solve
2437- removed SCIP_NLPPAR_OPTFILE/optfile from SCIP_NLPPARAM
2438- added SCIP_NLPTERMSTAT_INTERRUPT to SCIP_NLPTERMSTAT enum; returned from NLP solver if SCIPinterruptSolve() has been called
2439- renamed SCIP_NLPTERMSTAT_TILIM to SCIP_NLPTERMSTAT_TIMELIMIT
2440- renamed SCIP_NLPTERMSTAT_ITLIM to SCIP_NLPTERMSTAT_ITERLIMIT
2441- renamed SCIP_NLPTERMSTAT_LOBJLIM to SCIP_NLPTERMSTAT_LOBJLIMIT
2442- renamed SCIP_NLPTERMSTAT_NUMERR to SCIP_NLPTERMSTAT_NUMERICERROR
2443- renamed SCIP_NLPTERMSTAT_EVALERR to SCIP_NLPTERMSTAT_EVALERROR
2444- renamed SCIP_NLPTERMSTAT_MEMERR to SCIP_NLPTERMSTAT_OUTOFMEMORY
2445- renamed SCIP_NLPTERMSTAT_LICERR to SCIP_NLPTERMSTAT_LICENSEERROR
2446- added evaltime to SCIP_NLPSTATISTICS
2447- added structs SCIP_CUTSEL, SCIP_CUTSELDATA
2448
2449Deleted files
2450-------------
2451
2452- interfaces/gams/∗
2453- interfaces/ampl/∗
2454- src/nlpi/∗
2455- src/scip/cons_bivariate.{c,h}
2456- src/scip/pub_misc_nonlinear.h
2457- src/scip/misc_nonlinear.c
2458- src/scip/scip_nonlinear.{c,h}
2459- src/scip/sepa_strongcg.{h|c}
2460
2461Unit tests
2462----------
2463
2464- added cons/linear/nonlinupgd.c
2465- added cons/nonlinear/addcons.c
2466- added cons/nonlinear/bilinhash.c
2467- added cons/nonlinear/check.c
2468- added cons/nonlinear/copy.c
2469- added cons/nonlinear/create_nlrow.c
2470- added cons/nonlinear/curvature.c
2471- added cons/nonlinear/glbconss.c
2472- added cons/nonlinear/hessian.c
2473- added cons/nonlinear/locks.c
2474- added cons/nonlinear/nlhdlr.c
2475- added cons/nonlinear/nlhdlr_bilinear.c
2476- added cons/nonlinear/nlhdlr_concave.c
2477- added cons/nonlinear/nlhdlr_convex.c
2478- added cons/nonlinear/nlhdlr_perspective.c
2479- added cons/nonlinear/nlhdlr_quadratic.c
2480- added cons/nonlinear/nlhdlr_quotient.c
2481- added cons/nonlinear/nlhdlr_soc.c
2482- added cons/nonlinear/parse.c
2483- added cons/nonlinear/presolve.c
2484- added cons/nonlinear/propagate.c
2485- added cons/nonlinear/readers.c
2486- added cons/nonlinear/reformbinprods.c
2487- added cons/nonlinear/repair.c
2488- added cons/nonlinear/transform.c
2489- added cons/nonlinear/vertexpolyhedral.c
2490- removed cons/nonlinear/getCoeffsAndConstantFromLinearExpr.c
2491- removed cons/soc/upgrade.c
2492- added expr/abs/estimation.c
2493- added expr/commonsubexprs.c
2494- added expr/compare.c
2495- added expr/copy.c
2496- added expr/cos/cos.c
2497- added expr/cos/estimation.c
2498- added expr/curvature.c
2499- added expr/derivative.c
2500- added expr/entropy/entropy.c
2501- added expr/entropy/estimation.c
2502- added expr/eval.c
2503- added expr/exp/estimation.c
2504- added expr/free.c
2505- added expr/getvarexprs.c
2506- added expr/hash.c
2507- added expr/hessian.c
2508- added expr/integrality.c
2509- added expr/iterator.c
2510- added expr/log/estimation.c
2511- added expr/monotonicity.c
2512- added expr/parse.c
2513- added expr/pow/estimation.c
2514- added expr/pow/pow.c
2515- added expr/product/estimation.c
2516- added expr/quad.c
2517- added expr/simplify.c
2518- added expr/sin/estimation.c
2519- added expr/sin/sin.c
2520- added expr/sum/estimation.c
2521- added nlpi/exprinterpret.c
2522- speedup test nlpi:solveQP in nlpi/nlpi.c
2523- added test projection:transitivity in prob/obbt.c
2524- added reader/nl.c
2525- added test intervalarith:sincos in scip/intervalarith.c
2526- added sepa/minor.c
2527- added sepa/rlt/cuts.c
2528- added sepa/rlt/product_detection.c
2529- added sepa/rlt/separation.c
2530- added tests test_compute_symmetry:expr{1,2,3,4} in symmetry/compute.c
2531
2532Build system
2533------------
2534
2535- the separate NLPI library has been integrated into the main SCIP library;
2536 uses of NLPILIBFILE or NLPILIBSRC in Makefiles that use make/make.project
2537 should be removed
2538
2539### Cmake
2540
2541- replace flag PARASCIP by THREADSAFE
2542- option AMPL is now ON by default
2543- add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=600 cflag for compilation on systems other than windows
2544- add compile options directly instead of modifying CMAKE_C_FLAGS and CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS
2545
2546### Makefile
2547
2548- prefix PKG_CONFIG_PATH with Ipopt's pkgconfig dir instead of postfixing
2549- replace flag PARASCIP by THREADSAFE
2550- flag AMPL is now true by default
2551- libscip has been renamed to libscipbase and libscipsolver has been renamed to libscip
2552 in order to have the same library names for makefiles and cmake. For downward
2553 compatibility libscipsolver still exists (as a link).
2554
2555Fixed bugs
2556----------
2557
2558- fixed handling of multi-aggregation in cons_symresack and cons_orbisack
2559- SCIPgetLowerbound() now consistently returns infinity when status is infeasible
2560- improved the likelihood that a solution that satisfies the nonlinear constraints in the transformed (presolved) problem is also feasible for the original problem
2561- worked around a problem with derivatives of pow at 0 with non-integer exponents in CppAD
2562- fixed that setting of feasiblity and optimiality tolerance for NLP relaxation was overwritten with defaults when solving NLP
2563- fixed variance computation in t-value computation in hypothesis testing of reliability branching
2564- fixed potential overflow in cuts.c:evaluateLiftingFunctionKnapsack()
2565- do not transfer dual reductions to main SCIP in sepa_rapidlearning if strong dual reductions are forbidden
2566- fixed a bug in cons_setppc.c:removeDoubleAndSingletonsAndPerformDualpresolve() which led to wrong variable aggregations
2567- added missing redundancy check to coefficient tightening routine in cons_varbound that led to wrong variable locks
2568- added a check of numerics to avoid wrong reductions in cons_linear.c:simplifyInequalities()
2569- fixed a bug in cons_logicor.c regarding fixed variables that were not removed
2570- presol_milp.c handles variable fixings, suggested by PaPILO, more carefully to cover all cases that can appear
2571- fixed several reproducability bugs that led to different solving paths across multiple runs with one SCIP environment
2572- fixed check of limits/absgap, which was incorrectly applied to the scaled objective of the transformed problem
2573
2574Miscellaneous
2575-------------
2576
2577- in LP, use absolute instead of relative tolerances to check whether solutions from LP solver are primal feasible
2578- when a restart occurs, SCIP now asserts (during EXITSOLVE) that all relaxation-only variables are unlocked and
2579 only captured by the transformed problem.
2580- Avoid redundant calls to LP solver when LP is already flushed and solved
2581- In SCIPdebugMsg(), SCIPsetDebugMsg(), SCIPstatDebugMsg() strip directory from filename.
2582- Recompute activity of rows when checking LP solutions instead of trusting the value given by the LP solver
2583- The define NPARASCIP has been replaced by SCIP_THREADSAFE
2584- Parameters are not reset to their default values before activating an emphasis setting; this now allows to combine
2585 different emphasis settings.
2586- If a lazy bound is set to a value that is tighter than the current global bound, then the global bound is now tightened accordingly.
2587
2588@page RN7 Release notes for SCIP 7
2589
2590@section RN703 SCIP 7.0.3
2591*************************
2592
2593Interface changes
2594-----------------
2595
2596### New API functions
2597
2598- added function SCIPwithDebugSol() to determine whether SCIP was compiled with WITH_DEBUG_SOLUTION
2599
2600- New function SCIPcreateConsBounddisjunctionRedundant() and SCIPcreateConsBasicBounddisjunctionRedundant() that allow
2601 the input to contain redundant literals.
2602
2603### Changed API functions
2604
2605- added __attribute__((format(printf,,,))) to variadic SCIP message printing functions;
2606 this enables warnings about mismatches between format string and variadic function arguments if using GCC.
2607
2608### Interfaces to external software
2609
2610- removed MATLAB interface from interfaces/matlab
2611
2612Build system
2613------------
2614
2615- Compilation will now also work in a raw tarball of the scip git repository
2616
2617### Cmake
2618
2619- Make find_package more verbose and require packages to be found. Now enabled packages that are not found result in an error.
2620
2621Fixed bugs
2622----------
2623
2624- Fixed numerical bug by creating and checking the empty solution when problem vanishes in presolving.
2625- Fixed several bugs in reoptimization.
2626- Fixed bug in cons_bounddisjunction in which a constraint leads to a cutoff.
2627- Fixed bug in reoptimization by avoiding redundant literals for bound disjunctions.
2628- Replace wrong usage of CMAKE_BINARY_DIR by PROJECT_BINARY_DIR in CMake system
2629- Fixed lpi_glop to use absl flag instead of GFlags
2630- Fixed invalid initialization of limits/softtime parameter in cons_components
2631- Fixed MIN macro not defined in some cases.
2632- Safeguard some API functions for querying solving statistics against segmentation faults after SCIPpresolve()
2633- Fixed unfreed solution in concurrent solving
2634- Make sure that logicor constraints are enforced/separated if genlogicor is true in cons_indicator.
2635 Thus, do not change constraints/logicor/sepafreq anymore, but output warning.
2636- Fixed assert that assumed infeasibility cannot occur in presol_boundshift.
2637- Fixed sign bug during creation of conflict constraints with almost zero left-hand side.
2638- Disabled call of conflict handler for conflict sets that contain relaxation-only variables.
2639- Fixed bug in cons_symresack by initializing all constraint data in constrans
2640- Avoid allowing the upgrade of linear constraints corresponding to indicators in propagation of nodes.
2641- Fixed bug in computing lex. min/max faces in dynamic orbitope propagation.
2642- Limit vbounds propagator to one sweep through all bounds per call in order to avoid an infinite loop.
2643- Fixed mismatches between formatter strings and arguments in calls to SCIP message printing functions.
2644
2645Miscellaneous
2646-------------
2647
2648- To avoid performance variablity during reoptimization, the active constraints are now stored in the same order as in the
2649 original problem.
2650- Added workaround for bug in MSVS 2019 when compiling CppAD source.
2651- The original order of variables is now only restored after presolve if `randomization/permutevars` is set to FALSE.
2652
2653@section RN702 SCIP 7.0.2
2654*************************
2655
2656Features
2657--------
2658
2659- Extended check for valid variable and constraint names in PIP writer.
2660- Indicator constraints now write the name of the linear constraint in CIP format. This avoids a complicated
2661 name matching during parsing. The old format is still supported.
2662- The objective scale and offset are now taken into account when reading/writing problems in lp/mps/fzn/pip format.
2663 This often changes the behavior when writing transformed problems.
2664
2665Performance improvements
2666------------------------
2667
2668Examples and applications
2669-------------------------
2670
2671- Add c++ Sudoku example
2672
2673Interface changes
2674-----------------
2675
2676### Deleted and changed API functions
2677
2678- deprecated SCIPsetParam(); use SCIPsetIntParam(), SCIPsetRealParam(), etc, instead
2679
2680### New API functions
2681
2682- new function SCIPcolGetVarProbindex() for accessing the probindex of a variable corresponding to a column
2683- added new sorting functions SCIPsortPtrRealRealBoolBool()
2684
2685Fixed bugs
2686----------
2687
2688- Fixed a sign bug occuring for some cases in the computation of the directed cutoff distance
2689- Fixed overflow in inference information of cumulative constraint handler
2690- Fixed problem with propfreq == 0 in cons_linear.c
2691- Fixed aggregation heuristic in sepa_aggregation.c to not use local rows when that is requested nor modifiable rows
2692- Fixed problem with incompatibility of symmetry handling in Benders decomposition
2693- Fixed parsing of small number in CIP format of nonlinear constraint
2694- Fixed problem in upgrading full orbitopes to partitioning orbitopes
2695- Fixed treatment of negated variables in parsing orbitope constraints
2696- Fixed potential indexing error in prop_vbounds.c
2697- Fixed bug in writing fzn format
2698- Revert to old parameter value when parameter change is rejected in PARAMCHGD callback
2699- Fixed order of linker flags when building AMPL interface with cmake system.
2700- Fixed bug with ofsymcomptiming == 0: now symmetry is actually computed
2701- Improved separation for SOC constraint with multiaggregated variable on right-hand-side.
2702- Fixed bug in presol_boundshift: do not shift non-active variables
2703- Fixed bug in domain propagation for SOC constraints with negative coefficient for variable on right-hand-side.
2704- Fixed bug with multi-aggregated integer variables in cons_xor.
2705- Fixed bug with changed number of variables in storing relaxation solution in probing/diving.
2706- Fixed issues with scip statistics
2707- Fixed issue with multi-aggregated variables
2708- Fixed issue in with buffer memory in cons_cumulative
2709
2710@section RN701 SCIP 7.0.1
2711*************************
2712
2713Build system
2714------------
2715
2716### Cmake
2717
2718- Fixed cmake module for Ipopt to support Ipopt 3.13
2719- Added cmake variable BLISS_LIBRARY_DIR to pass a bliss library
2720- Added warning to require minimal GCC version 4.8
2721- Renamed FindCriterion cmake findmodule to FindCRITERION
2722
2723### Makefile
2724
2725- Updated make/make.project for macOS
2726- Add SANITZERFLAGS (only OPT=dbg) to LDFLAGS also if SHARED=true (and rename SANITZERFLAGS to SANITIZERFLAGS)
2727- Fixed GCC version check in make/make.linux.gnu.dbg
2728
2729Fixed bugs
2730----------
2731
2732- Fixed handling of constant term in quadratic objective of pip-reader
2733- Fixed incorrect value string for parameter estimation/completiontype
2734- Fixed initialization of first LP which led to wrong output about LPs not resolved correctly
2735- Fixed bug in SCIPcutpoolClear() function not clearing internal datastructures properly
2736- Fixed inability to set a value in a solution if it was within epsilon to the current value
2737- Fixed problems for linking optimized code with debug library of SCIP (and vice versa) by moving debug-only members
2738 to end of SCIP structs
2739
2740Miscellaneous
2741-------------
2742
2743- Variables that are marked as relaxation-only are no longer checked against debug solutions if
2744 they are captured by the transformed problem only.
2745
2746@section RN700 SCIP 7.0.0
2747*************************
2748
2749Features
2750--------
2751
2752- Using the parameter "propagating/symmetry/recomputerestart" one can now decide to recompute symmetries after a
2753 restart or not. Previously one could just turn off symmetry computation after a restart. If orbital fixing
2754 has found a reduction before the restart occurred, symmetries have to be updated to ensure correctness.
2755 To this end, the user can decide via "propagating/symmetry/disableofrestart" whether orbital fixing is disabled or
2756 whether symmetries are recomputed.
2757
2758- extended relaxators statistics in solve statistics about information on number of cutoffs, improved bounds, etc.
2759
2760- extends SMPS file reader for the stochastic information, the sto files, to read a lower bound for the discrete
2761 scenarios. The lower bound is used when creating the auxiliary variables for Benders' decomposition.
2762
2763- extended Benders framework to solve NLPs and generate optimality and feasibility cuts from their solution
2764 when the subproblem is convex nonlinear.
2765
2766- extended Benders framework to create copies of Benders decompositions that can be used in a multithreading environment
2767
2768- additional functionality has been added to enable the transfer of Benders' decomposition cuts between different SCIP
2769 instances, e.g., when used in UG
2770
2771- LP rows (SCIP_ROW) can now store pointer to a constraint from which the row originates
2772
2773- Trust region, a new LNS heuristic, has been added to SCIP as both a standalone primal heuristic heur_trustregion.c
2774 and as a neighborhood inside of Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search (heur_alns.c). This heuristic is designed to improve the
2775 heuristic performance of the Benders' decomposition algorithm. It builds upon the successful trust region approaches
2776 applied to Benders' decomposition.
2777
2778- Modularity of symmetry handling has been increased. It is now possible to use orbitopes (i.e., polyhedral symmetry
2779 handling techniques) and orbital fixing on the same instance.
2780
2781- cut strengthening enabled within the Benders' decomposition framework. This uses a mix of the Improved Magnanti-Wong
2782 method and Kelly's method. The cut strengthening is enabled by setting the paramemter
2783 "benders/<bendersname>/cutstrengthenenabled" to TRUE. The parameters "cutstrengthenmult", "noimprovelimit" and
2784 "corepointperturb" control the behavior of the cut strengthening method. Additionally, the parameter
2785 "cutstrengthenintpoint" allows the user to specify the solution that is used to initialize the core point. The options
2786 are the first LP solution, the first integer feasible solution, a relative interior point, a solution vector of all
2787 ones and a solution vector of all zeros. Also, the core point can be reinitialized after each update to the incumbent
2788 solution.
2789
2790- added option to adjust weights of different scores in relpscost (hybrid) branching rule based on degeneracy information
2791 and skip strong branching for very high degeneracy rates
2792
2793- added new SCIP_DECOMP* object to store user decompositions. The user can specify one or several decompositions by assigning variable
2794 and/or constraint labels either through the API or by reading a file in DEC format (which is one of the formats that GCG writes).
2795 This format specifies constraint labels, variable labels are inferred from that. The decomposition is transformed after presolving.
2796- statistics regarding the number of blocks, the largest and smallest blocks, the border, and the constraint graph are printed for the original decomposition,
2797 and for each decomposition after presolving.
2798- the decomposition can be used as initial decomposition for the Benders functionality of SCIP.
2799- new subsection "How to provide a problem decomposition" in the SCIP documentation
2800
2801- GINS heuristic can make use of a user-provided decomposition labels in two ways:
2802 1. by selecting a block of variables that maximizes the potential, and randomly selecting a start variable for the neighborhood and/or
2803 2. by selecting an interval of consecutive blocks as neighborhood, until fixing rate is reached. In this case, no variable is randomly selected.
2804
2805- extend potential parameter of GINS to allow computation based on local LP solution, as well
2806
2807- new primal heuristic Adaptive Diving, which registers all publicly available dive sets from other diving heuristics.
2808 At each call, it selects one of the available dive sets based on the user's score type choice (heuristics/adaptivediving/scoretype).
2809 During the solution process, the heuristics learns online which divesets reach the best score, and executes them more frequently.
2810 The statistic output for Diving heuristics has been extended to incorporate the statistics of each dive set within Adaptive diving.
2811
2812- Added new penalty alternating direction method (PADM) primal heuristic that splits the problem into several sub-SCIPs
2813 according to a user-provided decomposition. The sub-SCIPs are solved on an alternating basis until a feasible solution of
2814 the original problem is found.
2815
2816- Symmetry handling constraints (cons_orbisack, cons_orbitope, cons_symresack) now have an additional parameter to encode
2817 whether they are model constraints, i.e., define the problem, or whether they are only present to handle symmetries.
2818
2819- The symmetry code has been completely restructured. The presolvers presol_symbreak and presol_symmetry as well as the propagator
2820 prop_orbitalfixing have been merged into the single propagator prop_symmetry to avoid storing the same information
2821 multiple times. This propagator is now responsible for adding symmetry handling constraints as well as activating orbital
2822 fixing. Moreover, the new file symmetry.c contains general functions for symmetry computations like orbit computations.
2823
2824- Variables can now be marked as "relaxation-only". This flag should be used to introduce new variables that are required
2825 to define a relaxation, but that are not part of any checked constraints. Essentially, these variables should only be used
2826 in the current SCIP solve and disregarded after a restart or in SCIP copies. Hence, these variables are not copied by SCIPcopy and
2827 SCIPgetVarCopy, they are currently not used in conflict constraints, and cuts involving them are not upgraded to linear constraints.
2828 Relaxation-only variables cannot appear in the objective function.
2829
2830- The OSiL reader now supports nonlinear expressions of type "signpower".
2831
2832- Expressions of form abs(x)^p * x in a nonlinear constraint are now sometimes recognized and handled by abspower constraints.
2833
2834- If polyhedral symmetry handling methods are used (cons_orbisack, cons_orbitope, cons_symresack), it is now possible to
2835 recompute symmetries if a restart occurred.
2836
2837- upgrade some more quadratic constraints to second-order cone constraints, that is,
2838 handle linear binary variables as if squared in simple upgrade and
2839 do not require bounds for variables that have a zero entry in the computed eigenvectors in the non-simple upgrade
2840
2841- new variable event when changing the variable type
2842
2843- It is no longer necessary to provide a SCIP pointer for the subproblem in SCIPaddBendersSubproblem if custom solving
2844 methods are defined. A NULL pointer can be supplied to SCIPaddBendersSubproblem. In this case, no internal Benders'
2845 cut generation methods can be used.
2846
2847- Using the parameter "constraints/symresack/checkmonotonicity" one can now decide to upgrade to packing/partitioning
2848 symresacks even if the underlying permutation is not monotone.
2849
2850- New branching rule `vanillafullstrong`, mostly for scientific purpose, with the following features:
2851 1) no cutoff or domain reduction: only branching;
2852 2) idempotent (optional): leave SCIP, as much as possible, in the same state before / after the strong branching calls
2853 - basically, do not update any statistic;
2854 3) donotbranch (optional): do no perform branching. So that the brancher can be called as an oracle only
2855 (on which variable would you branch ? But do not branch please);
2856 4) scoreall (optional): keep scoring variables, even if infeasibility is detected;
2857 5) collectscores (optional): store the candidate scores from the last call, which can then be retrieved by calling SCIPgetVanillafullstrongData();
2858 6) integralcands (optional): consider integral candidates for branching,
2859 i.e., get candidates from SCIPgetPseudoBranchCands() instead of SCIPgetLPBranchCands().
2860
2861- If a reference value (misc/referencevalue) is given, the primal-reference and reference-dual integrals are calculated automatically and printed within the SCIP statistics.
2862
2863- Locally valid cuts / rows are now considered for dual proof analysis when `conflict/uselocalrows` is set to TRUE.
2864
2865- Linking variables in the linking constraint handler (cons_linking.{ch}) can now be integer or continuous. The coefficients of the binary variables are therefore now stored as SCIP_Real.
2866
2867- To save memory, it is now possible to remove all variables from the internal symmetry data structures that are
2868 not affected by any symmetry.
2869
2870- Allow to filter first variables from orbits and transfer pseudo cost information to variables in orbit
2871
2872- Add integration of external MILP presolve library as a SCIP presolver plugin that runs on MILP problems
2873
2874- Parallelisation can be used when applying Benders' decomposition. There are two different forms of parallelisation
2875 available. The first is applying Benders' decomposition within a parallel branch-and-bound. This is achieved through
2876 the integration with the UG framework. The second is the use of shared memory parallelisation for solving the Benders'
2877 decomposition subproblems. A priority queue has been added to help with load balancing.
2878
2879- The Benders' decomposition framework can handle MINLPs. If a convex relaxation of the MINLP exists, then this is
2880 solved to generate optimality and feasibility cuts. The extensions to the framework are:
2881 - New generic solving methods to solve convex NLP subproblems.
2882 - Modification to benderscut_opt and benderscut_feas to enable the generation of cuts from convex NLPs.
2883 - Addition of benderscut_feasalt to generate feasibility cuts from an alternative subproblem that minimises the
2884 violation of infeasible problems.
2885 - Better handling of subproblem solution results
2886
2887- Adds a feasibility phase to the Benders' decomposition subproblem solving methods. The feasibility phase adds slack
2888 variables to each of the constraints to ensure feasibility of the subproblem. A large coefficient is given to these
2889 slack variables in the objective function to penalise constraint violations. The coefficients are progressively
2890 increased until all slack variables take the value 0.0.
2891
2892- Improved convexity check for Benders' decomposition subproblems. The constraints of the subproblem are now checked for
2893 convexity in the initialisation of the Benders' decomposition algorithm. This enables the solving of convex NLPs as
2894 Benders' decomposition subproblems.
2895
2896- Benders' decomposition can be applied using decomposition supplied in the DEC format. To apply Benders' decomposition
2897 the parameters decomposition/benderslabels and decomposition/applybenders must be set to TRUE.
2898
2899- new event handler event_estim.c/h that approximates search tree completion and estimates tree size
2900 to trigger restarts; many approximations of search tree completion and estimation, including WBE, SSG, and tree profile method
2901- new display column that reports approx. search tree completion during the search, and an overview in the statistics table
2902- added resources (script, tutorial, test data) to adapt tree size estimation to user instances.
2903
2904- Orbital Fixing uses a list of variables that have been fixed globally since the computation of symmetries to filter
2905 symmetries. Previously, some plugins were disabled, which is not necessary anymore.
2906
2907- A new presolver "dualsparsify" was added. It tries to combine columns (i.e. variables) to cancel nonzero coefficients in the constraint matrix.
2908
2909- The presolver "tworowbnd" was implemented with better performance.
2910
2911- To be able to calculate better bounds for the dual variables, the presolver "dualinfer" was extended by the ability to perform convex combinations of continuous columns.
2912
2913- allow disabling of pricers during solving process
2914
2915- added emphasis setting for numerically challenging instances
2916
2917Performance improvements
2918------------------------
2919
2920- Extended cut presolving by removing variables that been fixed at their bounds
2921
2922- Improved branching point selection when branching on externals branching candidates. Instead of using exactly the
2923 LP solution, a point closer to the middle of the variables domain is chosen.
2924
2925- Matrix presolvers that do not work on incomplete matrices now skip matrix creation if unsupported constraint types are detected.
2926
2927- consLockBenders callback implemented to add down locks on the Benders' decomposition auxiliary variables and
2928 up and down locks per subproblem for all master problem variables. This allows the use of presolving and propagation
2929 with Benders' decomposition.
2930
2931- improved performance of orbital fixing in several ways:
2932 store permutations in transposed form to improve cache efficency;
2933 reverse order to speed up filtering of permutations;
2934 handle variables globally fixed to 1 in list;
2935 use event handler to catch global fixings;
2936 speed up orbit computations;
2937 change handling of restarts;
2938 use only permutations that can contribute to a variable's orbit;
2939
2940- allow rapid learning at local nodes
2941
2942- allow to recompute cut without using fractional values for sepa_cgmip
2943
2944- restrict the number of the clique table nonzeros relative to the number of problem nonzeros, which could be a performance bottleneck.
2945
2946- variable fixings of LP face heuristic are now computed earlier; subproblem creation is skipped if not enough variables are fixed.
2947
2948- Improved domcol presolver to not require a complete representation of all constraints in the matrix
2949
2950- performance improvement of adaptive large neighborhood search heuristic on merely continuous problems. The heuristic
2951 stops if presolving in the sub-SCIP fixes less than 50 % of the current target fixing rate over all variables
2952 (including continuous).
2953
2954- reduce memory usage in symmetry detection by a staggered allocation with decreasing overhead for larger instances
2955
2956- improved full orbitope propagation using a static implementation or a dynamic reordering of orbitope rows by a global rank function
2957
2958- improved detection of packing/partitioning orbitopes
2959
2960- enable an in-tree restart if after a reasonable initialization, the estimated size of the remaining tree is large.
2961
2962
2963Examples and applications
2964-------------------------
2965
2966- added functions to set and get hmin and hmax for optcumulative constraints
2967
2968Interface changes
2969-----------------
2970
2971### New and changed callbacks
2972
2973- new optional callback `SCIP_DECL_DIVESETAVAILABLE` to check preconditions for this dive set, e.g., if an incumbent solution is available,
2974 which is passed as new argument to SCIPcreateDiveset(). SCIPcreateDiveset() has another new parameter "ispublic".
2975
2976- new callback `SCIP_DECL_CONSHDLRCOPY` and `SCIP_DECL_CONSCOPY` in cons_orbisack and cons_symresack
2977
2978- new `idempotent` argument to SCIPgetVarStrongbranchInt() and SCIPgetVarStrongbranchFrac(),
2979 so that statistics are not updated during the call. Likewise, new `updatecol` and `updatestat` arguments to SCIPcolGetStrongbranch().
2980
2981- callback `SCIP_DECL_CONSHDLRENFOLP` can now also return SCIP_SOLVELP as *result, which indicates to the SCIP core that the LP relaxation
2982 should be solved again because the primal feasibility tolerance of the LP has been tightened (using SCIPsetLPFeastol())
2983
2984- extension of SCIP_PQUEUE by a new callback SCIP_DECL_PQUEUEELEMCHGPOS to catch swaps as well as functionality to delete arbitrary elements from the priority queue.
2985
2986### Deleted and changed API functions
2987
2988- LPI:
2989 + now for all lp interfaces consistent requirements on SCIP_LPPAR:
2990 LPITLIM and BARRIERCONVTOL positive or zero; FEASTOL, DUALFEASTOL, LPTILIM strictly positive
2991 + now projecting SCIP_LPPAR values on feasible values for each lp interface
2992 + add interface to Glop
2993 + fixed mapping between scaling parameter values in Gurobi LPI lpi_grb
2994- Symmetry:
2995 + removed function SCIPseparateCoversOrbisack() in cons_orbisack.h since the orbitope constraint
2996 handler has its own implementation of this routine with advanced features now
2997 + renamed SCIPgetGeneratorsSymmetry() to SCIPgetSymmetry() and removed two arguments
2998 + extended function SCIPgetSymmetry(): It is possible to access both the original and
2999 transposed permutations matrix as well as the (independent symmetry) components of a permutation group now.
3000 + arguments of functions SCIPcreateConsOrbisack(), SCIPcreateConsBasicOrbisack(), SCIPcreateConsOrbitope(),
3001 SCIPcreateConsBasicOrbitope(), SCIPcreateConsSymresack(), SCIPcreateConsBasicSymresack(), and SCIPcreateSymbreakCons() extended
3002 by "ismodelcons" to encode whether the constraints are model constraints or not
3003 + the function SCIPgetSymmetry() no longer accepts the parameter recompute, but has parameter permvarmap as new input
3004 + removed SCIPgetPermvarsObjSymmetry(), SCIPsetSymmetryComponentblocked(), SCIPgetSymmetryComponentblocked(),
3005 SCIPgetSyminfoGloballyFixedVars(), SCIPcomputeGroupOrbitsSymbreak, SCIPincludePresolSymmetry(),SCIPincludePresolSymbreak(),
3006 and SCIPincludePropOrbitalfixing()
3007 + add function SCIPcomputeOrbitsComponentsSym() to compute orbits without filtering permutations and indices of orbits for each variable
3008- SCIPallowObjProp() and SCIPallowDualReds() are deprecated and replaced by SCIPallowWeakDualReds() and SCIPallowStrongDualReds(), respectively
3009- Benders' decomposition
3010 + changed SCIPstoreBenderscutCut() in scip_benders.c to SCIPstoreBendersCut(). Where this function used to take a
3011 SCIP_BENDERSCUT pointer, it now accepts a SCIP_BENDERS pointer.
3012 + the functions SCIPsolveBendersSubproblem() no longer accepts the parameter type. The type is not a necessary
3013 argument for the subproblem solving method.
3014 + arguments of functions SCIPbendersSolveSubproblemLP(), SCIPbendersSolveSubproblemCIP(), and SCIPbendersOnlyCheckConvexRelax() changed
3015 - removed SCIPbenderscutGetNAddedCuts() and SCIPbenderscutGetAddedCutData()
3016
3017
3018### New API functions
3019
3020- new argument "onlyifcomplete" in SCIPmatrixCreate() to skip matrix creation right after detecting unsupported constraint types
3021 and new arguments to count statistics when doing a clean-up of inactive variables in the constraints before building the matrix
3022
3023- new argument "threadsafe" in SCIPcopy(), SCIPcopyConsCompression(), SCIPcopyOrig(), SCIPcopyOrigConsCompression and
3024 SCIPcopyBenders(). This argument must only be set to TRUE if the source and target SCIP instances are to be solved in
3025 parallel. Setting this argument to TRUE has a performance cost.
3026
3027- new argument "append" in SCIPsetModifiedDefaultSettingsIpopt()
3028- functions SCIPclearRelaxSolVals(), SCIPsetRelaxSolVal(), SCIPsetRelaxSolVals(), SCIPsetRelaxSolValsSol(), and SCIPmarkRelaxSolValid()
3029 receive an additional argument "relax" to store the relaxation handler as creator of the relaxation solution.
3030
3031- LP:
3032 - SCIProwGetOriginCons() now returns a SCIP_CONS* instead of a SCIP_CONSHDLR*, use SCIProwGetOriginConshdlr() for the previous behavior
3033 - SCIPcreateRowCons() and SCIPcreateEmptyRowCons() now expect a SCIP_CONS* instead of a SCIP_CONSHDLR*,
3034 use SCIPcreateRowConshdlr() and SCIPcreateEmptyRowConshdlr(), respectively, for the previous behavior
3035 - deprecated SCIPlpfeastol() and SCIPchgLpfeastol(), use SCIPgetLPFeastol() and SCIPsetLPFeastol()
3036
3037- new parameter "divecontext" for every function that queries statistics for a diveset. The context can be used to distinguish between the dive set
3038 as single (standalone) heuristic or within Adaptive Diving.
3039- new parameters "divecontext" and "iterlim" to SCIPperformGenericDivingAlgorithm() to control in which context (single,adaptive) statistics are updated.
3040
3041- SCIPcopyVars, SCIPcopy, SCIPcopyConsCompression, and SCIPgetVarCopy do not copy variables that are marked as relaxation-only,
3042 thus it cannot be assumed anymore that each active variable from the master SCIP also has a counterpart in the copy.
3043 SCIPcopy, SCIPcopyConsCompression, and SCIPcopyConss can now return *valid=TRUE if some non-checked and non-enforced constraints were not copied, e.g.,
3044 because they involved relaxation-only variables. Thus, a copy is already regarded as valid if all checked or enforced constraints were copied successfully.
3045
3046- linking constraint handler:
3047 - changed type of vals argument from int* to SCIP_Real* in SCIPcreateConsLinking() and SCIPcreateConsBasicLinking()
3048 - SCIPgetIntvarLinking() has been renamed to SCIPgetLinkvarLinking().
3049 - changed return value of SCIPgetValsLinking() from int* to SCIP_Real*.
3050 - new function SCIPgetBinvarsDataLinking().
3051
3052- SCIPbendersCheckSubproblemOptimality() now returns a boolean indicating whether the subproblem is optimal or not.
3053 Previously this result was returned through a parameter. The change was required to facilitate the integration with
3054 the UG framework.
3055
3056- deleted SCIPcombineTwoInt(), SCIPcombineThreeInt(), SCIPcombineFourInt(); use the appropriate SCIPhashTwo(), ..., SCIPhashSeven() function instead
3057
3058- SCIPsetupBendersSubproblem takes a parameter of the enforcement type.
3059
3060- SCIPcreateNlpiProb takes a hashmap to store the map between the nlrows and the index in the nlrow array.
3061
3062### New API functions
3063
3064- SCIPallowWeakDualReds() and SCIPallowStrongDualReds() replace the deprecated SCIPallowObjProp() and SCIPallowDualReds(), respectively
3065- functions have been added to facilitate the transfer of Benders' decomposition cuts between solvers in UG. These include
3066 SCIPapplyBendersStoredCuts(), SCIPbendersGetNStoredCuts(), SCIPbendersGetStoredCutData() and
3067 SCIPbendersGetStoredCutOrigData().
3068- added SCIPisConvexAbspower()
3069- new functions SCIPsolGetType(), SCIPsolGetRelax(), SCIPsolSetRelax(), SCIPsolSetLPRelaxation(), SCIPsolSetStrongbranch(),
3070 SCIPsolSetPseudo to set or query the new type attribute of a primal solution. The type attribute gives information
3071 about the origin of the solution, ie, whether it was created by a relaxation handler,
3072 by the LP relaxation, by strong branching, by the current pseudo solution, or by a primal heuristic.
3073 The meaning of the argument 'heur' in all creation methods for primal solutions such as SCIPcreateSol() stays unchanged.
3074- added SCIProwGetOriginConshdlr(), SCIPcreateRowConshdlr(), SCIPcreateEmptyRowConshdlr()
3075- new API functions SCIPsetCommonSubscipParams(), SCIPtranslateSubSol(), and SCIPtranslateSubSols() shared by several Large Neighborhood Search heuristics.
3076- new API function SCIPgetLPDualDegeneracy() to get two measures for the dual degeneracy of the current LP
3077- new API functions SCIPdivesetIsAvailable() to check preconditions of a dive set and SCIPdivesetIsPublic() to check if the dive set can be used
3078 by other primal heuristics.
3079- new API functions SCIPcomputeOrbitsSym(), SCIPcomputeOrbitsFilterSym(), SCIPgetPropertiesPerm(), SCIPdetermineBinvarAffectedSym(),
3080 SCIPdetermineNVarsAffectedSym(), SCIPcomputeComponentsSym(), and SCIPextendSubOrbitope(), SCIPgenerateOrbitopeVarsMatrix() for symmetry computations
3081- new API functions SCIPvarIsRelaxationOnly() and SCIPvarMarkRelaxationOnly() to query and set, resp., whether a variable is marked as relaxation-only
3082- new API functions SCIPconshdlrGetNUpdateConss() and SCIPconshdlrGetUpdateConss(), for expert users only
3083- new API function SCIPgetNConflictDualproofsApplied()
3084- new API functions SCIPeventGetOldtype() and SCIPeventGetNewtype() for the new event when changing the variable type
3085- new API function SCIPisConvexConsQuadratic() to check whether a quadratic constraint is convex when a given set of variables would be fixed
3086- new API functions SCIPgetLPFeastol(), SCIPsetLPFeastol(), and SCIPresetLPFeastol() to get, set, and reset (to the default), respectively, the primal
3087 feasibility tolerance for the LP relaxation
3088- new API functions SCIPcleanupConss{Linear,Varbound,Setppc,Logicor,Knapsack}() to clean up inactive variables from those types of linear constraints
3089- new API function SCIPsetBendersSubproblemComp() used to add a custom comparison method for ordering the Benders'
3090 decomposition subproblem solves. The comparison method is used to help with load balancing.
3091- new API function SCIPgetRowObjParallelism to get the objective parallelism of a row
3092- new API function SCIPcolGetAge to get the age of a column
3093- added SCIPhashThree(), SCIPhashFive(), SCIPhashSix(), and SCIPhashSeven() that complement SCIPhashTwo(), SCIPhashFour() to combine 32bit integers to
3094 a 32bit hash value
3095- new API function SCIPgenerateAndApplyBendersOptCut is used to generate a Benders' optimality cut using the dual
3096 solutions. This function can be supplied vectors for the primal and dual solution for generating an optimality cut.
3097 This avoids the need for a SCIP instance to solve the Benders' decomposition subproblem and generating cuts.
3098- new API function SCIPconsAddCoef used for adding a coefficient to a linear-type constraint.
3099- new API functions SCIPconsNonlinearGetRhs, SCIPconsNonlinearGetLhs and SCIPconsNonlinearAddLinearCoef for getting the
3100 RHS and LHS from a nonlinear-type constraint and adding a linear coefficient to the constraint.
3101- new API function SCIPbendersSolSlackVarsActive for checking whether any slack variables from the feasibility phase are
3102 active in the subproblem solution.
3103- new API functions SCIPbendersSetSubproblemType and SCIPbendersGetSubproblemType sets and gets the subproblem type.
3104 This is either:
3105 - Convex constraints with continuous variables
3106 - Convex constraints with discrete variables
3107 - Non-convex constraints with continuous variables
3108 - Non-convex constraints with discrete variables
3109- new API functions SCIPbendersSetSubproblemIsNonlinear() and SCIPbendersSubproblemIsNonlinear() for setting and
3110 identifying whether the Benders' decomposition subproblems contain nonlinear constraints. Similarly, the functions
3111 SCIPbendersSetMasterIsNonlinear() and SCIPbendersMasterIsNonlinear() sets and identifies whether the Benders'
3112 decomposition master problem contains nonlinear constraints.
3113- new API function SCIPapplyBendersDecomposition for applying Benders' decomposition given a decomposition in the DEC
3114 format
3115- new API function SCIPwasNodeLastBranchParent to query if a node has been the parent of the most recent branching in the tree
3116- new API functions SCIPtreemodelInit(), SCIPtreemodelFree(), SCIPtreemodelIsEnabled(), SCIPtreemodelSelectCandidate() related to the new
3117 treemodel way of comparing branching candidates. These functions are only currently used for reliability pscost branching, but they can be used
3118 in other parts of the code.
3119- New function SCIPcalcChildEstimateIncrease() to compute the increase in the child estimation
3120- new API functions SCIPisOrbitalfixingEnabled() and SCIPgetSymmetryNGenerators() to check whether orbital fixing is
3121 enabled and to get the number of generators of the current symmetry group, respectively
3122- new API function SCIPdelNlRow() to remove a row from the NLP
3123
3124### Event system
3125
3126- new event type SCIP_EVENTTYPE_NODEDELETE to react on nodes that are about to be deleted from the tree
3127
3128### Changed parameters
3129
3130- renamed parameter "propagating/orbitalfixing/enableafterrestart" to ".../symmetry/recomputerestart"
3131- Parameter "misc/allowdualreds" is now called "misc/allowstrongdualreds"
3132- Parameter "misc/allowobjprop" is now called "misc/allowweakdualreds"
3133- changed default values of propagation (new value: 1, old value: 5) and separation frequency (new value: -1, old value: 5) in cons_orbitope.c
3134- all primal heuristics that use sub-SCIPs are disabled within the heuristics fast emphasis setting
3135- deleted parameter heuristics/localbranching/useuct, use heuristics/useuctsubscip instead
3136- changed default value of "presolving/symbreak/detectorbitopes" (new value: TRUE, old value: FALSE)
3137- extended range of "misc/usesymmetry" (new range: [0,3], old range: [0,2])
3138- deleted parameter "constraints/orbisack/checkalwaysfeas"
3139- deleted parameter "constraints/orbitope/checkalwaysfeas"
3140- deleted parameter "constraints/symresack/checkalwaysfeas"
3141- deleted parameter "presolving/symmetry/maxgenerators"
3142- deleted parameter "presolving/symmetry/checksymmetries"
3143- deleted parameter "presolving/symmetry/displaynorbitvars"
3144- deleted parameter "presolving/symbreak/conssaddlp"
3145- deleted parameter "presolving/symbreak/addsymresacks"
3146- deleted parameter "presolving/symbreak/computeorbits"
3147- deleted parameter "presolving/symbreak/detectorbitopes"
3148- deleted parameter "presolving/symbreak/addconsstiming"
3149- deleted parameter "propagating/orbitalfixing/symcomptiming"
3150- deleted parameter "propagating/orbitalfixing/performpresolving"
3151- deleted parameter "propagating/orbitalfixing/recomputerestart"
3152- changed default value of "heuristics/coefdiving/freq" (old: 10, new: -1)
3153- changed default value of "heuristics/conflictdiving/freq" (old: -1, new: 10)
3154- changed default value of "heuristics/conflictdiving/lockweight" (old: 1.0, new: 0.75)
3155- replaced parameter "numerics/lpfeastol" by "numerics/lpfeastolfactor" to specify which factor should be applied to the SCIP feasibility
3156 tolerance to initialize the primal feasibility tolerance of the LP solver
3157- enabling aggressive presolving now activates all available presolving plugins,
3158 and decreases the presolving/restartfac parameter correctly with respect to default.
3159- changed default value of heuristics/rins/nodesquot to 0.3 (was 0.1), to compensate
3160 the removal of a hard coded factor of 3.0 in the code without affecting the default behavior
3161 of the RINS heuristic.
3162- changed default value of "constraints/quadratic/empathy4and" (old: 0, new: 2)
3163- changed default value of "propagating/redcost/useimplics" (old: TRUE, new: FALSE)
3164
3165### New parameters
3166
3167- the possibility to define the Benders' decomposition auxiliary variables as implicit integer is provided. This
3168 behavior is controlled with an additional parameter in the Benders' decomposition framework.
3169- added parameter benders/<bendersname>/cutcheck to enable the generation of Benders' decomposition cuts during solution
3170 checking.
3171- constraints/orbitope/usedynamicprop: the possibility to propagate orbitope constraints by reordering the rows based on the
3172 branching strategy is provided (only possible for non-model constraints)
3173
3174- new parameters heuristics/shiftandpropagate/minfixingratelp and heuristics/locks/minfixingratelp to stop the
3175 heuristics after propagating integer fixings if no sufficient fixing of the all variables (including continuous)
3176 could be achieved. These parameters help to avoid solving LP's that are comparable in hardness to the main root LP.
3177
3178- Added parameters branching/midpull and branching/midpullreldomtrig to control by how much to move
3179 the branching point for an external branching candidate closer to the middle of the candidates domain. The
3180 default of 0.75 and 0.5, respectively, uses a point that is 75*alpha% closer to the middle of the domain, where
3181 alpha is the relative width of the candidates domain (width of local domain divided by width of global domain),
3182 if the latter is below 0.5, and alpha=1.0 otherwise. That is, with the default settings, a branching point is
3183 chosen closer to the middle of the candidates domain if the variables local domain is still similar to its
3184 global domain, but is chosen closer to the LP solution if the local domain is much smaller than the global
3185 domain.
3186
3187- Added parameter lp/minmarkowitz to set the Markowitz stability threshold (range 0.0001 to 0.9999).
3188 High values sacrifice performance for stability.
3189
3190- Added parameters benders/<bendersname>/lnsmaxcalls and benders/<bendersname>/lnsmaxcallsroot to the Benders'
3191 decomposition core. These parameters limit the number of Benders' decomposition subproblem checks, for the full
3192 branch-and-bound tree and root node respective, when solving the auxiliary problem of LNS hueristics. These
3193 parameters only have effect if the lnscheck parameter is set to TRUE.
3194
3195- Added parameter cons/linear/maxmultaggrquot to limit the maximum coefficient dynamism of an equation on which
3196 multiaggregation is performed. This replaces a compiler define of the same name.
3197 Default value is 1000, smaller values make multiaggregations numerically more stable.
3198- new global parameter heuristics/useuctsubscip that affects all LNS heuristics using common sub-SCIP parameters
3199
3200- new parameter branching/relpscost/degeneracyaware to switch degeneracy-aware hybrid branching
3201
3202- new parameter separation/rapidlearning/checkexec to check whether rapid learning is allowed to run locally
3203- new parameters separation/rapidlearning/check{degeneracy,dualbound,leaves,nsols,obj} to enable checking the respective feature for local rapid learning
3204- new parameter separation/rapidlearning/maxcalls to limit the number of rapid learning executions
3205- new parameter separation/rapidlearning/nwaitingnodes to set the number of waiting nodes before the dual bound is checked
3206- new parameter separation/rapidlearning/mindegeneracy to set the minimal threshold of degenerate basic-variables
3207- new parameters separation/rapidlearning/minvarconsratio to set the minimal ratio of unfixed variables in relation to basis size
3208
3209- new parameters to control the Benders' decomposition two-phase method.
3210 - constraints/benderslp/depthfreq: after the maxdepth is reached, then the two-phase method will only be called at
3211 nodes at a depth divisible by depthfreq.
3212 - constraints/benderslp/stalllimit: after the maxdepth is reached, if there has been no improvement in the dual bound
3213 for stalllimit number of nodes, then the two-phase method is executed for the next fractional LP solution that is
3214 encountered.
3215 - constraints/benderslp/iterlimit: after the root node, only iterlimit fractional LP solutions are used at each node
3216 to generate Benders' decomposition cuts.
3217
3218- new parameters for symmetry handling
3219 - new parameter "propagating/symmetry/maxgenerators"
3220 - new parameter "propagating/symmetry/checksymmetries"
3221 - new parameter "propagating/symmetry/displaynorbitvars"
3222 - new parameter "propagating/symmetry/conssaddlp"
3223 - new parameter "propagating/symmetry/addsymresacks"
3224 - new parameter "propagating/symmetry/detectorbitopes"
3225 - new parameter "propagating/symmetry/addconsstiming"
3226 - new parameter "propagating/symmetry/ofsymcomptiming"
3227 - new parameter "propagating/symmetry/performpresolving"
3228 - new parameter "propagating/symmetry/recomputerestart"
3229 - new parameter "constraints/symresack/checkmonotonicity"
3230 - new parameter "propagating/symmetry/compresssymmetries"
3231 - new parameter "propagating/symmetry/compressthreshold"
3232 - new parameter "propagating/symmetry/disableofrestart"
3233 - new parameter "propagating/symmetry/symfixnonbinaryvars"
3234
3235- new parameter for enabling shared memory parallelisation for solving Benders' decomposition subproblems. The parameter
3236 benders/<bendersname>/numthreads sets the number of threads used for parallel subproblem solving.
3237
3238- new parameters to control enhancements for solving MINLPs by Benders' decomposition
3239 - benders/<bendersname>/execfeasphase: enables the feasibility phase for solving the Benders' decomposition
3240 subproblems
3241 - benders/<bendersname>/slackvarcoef: the initial coefficient of the slack variable for the feasibility phase
3242 - benders/<bendersname>/checkconsconvexity: should the constraints be checked for convexity. This can be set to FALSE
3243 if you are certain that the NLP subproblem is convex.
3244
3245- new parameter presolving/clqtablefac (default value 2.0) as limit on number of entries in clique table relative to number of problem nonzeros
3246
3247- new parameter conflict/uselocalrows (default: TRUE) to incorporate locally valid cuts / rows for dual proof analysis
3248
3249- new return code SCIP_NOTIMPLEMENTED for functions, e.g., in the LPI that have not been implemented (yet)
3250
3251- new parameter separating/cgmip/genprimalsols that allows to generate initial primal solutions from Gomory cuts
3252
3253- new parameter branching/relpscost/filtercandssym to allow filtering from orbits
3254
3255- new parameter branching/relpscost/transsympscost to transfer pseudo cost information to orbit
3256
3257- new parameters for tree size estimation and restarts:
3258 - estimation/restarts/restartpolicy (default value n)
3259 - estimation/method (default value c)
3260 - estimation/restarts/restartlimit (default value 1)
3261 - estimation/restarts/minnodes (default value 1000)
3262 - estimation/restarts/countonlyleaves (default value FALSE)
3263 - estimation/restarts/restartfactor (default value 2)
3264 - estimation/coefmonoprog (default value 0.3667)
3265 - estimation/coefmonossg (default value 0.6333)
3266 - estimation/restarts/hitcounterlim (default value 50)
3267 - estimation/reportfreq (default value -1)
3268 - estimation/regforestfilename (default value "-")
3269 - estimation/completiontype (default value a)
3270 - estimation/treeprofile/enabled (default value FALSE)
3271 - estimation/treeprofile/minnodesperdepth (default value 20)
3272 - estimation/useleafts (default value TRUE)
3273 - estimation/ssg/nmaxsubtrees (default value -1)
3274 - estimation/ssg/nminnodeslastsplit (default value 0)
3275
3276- new parameter constraints/linear/extractcliques to turn clique extraction off
3277
3278- new emphasis setting emphasis/numerics to increase numerical stability of (mostly) presolving operations such as (multi-)aggregations at the cost of performance.
3279
3280- new parameters for treemodel:
3281 - new parameter branching/treemodel/enable to enable the treemodel in reliability pscost branching and possible
3282 future parts of the code where it could be used.
3283 - new parameter branching/treemodel/highrule to specify which branching rule to use when treemodel thinks the node
3284 is high in the tree.
3285 - new parameter branching/treemodel/lowrule to specify which branching rule to use when treemodel thinks the node
3286 is low in the tree.
3287 - new parameter branching/treemodel/height to specify at which (estimated) height a node is high or low in the tree.
3288 - new parameter branching/treemodel/filterhigh to specify whether to filter dominated candidates in nodes which are
3289 high in the tree.
3290 - new parameter branching/treemodel/filterlow to specify whether to filter dominated candidates in nodes which are
3291 low in the tree.
3292 - new parameter branching/treemodel/maxfpiter to specify the maximum number of fixed-point iterations to use when
3293 computing the ratio of a variable using the fixed-point method.
3294 - new parameter branching/treemodel/maxsvtsheight to specify the maximum height to compute the SVTS score exactly
3295 before approximating it using the ratio.
3296 - new parameter branching/treemodel/fallbackinf defines the fallback strategy to use when the tree size estimates
3297 obtained by SVTS are infinite.
3298 - new parameter branching/treemodel/fallbacknoprim defines the fallback strategy to use when no primal bound is known
3299 and thus SVTS would not be able to compute a tree size (it would be infinite).
3300 - new parameter branching/treemodel/smallpscost defines the value under which pscosts are considered too small to be
3301 the deciding factor for branching, in which case it may be better not to use the treemodel.
3302
3303- new parameters for symmetry handling constraint handlers to enforce that also non-model constraint are copied:
3304 - new parameter "constraints/orbisack/forceconscopy"
3305 - new parameter "constraints/orbitope/forceconscopy"
3306 - new parameter "constraints/symresack/forceconscopy"
3307
3308
3309### Data structures
3310
3311- small changes in constants of hash functions
3312- added fast 2-universal hash functions for two to seven 32bit elements with 32bit output
3313- extended SCIPpqueueCreate() by additional callback argument SCIP_DECL_PQUEUEELEMCHGPOS to catch position changes
3314- new methods SCIPpqueueDelPos() to delete elements at a specific position in the priority queue and SCIPpqueueFind() to
3315 find a specific position. It is recommended to track position changes using the new callback SCIP_DECL_PQUEUEELEMCHGPOS.
3316 In contrast, using SCIPpqueueFind() can be slow because it needs to compare the element it searches for
3317 with each slot in the queue.
3318
3319### Build system
3320
3321- The default value for DFLAGS in the non-cmake buildsystem has changed from -MM to -MMD. This will break the
3322 generation of depend.* files if that was done by a compiler call that relied on -MM. The new preferred way
3323 to handle compilation dependencies is to additionally use $(DFLAGS) when compiling the object files (.o) and
3324 to include the generated .d files in the Makefile, see also "Build system / Makefile" below.
3325
3326Unit tests
3327----------
3328 - new unit test for treemodel.
3329
3330Testing
3331-------
3332
3333 - fixed an issue that may have lead to wrong status reports in the evaluation scripts
3334
3335Build system
3336------------
3337
3338### Cmake
3339
3340- avoid problem with doubly defined object together with CPLEX
3341
3342### Makefile
3343
3344- Removed static object compilation dependency files (depend.*). If using a GCC compatible compiler, then dependency
3345 files are now dynamically created and updated during build. The new dependency files (*.d) reside next to each object
3346 file (.o) in the corresponding obj subdirectory.
3347- added support for building against Ipopt >= 3.13
3348- unify compiler switches for Intel compiler and avoid problem with doubly defined object together with CPLEX
3349
3350Fixed bugs
3351----------
3352
3353- fix and improve memory handling in symmetry computation
3354- fix shown number of applied conflicts in solving statistics
3355- fix wrongly skipping strong branching call and using old information if LP was solved with 0 iterations
3356- fix minor bug in cut score calculation
3357- fixed several bugs related to rounding locks of variables not being updated correctly
3358- small fix in cons_varbound.c to skip changing bounds of multi-aggregated variables in separation callback
3359- fixed issue in SCIPtightenVar* and SCIPinferVar* that occurs for small bound changes
3360- fixed rejecting minimal boundchange that changed sign of variable, even though SCIPisLb/UbBetter approved it
3361- fixed issue in generateCutNonConvex() which is triggered when adding quadratic constraints during the solving process
3362- fixed bug in freeing the reoptimization data if no problem exists
3363- fixed bug in SCIPreoptReleaseData() when freeing all stored constraints
3364- fixed bug when freeing the transformed problem via interactive shell if reoptimization is enabled
3365- fixed two issues related to (near-)redundant logicor constraints in presolving
3366- fixed counting of aggregations in XOR constraint handler
3367- fixed handling of unbounded solutions
3368- fixed update of LP size information when an LP error occurred during probing
3369- handle special case of variable bound constraints during aggregating variables
3370- tighten sides of linear constraints before trying to upgrade them to more specialized constraints (knapsack, logic-or etc.) when calling SCIPupgradeConsLinear()
3371- fixed an issue in repair heuristic in the case of loose (noncolumn) variables
3372- allow user to correctly set heuristics/alns/(un)fixtol
3373- fixed an issue in heur_completesol which is triggered during bound widening of unbounded continuous variables
3374- fixed bug in cons_indicator if addopposite is true
3375- fixed bug in sepa_disjunctive: treat case that conflictgraph is empty
3376- added safety check in conversion to rational number to avoid overflow
3377- fixed bug in interval evaluation with power-operator in certain situations
3378- fixed behavior of SCIPmatrixCreate() regarding memory management and column generation
3379- SCIPmatrixCreate() returns complete=FALSE when locks do not add up
3380- fixed bug in sepa_oddcylce when variables are fixed
3381- fixed numerical issues related to tighter constraint sides in varbound constraint handler
3382- fixed update of watchedvars in logicor constraint handler in case of a restart during the tree
3383- fixed treatment of multi-aggregated variables in logicor constraint handler
3384- handle special case of redundant implications
3385- fixed numerical issue related to almost-0-values in pseudosolution conflict analysis
3386- fixed numerical issue related to very large greatest common dividers in linear constraint handler
3387- avoid using implications on multiaggregated variables when propagating implications
3388- fixed creation of (Lagrangian) variable bounds in the OBBT propagator
3389- fixed sorting of primal solutions
3390- fixed cleaning of clean buffer in conflict analysis
3391- avoid probing on variables with huge bounds in shift and propagate heuristic
3392- fix issue in printing solutions for variables that have been added by the dual sparsify presolver
3393- fix issue related to fixing redundant logic-or constraints after presolving
3394- fixed bug when parsing logic-or and and-constraints
3395- fixed wrong assert in updateLazyBounds()
3396- fixed bug in pricestore, which resulted in too many problem variables being added
3397- fixed bug in cons_knapsack where weight of clique was not reset after an infeasibility was detected
3398- fixed bug in presol_inttobinary which did not take into account that the aggregation could be rejected due to numerics
3399- fixed bug in debug solution mechanism in connection to variables created by presol_inttobinary
3400- fixed wrong indexing while undoing the implications from a redundant variable in SCIPshrinkDisjunctiveVarSet
3401- redundancy checks in SCIPnodeAddBoundinfer now take a possible change to an active variable into account
3402- fixed adding already added quadratic rows to NLP relaxation during solve
3403- fixed issue related to variable locks in the varbound constraint handler
3404- fixed bug in the quadratic constraint handler when changing infinite constraint sides
3405- fixed sorting of variables in linear constraint handler
3406- added additional checks to ensure numerical stability of dual proofs
3407- fixed a case when activities of a linear constraint got unreliable but where still used for reductions
3408- ensure that lhs <= rhs for linear constraints (without tolerances)
3409- make handling of read errors in SCIPfread() consistent between version with and without ZLIB
3410- correctly drop variable events in cons_indicator in restart
3411- fixed bug in cons_orbitope with upgrading of orbitope constraints
3412- additional checks in some presolvers for time limit being exceeded
3413- fixed bug in presolving of cons_varbound with multi-aggregated variables
3414- improve numerics in conflict analysis by using double-double arithmetic
3415- fixed bound acceptance condition to avoid inconsistencies
3416- fixed numerics in pseudoobj propagator by using double-double arithmetic
3417
3418Miscellaneous
3419-------------
3420
3421- modified display column for memory usage ("mem"), which reports the memory usage most of the time, but shows the creator name
3422 (heuristic, relaxation handler, LP relaxation, strong branching, pseudo solution) of every new incumbent solution. Together with this change,
3423 heuristic display characters have been unified to represent the type of the heuristic
3424 (diving, Large neighborhood search, propagation, etc.), see also type_heur.h.
3425- added assert that ensures that the locks of a variable have been decreased to 0 when it is freed
3426- added more output for completing a partial solution
3427- checks in debug mode that clean buffer memory is really clean when being freed are now disabled by default
3428- don't compute symmetries if reoptimization is enabled
3429- prefer integral values when fixing an almost-fixed continuous variable in the trivial presolver
3430- changed the name of the variable that is added by the OSiL reader to represent the quadratic or nonlinear parts of the objective function
3431- SCIP_EXPORT is now defined as __attribute__((__visibility__("default"))) if GCC and no SCIP config header is used
3432
3433@page RN6 Release notes for SCIP 6
3434
3435@section RN602 SCIP 6.0.2
3436*************************
3437
3438Features
3439--------
3440
3441- The abspower constraint handler now passes more accurate convexity
3442 information to the NLP relaxation.
3443
3444Examples and applications
3445-------------------------
3446
3447- added parsing functionality for optcumulative constraints in CIP format
3448
3449Interface changes
3450-----------------
3451
3452### Interfaces to external software
3453
3454- Updated the Mosek LP solver interface to support Mosek 9.0.
3455
3456Build system
3457------------
3458
3459### Cmake
3460
3461- new target to 'doc' to build documentation
3462- ctests now fail if parameter file not found
3463- add flag STATIC_GMP and improve GMP find module
3464- remove non-API functions from library (API functions use new macro SCIP_EXPORT)
3465- increase minimal required CMake version to 3.3
3466- correct paths and dependency information when installing SCIP
3467
3468Fixed bugs
3469----------
3470- fixed SCIP-Jack presolving bug that could lead to wrong results for Steiner arborescence problems
3471- fixed wrong unboundedness result in case not all constraints were already in the LP and enforcement was
3472 skipped because an optimal solution was found
3473- fixed wrong enforcement of constraints in the disjunction constraint handler
3474- fixed wrong behavior of concurrent solve ignoring initial solutions
3475- fixed bug in concurrent solve when problem was already solved in presolving
3476- aggregate non-artificial integer variable for XOR constraints with two binary variables and delete constraint
3477- copy the objective offset when copying the original problem
3478- fixed bug in SCIPlpiGetBInvARow in lpi_cpx using wrong size of resulting vector
3479- fixed quadratic runtime behavior in sepa_aggregation
3480- fixed statistics of separators
3481- improve numerical stability in varbound constraint handler by using double-double arithmetic
3482- fixed bug in propagation of dual proofs
3483- fixed bugs that arise for multiaggregated indicator variables by disallowing multiaggregation for them
3484- improve numerical stability in SCIPcomputeBilinEnvelope* by using double-double arithmetic
3485- fixed bug related to releasing pending bound changes in tree.c
3486- set STD FENV_ACCESS pragma to on in code that changes floating-point rounding mode
3487- disable GCC optimizations in main interval arithmetic code to prevent wrong optimizations
3488- fixed wrong assert in cons_xor concerning the variable type
3489- fixed different behavior of SCIPisLbBetter and SCIPisUbBetter between having NDEBUG defined or not
3490- correctly handle bound disjunctions in symmetry detection
3491- fixed issue in reliability branching related to the LP error flag not being reset
3492- fixed treatment of near-infinite bounds in shiftandpropagate's problem transformation
3493- fixed handling of infinite values in SCIPcomputeHyperplaneThreePoints()
3494- fixed comparisons of infinite values in heur_intshifting.c and heur_shifting.c
3495- fixed bug related to updating unprocessed cuts in the cutpool
3496- fixed bug related to enabling quadratic constraints during `CONSINITLP`
3497- add missing SCIP_EXPORT for functions used by GCG
3498- fixed memory leak and wrong initialization for trival cases in cons_symresack.c
3499- fixed bug with upgrading to packing/partitioning orbitopes
3500- fixed bug with the status while upgrading in presol_symbreak.c
3501- fixed wrong stage while clearing the conflict store
3502- fixed behavior of SCIPfixVar() by setting infeasible pointer to TRUE if fixval lies outside variable domain
3503- allow tightenVar() in SCIP_STAGE_PROBLEM stage
3504- fixed bug in cumulative constraint handler when separating the LP solution
3505- fixed issues with integer overflow in cumulative constraint handler
3506- fixed bug where the convexity of Benders' decomposition subproblems was checked even when users defined subproblem
3507 solving methods. Now, as per the documentation, the user must explicitly state whether the subproblem is convex
3508- fixed wrong indexing in heur_dualval
3509- fixed issue with basis status in SoPlex LPi
3510
3511Miscellaneous
3512-------------
3513
3514- statistics now output primal/dual bounds if objective limit is reached
3515- memory check in debug mode is now disabled by default
3516- message is now provided to the user to inform that automatic Benders' auxiliary variable lower bound computations are
3517 not activated when user defined subproblem solving methods are present
3518- corrected documentation of the primalgap in SCIP; describe when it will be infinite
3519
3520@section RN601 SCIP 6.0.1
3521*************************
3522
3523Features
3524--------
3525
3526- when using a debug solution every (multi-)aggregation will be checked w.r.t. this solution
3527
3528Performance improvements
3529------------------------
3530
3531- try greedy solution first before solving knapsack exactly using dynamic programming in SCIPsolveKnapsackExactly,
3532 compute greedy solution by weighted median selection.
3533- don't consider implied redcost by default in the reduced cost propagator
3534
3535Interface changes
3536-----------------
3537
3538### Deleted and changed API functions and macros
3539
3540- The preprocessor macro NO_CONFIG_HEADER now needs to be defined when
3541 including SCIP header files from a SCIP build or installation that
3542 has been build via the Makefile-only build system.
3543
3544- The following preprocessor macros have been renamed:
3545 WITH_ZLIB to SCIP_WITH_ZLIB, WITH_GMP to SCIP_WITH_GMP, WITH_READLINE
3546 to SCIP_WITH_READLINE, NO_SIGACTION to SCIP_NO_SIGACTION, NO_STRTOK_R
3547 to SCIP_NO_STRTOK_R, ROUNDING_FE to SCIP_ROUNDING_FE, ROUNDING_FP to
3548 SCIP_ROUNDING_FP, ROUNDING_MS to SCIP_ROUNDING_MS. Note, however, that
3549 the names of macros NO_RAND_R and NO_STRERROR_R have not been changed
3550 so far.
3551
3552### New API functions
3553
3554- SCIPhashmapInsertInt(), SCIPhashmapSetImageInt(), and SCIPhashmapGetImageInt() to use integer values as images in hashmaps
3555
3556### Command line interface
3557
3558- warn about coefficients in MPS files with absolute value larger than SCIP's value for infinity
3559
3560### Changed parameters
3561
3562- default clock type for timing is now wallclock
3563
3564Unit tests
3565----------
3566
3567- added unit tests for exact knapsack solving and (weighted) median selection algorithms
3568
3569Build system
3570------------
3571
3572### Cmake
3573
3574- add missing GMP dependency when compiling with SYM=bliss
3575- add DL library when linking to CPLEX to avoid linker errors
3576- new config.h header defining the current build configuration, e.g. SCIP_WITH_GMP
3577
3578Fixed bugs
3579----------
3580
3581- fixed handling of weights in cons_sos1 and cons_sos2 (NULL pointer to weights)
3582- fixed handling of unbounded LPs in SCIP and in several LPIs; added heuristic method to guess solution
3583- the STO reader is capable of handling scenarios defined using lower case "rhs"
3584- fixed OPB reader for instances without explicit plus signs
3585- correct dual solution values for bound constraints
3586- fixed recognition of variable with only one lock in cons_bivariate, cons_quadratic, and cons_nonlinear
3587- fixed update of constraint violations in solution repair in cons_bivariate, cons_quadratic, and cons_nonlinear
3588- print error message and terminate if matrix entries of a column are not consecutive in mps format
3589- fixed incorrect handling of fixed variables when transfer of cuts from LNS heuristic for Benders' decomposition
3590- fix returning local infeasible status by Ipopt interface if Ipopt finds problem locally infeasible
3591- skip attempt to apply fixings in linear constraint handler during solving stage as LP rows cannot change anymore
3592- fixed bug when reading >= indicator constraints in MPS format
3593- fix issue with nodes without domain changes if we ran into solution limit in prop_orbitalfixing
3594- fixed unresolved reference to CppAD's microsoft_timer() function on builds with MS/Intel compilers on Windows
3595- ignore implications added through SCIPaddVarImplication() that are redundant to global bounds also in the
3596 special case of an implication between two binary variables; also, use implications instead of cliques in the case
3597 of a binary implied variable with nonbinary active representative
3598- fixed bug with aggregated variables that are aggregated in propagation of cons_sos1
3599- fixed some special cases in SCIPselect/SCIPselectWeighted methods
3600- relaxed too strict assertion in Zirounding heuristic
3601- fixed the upgrade routine to XOR constraints: aggregate integer variable if its coefficient has the wrong sign
3602- fixed handling of nonartificial parity variables when deleting redundant XOR constraints
3603- earlier deletion of trivial XOR constraints (at most 1 operator left)
3604- fixed wrong hashmap accesses and added sanity check for the correct hashmap type
3605- avoid copying of unbounded solutions from sub-SCIPs as those cannot be checked completely
3606- corrected the output of the first LP value in case of branch-and-price
3607- fixed possible integer overflow, which led to wrong conclusion of infeasibility, in energetic reasoning of cons_cumulative.c
3608
3609Miscellaneous
3610-------------
3611
3612- do not scale linear constraints to integral coefficients
3613
3614@section RN600 SCIP 6.0.0
3615*************************
3616
3617Features
3618--------
3619
3620- new diving heuristic farkasdiving that dives into the direction of the pseudosolution and tries to construct Farkas-proofs
3621- new diving heuristic conflictdiving that considers locks from conflict constraints
3622- restructuring of timing of symmetry computation that allows to add symmetry handling components within presolving
3623- `lp/checkstability` is properly implemented for SoPlex LPI (spx2)
3624- new branching rule lookahead that evaluates potential child and grandchild nodes to determine a branching decision
3625- limits on the number of presolving rounds a presolver (maxrounds) or propagator/constraint handler (maxprerounds)
3626 participates in are now compared to the number of calls of the particular presolving method, not the number of
3627 presolving rounds in general, anymore
3628- new miscellaneous methods for constraints that have a one-row linear representation in pub_misc_linear.h
3629- a Benders' decomposition framework has been added. This framework provides the functionality for a user to solve a
3630 decomposed problem using Benders' decomposition. The framework includes classical optimality and feasibility cuts,
3631 integer optimality cuts and no-good cuts.
3632- add statistic that presents the number of resolves for instable LPs
3633- new readers for stochastic programming problems in SMPS format (reader_sto.h, reader_smps.h)
3634
3635Performance improvements
3636------------------------
3637
3638- cuts generated from certain quadratic constraints with convex feasible region are now global
3639- performance improvements for Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search heur_alns.c
3640 + all neighborhoods now start conservatively from maximum fixing rate
3641 + new default parameter settings for bandit selection parameters
3642 + no adjustment of minimum improvement by default
3643- improved bound tightening for some quadratic equations
3644- constraint handler checking order for original solutions has been modified to check those with negative check priority
3645 that don't need constraints after all other constraint handlers and constraints have been checked
3646- deactivate gauge cuts
3647
3648Examples and applications
3649-------------------------
3650
3651- new example `brachistochrone` in CallableLibrary examples collection; this example implements a discretized model to
3652 obtain the trajectory associated with the shortest time to go from point A to B for a particle under gravity only
3653- new example `circlepacking` in CallableLibrary examples collection; this example models two problems about packing
3654 circles of given radii into a rectangle
3655- new price-and-branch application for the ringpacking problem
3656- new stochastic capacitated facility location example demonstrating the use of the Benders' decomposition framework
3657
3658Interface changes
3659-----------------
3660
3661### New and changed callbacks
3662
3663- added parameter locktype to `SCIP_DECL_CONSLOCK` callback to indicate the type of variable locks
3664
3665### Deleted and changed API functions
3666
3667- Symmetry:
3668 + removed function SCIPgetTimingSymmetry() in presol_symmetry.h since this presolver does not compute symmetries independent
3669 of other components anymore
3670 + additional argument `recompute` to SCIPgetGeneratorsSymmetry() to allow recomputation of symmetries
3671
3672- Random generators:
3673 + the seed of SCIPinitializeRandomSeed() is now an unsigned int
3674 + the seed of SCIPsetInitializeRandomSeed() is now an unsigned int and it returns an unsigned int
3675 + new parameter for SCIPcreateRandom() to specify whether the global random seed shift should be used in the creation of
3676 the random number generator
3677
3678- Miscellaneous:
3679 + additional arguments `preferrecent`, `decayfactor` and `avglim` to SCIPcreateBanditEpsgreedy() to choose between
3680 weights that are simple averages or higher weights for more recent observations (the previous default).
3681 The last two parameters are used for a finer control of the exponential decay.
3682 + functions SCIPintervalSolveUnivariateQuadExpression(), SCIPintervalSolveUnivariateQuadExpressionPositive(), and
3683 SCIPintervalSolveUnivariateQuadExpressionPositiveAllScalar() now take an additional argument to specify already
3684 existing bounds on x, providing an entire interval ([-infinity,infinity]) gives previous behavior
3685
3686### New API functions
3687
3688- SCIPintervalSolveUnivariateQuadExpressionNegative()
3689- SCIPvarGetNLocksDownType() and SCIPvarGetNLocksUpType()
3690- SCIPaddConsLocksType()
3691- SCIPconsIsLockedTypePos(), SCIPconsIsLockedTypeNeg(), SCIPconsIsLockedType(), SCIPconsGetNLocksTypePos() and SCIPconsGetNLocksTypeNeg()
3692- SCIPstrncpy(), a safe version of strncpy()
3693
3694### Changed parameters
3695
3696- Removed parameters:
3697 - `heuristics/alns/stallnodefactor` as the stall nodes are now controlled directly by the target node limit within the heuristic
3698 - `presolving/symmetry/computepresolved` since this presolver does not compute symmetries independent of other components anymore
3699 - `separating/maxincrounds`
3700
3701### New parameters
3702
3703- `lp/checkfarkas` that enables the check of infeasibility proofs from the LP
3704- `heuristics/alns/unfixtol` to specify tolerance to exceed the target fixing rate before unfixing variables, (default: 0.1)
3705- `propagating/orbitalfixing/symcomptiming` to change the timining of symmetry computation for orbital fixing
3706- `lp/alwaysgetduals` ensure that the dual solutions are always computed from the recent LP solve
3707- `display/relevantstats` indicates whether the small relevant statistics are displayed at the end of solving
3708- `propagating/orbitalfixing/performpresolving` that enables orbital fixing in presolving
3709- `presolving/symbreak/addconsstiming` to change the timining of symmetry computation for symmetry handling inequalities
3710- `propagating/orbitalfixing/enabledafterrestarts` to control whether orbital fixing is enabled after restarts
3711- `benders/∗` new submenu for Benders' decomposition related settings. This includes the settings related to the
3712 included Benders' decompositions and the general Benders' decomposition settings.
3713- `benders/<decompname>/benderscuts/∗` submenu within each included Benders' decomposition to control the Benders'
3714 decomposition cuts. The cuts are added to each decomposition separately, so the setting are unique to each
3715 decomposition.
3716
3717### Data structures
3718
3719- new enum `SCIP_LOCKTYPE` to distinguish between variable locks implied by model (check) constraints (`SCIP_LOCKYPE_MODEL`)
3720 and variable locks implied by conflict constraints (`SCIP_LOCKYPE_CONFLICT`)
3721- expression interpreter objects are now stored in the block memory
3722
3723Deleted files
3724-------------
3725
3726- removed presolving plugin presol_implfree
3727- separated scip.c into several smaller implementation files scip_*.c for better code overview; scip.c was removed,
3728 but the central user header scip.h remains, which contains includes of the separated headers
3729
3730Fixed bugs
3731----------
3732
3733- fixed bug in gcd reductions of cons_linear regarding an outdated flag for variable types
3734- fixed bug in heur_dualval regarding fixing routine for integer variables
3735- suppress debug solution warnings during problem creation stage
3736- fixed check for activated debugging solution in components constraint handler
3737- fixed potential bug concerning solution linking to LP in SCIPperformGenericDivingAlgorithm()
3738- fixed reward computation in ALNS on continuous, especially nonlinear, problems
3739- fixed bug in freeing reoptimization data if problem was solved during presolving
3740- fixed check of timing in heur_completesol
3741- fixed wrong propagation in optcumulative constraint handler
3742- fixed non-deterministic behavior in OBBT propagator
3743- don't disable LP presolving when using Xpress as LP solver
3744- fixed possible `NULL` pointer usage in cons_pseudoboolean
3745- ensured that SCIPgetDualbound() returns global dual bound instead of the dual bound of the remaining search tree
3746- fixed rare division-by-zero when solving bivariate quadratic interval equation
3747- use total memory for triggering memory saving mode
3748- fix parsing of version number in the CMake module for Ipopt
3749- fixed handling of implicit integer variables when attempting to solve sub-MIP in nlpdiving heuristic
3750- added workaround for bug when solving certain bivariate quadratic interval equations with unbounded second variable
3751- fixed bug with releasing slack variable and linear constraint in cons_indicator
3752- fixed problem when writing MPS file with indicator constraints with corresponding empty linear constraints
3753- fixed bug in heur_vbound triggered when new variables were added while constructing the LP
3754- fixed bug with unlinked columns in SCIProwGetLPSolCutoffDistance()
3755
3756Miscellaneous
3757-------------
3758
3759- updated CppAD to version 20180000.0
3760- remove LEGACY mode, compiler needs to be C++11-compliant
3761
3762@page RN5 Release notes for SCIP 5
3763
3764@section RN501 SCIP 5.0.1
3765*************************
3766
3767Features
3768--------
3769
3770- SCIP executable handles the `SIGTERM` signal. If the process receives a `SIGTERM`, SCIP terminates the solution process with a
3771 new `SCIP_STATUS` code `SCIP_STATUS_TERMINATE` and displays all relevant statistics before exiting.
3772- add number of conflict constraints found by diving heuristics to statistics
3773- allow output of lower bounds for visualization
3774- added symmetry detection for linking constraints
3775
3776Performance improvements
3777------------------------
3778
3779- disable disaggregation of quadratic constraints by changing the default for `constraints/quadratic/maxdisaggrsize` to 1
3780 (disaggregation can still be very helpful on some instances, but also seems hurtful on others)
3781
3782- Cuts:
3783 - increased threshold when to scale up cuts that are generated by nonlinear constraint handlers
3784 - test additional scaling factors in CMIR cut generation heuristic
3785 - cleaned up implementation of the cut selection procedure and added new cut quality measure
3786 - use random tie-breaking in cut selection
3787
3788Interface changes
3789-----------------
3790
3791### New API functions
3792
3793- new methods SCIPtryTerminate() and SCIPterminated() in scip/interrupt.h for handling of SIGTERM signals.
3794- new method SCIPselectCuts() to run SCIP's cut selection procedure on a given array of cuts
3795
3796### Changed parameters
3797
3798- rename parameter `constraints/orbisack/orbisack/coverseparation` to `constraints/orbisack/coverseparation`
3799
3800### New parameters
3801
3802- `visual/displb` that enables output of lower bounds for visualization
3803- `presolving/symmetry/displaynorbitvars` (whether we display the number of affected variables in the statistics)
3804- `separating/efficacyfac` to change the weight of the efficacy in cut score calculation
3805- `separating/dircutoffdistfac` to change the weight of the directed cutoff distance in cut score calculation
3806
3807### Data structures
3808
3809- new `SCIP_STATUS` code `SCIP_STATUS_TERMINATE` in scip/interrupt.h for handling of SIGTERM signals.
3810
3811Unit tests
3812----------
3813
3814- expanded unit tests of the lpis
3815- added check to unit tests that problem is not solved after every change
3816
3817Fixed bugs
3818----------
3819
3820- fixed LP status to unsolved when marking LP to be resolved if objective limit has changed
3821- copy parameter settings to sub-SCIPs in SCIPcopyLargeNeighborhoodSearch() also when copying only LP rows
3822- fixed a check for fixed variables in Binpacking example
3823- generate deprecation warnings when using SCIPaddCut
3824- fix bug in sepa_gomory if cut is a bound change
3825- fixed handling of infinite bounds in cons_sos1
3826
3827- Constraints:
3828 - fixed bug while scaling linear constraints
3829 - don't delete conflict constraints that were transformed into model constraints during a restart
3830 - fixed treatment of variable aggregations in knapsack constraint handler that led to wrong propagations
3831
3832- LP Interface:
3833 - fixed LPI status after changing objective in lpi_cpx, lpi_grb, lpi_xprs, lpi_msk
3834 - fixed and unified asserts in LPIs
3835 - retrieve interior solution instead of (possibly non-existing) basic solution from mosek after using barrier without crossover in lpi_msk
3836 - fixed bug with `NULL` pointer handling in LPIs
3837
3838- Heuristics:
3839 - fixed wrong cast in LP iteration limit computation in proximity search heuristic
3840 - fixed check for time limit in heur_nlpdiving
3841 - improved numerics and fixed stop criterion in zirounding heuristic
3842
3843@section RN500 SCIP 5.0.0
3844*************************
3845
3846Features
3847--------
3848
3849- new numerical solution violations get printed when checksol is called
3850- added analysis of the clique table which identifies possible aggregations via the search for
3851 strongly connected components and may detect infeasible assignments on the way
3852- added macros to do computations with a higher precision by using double-double arithmetic
3853- extended conflict analysis by analyzing dual solutions of boundexceeding LPs
3854- revised internal debugging mechanism to check against a user given debug solution (debug.h)
3855
3856- Heuristic:
3857 - add new heuristic MPEC that solves a MPEC reformulation of a mixed-binary nonlinear problem by regularized NLP reformulations
3858 - new primal heuristic ALNS that orchestrates eight different LNS heuristics adaptively
3859 using algorithms for the multi-armed bandit problem
3860 - three bandit selection algorithms to face sequential decision problems under uncertainty
3861
3862- Presolving and symmetry:
3863 - added presol_symmetry.c for computing and storing symmetry information of a MIP
3864 - added presol_symbreak.c to detect special symmetry structures and to add symmetry handling constraints
3865 - SCIP can now automatically detect and compute symmetries in MIPs (if a graph automorphism code is linked in)
3866 - added cons_symresack.c to handle permutation symmetries in a binary programs via inequalities and propagation
3867 - added cons_orbisack.c to handle special permutation symmetries in a binary programs via inequalities and propagation
3868 - cons_orbitope.c can now handle full orbitopes as well
3869
3870- Propagator:
3871 - added new propagator orbital fixing
3872 - utilizing linear inequalities to compute stronger linearizations for bilinear terms; the inequalities are computed in
3873 the OBBT propagator
3874
3875- Cuts:
3876 - added API for aggregating rows for generating cuts which uses double-double arithmetic internally
3877 - added filtering of parallel cuts in the cut pool
3878
3879- Plugins:
3880 + added new plugin type `table` for adding user-defined statistics tables
3881 + new presolving plugin presol_sparsify that tries to cancel nonzero coefficients in linear constraints by adding
3882 multiples of linear equalities
3883
3884Performance improvements
3885------------------------
3886
3887- use disjoint set to reduce peak memory usage and time to compute of clique table connectedness information
3888- add and use RESTRICT macro for some pointers
3889- improved the implementation of SCIPvarGetActiveRepresentatives
3890- speed-up reverse propagation
3891- removed bestrelaxsol and directly access relaxation solution instead to decrease overhead when using relaxation handlers
3892- for fast presolving emphasis, disable use of implications in logicor presolving
3893- use limit on the total number of nonzeros added to the clique table during the greedyCliqueAlgorithm of cons_knapsack.c
3894- revised disaggregation of quadratic constraints: the number of created constraints can now be controlled and the
3895 disaggregated constraints are scaled in order to increase numerical accuracy
3896- disabled reformulation of products of a binary variable with a linear term that does not solely involve binary variables
3897- speed up creation of LP in the computation of relative interior points
3898- improved dual ray analysis
3899- drop events of disabled linear constraints to reduce event processing effort
3900
3901- Separation:
3902 - new implementation of zerohalf separator
3903 - enabled cutting plane separation in the tree
3904 - improved cut selection and management
3905 - improved cut post-processing: apply coefficient tightening, enforce maximal dynamism
3906
3907- Heuristics:
3908 - improved selection of rows in CMIR aggregation heuristic
3909 - generate lifted flowcover cuts in CMIR cut generation heuristic
3910 - faster implementation of CMIR cut generation heuristic
3911 - use LP solution polishing during probing and diving mode to activate it during many primal heuristics; remains disabled
3912 during strong branching and OBBT
3913 - improved versions of the clique and variable bound pre-root heuristics that are often able to fix many more variables
3914
3915Interface changes
3916-----------------
3917
3918### New and changed callbacks
3919
3920- New types:
3921 - added new abstract selection algorithm `SCIP_BANDIT` together with callbacks
3922 - added new types for symmetry handling
3923
3924- NLP interface:
3925 - dropped NLP termination status `SCIP_NLPTERMSTAT_UOBJLIM`
3926
3927- NLP callbacks:
3928 - added parameter `objval` to `SCIP_DECL_NLPIGETSOLUTION` for returning the optimal objective value (can be set to `NULL`)
3929
3930- Separation callbacks:
3931 - added parameter `allowlocal` to `SCIP_DECL_SEPAEXECLP` and `SCIP_DECL_SEPAEXECSOL` to switch generation of locally valid cuts
3932 - added parameter `dstatssize` to `SCIP_DECL_NLPIDELVARSET` and `SCIP_DECL_NLPIDELCONSSET`
3933
3934### Deleted and changed API functions
3935
3936- Branching rules:
3937 - removed parameter `allowaddcons` from SCIPselectVarPseudoStrongBranching(), SCIPselectVarStrongBranching(), and
3938 SCIPincludeBranchruleRelpscost()
3939
3940- Constraint Handlers:
3941 - generalized SCIPcreateConsOrbitope() and SCIPcreateConsBasicOrbitope() method to three orbitope types (full, partitioning, packing)
3942
3943- Cutting plane separation methods:
3944 - changed function signature of SCIPcalcMIR()
3945 - changed function signature of SCIPcalcStrongCG()
3946 - new method SCIPaddRow() to replace deprecated SCIPaddCut()
3947 - removed parameter `scaling` from SCIPgetRowprepViolation()
3948 - added parameter `allowlocal` to SCIPseparateSol()
3949
3950- LP interface:
3951 - replaced LP parameters `SCIP_LPPARAM_LOBJLIM` and `SCIP_LPPARAM_UOBJLIM` by `SCIP_LPPARAM_OBJLIM`
3952
3953- NLP interface:
3954 - SCIPnlpStatisticsCreate() and SCIPnlpStatisticsFree() now require a pointer to blockmemory as parameter
3955 - added parameter `objval` to SCIPnlpiGetSolution() of NLPIs for returning the optimal objective value (can be set to `NULL`)
3956 - added parameter `varnameslength` to SCIPexprParse()
3957 - added parameter `dstatssize` to SCIPnlpiDelVarSet() and SCIPnlpiDelConsSet()
3958 - added modifier const to `exprtree` parameter of SCIPnlpiChgExprtree()
3959
3960- Primal heuristics:
3961 - SCIPheurPassIndicator() has a new parameter which allows to pass the objective of the solution
3962
3963- Relaxator methods:
3964 - added parameter `includeslp` to SCIPmarkRelaxSolValid(), SCIPsetRelaxSolVals() and SCIPsetRelaxSolValsSol();
3965 - removed parameter `includeslp` from SCIPrelaxCreate() and SCIPincludeRelax()
3966 - removed functions SCIPrelaxIncludesLp() and SCIPrelaxSetIncludesLp()
3967 - replaced method SCIPgetRelaxFeastolFactor() by SCIPrelaxfeastol() and added SCIPchgRelaxfeastol()
3968
3969- Misc:
3970 - changed return type of SCIPcliqueGetId() from `int` to `unsigned int`
3971 - removed SCIPvarGetCliqueComponentIdx(); the connectedness information of the clique table is now stored as a
3972 `SCIP_DISJOINTSET` member of the clique table and cannot be publicly accessed
3973 - added parameter `copytables` to SCIPcopyPlugins()
3974 - SCIPsolveParallel() has been deprecated, use the new method SCIPsolveConcurrent() instead
3975 - allowed SCIPgetNConss() in stage `SCIP_STAGE_INITSOLVE`
3976
3977### New API functions
3978
3979- SCIPaddRow() to replace deprecated SCIPaddCut()
3980- methods to display linear constraint classification types; use SCIPclassifyConstraintTypesLinear()
3981 after reading a problem to classify linear constraint types
3982- public methods SCIPvariableGraphBreadthFirst() and SCIPvariableGraph{Create,Free}() to
3983 perform breadth-first search on the variable constraint graph used by the GINS and ALNS heuristics
3984- SCIPsetProbingLPState() to install given LP state and/or norms at the current probing node
3985- SCIPbranchcandGetLPMaxPrio() and SCIPbranchcandGetExternMaxPrio() to query the maximal branching priority of given
3986 branching candidates; also added SCIPbranchcandGetNPrioLPCands() to access the number of LP candidates with this priority.
3987- SCIPupdateSolIntegralityViolation(), SCIPupdateSolBoundViolation(), SCIPupdateSolLPRowViolation(),
3988 SCIPupdateSolConsViolation() and SCIPupdateSolLPConsViolation() for updating numerical solution violations, as well as
3989 SCIPactivateSolViolationUpdates() and SCIPdeactivateSolViolationUpdates() for activating/deactivating violation updates globally
3990- SCIPsetSubscipDepth() to set the depth of SCIP as a copied subproblem during problem stage
3991- SCIPdivesetGetNSols() to query the number of found solutions from a diveset.
3992- SCIPnextafter() that wraps different nextafter methods to return the next representable value after a given value
3993- SCIPlinConsStats{Create,Free,GetTypeCount,GetSum}() and SCIPprintLinConsStats() to work with linear constraint classification through the C API
3994- SCIPgetRowNumIntCols() that returns the number of integer columns in a row
3995- SCIPsetSlackVarUb() to control upper bound of slack variable in cons_indicator
3996
3997- Data structures:
3998 - methods SCIPrandomCreate() and SCIPrandomFree() are no longer public and should be replaced by SCIPcreateRandom() and
3999 SCIPfreeRandom(), respectively (the new methods respect the global parameter `randomization/randomseedshift` automatically)
4000 - methods SCIPdigraphCreate() and SCIPdigraphCopy() are no longer public and should be replaced by SCIPcreateDigraph() and
4001 SCIPcopyDigraph(), respectively, which receive a SCIP argument and are more robust towards future interface changes
4002
4003- Bilinear:
4004 - SCIPgetAllBilinearTermsQuadratic() to access data of all existing bilinear terms in quadratic constraints
4005 - SCIPaddBilinearIneqQuadratic() to propose an inequality with two variables that appear in a bilinear term
4006 - SCIPcomputeBilinEnvelope{1,2}() to compute a linearization of a bilinear term when considering at most two linear inequalities
4007
4008- Clique:
4009 - SCIPcliqueGetIndex() which returns the unique identifier for the given clique
4010 - SCIPgetNCliquesCreated() which returns the number of cliques created so far
4011
4012- Cutting plane separation methods:
4013 - SCIPisCutNew() that returns whether a cut is already present in the global cut pool
4014 - SCIPgetSepaMinEfficacy() to access separating/minefficacy(root)
4015
4016- Interfaces:
4017 - interface methods to create and use bandit algorithms implemented as SCIP core plugins
4018 - interface methods for aggregating rows and computating MIP cuts, see cuts.h
4019 - interface method SCIPsetRandomSeed() to (re)set a random number generator seed
4020
4021### Command line interface
4022
4023- new interactive shell functionality to display linear constraint classification types;
4024 use `display linclass` after reading a problem to classify linear constraint types
4025- new command line parameter `-r` to pass a nonnegative integer as random seed.
4026
4027### Interfaces to external software
4028
4029- added interface to the NLP solver WORHP
4030- added interface to the NLP solver FilterSQP
4031- added interface to graph automorphism algorithms in `src/symmetry/` (initially only to BLISS)
4032- unify handling of objective limit in LPIs by replacing LPI parameters `SCIP_LPPAR_LOBJLIM` and `SCIP_LPPAR_UOBJLIM` by
4033 `SCIP_LPPAR_OBJLIM`
4034- dropped support for MOSEK < 7.0.0.0
4035
4036### Changed parameters
4037
4038- changed and removed several parameters for zerohalf separator
4039- replaced `constraints/quadratic/disaggregate` by `constraints/quadratic/maxdisaggrsize` to bound
4040 the total number of created constraints when disaggregating a quadratic constraint
4041- new value 3 for parameter `lp/solutionpolishing` to enable LP polishing only during probing and diving mode
4042- parameter `conflict/useboundlp` has new values `d` (only dual solution analysis) and `b` (both, conflict and dual solution analysis)
4043
4044- Heuristics:
4045 - fixed typo `heuristics/completesol/maxunkownrate` has changed to `heuristics/completesol/maxunknownrate`
4046 - replaced parameter `heuristics/{clique,vbounds}/minfixingrate` by `heuristics/{clique,vbounds}/minintfixingrate` and
4047 `heuristics/{clique,vbounds}/minmipfixingrate`, which check the fixing rate before LP solving and after sub-MIP presolve
4048
4049- Separating:
4050 - parameter `separating/maxstallrounds` only applies to nodes in the tree (not the root node, anymore); use the new
4051 parameter `separating/maxstallroundsroot` for the root node
4052 - moved parameters for flowcover and cmir separators to `separating/aggregation`
4053
4054- Removed parameters:
4055 - `constraints/{abspower,bivariate,nonlinear,quadratic,soc}/scaling`
4056 - `constraints/{abspower,bivariate,quadratic,nonlinear}/mincutefficacysepa`
4057 - `constraints/{abspower,bivariate,quadratic,nonlinear}/mincutefficacyenfofac`
4058 - `constraints/soc/minefficacy`
4059 - `conflict/usemir`
4060 - `conflict/prefermir`
4061 - `heuristics/clique/{multiplier,initseed}`
4062 - `separating/feastolfac`
4063 - `separating/orthofac`
4064 - `separating/cgmip/allowlocal` (use parameter passed to separation callback instead)
4065 - `separating/{gomory,strongcg}/maxweightrange`
4066
4067### New parameters
4068
4069- `conflict/prefinfproof` (prefer infeasibility proof to boundexceeding proof)
4070- `conflict/sepaaltproofs`
4071- `constraints/indicator/maxsepanonviolated` to stop separation after separation of non violated cuts
4072- `constraints/orbisack/coverseparation` (whether orbisack cover inequalities should be separated)
4073- `constraints/orbisack/orbiSeparation` (whether facet defining inequalities for orbisack should be separated)
4074- `constraints/orbisack/coeffbound` (maximal value of coefficients in orbisack facet inequalities)
4075- `constraints/orbisack/checkpporbisack` (check whether orbisacks can be strengthened by packing/partitioning constraints)
4076- `constraints/orbisack/checkalwaysfeas` (whether conscheck returns always `SCIP_FEASIBLE`)
4077- `constraints/orbitope/checkpporbitope` (check packing/partitioning orbitopes)
4078- `constraints/orbitope/sepafullorbitope` (separate full orbitopes)
4079- `constraints/orbitope/checkalwaysfeas` (whether conscheck returns always `SCIP_FEASIBLE`)
4080- `constraints/quadratic/{usebilinineqbranch,minscorebilinterms,bilinineqmaxseparounds}`
4081- `constraints/quadratic/disaggrmergemethod` to change the strategy of how to merge independent blocks of quadratic constraints
4082- `constraints/quadratic/mincurvcollectbilinterms` to change the minimal curvature of constraints
4083 to be considered when returning bilinear terms to other plugins
4084- `constraints/quadratic/binreformbinaryonly` to disable reformulation of products of binary and non-binary variables
4085- `constraints/symresack/ppsymresack` (check whether symresacks can be strengthend by packing/partitining constraints)
4086- `constraints/symresack/checkalwaysfeas` (whether conscheck returns always `SCIP_FEASIBLE`)
4087- `expbackoff` to all separators which increases the frequency exponentially over the depth in the tree
4088- `heuristics/completesol/{beforepresol,maxlpiter,maxcontvars}`
4089- `heuristics/{clique,vbounds}/maxbacktracks` to limit the number of backtracks in the fix-and-propagate phase
4090- `heuristics/{clique,vbounds}/uselockfixings` to enable fixing of additional variables based on variable locks
4091- `heuristics/vbounds/{feasvariant,tightenvariant}` to specify the fixing variants used by the vbounds heuristic
4092- `lp/refactorinterval` to change the refactorization interval of the LP solver
4093- `misc/debugsol` to specify a debug solution that should be checked during the solve
4094- `misc/usesymmetry` to determine whether symmetry handling should be used
4095- `presolving/symbreak/conssaddlp` (whether symmetry handling inequalities should be added to the LP)
4096- `presolving/symbreak/addsymresacks` (whether symresacks should be used to handle symmetries)
4097- `presolving/symbreak/computeorbits` (whether symmetry orbits should be computed)
4098- `presolving/symbreak/detectorbitopes` (whether it should be checked if some symmetries can be handled by orbitopes)
4099- `presolving/symmetry/computepresolved` (Whether symmetries are computed after presolving)
4100- `presolving/symmetry/maxgenerators` (maximal number of generators generated by symmetry detection)
4101- `presolving/symmetry/checksymmetries` (whether validity of computed symmetries should be verified)
4102- `propagating/obbt/{itlimitfactorbilin,minnonconvexity,createbilinineqs}`
4103- `propagating/vbounds/minnewcliques` to specify the minimum number of new cliques to trigger another clique table analysis
4104- `propagating/vbounds/{maxcliquesmedium,maxcliquesexhaustive}` to limit the number of cliques relative to the
4105 number of binary variable for performing clique table analysis
4106- `separating/maxincrounds`
4107- `separating/maxlocalbounddist`, `separating/maxcoefratio` and `separating/intsupportfac`
4108- if PaPILO >= 2.1: `presolving/milp/maxbadgesizepar` to limit the maximal badge size if PaPILO is called in parallel mode
4109- if PaPILO >= 2.1: `presolving/milp/maxbadgesizeseq` to limit the maximal badge size if PaPILO is called in sequential mode
4110
4111### Data structures
4112
4113- new type `SCIP_Shortbool` (equal to uint8_t) for storing Boolean values in a more compact manner
4114- new disjoint set data structure `SCIP_DISJOINTSET` to incrementally update connectedness information for a graph on nodes {0,...,n-1}
4115- new red black tree data structure defined in `src/scip/rbtree.{c,h}`
4116- new object `SCIP_LINCONSSTATS`, see type_cons.h, to work with linear constraint classification through the C API
4117- added new type `SCIP_TABLE` together with callbacks to output SCIP statistics
4118
4119Unit tests
4120----------
4121
4122- added several tests for the LP interface
4123- added tests that cover nonempty linear constraint classification types
4124- added tests for the double double arithmetic, the new red black tree data structure, the nlpi, obbt, interval arithmetics,
4125 symmetry computation, objective function changes in probing, computing envelopes of bilinear function, relaxation enforcement
4126
4127Build system
4128------------
4129
4130- added interface to the NLP solver WORHP; set `WORHP=true` in order to link to WORHP
4131- added interface to the NLP solver FilterSQP; set `FILTERSQP=true` in order to link to FilterSQP
4132
4133### Cmake
4134
4135- added support for sanitizers in debug mode and options SANITIZE_ADDRESS, SANITIZE_MEMORY, SANITIZE_UNDEFINED, SANITIZE_THREAD
4136- added option SYM to specify which graph automorphism package (bliss, none) should be used, if available
4137- disable non-standard compliant floating point optimizations in combination with intel compilers
4138- improve Visual Studio compilation
4139- only accept IPOPT version 3.12.0 or higher
4140- preserve correct rpath in library (e.g. path to libipopt) when installing
4141
4142### Makefile
4143
4144- new flag `DEBUGSOL={true,false}` to enable checks against a user given debug solution
4145- added flag SYM to specify which graph automorphism package (bliss, none) should be used
4146- default value for ZIMPL in the Makefile is now `false`
4147
4148Fixed bugs
4149----------
4150
4151- fix wrong statistic display of diving leaf solutions
4152- fixed order of SCIPcalcCliquePartition() in corner case where no cliques are available
4153- fix treatment of infinite lower bound in proximity objective cutoff
4154- fixed minor issue in expression graph simplification
4155
4156- Separator:
4157 - fix linear knapsack relaxation during separation if a binary variable does not have a solution value in [0,1].
4158 - fixed potential ressource leaks in SCIPsolveLinearProb(), expr.c, sepa_eccuts, cons_cumulative.c, cons_nonlinear.c
4159 - fixed bug in cons_orbitope.c, where wrong terminating index in separation of SCIs was used
4160 - fixed wrong mapping of permuted basis indices in gomory separator
4161 - fixed integer objective separator for objective scales < 1
4162
4163- Presolver:
4164 - fixed numerical issues in boundshift presolver when aggregating integer variables
4165 - fixed aggregation of variables in boundshift presolver that contain large variable bounds
4166
4167- Heuristic:
4168 - fixed bug in feasibility pump heuristic when switching on the `usefp20` parameter
4169 - fixed handling of LOOSE variables in locks heuristic
4170 - fixed creation of conflicts in clique heuristic for incomplete LPs
4171
4172- Constraints:
4173 - fixed bug in mps reader. Reader now prints `OBJSENSE` section and tries to generate unique names of constraints
4174 - fixed upgrade to a varbound constraint if abspower constraint contains a multi-aggregated variable
4175 - fixed several bugs related to hashing of constraints/rows in cutpool.c and cons_linear.c
4176 - fixed registration of almost fixed nonlinear variables in abspower constraints
4177
4178- Propagator:
4179 - fixed releasing of variables in the genvbounds propagator in case the problem could be solved during presolving of a restart
4180 - fixed numerical issues in bound widening of variable bound constraint handler and vbound propagator during conflict analysis
4181
4182@page RN4 Release notes for SCIP 4
4183
4184@section RN401 SCIP 4.0.1
4185*************************
4186
4187Features
4188--------
4189
4190- added parsing functionality to cardinality constraint handler for CIP format
4191- allow to relax objective limit in reoptimization in presolved stage
4192- suppress excessive printing about numerical troubles in LP on default verblevel (high)
4193
4194Performance improvements
4195------------------------
4196
4197- only accept passed improving solutions in heur_indicator
4198- add and use RESTRICT macro for some pointers
4199- sorting of parents and children for some expression types is now independent of memory layout
4200
4201- Constraints:
4202 - widened a bottleneck in simplifying long signomial sums in a nonlinear constraint
4203 - unified and extended code that improves numerics of cuts generated by nonlinear constraint handlers
4204
4205- Separation:
4206 - stop separation in cons_indicator after maxsepanonviolated many non violated separated cuts
4207 - improve choice of variable to enter support in separation of cons_indicator
4208
4209Interface changes
4210-----------------
4211
4212### New API functions
4213
4214- SCIPvalidateSolve() to compare solving result with an external primal and dual reference value
4215- SCIPisObjChangedProbing() to check whether the objective function has changed during probing mode
4216- SCIPgetDualSolVal() to get the dual solution value of a constraint
4217- SCIPisLPPrimalReliable() and SCIPisLPDualReliable() to check whether the current primal / dual LP solution
4218 were successfully checked for feasibility
4219
4220### Command line interface
4221
4222- New option in the interactive shell to validate the solution against an external primal and dual reference value
4223- added command line option `-o` and command `validatesolve` in interactive shell
4224 to validate the solution against an external primal and dual reference value.
4225
4226### Interfaces to external software
4227
4228- Updated and new interfaces to Mosek 8.1, GAMS and Gurobi
4229- new LP interface to Glop (Google OR tools); CMake only
4230
4231### Changed parameters
4232
4233- renamed parameter `heuristics/completesol/maxunkownrate` to `heuristics/completesol/maxunknownrate`
4234
4235Testing
4236-------
4237
4238- add options to make test target (see Makefile section)
4239
4240Build system
4241------------
4242
4243### Cmake
4244
4245- New CMake build system alongside the usual Makefile setup
4246
4247### Makefile
4248
4249- added make options for specifying EXECUTABLE and OUTPUTDIR variables for the make test target
4250
4251Fixed bugs
4252----------
4253
4254- fixed unintended behavior of interrupt signal handler inside SCIP copies
4255- fixed uninitialized values in SCIP's digraph data structure after calling SCIPdigraphResize()
4256- fixed issue related to SCIPcreateFiniteSolCopy() not being able to remove all infinite fixings
4257- fixed issue in SCIPcopyLimits() w.r.t. soft time limit
4258- fixed bug in dynamic resizing of hashtables and hashmaps
4259- added workaround for bug in primal simplex of cplex 12.7.1.0 occuring when attempting to solve LPs without rows without presolving
4260- fixed bug in binpacking example that might have led to doing the same branching several times
4261- fixed memory issue in binpacking example
4262- in GAMS writer, forbid also various parenthesis characters in gams symbol names
4263- added missing definition of `SCIP_UNUSED` in memory.h if def.h is not included
4264- treat reopt bugs: Avoid numerical problems with changing objective; fix check for changed objective
4265- fixed reading issue in mps reader: integer variables fixed to 0 or 1 are treated as binaries now,
4266 allowing to use them as indicator variables
4267- afternode heuristics are now called even if the node limit was reached and the solving process will be stopped
4268 after the current node
4269- fixed bug when activating probing mode with a non-empty separation storage
4270
4271- LP interfaces:
4272 - fixed guard against using old Gurobi versions in lpi_grb.c: Gurobi 7.5 was not permitted
4273 - fixed wrong handling of unboundedness status in lpi_grb.c
4274 - fixed wrong handling of row basis status in lpi_grb.c
4275
4276- Propagator:
4277 - fixed bug in shift and propagate--variable information with a negation transformation is correctly reset after backtracking
4278 - fixed bug in genvbounds propagator when applying a restart after the root node
4279
4280- Constraints:
4281 - fixed bug in varbound coefficient tightening: if a varbound constraint only contained one variable afterwards,
4282 it may have been deleted without applying the induced bound, if the change was too small, this is now forced
4283 - fixed potential wrong locks update after a varbound constraint became redundant in coefficient tightening
4284 - fixed potentially wrong cleanup of fixed variables in nonlinear constraint handler
4285 - fixed memory leak in OSiL reader when using SOS constraints
4286
4287- Solution:
4288 - improved handling of infinite values in a primal solution in quadratic and nonlinear constraints
4289 - fixed bug in computing violation and cut for certain nonlinear constraints when LP solution is slightly out of bounds
4290 - fixed debug solution check that appeared in probing mode when the objective function has changed
4291 - relaxed a too strong assert concerning solutions close to the objective limit
4292
4293@section RN400 SCIP 4.0.0
4294*************************
4295
4296Features
4297--------
4298
4299- Introduced support for partial or infeasible user solutions, which SCIP tries to complete/repair heuristically
4300- implemented linear time methods for (weighted) median selection for joint arrays of various types
4301- added adaptive solving behavior of SCIP based on solving phases and heuristic transitions, if enabled via `solvingphases/enabled`
4302- can now solve relaxations within probing
4303- in case of multiple relaxators the best solution is saved instead of the last one
4304- added write callback for reader_bnd
4305- added possibility to use a reference value for advanced analysis of the tree search. If a finite reference value
4306 (an objective value in original objective space) is passed via misc/referencevalue, SCIP keeps track of the
4307 number of nodes exceeding the reference value and the number of early backtracks -- path switches in the tree when
4308 a child node with lower bound smaller than the reference value was available.
4309- added reading capabilities for partial solutions with extension *.mst
4310- new global shift off all random seeds (randomization/randomseedshift) and unification of all existing random seeds
4311- use new macros SCIPdebugMsg(), SCIPsetDebugMsg(), SCIPstatDebugMsg() at all places where it makes sense
4312- new random number generator in pub_misc.h
4313- add check whether variables have been released when freeing SCIP
4314- a print callback can now be specified for user expressions
4315
4316- LP Solutions:
4317 - will now enforce relaxation solution instead of lp or pseudosolution if lowerbound is better and the whole lp is included in the relaxation
4318 - new feature solution polishing to improve integrality of LP solutions
4319
4320- Constraints:
4321 - new constraint handler for cardinality constraints
4322 - added interval-evaluation of sine and cosine
4323 - allow to create constraints of constraint handlers that don't need constraints
4324 - New constraint handlers cardinality and components
4325
4326- Conflicts:
4327 - implement a storage for conflicts to have more control over active conflicts
4328 - Improved conflict analysis through central conflict pool and dual ray analysis for primal infeasible LPs; can now analyze dual
4329 unbounded rays of primal infeasible LPs
4330
4331- Presolving:
4332 - New presolvers that disaggregate SOC constraints and reformulate QP's by adding KKT conditions
4333 - new presolving step for variables contained in a single quadratic constraint with proper square coefficients
4334 - add new presolving step to disaggregate second order cone constraints
4335 - new presolving method presol_qpkktref to add the KKT conditions of a QP
4336 - implemented and extended stuffing presolving in linear constraint handler
4337 - new components constraint handler which replaces the components presolver; it searches for independent subproblems
4338 and solves small ones as sub-SCIPs during presolve, larger ones are solved alternatingly during the main solving process
4339 - new presolving timing FINAL: presolving methods with this timing are only called once after all other presolvers with timings
4340 FAST, MEDIUM and EXHAUSTIVE are finished; during this timing only reductions are allowed that are self-contained, e.g.,
4341 fixing all variables and deleting all constraints of an independent component; note that reductions found in this timing
4342 do not trigger a new presolving round
4343
4344- Separation and Cuts:
4345 - can now separate perspective cuts for indicator constraints
4346 - add sepa_convexproj, a separator which projects onto convex relaxation and build gradient cuts at the projection
4347 - add sepa_gauge, a separator which computes an interior point of a convex relaxation and performs a binary search in the segment joining
4348 the interior point and the point to separate until it finds a point in the boundary of the feasible region where to build a gradient cut
4349 - changed handling of coupling constraints in cons_indicator; the cuts will not be added to the pool, but are separated by default
4350 - concurrent solving mode that allows to run multiple SCIP instances, that share solutions and global variable bounds, in parallel
4351 - Revised pseudo random number generation and introduced central random seed for all plugins
4352
4353- Heuristics:
4354 - new Graph induced neighborhood search (GINS) primal heuristic that uses neighborhoods
4355 based on distances in the variable constraint connectivity graph.
4356 In addition, the heuristic supports a rolling horizon-like procedure to solve auxiliary problems
4357 for neighborhoods with increasing distance from the starting neighborhood.
4358 - new primal heuristic LP face that tries to find an integer solution inside the optimal LP face.
4359 - new heuristic that tries to complete partial solutions
4360 - the subnlp heuristic now gives ownership of a found solution to the heuristic that constructed the starting point, if any;
4361 as a consequence, MIP heuristics may now be shown more frequently for having found a solution when solving MINLPs, even
4362 though the solutions required an additional NLP solve
4363 - new multistart heuristic for NLPs
4364
4365- Propagator:
4366 - add prop_nlobbt, a nonlinear optimization-based bound propagator solving two convex NLP relaxations for each variable
4367 - nodes can now be postponed; currently, this can only be triggered by BEFORELP propagation callbacks
4368
4369- Statistic:
4370 + Extended statistic output displayable via the interactive shell
4371 + new statistic computed: `Root LP Estimate` that shows the root LP best-estimate with every pseudo-cost update
4372 + added leaf statistics about LP objective limit|feasible|infeasible leaves to the statistics output and
4373 to the callable library: SCIPgetNObjlimLeaves(), SCIPgetNFeasibleLeaves(), SCIPgetNInfeasibleLeaves()
4374 + next to the number of found solution, also the number of new best solutions is now printed for each heuristic
4375 (and relaxation solutions) in the statistics in the `Primal Heuristic` section.
4376
4377Performance improvements
4378------------------------
4379
4380- Extended the presolving timings by an additional timing FINAL for self-contained reductions
4381- Randomized tie-breaking in different parts of the code to reduce performance variability
4382- use connectedness information of the clique table to speed up the clique partitioning algorithm
4383- knapsack approximation algorithms use linear-time weighted median selection instead of sorting
4384- improved greedy solution in SCIPsolveKnapsackApproximatelyLT() for the flow cover separation
4385- reduce performance variability by using random numbers as tie-breaker for external branching candidates
4386
4387- Heuristics:
4388 - adjusted most Large Neighborhood Search heuristics such that they collect their variable fixings first in an array,
4389 and only create and populate a sub-SCIP if enough variables will be fixed.
4390 - reduce performance variability by using a small perturbation in the undercover heuristic
4391 - 1-opt heuristic can now be repeatedly executed as long as new incumbents are found
4392
4393- Constraints:
4394 - Improved and extended stuffing inside of linear constraint handler
4395 - Changed handling of coupling constraints in cons_indicator
4396 - SCIP supports constraint compression for problem copies; constraint compression denotes the immediate
4397 removal of fixed variables from constraint data at creation time to reduce memory requirements.
4398
4399- Propagation:
4400 - rewrote the propagate-and-cut-and-price loop so that successful propagations with DURINGLPLOOP timing, bound changes found by separation,
4401 and new primal solutions now trigger a new round of node solving, starting with propagation; improved tuning of propagation and heuristic timings
4402 - tuned propagation methods of several constraint handlers
4403 - make more use of SCIPmarkConsPropagate() to mark constraints for propagation and improved the internal handling of marked constraints
4404 - improve propagation of absolute-value expression in the case that the sign of the argument is fixed
4405
4406Interface changes
4407-----------------
4408
4409### New and changed callbacks
4410
4411- Concurrent SCIP:
4412 - extended interface to support concurrent solving mode
4413
4414- Constraint Handlers:
4415 - new optional callback `CONSENFORELAX` to enforce a relaxation solution, see \ref CONS
4416 - `CONSINITLP` callback now has a new parameter `infeasible`, which is a pointer to store whether infeasibility
4417 was detected while building the initial LP relaxation
4418
4419### Deleted and changed API functions
4420
4421- setting a parameter to a non-valid value now produces an error message instead of a warning
4422- bound reader uses angle bracket around variable names
4423- the parameters of SCIPlpiChgObj(), SCIPlpiSetBase(), SCIPlpiSetState(), SCIPlpiSetNorms() have been declared as const
4424- SCIPapplyHeurSubNlp() can now return the solution found by the sub-NLP heuristic
4425
4426- Random:
4427 - methods SCIPrandomGetInt() substitutes SCIPgetRandomInt() (marked to be deprecated)
4428 - methods SCIPrandomGetReal() substitutes SCIPgetRandomReal() (marked to be deprecated)
4429 - methods SCIPrandomPermuteArray() substitutes SCIPpermuteRandomArray() (marked to be deprecated)
4430 - methods SCIPrandomPermuteIntArray() substitutes SCIPpermuteRandomIntArray() (marked to be deprecated)
4431 - method SCIPrandomGetSubset() substitutes SCIPgetRandomSubset() (marked to be deprecated)
4432
4433- Conflict Analysis:
4434 - added parameters `conftype` and `iscutoffinvolved` to SCIPinitConflictAnalysis()
4435 that indicate the type of the conflict and whether the current cutoff bound is used or not
4436
4437- Constraint Handlers:
4438 - added parameter `infeasible` to SCIPinitlpCons()
4439
4440- Copying:
4441 - added parameters `fixedvars`, `fixedvals`, `nfixedvars` to SCIPcopyVars()
4442 - added parameters `fixedvars`, `fixedvals`, `nfixedvars` to SCIPcopyOrigVars()
4443 - renamed parameter `success` to `valid` in SCIPgetConsCopy()
4444
4445- Hashmap and Hashtable:
4446 - removed function SCIPcalcHashtableSize() since not required anymore for `SCIP_HASHTABLE` and `SCIP_HASHMAP`
4447 - based on the initial size `SCIP_HASHTABLE` and `SCIP_HASHMAP` choose an appropriate size internally to allow insertion of that
4448 many elements without resizing
4449 - `SCIP_MULTIHASH` behaves like the old `SCIP_HASHTABLE` and SCIPcalcMultihashSize() should be used as replacement for
4450 SCIPcalcHashtableSize()
4451
4452- Nonlinear Relaxation:
4453 - added parameter `curvature` to SCIPcreateNlRow()
4454
4455- Parameters:
4456 - the following new methods return a bool indicating whether the given value is valid for the parameter instead of printing a warning
4457 message and returning an error code if the value is invalid
4458 - renamed method SCIPcheckBoolParam() to SCIPisBoolParamValid()
4459 - renamed method SCIPcheckLongintParam() to SCIPisLongintParamValid()
4460 - renamed method SCIPcheckCharParam() to SCIPisCharParamValid()
4461 - renamed method SCIPcheckStringParam() to SCIPisStringParamValid()
4462 - renamed method SCIPcheckRealParam() to SCIPisRealParamValid()
4463 - in param.c/h: the new methods return a bool whether the given value is valid for the parameter instead of printing a warning message
4464 and returning an error code if the value is invalid
4465 - rename SCIPparamCheckBool() to SCIPparamIsValidBool()
4466 - rename SCIPparamCheckString() to SCIPparamIsValidString()
4467 - rename SCIPparamCheckChar() to SCIPparamIsValidChar()
4468 - rename SCIPparamCheckLongint() to SCIPparamIsValidLongint()
4469
4470- Primal Heuristics:
4471 - added parameter `initialseed` to SCIPcreateDiveset()
4472 - introduced new type `SCIP_HEURTIMING` for primal heuristic timing masks
4473 - changed type of parameter `timingmask` from unsigned int to `SCIP_HEURTIMING` in SCIPincludeHeur(), SCIPincludeHeurBasic()
4474
4475- Relaxators:
4476 - new parameter `includeslp` for SCIPincludeRelax() and SCIPincludeRelaxBasic()
4477 to indicate whether relaxation includes all linear rows and can be enforced
4478
4479- Reoptimization:
4480 - rename method SCIPgetReopSolsRun() to SCIPgetReoptSolsRun()
4481
4482- Solutions:
4483 - added parameter `completely` to SCIPtrySol(), SCIPtrySolFree(), SCIPcheckSol() to check all constraints when
4484 printing violations
4485
4486- Variables:
4487 - removed SCIPvarGetLbAtIndex() and added SCIPgetVarLbAtIndex()
4488 - removed SCIPvarGetUbAtIndex() and added SCIPgetVarUbAtIndex()
4489 - removed SCIPVarGetBdAtIndex() and added SCIPgetVarBdAtIndex()
4490 - removed SCIPvarWasFixedAtIndex() and added SCIPgetVarWasFixedAtIndex()
4491 - Removed method SCIPvarGetNBinImpls()
4492
4493### New API functions
4494
4495- added functions for concurrent solving mode (see concurrent.h, concsolver.h)
4496- SCIPcreateNlpiProb(), SCIPupdateNlpiProb() and SCIPaddNlpiProbRows() to create and update a nonlinear relaxation
4497- SCIPgetNObjlimLeaves(), SCIPgetNFeasibleLeaves(), SCIPgetNInfeasibleLeaves() for statistics output
4498 about LP objective leaves
4499- SCIPcheckCopyLimits() which can be used to check that enough time and memory is left to run a sub-SCIP after
4500 subtracting time and memory used by the main-SCIP and SCIPcopyLimits() which copies these limits accordingly and disables
4501 all other limits (need to be set by the plugin, if needed)
4502- SCIPcopyLargeNeighborhoodSearch() in heuristics.h that supports compressed copying and two kinds of problem copy: the MIP-relaxation or
4503 a 1-1 problem copy (by copying the constraints and not the LP relaxation)
4504- SCIPsolveProbingRelax() to solve a relaxation within probing
4505- SCIPgetLastStrongbranchingLPSolstat() to query the LP statuses after strong branching on a variable
4506- SCIPinitializeRandomSeed()
4507- SCIPswapReals() to swap two real values
4508- SCIPgetNNZs() to get the number of active non-zeros in the transformed/presolved problem
4509
4510- Debug Messages:
4511 - SCIPprintDebugMessage(), SCIPsetPrintDebugMessage(), SCIPstatPrintDebugMessage() that output debug messages and also print the
4512 subscip depth; the first two output via the message handler; also added macros SCIPdebugMsg(), SCIPsetDebugMsg(), SCIPstatDebugMsg()
4513 - SCIPdebugMsgPrint()/SCIPsetDebugMsgPrint() that output a message without `[debug]` prefix via the message handler (compare SCIPdebugPrintf())
4514
4515- Solution:
4516 - SCIPisDualSolAvailable() to query the dual solution availability
4517 - SCIPlpiSetIntegralityInformation() to improve SoPlex' solution polishing
4518
4519- Constraints:
4520 - library methods SCIPcopyConsCompression(), SCIPcopyOrigConsCompression() that accept an array of variables that are immediately
4521 fixed in the copy. Alternatively, local instead of global bounds can be used for compression.
4522 - library methods SCIPenableConsCompression(), SCIPisConsCompressionEnabled(), SCIPcopyConsCompression(), SCIPcopyOrigConsCompression()
4523 - SCIPgetIntVarXor() to access integer variable of XOR constraints
4524 - SCIPcreateConsCardinality() to create a cardinality constraint
4525 - SCIPcreateConsBasicCardinality() to create a basic cardinality constraint
4526 - SCIPchgCardvalCardinality() to changes cardinality value of cardinality constraint (i.e., right hand side of cardinality constraint)
4527 - SCIPaddVarCardinality() to add a variable to a cardinality constraint
4528 - SCIPappendVarCardinality() to append a variable to a cardinality constraint
4529 - SCIPgetNVarsCardinality() to get the number of variables in a cardinality constraint
4530 - SCIPgetVarsCardinality() to get the array of variables in a cardinality constraint
4531 - SCIPgetCardvalCardinality() to get the cardinality value of a cardinality constraint (i.e., right hand side of cardinality constraint)
4532 - SCIPgetWeightsCardinality() to get the array of weights of a cardinality constraint
4533 - SCIPgetLinvarMay{Decrease,Increase}Quadratic() to get index of a variable in linear term of quadratic constraint that may be decreased
4534 without making any other constraint infeasible
4535
4536- Parameters:
4537 - add SCIPparamIsValidInt() and SCIPparamIsValidReal() to param.c/h
4538 - add missing functions SCIPisIntParamValid() and SCIPisRealParamValid() to scip.c/h
4539
4540### Command line interface
4541
4542- new command line parameter `-v` to print detailed build options
4543
4544### Interfaces to external software
4545
4546- Interfaces for Python and Java are, among others, now available via http://www.github.com/scip-interfaces
4547- Revised documentation of the SCIP C-API to group methods more comprehensively by topics
4548- dropped support for Ipopt < 3.11
4549- Additional I/O-functionalities for debugging and logging in SCIP and in the AMPL interface
4550- updated CppAD to 20160000
4551- for users of the ampl interface, the display/logfile option has been added to set the name of a
4552 file to write the SCIP log to (additionally to stdout)
4553
4554- LP Interfaces:
4555 - SCIP uses the lpi_spx2 interface by default
4556 - Improved Gurobi interface that can handle ranged rows (requires Gurobi >= 7.0.2)
4557 - the CPLEX LPI now also compiles with CPLEX 12.7.0.0
4558
4559### Changed parameters
4560
4561- setting a value for a fixed parameter will no longer return with an error, if the new value equals the one to which the parameter is fixed
4562- changed value of parameter `separating/clique/cliquedensity` to 0.0 such that the separator always constructs a dense clique table
4563 which proved to be faster on the benchmarks MMM and stableset.
4564- parameters `misc/permutationseed`, `misc/permuteconss` and `misc/permutevars` changed to `randomization/permutationseed`,
4565 `randomization/permuteconss` and `randomization/permutevars`
4566- parameters `conflict/useinflp` and `conflict/useboundlp` are now of type char (before bool)
4567- all parameters of the components presolver (starting with `presolving/components/`) are now parameters of the components
4568 constraint handler (starting with `constraints/components/`)
4569
4570### New parameters
4571
4572- class randomization
4573- `branching/sumadjustweight` to adjust branching scores by adding a sum epsilon in order to keep score differences
4574 near zero, which are otherwise completely disregarded (they are adjusted to at least sum epsilon)
4575- `concurrent/∗ ` and `parallel/∗ ` for configuring the concurrent solving mode
4576- `constraints/cardinality/branchbalanced` to decide whether to use a balanced branching scheme in the enforcing of cardinality
4577 constraints
4578- `constraints/cardinality/balanceddepth` to set the maximal depth until balanced branching is turned off
4579- `constraints/cardinality/balancedcutoff` to determine that balanced branching is only used if the branching cut off value
4580 w.r.t. the current LP solution is greater than a given value
4581- `constraints/indicator/sepaperspective` to turn on separation of perspective cuts for indicator constraints
4582- `constraints/indicator/sepapersplocal` to decide whether local cuts can be used for perspective cuts for indicator constraints
4583- `constraints/quadratic/projectedcuts` to enable convex quadratics to generate gradients cuts at the
4584 projection of the point onto the region described by the constraint, which is supporting
4585- `lp/solutionpolishing` to enable LP polishing only at the root LP or always
4586- `misc/referencevalue` to pass a reference value for further analysis of the tree search, see also in `features`
4587- `presolving/qpkktref/addkktbinary` to allow the presence of binary variables for the KKT update
4588- `presolving/qpkktref/updatequadbounded` to add the KKT conditions to QPs only if all variables are bounded
4589- `presolving/qpkktref/updatequadindef` to add the KKT conditions to QPs only if the quadratic matrix is indefinite
4590- `randomization/lpseed` to set the initial seed of the LP solver
4591- `solvingphases/enabled` to activate adaptive behavior during the solution process; several further parameters
4592 in the solvingphases-section to control how to switch the parameters and whether a restart should be performed between the phases.
4593
4594### Data structures
4595
4596- new `SCIP_REGRESSION` data structure in pub_misc.h to incrementally compute a best-fit line through pairs of observations
4597- add maximum branch-and-bound tree depth constant `SCIP_MAXTREEDEPTH` (replaces SCIPgetDepthLimit() and SCIPtreeGetDepthLimit())
4598- new files heuristics.c/heuristics.h to collect methods that are frequently used by heuristics
4599- merged dive.c/pub_dive.h with heuristics.c/heuristics.h, removed dive.c/pub_dive.h
4600- separated header pub_misc.h from repeated methods for sorting and (weighted) median selection;
4601 those are also available in separate headers pub_misc_sort.h
4602 and pub_misc_select.h, but included into pub_misc.h
4603
4604Unit tests
4605----------
4606
4607- New unit testing system built on the Criterion framework
4608
4609Build system
4610------------
4611
4612### Makefile
4613
4614- All makefiles in `examples/` and `applications/` have been updated.
4615- `make.project` defines a variable `SCIP_VERSION` containing the SCIP version number
4616- revise sub-makefiles for MSVC on MinGW
4617- make shared libraries aware of their dependencies
4618- sub-makefile for CrayXC systems added
4619
4620- Places:
4621 - All objective files are now placed in `obj/static` or `obj/shared`, depending on `SHARED=false` or `SHARED=true`, respectively.
4622 - All internal and external libraries are placed in `lib/static` and `lib/shared`, the include files are in `lib/include`.
4623 - The binaries now contain an rpath to the SCIP directory, such that shared libraries are found.
4624
4625- Linking:
4626 - link binary to shared libs when compiling with `SHARED=true`
4627 - External projects (including make.project) can use the makefile variable LINKCXXSCIPALL or LINKCCSCIPALL to link all SCIP libraries.
4628 - Building with `SHARED=true` automatically generates the combined library libscipsolver.so for easier linking
4629
4630- Targets:
4631 - Running `make help` lists all makefile options.
4632 - `make install` copies now all header files
4633 - new target `dll` to build Windows dlls with MSVC
4634 - rename `dll` target to `windowslib`
4635
4636Fixed bugs
4637----------
4638
4639- fixed bug in event system: bound change events of the new focus node must be processed, even if the bound
4640 is the same as at the last focus node
4641- avoid numerically unstable (multi-)aggregations
4642- fixed bug in XML reader concerning comments
4643- the AMPL interface now writes a solve status (solve_result_num) into the .sol file
4644- in the cmpres.awk (allcmpres.sh) output, the counts in the time column are now with respect to the
4645 whole set of processed instances (as with fail and solv), while before it was with respect to the
4646 set of instances where no solver failed (eval set); thus, now proc = fail + time + solv.
4647- writing of solutions or parameters to a file now works also with the message handler set to quiet
4648- ignore lower and upper bound tightenigs beyond +/-infinity during solving
4649- time limit of SCIP-infinity is converted to LPI-infinity when setting it
4650- fix LP activity of a row that has been modified
4651
4652- Propagation:
4653 - fixed possible segmentation fault in genvbounds propagator
4654 - fixed bug with sorting of propagators in presolving: the order can be changed by calling probing; thus, there is a copy of the
4655 propagators, which is sorted by presolving priority
4656 - added missing capturing and releasing mechanism in genvbounds propagator
4657 - fix wrong propagation of product expressions
4658
4659- Constraints:
4660 - fixed wrong representation of SOC constraints in NLP
4661 - fixed a few issues within redundant constraint detection of (specialized) linear constraint handlers
4662 - fixed issue in reader_opb concerning writing of fixed variables contained in no constraints
4663
4664- Memory:
4665 - fixed memory bug in `SCIP_DIGRAPH`
4666 - improved counting of memory consumption by using more block memory and counting all allocated memory
4667 - fix memory leaks in TSP example
4668 - return `SCIP_ERROR` when a memory exception is caught in SoPlex (was `SCIP_LPERROR`)
4669 - fixed memory leak in OSiL reader
4670
4671- Objective:
4672 - fixed bug while changing the objective value of an original value after transforming the problem
4673 - fixed bug with solutions from previous runs not satisfying an objective limit
4674 - SCIPisObjIntegral() now works correctly in `SCIP_STAGE_PROBLEM`
4675
4676- Heuristics:
4677 - fixed two bugs in heur_indicator: use improvesols parameter now and update pointer to indicator constraint handler
4678 - fix wrong NLP representation of logic-or constraints in the dual value heuristic
4679 - correct handling of implicit integer variables with fractional solution value in simplerounding heuristic
4680 - fixed bug in heur_octane with uninitialized ray direction
4681
4682@page RN3_2 Release notes for SCIP 3.2
4683
4684@section RN321 SCIP 3.2.1
4685*************************
4686
4687Features
4688--------
4689
4690- new `force` parameter in (root)redcost propagator to run the propagator also with active pricers
4691
4692Performance improvements
4693------------------------
4694
4695- do not transfer solutions to original space, if SCIP is being freed
4696- modified implication graph analysis of SOS1 constraint handler; a new component allows to deduce zero fixings of variables
4697- made SOS1 constraint handler specific diving selection rule faster for the case that the SOS1 constraints do not overlap
4698- improved disjunctive cuts by the `monoidal cut strengthening` procedure of Balas and Jeroslow
4699
4700Examples and applications
4701-------------------------
4702
4703- several improvements of SCIP-Jack (STP application): extended presolving for STP variants, STP-specific branching
4704 rule, dual heuristic to generate initial LP relaxation
4705 SCIP-Jack is now competitive with problem specific state-of-the-art solvers on several well-known STP variants,
4706 e.g., the (rooted) prize-collecting Steiner tree problem.
4707- MultiObjective application renamed to PolySCIP; several improvements: better command line argument processing,
4708 overhaul of much of the source code, installation via CMake
4709
4710Interface changes
4711-----------------
4712
4713- made debug solution functionality thread safe (see debug.h for further information)
4714
4715### Deleted and changed API functions
4716
4717- add SCIPcomputeHyperplaneThreePoints() to compute a hyperplane containing three given 3-dimensional points
4718- SCIPsolveLinearProb() now uses a 1-dimensional matrix representation
4719
4720### Command line interface
4721
4722- added interactive shell command `display finitesolution` to print solution with infinite fixings removed,
4723 added reference to that method to `display solution` output if there are infinite fixings
4724- new interactive shell command `write history` to write the command line history (only when compiled with Readline)
4725
4726### Interfaces to external software
4727
4728- significantly improved Python interface to support user callbacks as well as linear and quadratic expressions
4729
4730### New parameters
4731
4732- `constraints/sos1/branchingrule` to decide whether to use neighborhood, bipartite, or SOS1 branching (this parameter
4733 replaces the old parameters `constraints/sos1/neighbranch`, `constraints/sos1/bipbranch`, and `constraints/sos1/sos1branch`)
4734- `constraints/sos1/depthimplanalysis` to limit the number of recursive calls of implication graph analysis
4735- `constraints/sos1/perfimplanalysis` to perform an implication graph analysis to deduce variable fixings and
4736 additional SOS1 constraints (this parameter replaces the old parameter `constraints/sos1/updateconflpresol`)
4737- `misc/transsolorig` for transfering transformed solutions to the original space (default: true)
4738- `propagating/rootredcost/onlybinary` to propagate root reduced costs of binary variables only
4739
4740### Data structures
4741
4742- renamed MIP matrix structure to `SCIP_MATRIX`
4743- changed the numeric values for `PRESOLTIMING` flags
4744
4745Build system
4746------------
4747
4748### Makefile
4749
4750- new target `dll` to build Windows dlls with MSVC
4751- add new compiling flag OPENSOURCE to allow/forbid the usage of third party software
4752
4753Fixed bugs
4754----------
4755
4756- fixed wrong objective sense when copying the original problem
4757- fixed a bug in merge step of cliques during clean up phase; method did not correctly handle infeasibility in the case of multiple
4758 variable-negation pairs
4759- fixed a previously untreated case in the linear cons simplification where coefficients only differ by slightly more than an epsilon
4760- fixed bug in parsing emphasis parameters which formerly led to completely wrong results
4761- fixed bug in the computation of the Wilcoxon test
4762- do not use the relative and absolute gap limit if no primal solution has been found so far
4763- fixed bug in conflict.c with wrong reset of bounds used
4764- fixed bug with transferring solutions to new runs (need to recompute objective before checking)
4765- fixed issue with infinite values when checking cuts for redundancy
4766- fixed library problems on Windows operating systems
4767
4768- Variables:
4769 - fixed wrong check when computing cuts for factorable quadratic functions bound tightening of a single variable
4770 - fixed wrong handling of loose variables in OBBT
4771 - fixed freeing of hash for binary variables
4772 - fixed bug during the computation of branching points for continuous variables which are almost fixed to +/- SCIPinfinity()
4773 - treated the case of integer variables as intermediate variables in the process of obtaining the active variable for a
4774 given binary variable
4775
4776- LP:
4777 - fixed a bug in dive.c that occurred when lpsolvefreq was set to 1; after a cutoff, the solution values of the
4778 linked LP solution might have become invalid
4779 - do not analyse an infeasible LP for conflicts during diving mode when LHS/RHS of rows were changed
4780 - use LPi infinity when reverting bound changes in conflict analysis
4781
4782- Heuristics:
4783 - fixed bug in heur_simplerounding in connection with relaxators
4784 - fixed bug in feaspump heuristic where last solution candidates were not updated correctly
4785 - fixed bug with infinite shift values in heur_shifting
4786 - fixed bug in shiftandpropagate heuristic: the heuristic did not correctly handle intermediate, global bound changes of the selected variable
4787 after its tentative fixing led to a cutoff.
4788
4789- Propagator:
4790 - (root) reduced cost propagators are not run anymore when doing branch-and-price,
4791 since they may install upper bounds on variables which might interfere with the
4792 pricing (they may be enabled again by their force parameters)
4793 - fixed too hard assertion in pseudoobj propagator
4794 - fixed a bug in shiftandpropagate where column positions after sorting are now correctly linked to their variables after sorting
4795 - fixed potential memory leak in genvbound propagator
4796
4797- Presolving:
4798 - fixed inconsistency in knapsack constraint handler data during presolving
4799 - fixed some problem with reoptimization when the problems are infeasible or have been solved in presolving
4800 - fixed endless loop in knapsack constraint handler when continuous variables change their types to binary during presolving
4801 - squares of binary variables might not have been replaced by the binary variable itself in presolve,
4802 if the variable was originally general integer and only became binary during presolve (due to bound tightening)
4803 - fixed bug in dive.c avoiding a check of constraints in the presence of indicator constraints
4804
4805- Constraints:
4806 - fixed numerical problems in computation of cuts for bivariate functions in quadratic constraint handler
4807 - fixed bug in quadratic constraint handler when computing lifted-tangent inequalities
4808 - fixed bug in nonlinear constraint handler when replacing a violated nonlinear constraint leads to an infinite
4809 - fixed bug in SOS1 constraint handler with inconsistent data structure after restart
4810 - fixed wrong handling of negated variables in bound tightening procedure of SOS1 constraint handler
4811 - fixed bug in simple fixing heuristic of SOS1 constraint handler
4812 - fixed two bugs in pseudoboolean constraint handler with wrong sorting of and constraints
4813 - fixed issue: constraints being parallel to objective function (after restart) sometimes led to wrongly stating infeasible
4814 - fixed bug during coefficient tightening in varbound constraint handler
4815 - handle cutoffs in cons_indicator detected by infeasible inequalities
4816 - fixed late change of type of slack variables in cons_indicator, if the bounds are not integral
4817 - fixed initsol and exitsol of cons_indicator, if problem has already been solved
4818 - fixed bug in cons_indicator with changing type of slackvariable
4819
4820@section RN320 SCIP 3.2.0
4821*************************
4822
4823Features
4824--------
4825
4826- added reoptimization feature for optimization problems with changed objective function or tighter feasible region
4827- the original problem can now be permuted directly after reading (if `misc/permutationseed` has value >= 0)
4828- added methods to compute strongly connected components with Tarjan's Algorithm
4829- added method to propagate implications of SOS1 variables
4830- convex quadratic contraints can now generate gradient cuts which are supporting to the feasible region
4831- SoPlex interface can now (re)store dual steepest edge weights
4832- extended expression parsing to support power, realpower and signpower operators; started support for user-defined operators
4833 in expression trees/graphs
4834- possibility to set a soft time limit which becomes active only after the first primal solution was found
4835- added matrix module for getting access to the internal mixed inter linear problem matrix
4836- better handling of large values returned by the LP solver
4837- added more checks to SCIP{alloc,realloc,duplicate}BufferArray() to handle overflows properly
4838- new plugin for reoptimizing a sequence of optimization problem that differ in the objective function, e.g., sequences arising from
4839 column generation
4840- new plugin `compr` for rearranging the search tree, currently this only works on the reoptimization tree
4841- moved assertions in comparison methods from scip.c to set.c
4842
4843- Constraints:
4844 - we can now upgrade quadratic constraints with one bilinear term to SOC constraints
4845 - we can also upgrade general quadratic constraints with a single negative eigenvalue to SOC constraints
4846
4847- Branching:
4848 - tighter reliability notions introduced for reliability branching, based on pseudo-cost relative errors
4849 and comparing candidates with the best pseudo-candidate using a 2-sample student-T test. These methods
4850 are used in disjunction with the existing reliability notion that uses a fixed number as reliability
4851 threshold for every variable before turning off strong-branching. This means, the classical method
4852 must be turned off by setting parameters minreliable and maxreliable to 0. The behavior is
4853 controlled through several parameters.
4854 - new distribution branching rule to base decisions on row activity (normal) distribution over domain space
4855 - can now output information for BAK: Branch-and-bound Analysis Kit
4856 - new score in hybrid reliability pseudocost branching that prefers nonlinear variables when solving MINLPs
4857 - new branching rule multaggr which allows to branch on general disjunctions defined by fractional multi-aggregated variables
4858 - new branching rules for SOS1 constraints for branching on a neighborhood or a complete bipartite subgraph of
4859 the conflict graph. In addition to variable domain fixings, it is sometimes also possible to add complementarity
4860 constraints to the branching nodes. This results in a nonstatic conflict graph, which may change dynamically
4861 with every branching node.
4862 - new branching rule nodereopt to reconstruct the tree after changing the objective function
4863
4864- Reader:
4865 - the MPS reader can now read semi-integer variables, they are handled by creating bound disjunction constraints
4866 - the MPS reader can now handle objective constants given as (the negation of) the RHS of the objective row
4867
4868- Separation:
4869 - obbt propagator applies now additional separation and propagation in order to learn stronger and more bound tightenings
4870 - extended probing mode to allow separation and objective coefficient changes
4871 - improved separation procedure of SOS1 constraint handler, including bound (clique) cuts and implied bound cuts
4872 - new disjunctive cut separator for SOS1 constraints
4873 - new edge-concave cut separator for quadratic constraints
4874
4875- Presolver:
4876 - Improved coordination of presolvers. There are three timings for presolvers now, FAST, MEDIUM and EXHAUSTIVE.
4877 Each presolving callback can specify one or more of these timings in which it will be called later.
4878 Within a presolving method, the current timing can be checked and the algorithms to be performed selected based on
4879 the timing. In one presolving round, first all presolving methods with timing FAST are called, sorted by priority.
4880 If they found enough reductions, a new round is started, otherwise, all presolving methods with timing MEDIUM are
4881 called. Again, with enough reductions, a new presolving round is started, too few reductions lead to running
4882 the EXHAUSTIVE presolvers. Similar to the delay concept used before, we are not neccessarily running all EXHAUSTIVE
4883 presolvers but stop as soon as one of them found enough reductions, starting a new presolving round immediately.
4884 - new presolving components for SOS1 constraints, including bound tightening and clique extension
4885 - new presolver tworowbnd for improving variable bounds and detecting redundant constraints added
4886 - new presolver dualagg for aggregating single up-/downlocked variables by a binary variable added
4887 - new presolver implfree for aggregating implied free variables added
4888 - new presolver redvub which can detect redundant variable upper bound constraints added
4889 - new presolver stuffing for fixing of singleton continuous variables added
4890
4891- Heuristic:
4892 - improved clique and variable bound heuristics
4893 - new heuristic distribution diving that bases its score function on the changes regarding solution density
4894 - variable histories can be transferred between sub-SCIPs solved by LNS heuristics and the component presolver
4895 and the main SCIP to reuse this information.
4896 - new heuristic heur_indicator that tries to make partial solutions with indicator constraints feasible. It also
4897 tries to improve them (or external solutions) by a one-opt local search.
4898 - new heuristic (heur_bound) which fixes all integer variables to their lower/upper bounds and solves the remaining LP
4899 - modified diving heuristics to handle SOS1 constraints
4900 - new primal heuristic for reoptimization 'ofins': objective function induced neighborhood heuristic
4901 - new heuristic for reoptimization which constructs solutions based in the changes between the objective function and the optimal
4902 solution before changing the objective function
4903
4904- Statistic:
4905 - extended variable branching statistics in the interactive shell by sample variance of unit gains
4906 - extended statistic output of interactive shell by more information on diving heuristic behavior
4907
4908Performance improvements
4909------------------------
4910
4911- improved treatment of nonlinearities in hybrid reliability pseudo cost branching
4912- using sparsity information of the SoPlex LP
4913
4914- Constraints:
4915 - improved vartype upgradability from continuous to implicit variables in cons_linear.c, depending on their objective coefficients
4916 - improved propagation of SOS1 constraint handler using the information from a conflict
4917
4918- Heuristics:
4919 - zi rounding heuristic uses buffer data structures, thereby decreasing total memory usage of SCIP
4920 - adjusted (hard) diving heuristics to solve fewer LPs. LP's are resolved only if a parameter-defined
4921 percentage of the variable bounds changed through domain propagation or at a predefined frequency.
4922 - some of the diving heuristics additionally consider indicator variables and SOS1 variables as candidate variables and try to
4923 make these constraint types feasible before passing a rounded solution to SCIPtrySol()
4924
4925- Presolving:
4926 - new presolving/propagation algorithm using the gcd for ranged rows and equations in cons_linear
4927 - added presolving levels (FAST, MEDIUM and EXHAUSTIVE) to allow better balancing of presolvers
4928
4929- Separation:
4930 - improved separation procedure of SOS1 constraint handler
4931 - improved separation procedure for convex quadratic constraints
4932
4933Examples and applications
4934-------------------------
4935
4936- two new applications for multi-objective optimization (PolySCIP) and the Steiner Tree Problem in Graphs
4937- new application for solving Steiner tree problems: SCIP-Jack can handle both the classical Steiner tree problem in graphs
4938 and 10 of its variants
4939
4940Interface changes
4941-----------------
4942
4943### New and changed callbacks
4944
4945- new callback function `SCIP_DECL_CONSGETDIVEBDCHGS` to provide
4946 constraint handler method to suggest dive bound changes during the generic diving algorithm, see type_cons.h for details
4947- new callback `SCIP_DECL_DIVESETGETSCORE` to implement scoring function to guide diving
4948
4949### Deleted and changed API functions
4950
4951- avoid potential comparisons of different infinity values by adjusting the LP solution value
4952- SCIPintervalSign(), SCIPintervalAbs(), SCIPintervalMax(), SCIPintervalMin(), SCIPexprgraphGetNodePolynomialMonomialCurvature(),
4953 and SCIPexprgraphTightenNodeBounds() need an infinity value to decide whether an interval is empty or not
4954- SCIPgetFeasibilityQuadratic() and SCIPgetActivityQuadratic() returns now a `SCIP_RETCODE` and needs an additional `SCIP_Real*` to
4955 store the result
4956- methods which support statistical tests in pub_misc.h, SCIPstudentTGetCriticalValue(), SCIPcomputeTwoSampleTTestValue() etc.
4957- SCIPsolveLinearProb() solves a linear problem of the form Ax=b for a regular square matrix A
4958- Added parameter `freesubscip` to SCIPapplyProximity()
4959
4960- Data structures:
4961 - Renamed method SCIPdigraphGetSuccessorsDatas() to SCIPdigraphGetSuccessorsData()
4962 - Renamed method SCIPdigraphGetNodeDatas() to SCIPdigraphGetNodeData()
4963 - Renamed method SCIPdigraphSetNodeDatas() to SCIPdigraphSetNodeData()
4964
4965- Constraint Handlers:
4966 - Renamed method SCIPconshdlrGetPropTimingmask() to SCIPconshdlrGetPropTiming()
4967 - new method SCIPconshdlrSetPropTiming()
4968 - Removed method SCIPconshdlrIsPresolvingDelayed()
4969 - Removed method SCIPconshdlrWasPresolvingDelayed()
4970 - SCIPmakeSOS1sFeasible() based on solution values, fixes variables to zero to turn all SOS1 constraints feasible
4971 - removed `delay(presol)` parameter from SCIPinclude{Conshdlr,Presol,Prop}() and added `(presol)timing` parameter
4972 - new parameter `presoltiming` for method SCIPpresolCons()
4973 - SCIPvarIsSOS1() returns whether some variable is involved in an SOS1 constraint
4974 - SCIPgetConflictgraphSOS1() gets conflict graph of SOS1 constraints
4975 - Added parameter `presoltiming` to SCIPpropCumulativeCondition()
4976 - Removed parameter `delaypos` from SCIPsetConshdlrPresol()
4977 - Added parameter `presoltiming` to SCIPsetConshdlrPresol()
4978 - Removed parameter `delaypos` from SCIPincludeConshdlr()
4979 - Added parameter `presoltiming` to SCIPincludeConshdlr()
4980 - Added parameter `consgetdivebdchgs` to SCIPincludeConshdlr() to provide a divebdchg-callback for the constraint handler
4981 to include
4982
4983- Branching Rules:
4984 - Added parameter `forcestrongbranch` to SCIPselectVarStrongBranching()
4985 - Added parameter `executebranching` SCIPexecRelpscostBranching()
4986 - Added parameters `ndomredsdown` and `ndomredsup` to SCIPgetVarStrongbranchWithPropagation()
4987
4988- LP and Cutting Planes:
4989 - Added parameters `inds` and `ninds` to SCIPgetLPBInvRow(), SCIPgetLPBInvCol(), SCIPgetLPBInvARow(), SCIPgetLPBInvACol(), and
4990 SCIPcalcStrongCG()
4991 - Added parameters `maxweight`, `weightinds`, `nweightinds`, and `rowlensum` to SCIPcalcMIR()
4992
4993- Variables:
4994 - SCIPvarGetNodeSOS1() returns node of SOS1 variable in the conflict graph
4995 - SCIPnodeGetVarSOS1() returns SOS1 variable associated to some given node in the conflict graph
4996 - Removed method SCIPvarGetNBinImpls()
4997
4998- Presolving:
4999 - Removed parameter `delaypos` from SCIPincludePresolBasic()
5000 - Added parameter `presoltiming` to SCIPincludePresolBasic()
5001 - Removed parameter `delaypos` from SCIPincludePresol()
5002 - Added parameter `presoltiming` to SCIPincludePresol()
5003 - Removed parameters `presoldelay` and `presoltiming` from SCIPincludePresol()
5004 - Removed parameters `presoldelay` and `presoltiming` from SCIPsetPropPresol()
5005
5006- Misc:
5007 - Added parameter `isequation` to SCIPaddClique()
5008 - Removed parameter `writeimplications` from SCIPwriteCliqueGraph()
5009 - Removed method SCIPallocBufferSize()
5010 - Removed method SCIPduplicateBufferSize()
5011 - Removed method SCIPreallocBufferSize()
5012 - Removed method SCIPfreeBufferSize()
5013 - Removed method callback SCIPdialogExecConflictgraph()
5014
5015### New API functions
5016
5017- started support for user-defined operators in expression trees/graphs (see SCIPexprCreateUser()),
5018 interface will likely change again in future SCIP versions
5019- new methods for mixed inter linear matrix access (see pub_matrix.h) added
5020- SCIPcomputeArraysIntersection() to compute the set intersection of two ordered arrays
5021- SCIPcomputeArraysSetminus() to compute the set difference of two ordered arrays
5022- SCIPcutGetLPActivityQuot() in pub_cutpool.h to get the potion of LP's where this cut was sharp in an optimal basis.
5023- SCIPpresolGetTiming(), SCIPpresolSetTiming(), SCIP{conshdlr,prop}GetPresolTiming(), and SCIP{conshdlr,prop}SetPresolTiming()
5024- SCIPdigraphSetNSuccessors() sets the number of successors of some digraph node to a given value
5025
5026- Diving:
5027 - SCIPcreateDiveset() to add a diveset to a heuristic. Heuristics may have multiple divesets under different names
5028 - SCIPperformGenericDivingAlgorithm() that performs diving with periodic LP resolve according to the diveset argument.
5029
5030- Constraints:
5031 - new setter function SCIPsetConshdlrGetDiveBdChgs() in scip.h to set dive bound change callback for this constraint handler
5032 - SCIPaddDiveBoundChange() to add a diving bound change to the diving bound change storage of SCIP together with the information if this is a
5033 bound change for the preferred direction or not, to be used by constraint handlers inside the getDiveBdChgs-callback
5034 - SCIPchgCoefLinear() and SCIPdelCoefLinear() to modify linear constraint during problem creation
5035
5036- Memory:
5037 - BMSallocClearBlockMemoryArray()/SCIPallocClearBlockMemoryArray() and
5038 BMSallocClearBufferMemoryArray(), SCIPallocClearBufferArray() to allocate arrays that are initialized to 0
5039 - SCIPbuffermem() to get buffer memory;
5040
5041- Sort:
5042 - added new sorting functions SCIPsortRealRealRealBoolBoolPtr(), SCIPsortDownRealRealRealBoolBoolPtr()
5043 - added new sorting functions SCIPsortIntIntIntReal(), SCIPsortDownIntIntIntReal(), SCIPsortRealIntInt(), SCIPsortDownRealIntInt()
5044
5045- Param:
5046 - SCIPwriteParam() to write a single parameter to a file
5047 - SCIPcheckParam{Bool,Char,...}() to check whether a parameter value is within the feasible domain
5048
5049- Quadratic:
5050 - SCIPchgLhsQuadratic(), SCIPchgRhsQuadratic(), SCIPchgLinearCoefQuadratic(), SCIPchgSquareCoefQuadratic(),
5051 and SCIPchgBilinCoefQuadratic() to modify quadratic constraints during problem creation
5052 - SCIPgetFeasibilityQuadratic() and SCIPgetActivityQuadratic() to get the feasibility and activity of a quadratic constraint in a given solution
5053 - SCIPaddSquareLinearization(), SCIPaddSquareSecant(), SCIPaddBilinLinearization() and SCIPaddBilinMcCormick()
5054 in cons_quadratic.h to compute linear under- and overestimation for bilinear and quadratic terms
5055
5056### Command line interface
5057
5058- extended variable branching statistics and statistic output in the interactive shell (see Statistic section)
5059- submenu for setting `vbc` settings renamed to `visual`
5060- at the end of a command line run the best solution can now be output in the orignal space
5061
5062### Interfaces to external software
5063
5064- in the AMPL interface, variable and constraint attributes (flags) can now be set via suffixes, where 0 (unset) stands
5065 for the default, 1 for TRUE and other values for FALSE; see SCIPcreateVar() and SCIPcreateCons() for their meaning;
5066 for variables, `initial` and `removable` are recognized;
5067 for constraints, `initial`, `separate`, `enforce`, `check`, `propagate`, `dynamic` and `removable` are recognized
5068- the AMPL interface now passes an initial guess, if specified, as a solution (that will be checked for feasibility) to SCIP
5069
5070### Changed parameters
5071
5072- rowrepswitch set to 2.0, so row representation is activated if LP has at least 2 times more rows than columns
5073- one can now set emphasis parameters at the beginning of a settings file; it should start with `emphasis:` and
5074 the contain the emphasis string, e.g., `emphasis: feasibility` or `emphasis: heuristics off`.
5075
5076- Renamed parameters:
5077 - `vbc/filename` to `visual/vbcfilename`
5078 - `vbc/realtime` to `visual/realtime`
5079 - `vbc/dispsols` to `visual/dispsols`
5080
5081### New parameters
5082
5083- added parameter to switch pseudo cost update in diving heuristics (enabled by default)
5084- `branching/relpscost/confidencelevel` to set the confidence level to be used by statistical tests
5085- `branching/relpscost/higherrortol` to define the highest reliability threshold for relative error based reliability
5086- `branching/relpscost/lowerrortol` to define a lower reliability threshold for relative error based reliability
5087- `branching/relpscost/nlscoreweight` for weight of nonlinear score when branching on MINLPs
5088- `branching/relpscost/usedynamicconfidence` to use a dynamic confidence level based on the amount of
5089 strong-branching simplex-iterations compared to the overall simplex iterations (default is FALSE)
5090- `branching/relpscost/usehyptestforreliability` to enable strong branching decisions based on a 2-sample student-T test of all prior
5091 pseudo-cost observations between the best pseudo-candidate and the candidate for which to decide whether strong-branching should be applied
5092- `branching/relpscost/userelerrorreliability` to enable relative error based reliability
5093- `branching/relpscost/skipbadinitcands` for skipping strong-branching candidates whose estimated gain
5094 is significantly worse than the one of the locally best (sb or pseudo) candidate
5095- `constraints/linear/multaggrremove` to perform multi-aggregations in linear constraint handler only if the constraint can be removed afterwards
5096- `constraints/linear/rangedrowpropagation` to disabled newly implemented propagtion algorithm for ranged rows and equations
5097- `constraints/quadratic/advanced/interiorcomputation` to select the way of computing and interior point for gauge cuts
5098- `constraints/quadratic/gaugecuts` to enable convex quadratics to generate gradients cuts which are supporting
5099- `constraints/soc/generalsocupgrade` to allow general quadratics to be upgraded to soc
5100- `constraints/SOS1/addcomps` to add local complementarity constraints to the branching nodes (can be used in combination
5101 with neighborhood or bipartite branching)
5102- `constraints/SOS1/addbdsfeas` to define a minimal feasibility value for local bound (clique) inequalities in order to be
5103 added to the branching node
5104- `constraints/SOS1/addcompsdepth` to define the maximal depth for adding complementarity constraints
5105- `constraints/SOS1/addcompsfeas` to define a minimal feasibility value for local complementarity constraints in order to be
5106 added to the branching node
5107- `constraints/SOS1/autocutsfromsos1` to automatically switch to separating bound cuts from SOS1 constraints if the SOS1
5108 constraints do not overlap
5109- `constraints/SOS1/autosos1branch` to switch to SOS1 branching if the SOS1 constraints do not overlap
5110- `constraints/SOS1/conflictprop` to define whether to use conflict graph propagation
5111- `constraints/SOS1/bipbranch` to branch on a complete bipartite subgraph of the conflict graph
5112- `constraints/SOS1/boundcutsdepth` to define the node depth of separating bound (clique) cuts
5113- `constraints/SOS1/boundcutsfreq` to define the frequency for separating bound (clique) cuts
5114- `constraints/SOS1/boundcutsfromgraph` to define whether to separate bound (clique) inequalities from the conflict graph
5115- `constraints/SOS1/boundcutsfromsos1` to define whether to separate bound (clique) inequalities from SOS1 constraints
5116- `constraints/SOS1/fixnonzero`: If neighborhood branching is used, then fix the branching variable (if positive in sign)
5117 to the value of the feasibility tolerance
5118- `constraints/SOS1/implcutsdepth` to define the node depth of separating implied bound cuts
5119- `constraints/SOS1/implcutsfreq` to define the frequency for separating implied bound cuts
5120- `constraints/SOS1/implprop` to define whether to use implication graph propagation
5121- `constraints/SOS1/maxaddcomps` to define the maximal number of complementarity constraints added per branching node
5122- `constraints/SOS1/maxboundcuts` to define the maximal number of bound (clique) cuts separated per branching node
5123- `constraints/SOS1/maxboundcutsroot` to define the maximal number of bound (clique) cuts separated per iteration in the root node
5124- `constraints/SOS1/maximplcuts` to define the maximal number of implied bound cuts separated per branching node
5125- `constraints/SOS1/maximplcutsroot` to define the maximal number of implied bound cuts separated per iteration in the root node
5126- `constraints/SOS1/maxextensions` to define maximal number of extensions that will be computed for each SOS1 constraint in presolving
5127- `constraints/SOS1/maxsosadjacency` to define that the adjacency matrix of the conflict graph is not created in presolving if
5128 the number of SOS1 variables is too large
5129- `constraints/SOS1/maxtightenbds` to define the maximal number of bound tightening rounds per presolving round
5130- `constraints/SOS1/neighbranch` to branch on a neighborhood of the conflict graph
5131- `constraints/SOS1/nstrongiter` to define the maximal number LP iterations to perform for each strong branching round
5132- `constraints/SOS1/nstrongrounds` to define the maximal number of strong branching rounds to perform for each node (only
5133 available for neighborhood and bipartite branching)
5134- `constraints/SOS1/sos1branch` to branch on a single SOS1 constraint, i.e., a clique of the conflict graph
5135- `constraints/SOS1/sosconsprop` to define whether to use SOS1 constraint propagation
5136- `constraints/SOS1/strthenboundcuts` to define whether to strengthen bound (clique) cuts in case bound variables are available
5137- `constraints/SOS1/updateconflpresol` to update the conflict graph during the presolving procedure
5138- `display/allviols` to print all violated constraints of the best solution during checksol in the scip shell
5139- `heuristics/indicator/improvesols` that turns on the improvement of external solutions by one-opt
5140- `heuristics/∗diving/lpresolvedomchgquot` to determine the percentage of changed domains since previous LP to trigger
5141 an LP resolve [default: 0.15] (* stands for eight diving heuristics to support this feature)
5142- `heuristics/∗diving/lpsolvefreq` to determine the frequency for resolving LP's during the execution of
5143 this heuristic [default: 1, use 0 for a dynamic setting based on the number of domain reductions]
5144 (* stands for eight diving heuristics to support this feature)
5145- `heuristics/shiftandpropagate/binlocksfirst` to set if binaries without locks should be preferred in ordering
5146- `heuristics/shiftandpropagate/maxcutoffquot` to select a maximum percentage of allowed cutoffs before stopping the heuristic (default is 0.0)
5147- `heuristics/shiftandpropagate/selectbest` to trigger if shiftandpropagate should select the best candidate in every round
5148 (set to FALSE for static order) (default is FALSE)
5149- `limits/autororestart` for triggering an automatic restart after this many nodes, or -1 for no auto restart [default is -1]
5150- `limits/softtime` to set a soft time limit (active only after first primal solution was found)
5151- `misc/allowobjprop` to allow objective function propagation
5152- `misc/allowdualreds` to allow dual reductions
5153- `misc/outputorigsol` to control whether at the end of a command line run the solution should be output in the orignal space
5154- `numerics/checkfeastolfac` to scale feasibility tolerance when checking the feasibility of best found solution
5155 after the solving process finished (e.g., checksol in scip shell)
5156- `separating/cutselrestart` for cut selection during restart copy process (`a`ge, activity `q`uotient) [default is `a`]
5157- `separating/cutselsubscip` for cut selection for sub SCIPs (`a`ge, activity `q`uotient) [default is `a`]
5158- `separating/disjunctive/maxconsdelay` to delay separation of disjunctive cuts if number of SOS1 constraints is larger than predefined value
5159- `separating/disjunctive/maxdepth` to define the node depth of separating disjunctive cuts
5160- `separating/disjunctive/maxinvcuts` to define the maximal number of disjunctive cuts investigated per iteration in a branching node
5161- `separating/disjunctive/maxinvcutsroot` to define the maximal number of disjunctive cuts investigated per iteration in the root node
5162- `separating/disjunctive/maxrank` to define the maximal permissible rank of a disjunctive cut that could not be scaled to integral coefficients
5163- `separating/disjunctive/maxrankintegral` to define the maximal permissible rank of a disjunctive cut that could be scaled
5164 to integral coefficients
5165- `separating/disjunctive/maxrounds` to define the maximal number of separation rounds of disjunctive cuts in a branching node
5166- `separating/disjunctive/maxweightrange` to define the maximal valid range of simplex tableau row weights
5167
5168### Data structures
5169
5170- new enum `SCIP_CONFIDENCE_LEVEL` for different levels of confidence for statistical tests.
5171- new struct `SCIP_DIVESET` that bundles options for SCIP's diving heuristics; all hard diving heuristics (those
5172 without `obj` at the beginning) include diveset and implement only the scoring callback.
5173- rename all file `*_vbc.?` to the more generic `*_visual.?`
5174- moved buffer memory handling to blockmemory/memory.?;
5175 remove files type_buffer.h, struct_buffer.h buffer.h buffer.c;
5176 removed functions SCIP*buffer*() from scip.? and replaced them by macros;
5177 redesigned buffer interface to be similar to block memory; added checks for strange sizes
5178
5179Testing
5180-------
5181
5182- added scripts and targets for testing with xpress (see Makefile section)
5183
5184Build system
5185------------
5186
5187### Makefile
5188
5189- new parameter `DELHEADERS` for `uninstall`-target: scip headers are only removed when invoking `make uninstall DELHEADERS=true`
5190- added scripts check_xpress.awk, check_xpress.sh, evalcheck_xpress.sh and check_cluster_xpress.sh and target
5191 `testclusterxpress` and `testxpress`
5192
5193Fixed bugs
5194----------
5195
5196- fixed bug in primal.c and tree.c by using SCIPinfinity() as a cutoffbound to delete child nodes
5197- fixed bug in lp.c which leads to wrong primal and dual feasibility
5198- fixed wrong handling of infinite activities and primal values in sepastore.c and lp.c
5199- fixed bug that led to an erroneous warning about the clock type
5200- fix behavior of `make install` which now sets symbolic links and short links to binaries and libraries
5201- fix bug which lead to wrong global bound tightenings in prop_genvbounds.c
5202- fix call to random generator for Windows operating systems in misc.c
5203- fixed again a bug in backward propagation of linear expressions in expression graph
5204- fixed bug in prop_symmetry.c, where an incorrect weak symmetry handling constraint got added.
5205
5206- NLP:
5207 - fixed bug in heur_nlpdiving.c: wrong counting of fix variables
5208 - fix wrong handling of `SCIP_NLPSOLSTAT_LOCALINFEASIBLE` solution status in nlp.c
5209 - fix characterization of logic or constraints in SCIP's NLP relaxation
5210
5211- Branching:
5212 - fixed wrong comparison when executing branching rule for external branching candidates
5213 - fix spatial branching on implicit integer variables
5214 - fix wrong comparisons of values larger/less than +/- SCIPinfinity() in branch.c, lp.c and sol.c
5215 - fixed problem with lpisrelax flag in probing mode when doing branch-and-price
5216
5217- Constraint Handlers:
5218 - try to handle fixings of multi-aggregated variable in cons_sos1 presolving and avoid error
5219 - fixed bug in pseudoboolean constraint handler about negated variables
5220 - fixed assert in cons_soc.c: now soc with 1 lhs variable are allowed
5221 - fixed wrong assert in cons_indicator (slack variables might be replaced by active variables that have nonzero objective)
5222 - fix late creation of auxiliary LP in cons_nonlinear.c, which lead to a segmentation fault with lpi_spx2.cpp
5223 - fixed bug in cons_abspower.c: do not generate cuts with infinity right-hand-side anymore
5224 - fixed setting of enforcement flag for constraints created by reformulation in nonlinear constraint handlers
5225 - fixed bug in cons_indicator with handling local bounds
5226
5227- Memory:
5228 - fix potential memory leak in SoPlex LP interfaces when setting invalid basis
5229 - fix potential memory leak in method SCIPgetConsCopy()
5230 - fix potential memory leak in method detectRedundantConstraints() of the knapsack constraint handler
5231
5232- Interval arithmetic:
5233 - fix handling of infinite intervals in SCIPintervalIsEmpty()
5234 - fixed bug in intervalarith.c: bivariate quadratic equations may have been solved wrongly if second variable is unbounded
5235
5236- Quadratic Constraints:
5237 - fix wrong sorting of bilinear terms in cons_quadratic
5238 - fix potentially tightening of LB/UB of a variable to +/- infinity in cons_quadratic
5239 - fixed bug in cons_quadratic.c which leads to an overflow when SCIP allocates memory for a dense matrix
5240 - fixed bug in cons_quadratic.c: do not generate linearization cuts for disabled constraints
5241 - fix missing clean phase of bilinear terms with zero coefficient in cons_quadratic.c
5242
5243@page RN3_1 Release notes for SCIP 3.1
5244
5245@section RN311 SCIP 3.1.1
5246*************************
5247
5248Features
5249--------
5250
5251- use clock average to reduce number of system calls via `timing/rareclockcheck` parameter
5252- added copy mechanism for conjunction constraints
5253- added revised lpi_xprs for using XPRESS as LP solver
5254
5255Performance improvements
5256------------------------
5257
5258- improved solving of LPs in OBBT propagator
5259- improved activity-delta computation and thereby propagation for linear constraints
5260- improved memory management of proximity heuristic
5261- disabled statistic timing in all subscips via new parameter `timing/statistictiming`
5262
5263Interface changes
5264-----------------
5265
5266### New and changed callbacks
5267
5268- rename array arcdatas in digraph to arcdata
5269- changes in clock type are now transferred to SoPlex
5270- corrected wrong primal bound in statistics for unbounded problems
5271- forbid to call SCIPfixVar() in `SCIP_STAGE_PRESOLVED` stage, which is not allowed since it calls SCIPchgVarLb/Ub()
5272
5273### Deleted and changed API functions
5274
5275- rename SCIPdigraphGetNodeDatas() to SCIPdigraphGetNodeData();
5276- rename SCIPdigraphSetNodeDatas() to SCIPdigraphSetNodeData()
5277- SCIPapplyProximity() has an additional parameter freesubscip, which causes the method to free
5278 the created subscip automatically at the end.
5279
5280### New API functions
5281
5282- SCIPhasPerformedPresolve() to check, e.g., whether LP duals are accessible
5283- SCIPconvertRealTo[Long]Int() to convert reals that represent integers to [long] ints.
5284- SCIPisDualfeasEQ() and related to perform checks w.r.t. to the dual feasibility tolerance
5285- SCIPdeleteSubproblemProximity() to free proximity subproblem manually as external caller
5286
5287### Command line interface
5288
5289- added dialog for writing the finite solution (calling SCIPcreateFiniteSolCopy() before writing)
5290
5291### Interfaces to external software
5292
5293- AMPL interface now returns dual multipliers if problem is an LP and presolving was turned off
5294
5295### Changed parameters
5296
5297- changed default value of parameter `heuristics/proximity/minimprove` to 0.02; previous value was 0.25
5298- changed default value of parameter `heuristics/proximity/usefinallp` to FALSE
5299
5300### New parameters
5301
5302- `timing/rareclockcheck` to call the system time less frequently, based on the current average time interval
5303 between two calls to SCIPsolveIsStopped(); the default value is FALSE
5304- `timing/statistictiming` to enable/disable all timers for statistic output of SCIP; the default value is TRUE
5305
5306### Data structures
5307
5308- renamed MIP matrix structure to `SCIP_MATRIX`
5309- changed the numeric values for `PRESOLTIMING` flags
5310
5311Build system
5312------------
5313
5314### Makefile
5315
5316- added Makefile support for cygwin 64 Bit
5317- allow to turn off block and buffer memory by the makefile parameters NOBLKMEM, NOBUFMEM, NOBLKBUFMEM;
5318 also remove the now superfluous makefiles for noblkmem, nobufmem, noblkbufmem
5319
5320Fixed bugs
5321----------
5322
5323- fixed wrong conversion of reals representing negative integer values
5324- in debug mode, SCIP checks that no NaN's are introduced in SCIPsolSetVal()
5325- fixed bug 697 (and 699), calling SCIPsolve() after the problem was already solved and SCIPfreeSolve() was called now
5326 does nothing anymore
5327- added support for character `#` in variable names in old non-linear CIP format (i.e., names without `<` and `>`)
5328- fixed bug 702, removed too hard assert when casting too big values into `SCIP_Longint`
5329- branching for continuous variables with unbounded intervals now takes `branching/clamp` into account
5330- forbid aggregations with scalar smaller feastol or larger 1/feastol
5331- fixed bug 683, not recognizing errors/segfaults especially in free stage of SCIP by improving the check scripts
5332- fixed bug where quieting a message handler also disabled writing to files other than stdout
5333- fixed bug 708, special case of implications led to a fixing
5334- fixed bug, variable bounds detected wrong infeasibility
5335- another bug fix when computing the original variable sum of a given variable in SCIPvarGetOrigvarSum()
5336- fixed setting solution value of multi-aggregated var in xml-solution case
5337- fixed bug changing the variable type of an negated variable
5338- fixed numerical troubles in SCIPcreateFiniteSolCopy()
5339- fixed bug in SCIPpermuteProb(): if called before transforming the problem, data structures were not initialized yet
5340- fixed bug in aggregation procedure if two variables were of non-binary type but for one of the variables
5341 SCIPvarIsBinary() returned true
5342- treat activities of pseudo solutions as invalid when containing positive and negative infinity contributions
5343- fixed bug in GMI example: fractionality of slack variable is now computed correctly
5344- fixed LP interface of CPLEX: functions getBInv* return the correct sign of the coefficients.
5345- fixed bug in SCIPpermuteProb(), when called in transformed stage and non-active constraints exist
5346
5347- Dual:
5348 - use dual feasibility tolerance for comparisons regarding reduced costs
5349 - fixed bug in prop_dualfixing: don't fix variables to infinite values during solving
5350 - fixed sign of the dual multipliers returned by AMPL interfaces for maximization
5351
5352- Objective and Time Limit:
5353 - fixed wrong output of status when an objective limit was imposed but not reached yet
5354 - fixed the rare case that branching was performed even though strong branching found global bound changes leading to
5355 an infeasible/objlimit LP
5356 - fixed bug that objective limit was not reset correctly during SCIPfreeTransform() for maximization problems
5357 - fixed bug that hitting the time limit while solving a pure LP and then continuing the solving process lead to
5358 not solving the LP, but always creating a single child node until maximum depth is reached
5359
5360- Heuristic:
5361 - fixed bug leading to an incorrect dual bound when solving probing LPs within a DURINGPRICINGLOOP heuristic
5362 - fixed bug in proximity heuristic which attempted to enter diving mode even at nodes without a constructed LP
5363 - fixed wrong pseudo cost updates during diving heuristic execution after backtracking
5364 - fixed bug in heur_oneopt: avoid bound violations if shift value is negative due to infeasibilities
5365 - fixed bug that reaching a solution limit by beforenode heuristics lead to disregarding the current node if the
5366 optimization process was restarted later
5367 - fixed bug in trysol heuristic not saving the best solution in maximization problems
5368
5369- Presolve:
5370 - fixed bug in presolving of abspower constraints that lead to wrong variable locks
5371 - allow to call SCIPmarkConsPropagate() in INITPRESOLVE stage
5372 - fixed bug in components presolver with handling of dual fixable variables: unboundedness was not detected,
5373 better handle components with single variables by dual fixing propagator
5374 - issues in component solving by presol_components do not lead to stopping the overall process, anymore, the component
5375 is just disregarded
5376
5377- Memory:
5378 - fixed bug with freeing problem: need to reset objective limit
5379 - fixed memory leaks in case of erroneous parsing of constraints, e.g., non-linear constraints
5380 - fixed missing memory allocation for node data in digraphs
5381
5382- Constraints:
5383 - fixed bug in cons_quadratic which leads to wrong min/max activities
5384 - removed wrong break in cons_pseudoboolean
5385 - fixed bug in cons_varbound.c using the wrong constraint side for updating an upper bound
5386 - fixed bug in presolve of cons_nonlinear: wrong constraint upgrades may have been performed due to outdated bound
5387 information in expression graph
5388 - fixed bug in cons_setppc, wrongly aggregating variables if dual-presolving was disabled
5389 - fixed bug in cons_sos1: locks and events were not initialized if constraint was added to transformed problem
5390 - fixed bug in cons_setppc with dual presolving disabled
5391 - corrected copy of disjunction constraints
5392
5393- Reading:
5394 - allow to read numbers like `42856.` in lp-format
5395 - fixed bug(?) in reader_mps: variables are now written in columns section even of they occur in no constraint
5396 and have an objective coefficient of 0 (otherwise, CPLEX and Gurobi cannot read the file)
5397 - fixed bug with reading `>=1` indicator constraints in LP-files
5398 - fixed bug in reader_lp which created two indicator constraints with the same name to trigger an equality
5399 - fixed bug when reading indicator constraints for linear constraints (equations/ranged rows) from MPS files
5400
5401@section RN310 SCIP 3.1.0
5402*************************
5403
5404Features
5405--------
5406
5407- added breadth first search node selection
5408- new node selection rule UCT which balances exploration and exploitation by considering node visits
5409- added possibility to not set a cutoff bound in the LP solver (can be enabled by setting `lp/disablecutoff` to TRUE)
5410- added missing debugging solution check for cliques
5411- added a data pointer to each node of the `SCIP_DIGRAPH`
5412- SCIPgetVarCopy() will now copy the original bounds when called for an original variable
5413- added upgrade of continuous variables to implicit variables for linear equations even if the coefficient is
5414 not equal to 1
5415- probing supports implicit binary variables
5416- added scaling to computation of relative interior point in SCIPcomputeLPRelIntPoint()
5417
5418- Solution:
5419 - added two methods to iterate over a sparse solution (`SCIP_SPARSESOLUTION`), see pub_misc.h
5420 - it is now possible to add an offset for the original problem instance, all original solutions will be initialized with
5421 this value and updated, when the offset is changed
5422 - extended and corrected dual feasibility checks for LP solution (controlled by parameter `lp/checkdualfeas`)
5423
5424- Cuts and Separation:
5425 - the rank of cuts is now stored and taken into account to improve numerical stability
5426 - added possibility to separate a cutpool w.r.t. a given solution (instead of LP-solution)
5427
5428- Branching:
5429 - new branching rule `cloud branching` that considers several alternative LP optima
5430 - additional vbc output added: branching information is printed earlier and also for nodes which were cut off
5431 - added support for strong branching with domain propagation in full strong and reliability pseudo cost branching
5432 - added strong branching with domain propagation support: in SCIPstartStrongbranch(), support for propagation can
5433 be enabled (uses the probing mode, some overhead compared to standard strong branching), after that
5434 SCIPgetVarStrongbranchWithPropagation() can be used to perform strong branching on a variable with previous domain
5435 propagation; similar to probing, valid bounds for variables are collected
5436 - strong branching with propagation can be enabled in fullstrong and relpscost branching rule
5437 - added possibility to store pricing norms of the LP solver (in addition to basis information) to speed up LP solving
5438 after a backtrack, e.g. in probing or strong branching with domain propagation
5439 - a pricer can now return that no further pricing should be done but rather early branching, even if it added variables
5440
5441- LP interface:
5442 - SoPlex (>= 1.7.0.5) can compute condition number of current basis matrix via LP interface
5443 - LPI files (lpi*.[h|c]) all moved from src/scip to src/lpi
5444
5445- Constraints:
5446 - added propagation method to cons_xor relying on Gaussian elimination, which can also produce feasible solutions
5447 - added first implication detection in cons_linear
5448 - cons_indicator can now try to construct feasible solutions from a cover
5449 - added possibility to forbid upgrading of linear constraints
5450 - new initial constraints are now added to the LP before solving a probing LP
5451 - first implementation of parsing for nonlinear constraints in CIP format
5452 - added upgrade from varbound constraints to set-packing constraints
5453 - added upgrade from bounddisjunction constraints to set-packing/logicor constraints
5454 - cumulative constraint handler adds disjunctive constraints (cumulative with capacity 1) for all jobs which cannot
5455 be processed in parallel
5456 - added new clique extraction algorithm for linear constraints
5457 - the slack variables of indicator constraints can now be scaled
5458 - added redundancy check of sides of ranged row varbound constraint
5459 - added coefficient tightening for ranged row varbound constraint
5460 - XOR constraint handler can add two extended formulations (flow/asymmetric, parameter `addflowextended/addextendedform`)
5461 - added multi-aggregation for binary variables with at most two uplocks and two downlocks, which emerge from set-
5462 partitioning or set-packing constraints
5463 - added upgrade from quadratic constraints to set-packing constraints
5464 - generalized the linking constraint handler
5465
5466- Reader:
5467 - can now read and write CIP-files with (multi-)aggregated variables
5468 - all readers now take the global parameters `reading/dynamic{conss|cols|rows}` and `reading/initialconss` into account
5469 - added reader_pbm, which writes the constraint-variable incidence matrix in pbm format (possibly scaled to given size)
5470 - reader_osil can now read SOS1 and SOS2 constraints
5471 - reader_lp and reader_mps are now able to write and-constraints in form of their (weak/strict) relaxation
5472 - added reading capability to GAMS reader (if compiling with GAMS=true, requires a GAMS system)
5473 - added capability of writing SOS1/2 constraints to GAMS reader (introduces extra variables and equations)
5474
5475- Heuristic:
5476 - new primal heuristics dual value
5477 - new LNS heuristic called `proximity`, which solves a problem in which a local branching constraint replaces the
5478 objective function which in turn is treated as additional constraint
5479 - new LP-based rounding heuristic (heur_randround) whose randomized rounding is biased towards the LP solution value;
5480 the heuristic uses the probing mode of SCIP to generate conflict clauses on the fractional variables
5481
5482- Presolving:
5483 - added new dual presolving for setppc-constraints
5484 - changed dualfix presolver to propagator such that dual fixing can also be applied during repropagation of the root node
5485 - added full-dual presolving step in setppc constraint handler
5486 - dual solution can now be displayed for pure LPs when no presolving was performed
5487 - added clique presolving for xor constraints
5488 - added presolving using pairs of variable bound constraints that use the same variables
5489 - added more presolving to cons_indicator, checking whether indicator/slack variables are aggregated
5490 - added presolve.{c,h} which should be used for all preprocessing mechanisms executed from within SCIP, corresponding to
5491 solve.{c,h} and also for presprocessing methods which can be called from different plugins or from the core to avoid
5492 code doubling
5493 - return error if variable should be fixed to infinity after presolving (LP-solvers do not handle this consistently)
5494 - in verblevel `SCIP_VERBLEVEL_FULL`, the number of non-zeros will be output for the original and presolved model
5495 - new presolving step for tightening logicor constraints using implication and clique information
5496 - several new presolving steps for linear and knapsack constraints, using gcd information and many more
5497
5498- Statistic:
5499 - added average gap based on primal-dual integral to solution statistics; can be disabled via parameter
5500 `misc/calcintegral`
5501 - the statistics now include the value of the first LP solved at the root node (without cuts)
5502 - added new statistic which distinguishes between internal nodes and leaves which got processed
5503 - new section `Root Node` in statistics, listing objective value, iterations and solving time for the first LP solved
5504 at the root node as well as final dual bound of the root node and LP iterations for processing the root node
5505 (those where listed in the `Solutions` section before, named `Root Dual Bound` and `Root Iterations`)
5506
5507Performance improvements
5508------------------------
5509
5510- allow multiaggregation of binary variables
5511- shorten conflicts and deriving global boundchanges from conflicts
5512- apply lowerbound provided by pricers already during pricing loop, stop pricing if the lower bound computed by pricing
5513 already exceeds the cutoff bound
5514- improved performance of SCIPcliquelistDel(), SCIPcliquetableAdd(), SCIPcliquetableCleanup()
5515
5516- LP Solution:
5517 - strong branching LP solutions are checked for integrality
5518 - improved LP reoptimization for branch-and-price applications
5519 - improved numerical stability checks for LP solution
5520 - faster feasibility check of LP solutions (controlled by parameters `lp/checkprimfeas` and `lp/checkdualfeas`)
5521
5522- Presolver:
5523 - improved methods SCIPlpiGetBInv{Row,Col,ACol} for row representation in SoPlex LP interface
5524 - improved performance of method SCIPsolRetransform() when called during presolving with many aggregations
5525 - minor presolving performance improvements in cons_logicor.c and cons_knapsack.c
5526 - dual fixing presolver was turned into a propagator
5527 - many presolving improvements in constraint handlers
5528 - improved dual-presolving for setppc constraints in special cases
5529
5530- Constraints:
5531 - major improvements in pseudo-boolean constraint handler
5532 - performance improvement in domain propagation by marking constraints for propagation
5533 - added more constraint upgrading possibilities
5534 - improved handling of initial constraints created during solving
5535 - disabled scaling in feasibility check of nonlinear constraint handlers
5536 - conflict consisting of exactly two binary variables will be handled as set-packing constraint instead of an logicor
5537 constraint and the corresponding clique information is globally added
5538 - fasten repropagation for set-packing and -partitioning constraints
5539 - improved merging of and-constraints
5540 - disabled multi-aggregation in linear constraint handler when coefficients differ too much
5541 - improved multi-aggregation in linear constraint handler when only one variable in the aggregation has infinity
5542 contribution
5543 - added upgradability for implicit binary variable cases for linear constraints
5544
5545Examples and applications
5546-------------------------
5547
5548- new textbook Gomory mixed integer cuts example
5549
5550Interface changes
5551-----------------
5552
5553- removed all message length parameters in message.c and for printing error messages (not needed anymore)
5554
5555### New and changed callbacks
5556
5557- Domain Propagation:
5558 - added parameter `nmarkedconss` to SCIP_DECL_CONSPROP() callback which gives the number of constraints marked
5559 for propagation (these constraints are listed first in the conss array given as parameter).
5560
5561- Primal Heuristics:
5562 - Added parameter `nodeinfeasible` to SCIP_DECL_HEUREXEC() callback which states whether the current subproblem was
5563 already detected to be infeasible. In this case, the current LP solution might not respect local bounds and the
5564 heuristic must not assume that it does.
5565
5566- Variable Pricers:
5567 - Added parameter `stopearly` to callback method SCIP_DECL_PRICERREDCOST(). This boolean pointer should be used by the pricer
5568 to state whether early branching should be performed, even if new variables were added in the current pricing round.
5569
5570- Branching Rules:
5571 - new possible return value `SCIP_DIDNOTFIND` for SCIP_DECL_BRANCHEXECLP(), SCIP_DECL_BRANCHEXECPS(), and
5572 SCIP_DECL_BRANCHEXECEXT() callbacks to state that the branching rule searched, but did not find a branching.
5573
5574### Deleted and changed API functions
5575
5576- SCIPcalcMIR() takes an additional parameter sidetypes to determine which side of the rows to use
5577 (relevant for ranged rows)
5578- SCIPvarParseOriginal() and SCIPvarParseTransformed() now return the end of the parsed string
5579- SCIPgetConsCopy() now always captures the created constraint
5580
5581- Branching:
5582 - Added parameter `nfracimplvars` to SCIPgetLPBranchCands()
5583 - SCIPgetLPBranchCands() can be used to retrieve the number of implicit integer variables with fractional LP solution
5584 value via an additional pointer; the corresponding implicit integer variables can be accessed together with their
5585 fractionalities and solution values in the same way as binary and integer variables before; the arrays are sorted such
5586 that binary and integer variables precede the implicit integer variables; the method SCIPbranchcandGetLPCands()
5587 has been modified in the same way
5588
5589- LP and Cutting Planes:
5590 - Added parameter `sidetypes` to SCIPcalcMIR() to specify the specify row side type to be used.
5591 - Added parameter `cutrank` to SCIPcalcMIR() and SCIPcalcStrongCG() which stores the rank of the returned cut;
5592 via SCIProwChgRank() the rank of a cut can be changed (default rank is 0)
5593 - Added parameter `infeasible` to SCIPaddCut() which is a pointer to store whether the cut is infeasible for the
5594 local bounds.
5595 - SCIPgetLPObjval() now returns the LP value of the current (suboptimal) basis if the iteration limit is hit during LP
5596 solving (instead of -infinity); this value is not necessarily a valid dual bound and must not be used as such, but can
5597 be used as an objective estimate, e.g., if strong branching is simulated using the probing mode
5598 - removed parameter `normtype` from function SCIPcomputeLPRelIntPoint()
5599
5600- Misc:
5601 - Added parameter `lazyconss` to SCIPwriteMIP() to swith writing removable rows as lazy constraints.
5602 - Added parameter `enablepropagation` to SCIPstartStrongbranch(), which can be used to enable strong branching
5603 with domain propagation.
5604 - SCIPstartStrongbranch() has a new parameter `propagate` to enable or disable propagation support for strong branching
5605 - New method SCIPgetVarStrongbranchWithPropagation() which performs strong branching with propagation on a variable.
5606 - Added parameter `endptr` to SCIPparseVar() which stores the final string position after parsing.
5607
5608### New API functions
5609
5610- added SCIPdebugCheckConss() to the debugging mechanism and therefore created a `SCIP_SOL` (in original space) in debug.c
5611- before copying solutions to the original solution candidate storage, infinite solution values can now be removed using SCIPcreateFiniteSolCopy()
5612- SCIPsortLongPtrRealBool(), SCIPsortLongPtrRealRealBool(), SCIPsortLongPtrRealRealIntBool() and corresponding
5613 methods for sorting, insertion and deletion
5614- SCIPstoreSolutionGap() in scip.c, to store the gap when the first and last solution is found
5615- SCIPwriteCliqueGraph() which allows to write a graph with node weights for fractional variables
5616
5617- Separation:
5618 - SCIPconshdlrIncNCutsFound(), SCIPsepaIncNCutsFound() and SCIPsepaIncNCutsFoundAtNode() to increase the number of found cuts
5619 - SCIPseparateSolCutpool() to separate a cutpool w.r.t. a given solution
5620
5621- Constraint Handlers:
5622 - New method SCIPconshdlrGetStrongBranchPropTime() which returns the time used for domain propagation methods
5623 of the constraint handler during strong branching.
5624 - New method SCIPconsIsMarkedPropagate() which returns whether a constraint is marked for propagation.
5625 - New methods SCIPconsAddUpgradeLocks() and SCIPconsGetNUpgradeLocks() to increase or get the number of upgrade
5626 locks of a constraint.
5627 - New method SCIPgetNCheckConss() which returns the number of checked constraints.
5628
5629- Data structures:
5630 - New methods SCIPsparseSolGetFirstSol() and SCIPsparseSolGetNextSol() to get the first sparse solution
5631 or iterate over the sparse solutions, respectively.
5632 - New methods for the `SCIP_QUEUE` data structure in pub_misc.h to handle a (circular) queue, e.g., SCIPqueueCreate(),
5633 SCIPqueueFree(), SCIPqueueInsert(), SCIPqueueRemove(), SCIPqueueFirst(), SCIPqueueIsEmpty(), SCIPqueueNElems()
5634 - New method SCIPgmlWriteNodeWeight() to write a node section including weight to a .gml graph file.
5635 - New methods for hash tables: SCIPhashtableRemoveAll(), SCIPhashtableGetNElements(), SCIPhashtableGetLoad()
5636 - New methods in pub_misc.h to handle a resource activity, e.g., SCIPactivityCreate(), SCIPactivityFree(),
5637 SCIPactivityGetVar(), SCIPactivityGetDemand() ...
5638 - New methods for digraphs: SCIPdigraphResize() to resize the graph and SCIPdigraphSetNodeDatas() and
5639 SCIPdigraphGetNodeDatas() to set and get the data attached to the nodes.
5640
5641- Domain Propagation:
5642 - New method SCIPpropGetStrongBranchPropTime() which returns the time spent by a domain propagator during strong branching.
5643 - New methods SCIPmarkConsPropagate() and SCIPunmarkConsPropagate() to (un)mark a constraint for propagation.
5644
5645- LP and Cutting Planes:
5646 - New methods SCIPchgRowLhsDive() and SCIPchgRowRhsDive() to change left and right hand side of a row during diving.
5647 - Added parameter `cutoff` to SCIPsolveDiveLP(), SCIPsolveProbingLP(), and SCIPsolveProbingLPWithPricing()
5648 which is a pointer to store whether the diving/probing LP was infeasible or the objective limit was reached.
5649 - SCIPgetFirstLP{Dual/Lower}boundRoot() which return the value of the first LP solved at the root node
5650 - SCIPgetNRootFirstLPIterations() which returns the number of LP iterations for the first LP solved at the root node
5651 - SCIPlpiGetNorms(), SCIPlpiSetNorms() and SCIPlpiFreeNorms() for getting the LP pricing norms from the LP
5652 solver, loading them back into the solver and freeing the data
5653 - New method SCIPgetFirstLPTime() and SCIPgetNRootFirstLPIterations() to return time and iterations for the first LP solve
5654 and SCIPgetFirstLPDualboundRoot() and SCIPgetFirstLPLowerboundRoot() to return the first root LP dual and lower bound.
5655 - New method SCIPprintDualSol() which prints the dual solution for a pure LP (works only with preprocessing disabled).
5656 - New method SCIPisCutApplicable() which returns whether a cut is good enough to be applied.
5657
5658- Message Handler:
5659 - the main output routine of message.c (`bufferMessage` now handleMessage) has been rewritten: it now does not need
5660 a copy of the string to be output anymore, which makes the code much simpler (and also faster); it is passed a
5661 function pointer to the output function and uses it to directly output the (buffered) messages
5662 - New generic messagehandler output callback method SCIP_DECL_MESSAGEOUTPUTFUNC().
5663 - Removed parameter `msglength` from callback method SCIP_DECL_ERRORPRINTING().
5664 - New method SCIPmessageVPrintError() to print an error message.
5665 - Removed method SCIPmessagePrintWarningHeader().
5666
5667- Parameters:
5668 - New method SCIPparamGetCharAllowedValues() to get the allowed values for a char parameter.
5669 - New method SCIPgetParam() to get the parameter with a given name.
5670
5671- Variables:
5672 - SCIPapplyProbingVar() in prop_probing.h
5673 without deteriorating its objective value
5674 - SCIPshrinkDisjunctiveVarSet(), which takes an set of variables with corresponding bounds and boundtypes, and
5675 tries to derive global boundchanges and also to shorten this set of variables by using cliqe, implication and
5676 variable bound information
5677 - SCIPselectVarStrongBranching() to get the variable that fullstrongbranching would select
5678 - New method SCIPvarGetValuehistory() to get the value-based history of a variable.
5679
5680- Misc:
5681 - New method SCIPdoNotMultaggr() which returns whether multi-aggregation was disabled.
5682 - New method SCIPcreateFiniteSolCopy() to create a copy of a solution with infinite fixings removed.
5683 - New method SCIPadjustImplicitSolVals() which sets implicit integer variables to an integer value in the given
5684 solution without deteriorating its objective value.
5685 - New method SCIPcopyOrig() to copy the original problem. Analoguosly, use SCIPcopyOrigProb(), SCIPcopyOrigVars(),
5686 and SCIPcopyOrigConss() to copy original problem data, variables, or constraints, respectively.
5687 - New method SCIPwriteCliqueGraph() to write the clique graph in GML format into a given file
5688 - New method SCIPaddOrigObjoffset() to add an offset to the objective function.
5689 in original space and updates all orignal solutions correspondingly
5690 - New method SCIPcopyImplicationsCliques() to copy implications and cliques to a copied SCIP instance.
5691 - New method SCIPgetOpenNodesData() which returns all unprocessed nodes.
5692 - Added parameter `endline` to SCIPprintDisplayLine() to switch printing a newline symbol at the end of the line.
5693 - New method SCIPgetNLimSolsFound() returning the number of feasible primal solution respecting the objective limit.
5694
5695### Command line interface
5696
5697- allow dialog option to write clique graph
5698- dual solution values can now be obtained in the interactive shell after solving a pure
5699 LP without presolving
5700
5701### Interfaces to external software
5702
5703- new SoPlex 2.0 interface, can be enabled with `LPS=spx2`
5704- add support for SOS1 and SOS2 constraints to AMPL interface (see `interfaces/check/testset/SOS/sos?a.mod` for example)
5705- added copy of GAMS interface from COIN-OR/GAMSlinks project; GAMS-reader in SCIP can now read model instances from .gms files
5706- beta version of a python interface for the scipoptsuite is now available under interfaces/python
5707- beta version of a Java native interface is now available under `interfaces/jni`
5708
5709### Changed parameters
5710
5711- parameter `branching/scorefunction` has new value `q` for for `q`uotient branching score function
5712- replaced parameter `lp/checkfeas` by two parameters `lp/checkprimfeas` and `lp/checkdualfeas` to decide on primal and dual
5713 feasibility checks individually
5714- removed all local parameters `reading/(READER)/dynamic{conss|cols|rows}` and replaced them by global parameters
5715 `reading/dynamic{conss|cols|rows}`
5716- changed default value of parameter `numerics/dualfeastol` to 1e-7 for safer dual bounds from LP solver
5717- new possible values for parameter `heuristics/shiftandpropagate/sortkey` for sorting variables w.r.t. their norm,
5718 default changed from `u` to `v`, which means sorting downwards by violations
5719
5720- Constraints:
5721 - changed type of parameters `constraints/bivariate/scaling`, `constraints/quadratic/scaling`, `constraints/soc/scaling`
5722 from boolean to character
5723 - changed default for `constraints/{abspower,bivariate,nonlinear,quadratic,soc}/scaling` to off
5724 - changed default max coefficient for big-M constraint to be initial from 1e6 to 1e9
5725
5726- Separation:
5727 - changed default value of gomory cut separation parameter `separating/gomory/maxrank` from 0 to 3, to take also gomory
5728 cuts that could not be scaled to integral coefficients, with maximal rank 3 into account
5729 - remove parameter `separating/closecuts/relintnormtype`
5730
5731### New parameters
5732
5733- `branching/checksol` and `branching/heursbsol` to specify whether the strong branching LP solution
5734 should be checked for feasibility and whether a simple rounding heuristic should be run on this solution
5735- `branching/firstsbchild` and `branching/forceall` to specify the first child node to be
5736 investigated during strong branching (`u`p, `d`down, `a`uto) and whether always both children should be solved (only for
5737 strong branching with domain propagation, per default, the second child is not looked at when the first is infeasible)
5738- `conflict/fullshortenconflict` to decide whether we want to stop shortening a conflict set, when no
5739 global bound changes can be found anymore
5740- `conflict/maxvarsdetectimpliedbounds` to decide whether the a valid conflict of what maximal length
5741 will be used to derive global bound changes
5742- `constraints/{linear,knapsack}/detectcutoffbound` and `constraints/{linear,knapsack}/detectlowerbound`
5743 to enable/disable detection of constraint parallel to the objective function that will add an cutoffbound or an
5744 lowerbound respectively and these constraints will be prevented from entering the LP
5745- `constraints/and/upgraderesultant` to upgrade resultants of and constraints from binary to implicit binary variables, default is TRUE
5746- `constraints/abspower/scaling` and `constraints/nonlinear/scaling`
5747- `constraints/indicator/scaleslackvar` for scaling of the slack variable in indicator constraints
5748- `constraints/indicator/trysolfromcover` for trying to construct a feasible solution from a cover
5749- `constraints/linear/checkrelmaxabs` for checking linear constraints with a side of 0.0 relative to
5750- `constraints/linear/detectpartialobjective` to enable/disable the detection of sub-equations of the objective function
5751- `constraints/logicor/strengthen`, should pairwise constraint comparison try to strengthen constraints by removing superflous non-zeros?
5752- `constraints/xor/addextendedform` to add an extended formulation in XOR-constraints
5753- `constraints/xor/addflowextended` to add use the extended flow formulation in XOR-constraints
5754- `heuristics/<heurname>/lplimfac` for LNS heuristics to limit the number of LPs solved in a subproblem
5755 the maximum absolute value in the activity instead of 1.0
5756- `heuristics/shiftandpropagate/fixbinlocks` for fixing binary variables with no locks in one direction to the corresponding bound
5757- `heuristics/shiftandpropagate/collectstats` which decides whether variable statistics are collected
5758- `heuristics/shiftandpropagate/impliscontinuous` to decide whether implicit integer variables are treated as continuous variables
5759- `heuristics/shiftandpropagate/preferbinaries` and `heuristics/shiftandpropagate/stopafterfeasible`,
5760 which decide whether binaries should be shifted first and the shifting should be stopped when no violations are left
5761- `lp/disablecutoff` to toggle usage of LP cutoff bound (0: enabled, 1: disabled, 2: auto = disabled if pricers are used)
5762- `misc/calcintegral` (default TRUE) to trigger calculation of primal-dual integral
5763- `misc/finitesolutionstore` to switch whether infinite fixings should be removed from solutions before
5764 copying them to the original solution store
5765- `misc/permuteconss` and `misc/permutevars` to control whether variables and/or constraints should be permuted, if permutationseed != -1
5766- `presolving/components/feastolfactor` to increase the feasibility tolerance in all sub-SCIPs, when solving a component
5767- `propagating/obbt/conditionlimit` to discard instable LP bases
5768- `reading/(READER)/initialconss` that determines whether model constraints are initial
5769- `reading/cipreader/writefixedvars` for disabling printing of fixed variables in CIP format
5770- `reading/lpreader/aggrlinearization-ands` and `reading/mpsreader/aggrlinearization-ands` to enable/disable
5771 the printing of the weak or strict relaxation of and-constraints in LP and MPS format, respectively
5772- `reading/lpreader/linearize-and-constraints` and `reading/mpsreader/linearize-and-constraints` to
5773 allow and-constraints to be linearized when printing in LP and MPS format, respectively
5774- `separating/feastolfac` to allow dynamic decrease of relaxation feasibility tolerance depending on feasibility to applied cuts,
5775 i.e., allow relaxation solutions to have a primal infeasibility of at most this factor times the infeasibility of applied cuts
5776- `separating/gomory/sidetypebasis` to decide whether the sides of ranged rows should be determined from the basis status
5777- `separating/oddcycle/cutthreshold` to run odd cycle separation if not enough cuts have been found
5778- `separating/zerohalf/delayedcuts` to use the delayed cutpool for the zerohalf separator
5779- `write/allconss` to enable that all constraints are written
5780- `write/genericnamesoffset` when writing a generic problem to define an offset on the variable numbering
5781
5782### Data structures
5783
5784- New structure to store value-based branching and inference history (see pub_history.h).
5785- new data structure for (circular) queues (`SCIP_QUEUE`)
5786- hash tables will now increase dynamically
5787- Moved LP solver interfaces to subdirectory `src/lpi`.
5788
5789Testing
5790-------
5791
5792- added McNemar tests and Wilcoxon signed rank tests to cmpres.awk evaluation scripts
5793- added passing MEM option of testgams(cluster) target as workspace option to GAMS jobs
5794- extended test scripts by statistical tests
5795
5796Build system
5797------------
5798
5799### Makefile
5800
5801- default flag for ZIMPL is now `auto`, which means that it is built if and only if GMP is available (GMP=true)
5802- fixed make install for older Mac systems where install command does not have option -t
5803- dropped support for Ipopt < 3.10
5804
5805Fixed bugs
5806----------
5807
5808- fixed bug when adding (global) clique, implications or variable bound information in solving stage that lead to
5809 global bound changes which contradict local bounds and therefore need to be stored as pending bound changes
5810- unlinking a solution now copies solution values smaller than SCIPepsilon() avoiding some feasible solution in the
5811 transformed problem to be infeasible in the original problem
5812- fixed bug when flushing the warning buffer when SCIP is closed
5813- fixed bug when a bound change contradicts a local bound and is stored as pending, but the contradicting local
5814 bound becomes global afterwards (--> node where pending bound change is valid can be cut off)
5815- fixed statistics bug: externally given solutions and new solutions found while transforming existing ones
5816 are now listed in line `other solutions` of primal heuristics statistics
5817- fixed bug in random generators SCIPgetRandomInt() and SCIPgetRandomReal() for large intervals
5818- make sure that bound changes of negated original variables are correct
5819
5820- Branching:
5821 - fixed bug w.r.t. changing the variable branching priority beyond the problem stage
5822 - allow again branching on continuous variables with huge bounds
5823
5824- Separation:
5825 - fixed bug in sepa_cgmip computeObjWeightSize() w.r.t. equal sized rows
5826 - fixed wrong bound calculation in sepa_rapidlearning
5827 - fixed bug in flowcover separator to exclude unconstrained rows in aggregation
5828
5829- LP and Interfaces:
5830 - fixed bug that lead to resolving the LP after diving instead of restoring the buffered solution
5831 - fixed rare bug with conflict analysis and LP/LPI having different states after diving
5832 - fixed several bugs in lpi_grb
5833 - fixed wrong strong branching results in lpi_grb.c and an invalid write
5834 - fixed bug in handling max-function in ampl interface; added support for min-function
5835
5836- Presolving:
5837 - fixed bug in prop_dualfix w.r.t. to fixing of variables to infinity after presolving
5838 - fixed wrong presolving finished status which sometimes occurred when the time limit was hit during presolve
5839 - fixed bug where a limit on presolving rounds was exceeded by 1
5840 - fixed minor bugs in presolving in cons_setppc.c and cons_logicor.c
5841 - fixed minor bug in cons_linear w.r.t. disabled presolving
5842
5843- Propagators:
5844 - fixed bug in genvbounds propagator occurring when objective offset or scale changes after a restart
5845 - fixed bug in genvbounds propagator by replacing non-active variables on right-hand side after presolving
5846
5847- Readers:
5848 - fixed memory bug in reader_mps
5849 - fixed several minor bugs with handling of memory when writing aggregated variables (reader_lp, reader_mps)
5850 - fixed bug in reader_lp when writing bilinear terms (product sign was missing)
5851 - fixed bug in reading indicator constraints in mps-format
5852 - nonlinear readers now create auxiliary objective variables and constraints always as initial and not removable
5853 in order to avoid unbounded LPs due to loose variables with infinite best bound
5854
5855- Constraints:
5856 - fixed several bugs where variables or constraints were not freed correctly
5857 - do not multi-aggregate variables if the constant would be a huge value in order to avoid numerical troubles
5858 - fixed bug with infinite multi-aggregation constants
5859 - fixed output of aggregated variables in indicator constraints in lp and mps-format
5860 - improved handling of initial constraints: constraints which are initial, but added during the search to an already
5861 treated node are kept and added to the LP at every node where they are active
5862 - fixed bug in cons_superindicator concerning names of upgraded constraints
5863 - fixed bug in cons_indicator with trying to create solution in problem stage
5864 - fixed bug in cons_orbitope with fixing upper right triangle in non-root nodes
5865
5866Miscellaneous
5867-------------
5868
5869- new SCIP Optimization Suite homepages
5870
5871@page RN3_0 Release notes for SCIP 3.0
5872
5873@section RN302 SCIP 3.0.2
5874*************************
5875
5876Features
5877--------
5878
5879- reading erroneous CIP files can now output some indication of syntax errors
5880- can now run splint on core files
5881- cons_xor now uses the integral variable in propagation
5882- allowed to switch on/off the solution debugging
5883
5884Performance improvements
5885------------------------
5886
5887- improved SCIPlpiAdd{Cols,Rows}() in SoPlex LPi
5888
5889Examples and applications
5890-------------------------
5891
5892Interface changes
5893-----------------
5894
5895### New API functions
5896
5897- SCIPmarkColNotRemovableLocal() and SCIPmarkRowNotRemovableLocal() to forbid removal of an column/row
5898 from the LP in the current node
5899- SCIPmessageVPrintError()
5900
5901### Command line interface
5902
5903- can now output the solutions in the solution pool in the interactive shell
5904
5905### Interfaces to external software
5906
5907- updated Mosek LP interface to compile with Mosek 7
5908
5909Fixed bugs
5910----------
5911
5912- fixed bugs in solution counting
5913- fixed fieldtypes in sorting template
5914- fixed bug concerning the userinterrupt flag, which was not reset
5915- fixed solution collection when counting solutions
5916- fixed bug with storing original solutions
5917- fixed bug with infinite multi-aggregation constants
5918- fixed bug that removing reverse implication did not reset closestvblpcount
5919- fixed bug that duplicate solutions stopped copying of solutions to original solution candidate store
5920- forbid branching on variables with huge bounds; such huge values cannot be enumerated with fixed precision
5921 floating point arithmetics
5922- fixed bug that Ipopt's error message was not fully shown due to exiting before the message handler buffer was emptied
5923- unlinking a solution now copies solution values smaller than SCIPepsilon() avoiding some feasible solution in the
5924 transformed problem to be infeasible in the original problem
5925- allow to add columns (rows) with nonzero indices beyond current number of rows (columns) in SoPlex LPi
5926- updated get.ASL script to cope with broken ftp access to netlib server
5927
5928- Memory:
5929 - fixed bugs with freeing C++ object data for problem and variables
5930 - fixed memory leak in lp.c (probably never occurred so far since array was not used)
5931 - fixed bug in sepa_zerohalf.c where the maxcuts(root) parameters led to an invalid memory allocation call
5932
5933- LP:
5934 - fixed assert in solve.c with branched status and LP reached the objective limit
5935 - fixed bug in heur_oneopt.c and heur_clique.c which was caused by side-effects when calling SCIPconstructLP(); when
5936 adding new variables in this method (e.g. adding new variables needed for a relaxation), this changes the variables
5937 array of SCIP
5938 - fixed problem that diving did not save status for infeasible LPs
5939 - fixed bug in SCIPlpComputeRelIntPoint() with wrong iteration limit and with wrong recompution
5940 - fixed bug that old LP size was not updated for deadend if no LP was solved
5941
5942- Expressions:
5943 - fixed issues with ungraceful termination when encountering unsupported expression operands in AMPL interface
5944 - fixed bug in backward propagation of linear expressions in expression graph
5945
5946- Propagation:
5947 - fixed potential performance issue with tree depth always assumed to be zero when propagating in probing mode
5948 - fixed bug in prop_vbound w.r.t. creation of variables during the search
5949 - fixed several bugs in propagation of cons_xor: need to take integral variables into account
5950 - fixed bug in cons_abspower.c handling infinity values in propagation
5951 - fixed bug in cons_and.c when a constraint was not correctly propagated which led to wrong dual-presolve reductions
5952 - fixed bug in cons_abspower: wrong infinity check when propagating bounds
5953
5954- Presolving:
5955 - fixed bug that the number aggregated variables were not counted in presol_inttobinary.c
5956 - fixed bug in presol_domcol: locks are now checked to see whether rounding was forbidden for a variable
5957
5958- Reader:
5959 - fixed bug in reader_gms.c w.r.t. writing nonlinear expressions with polynomials with constants
5960 - fixed bugs in parsing bounds from CIP-files, in reader_gms and AMPL interface
5961 - fixed bug when reading a mps formated file with a missing bound in the bound section
5962
5963- Constraints:
5964 - fixed bug in cons_bounddisjunction with satisfied literal of multi-aggregated variable
5965 - fixed bug in upgrade method of cons_soc
5966 - fixed issue with negated variables in cons_xor.c
5967 - fixed several asserts in cons_xor presolving
5968 - fixed bug in cons_xor.c calling method on null pointer row
5969 - fixed bug using a too hard comparison on the objective-infeasible-decision in constraint enforcement
5970 - fixed possible cycling in enforcement of nonlinear constraints due to too early removal of newly added cuts from LP
5971 - fixed bug wrongly removing constraints locally while counting
5972 - fixed bugs in cons_bivariate.c when the nonlinear function is not differentiable on the boundary of the domain
5973 - fixed bug in cons_indicator.c:SCIPmakeIndicatorFeasible() with handling fixed variables
5974 - fixed bug in cons_integral: check integrality of implicit integer variables when a solution is checked for feasibility
5975 - fixed bug in Undercover with `pseudo-`quadratic constraints
5976 - fixed bug with quadratic constraints not being upgraded
5977 - fixed bug in intervalarith.c: bivariate quad. equations may have been solved wrongly if second variable is unbounded
5978
5979- Separation:
5980 - fixed bug in sepa_zerohalf.c not copying the displays to the subscip, but still changing a display parameter there
5981 - fixed iteration limit determination in sepa_closecuts
5982 - fixed bug in sepa_closecuts: need to make sure that variable values of separation point satisfy bounds
5983 - fixed bugs in sepa_oddcylce: number of arcs have to be adjusted, handle implicit binary variables,
5984 fixed bug in heuristic separation method, fixed asserts
5985 - fixed wrong bound calculation in sepa_rapidlearning
5986
5987@section RN301 SCIP 3.0.1
5988*************************
5989
5990Features
5991--------
5992
5993- added delayed cutpool which only gets separated if the sepastore is empty after a separation round
5994- sepa_cgmip can now take the objective row into account
5995- added possibility to run clang compiler
5996- statistics now include output on number of solutions that respect objective limit
5997
5998Performance improvements
5999------------------------
6000
6001- also copying active tight cuts from the delayed cut pool when calling SCIPcopyCuts()
6002- sort genvbounds only when root node is finished; apply more often
6003
6004Examples and applications
6005-------------------------
6006
6007Interface changes
6008-----------------
6009
6010- when using an objective limit, heuristic characters are not displayed any longer for worse solutions
6011
6012### Deleted and changed API functions
6013
6014- fixed spelling in the method name SCIPgmlWriteClosing()
6015
6016### New API functions
6017
6018- SCIPgetNLimSolsFound() to get number of solutions that respect the objective limit
6019
6020Fixed bugs
6021----------
6022
6023- fixed issue with applying the effective root depth during the search
6024- fixed bug concerning usage of dualbound and lowerbound
6025- fixed bug trying to color probing nodes, which are not added to the vbc output anymore
6026- fixed bug in sorting template
6027- fixed bug leading to removing a ranged row parallel to the objective function, although one of the sides was still needed
6028- fixed a bug correcting the binvarssorted flag in cons_linear.c
6029- fixed bug in cons_varbound.c not resolving multi-aggregated variables
6030- relaxed assert in SCIPvarCh{Lb,Ub}{Global,Local} that new bound must be tighter to feastol
6031- fixed contra-intuitive behavior when using SCIP with objective limits and solution limit at the same time;
6032 SCIP now only stops when sufficiently many solutions better than the objective limit have been found
6033- fixed bug when adding binary implications with non-vartype binary variables
6034- fixed bug adding binary implications on binary variables with type != `SCIP_VARTYPE_BINARY`
6035- fixed bug concerning different tolerances for reached objective limit in case of pricing with fastmip
6036
6037- LP:
6038 - fixed bug which disabled iteration limit in SCIPlpSolveAndEval()
6039 - ensure consistency of LP bounds during OBBT diving, i.e., that lower <= upper holds exactly
6040 - set lpsolstat to `SCIP_LPSOLSTAT_NOTSOLVED` in SCIPchg{Lp,Dual}feastol()
6041 - use tighter dual feasibility tolerance for LPs solved during optimization-based bound tightening
6042 - fixed bug with unflushed LP arising from global bound changes in strong branching
6043
6044- Constraints:
6045 - fixed issue with deleting varbound constraints in case the bound change was not applied
6046 - fixed bugs in parsing dis-/conjunctive constraints
6047 - fixed bug with handling of empty logicor and bounddisjunction constraints
6048 - fixed issue in cumulative constraint and separation
6049 - fixed bug when sorting knapsack constraints with the same weights
6050 - fixed bug resulting in trying to delete an upgraded linear constraint a second time in exitpre callback
6051 - fixed minor bug in conjunctive constraint handler printing wrong constraint
6052 - fixed bug in disjunctive constraint handler when enforcing a constraint
6053 - fixed behaviour change of indicator constraint handler when solving another instance after solving one using the
6054 interactive shell
6055 - fixed several issues in cumulative constraint handler
6056 - fixed bug in cumulative constraint handler w.r.t. getting active variables
6057 - fixed bug in cumulative constraint handler concerning conflict analysis
6058
6059- LPI and Interfaces:
6060 - fixed bug in CppAD in connection with abspower constraints
6061 - fixed bug in CppAD when using signpower functions with expression pointers that do not fit into an unsigned int
6062 - better handling of generalized (Lagrangian) variable bounds that are not in the LPI
6063 - fixed wrong basis rstat values in CPLEX LPI
6064 - fixed bug with LP not being flushed after bound changes on columns that are not in the LPI
6065 - methods SCIPlpiIs{PrimalFeasible,DualFeasible,DualUnbounded}() in SoPlex LPi now check that the LP is not perturbed,
6066 which may happen when stopping due to iteration or time limit
6067 - fixed inconsistencies between methods SCIPlpiIs{PrimalFeasible,DualFeasible,Optimal,...} in SoPlex LPi
6068
6069- Propagation:
6070 - fixed bug when adding linear constraints with non active variables in solving process, during propagation this
6071 resulted in changing the row, which is not possible for unmodifiable constraints/locked rows
6072 - fixed small issue in pseudo objective propagator w.r.t. propagating the lower bound globally
6073 - fixed bug in cons_orbitope: in rare cases one cannot repropagate
6074 - fixed bug of wrong result code in propagation in prop_genvbound.c
6075
6076- Presolve:
6077 - fixed bug in copying nonlinear constraints during presolve (resulted
6078 in wrongly declaring instances as infeasible when using component presolve)
6079 - fixed bug in copying nonlinear constraints during presolve (nonlinear part was not copied)
6080
6081- Heuristics:
6082 - fixed wrong solving status (OPTIMAL) in case an unbounded solution was provided or found by heuristic before presolve
6083 - fixed bug in heur_subnlp running with tightened tolerances: sumepsilon must be tightened like feastol and epsilon
6084 - fixed bug in nlp diving heuristic for fractional variables with values slightly outside of their domain
6085
6086- Numerics:
6087 - fixed several numeric issues
6088 - fixed numerical bug in conflict.c relaxing bounds while keeping an infeasibility proof
6089 - fixed feasibility decision bug when replacing inactive variables by their active counterparts, which might change the
6090 redundancy status of a bounddisjunction constraint due to numerics
6091 - fixed numerical bug adding a relaxed bound for conflict analysis in cons_varbound
6092 - fixed numerical bug in conflict analysis of genvbounds propagator
6093
6094@section RN300 SCIP 3.0.0
6095*************************
6096
6097Features
6098--------
6099
6100- SCIPcomputeLPRelIntPoint() with normtype=`s` now uses homogenized LP for computing rel.int. point too and allow to
6101 set relaxrows = FALSE
6102- new column showing the pseudo objective value
6103- digraph structure added to misc.c and pub_misc.h that can be used to handle directed graphs, compute undirected
6104 components in the graph and sort these components (almost) topologically
6105- SCIP does now print an info message when the root LP could not be solved or is unbounded
6106- added counter and clock for SCIPcopy() calls
6107- correct initialization of steepest edge weights with SoPlex 1.6.0.4
6108- parameters can now be fixed, which means that their value cannot be changed unless they are unfixed, first;
6109 the fixing status of a parameter is copied to sub-SCIPs, which allows to ensure that certain parameters
6110 are also not changed when, e.g., heuristics change emphasis settings or also specific parameters
6111- automatic transfer of original solutions (e.g., provided by the user, from solution pool, after restart, from heuristic
6112 adding original solution during solve) to the transformed space (might fail due to, e.g., dual fixings)
6113- added possibility to use GUBs for lifting knapsack cuts (disabled)
6114- added pre- and post-conditions in doxygen documentation for all methods of scip.{c,h}
6115- added zeroobj heuristic that solves a copy of the problem without an objective function and with quite strict limits
6116 on the number of nodes and LP iterations
6117- complete reworking of the vbounds propagator: it now takes into account variable bounds, cliques and implications,
6118 stores bounds of variables which were changed and performs a forward propagation from these bounds, i.e., tries to
6119 derive new bounds for other variables; during propagation, bound changes are propagated in an (almost) topological order
6120
6121- Constraints:
6122 - full version of cumulative constraint handler
6123 - new constraint handler `superindicator` for indicator constraints with slack constraints of arbitrary type
6124 - implemented first clique lifting procedure in cons_setppc.c (by default is off)
6125 - the conjunction and disjunction constraint handlers are now able to parse their CIP output format
6126
6127- Memory:
6128 - better handling of memory limits, in particular for large problems
6129 - estimate memory consumption for sub-SCIP and do not copy them if close to memory limit
6130
6131- Presolve:
6132 - time for initpre and exitpre methods is now also measured in presolving time
6133 - added dual presolving for and-constraints difficult instances (no guarantees)
6134 - oneopt can now be called before presolving
6135 - added a presolving step in the disjunctive constraint handler, removing disjunction, where a sub-constraint was
6136 deleted, which means this sub-constraint is redundant, which again means it is always TRUE or will be enforced by
6137 another constraint
6138 - added new presolver convertinttobin, which converts bounded integer variables to their binary representation, e.g.
6139 for integer variable 0 <= x <= 10 the binary variables y0, y1, y2 and y3 are created, such that
6140 1 y0 + 2 y1 + 4 y2 + 8 y3 <= 10 and x = 1 y0 + 2 y1 + 4 y2 + 8 y3
6141 - added new presolver gateextraction, which tries to find and-gates/constraints which are linearized
6142 e.g. (x + y + z >= 1, x + y <= 1 and x + z <= 1 => x == AND(~y,~z)), in special cases it also detects set-partitioning
6143 constraints e.g. (x + y + z >= 1, x + y <= 1, x + z <= 1 and y + z <= 1 => x + y + z == 1));
6144 gate-extractor is also able to detect logicor constraints and set-packing/-partitioning constraints with the same
6145 variables, to upgrade these both constraints to a set-partitioning constraint
6146 - added new presolver components, that searches for independent components in the problem structure and solves
6147 these components as sub-SCIPs when they are small enough (per default <= 20 discrete variables, nodelimit of 10000)
6148 - added new presolver domcol that looks for dominated columns in a MIP and tries to fix them
6149
6150- Reader:
6151 - CNF reader now creates feasibility instances per default, usage of an objective has to be set by a parameter
6152 - added reader for MI(NL)Ps in OSiL (Optimization Services Instance Language) format
6153
6154- Statistic:
6155 - new statistics and new statistic output messages
6156 - number of presolving calls of plugins is counted and displayed in the statistics,
6157 can be accessed via SCIPpresolGetNCalls() and SCIP{prop/conshdlr}getNPresolCalls()
6158 - the statistics shows for a branching rule the number of calls for LP, extern and pseudo candidates
6159 - new switch `SCIP_STATISTIC` and new macros SCIPstatisticMessage(), SCIPstatisticPrintf() and SCIPstatistic() to output
6160 statistic and execute code lines which are only needed therefor. Works as `SCIP_DEBUG` and SCIPdebugXyz()
6161 - added statistics on the number of cuts/rows that have actually been applied to the lp for each constraint handler and separator;
6162 use SCIPcreate(Empty)RowCons() and SCIPcreate(Empty)RowSepa() to support the statistics.
6163
6164- NLP:
6165 - new propagators obbt and genvbounds for MINLP
6166 - new NLPI parameter `SCIP_NLPPAR_FASTFAIL` to enable convergence checks in NLP solver to stop early on seemingly
6167 - added nlpdiving heuristic that comprises several diving heuristics using an NLP relaxation
6168
6169Performance improvements
6170------------------------
6171
6172- improved scaling by choosing the smallest scaler
6173- if first root lp is solved and the optimality is rejected by SCIP, there won't be an unnecessary solving of the lp
6174 from scratch again
6175- several performance improvements for Pseudo-Boolean optimization, pseudo objective propagator
6176- streamlined initlp functions in cons_indicator, cons_sos1, cons_sos2 (add rows only if needed)
6177- improved time used for adding implications
6178- speed up in SCIPboolarrayExtend() in misc.c replacing a for loop with BMSmoveMemoryArray() call
6179- speed up in var.c changing some recursive calls into iterative calls and reducing the number of VARFIX event that are
6180 thrown for fixation, aggregation or multi-aggregations
6181- revised reduced cost propagator
6182- increased performance in SCIPcliqueAddVar(), adding a variable to a clique
6183- tighten primal and dual feasibility tolerances independently if they are not reached in LP solving
6184
6185- Probing:
6186 - if probing reached the end of all variables it will restart the probing cycle correctly
6187 - improved probing by ordering the variables differently and applying the one-branch before the zero-branch
6188
6189- Constraints:
6190 - improved scaling of linear constraints, linear constraints with integral variables will now be scale with
6191 1e+06/MAX(maximal absolute coefficient, 1.0) instead of 1e+03/MAX(maximal absolute coefficient, 1.0);
6192 if all coefficients are in absolute value equal they will be scaled by that
6193 - added clique presolving for and-constraints, which checks if two operands or one operand and the resultant are in a
6194 clique and then fixes the resultant to 0 and in the former case we can delete the and-constraint too
6195 - speed up in linear constraint handler replacing aggregated variables
6196 - when all nonlinearities have been fixed and the number of nonfixed variables is 1 in cons_nonlinear/cons_quadratic/
6197 cons_bivariate, handle it by a bound change instead of adding a linear constraint
6198
6199- Separation:
6200 - automatically turn off separation in sepa_oddcycle if it was too unsuccessful within the last calls
6201 - use faster Dijkstra variants in sepa_oddcycle
6202 - improved tcliquegraphAddImplicsVars() in sepa_clique.c to faster add possible variables
6203 - changed emphasis settings: knapsack disaggregation is now allowed in fast presolving, CG-MIP separator disabled in
6204 aggressive separation
6205
6206- Reader:
6207 - improved lp-, mps-, opb-reading time
6208 - speed up mps reader asking parameters only once
6209
6210- Heuristics:
6211 - added parameters mincoveredrel and mincoveredabs to heur_undercover to only run if problem is sufficiently nonlinear
6212 - improved intdiving heuristic by activating backtracking to a different fixing value
6213 - heur_undercover treats indicator constraints as nonlinear and fixes the binary variable for linearization
6214
6215Examples and applications
6216-------------------------
6217
6218- new examples for scheduling and usage of the callable library with nonlinear problems
6219- the error messages are not handled via the message handler anymore; per default the error message a written to stderr
6220
6221Interface changes
6222-----------------
6223
6224- introduced basic inclusion and creation methods to simplify usage of the SCIP library
6225- allowed to start diving mode even if LP is not flushed, not solved, or not solved to optimality
6226- changed the message handler system within SCIP heavily such that it is thread save
6227- the resolve propagation methods for the constraint handler and propagator getting a new parameter called relaxedbd;
6228 explaining/resolving this relaxed bound is sufficient
6229- default integer comparer SCIPsortCompInt() (see pub_misc.h)
6230
6231- LP interface:
6232 - SoPlex LPI supports setting of `SCIP_LPPAR_DUALFEASTOL` when using SoPlex version 1.6.0.5 and higher.
6233
6234- Problem:
6235 - Forbid problem modifications in `SCIP_STAGE_{INIT,EXIT}PRESOLVE` (see pre-conditions for corresponding methods in scip.h).
6236
6237- Miscellaneous:
6238 - New macro SCIPdebugPrintCons() to print constraint only if `SCIP_DEBUG` flag is set.
6239 - all objscip *.h file now use the default SCIP interface macros (this should avoid errors when changing the interface)
6240
6241### New and changed callbacks
6242
6243- Constraint Handler:
6244 - Added a propagation timing parameter `proptiming` to SCIP_DECL_CONSPROP(), giving the current timing at which
6245 this method is called (also to the corresponding c++ wrapper classes).
6246 - New optional callback methods in constraint handlers: `SCIP_DECL_CONSGETVARS` and `SCIP_DECL_CONSGETNVARS`.
6247 These callbacks, if implemented, should return an array of all variables and the number of all variables used
6248 by the given constraint, respectively. (This method might, e.g., be called by a presolver)
6249
6250- NLP Solver Interface:
6251 - New NLPI callback SCIP_DECL_NLPISETMESSAGEHDLR() to set message handler in NLP solver interfaces.
6252
6253- Propagator:
6254 - Added a propagation timing parameter `proptiming` to SCIP_DECL_PROPEXEC(), giving the current timing at which this method is
6255 called (also to the corresponding c++ wrapper classes).
6256
6257- Plugin management:
6258 - added `basic` inclusion methods which have only fundamental data of the plug-ins as arguments; added setter functions
6259 for all non-fundamental callbacks of the plug-ins; the plug-in types with basic inclusion functions are:
6260 readers, constraint handlers, conflict handlers, presolvers, propagators, heuristics, separators, relaxation handlers,
6261 branching rules, node selectors and pricers; these methods should make the usage easier, sparing out optional callbacks and
6262 parameters: e.g., SCIPincludeConshdlrBasic();
6263 - To extend the basic functionalities, there are setter method to add
6264 optional callbacks. For example SCIPsetConshdlrParse(), SCIPsetPropCopy() or SCIPsetHeurInitsol().
6265
6266- Constraint Handlers:
6267 - Added basic creation methods for all constraints types, e.g., SCIPcreateConsBasicLinear(); these methods should make the usage easier,
6268 sparing out optional callbacks and parameters.
6269
6270### Deleted and changed API functions
6271
6272- SCIPcomputeCoverUndercover() now has an additional parameter coverbd
6273- tcliqueMaxClique has an additional parameter to store the number of used branch-and-bound nodes
6274- the code in `src/dijkstra` and `src/xml` has been changed to (increasingly) conform to the SCIP coding style;
6275 all function (and variable) names have been changed (do not contain `_` anymore).
6276- renamed SCIPstairmap*Core() to SCIPstairmap*Stair()
6277
6278- Conflict Analysis:
6279 - Added parameter `relaxedbds` to conflict handler callback method SCIP_DECL_CONFLICTEXEC(). This array contains
6280 bounds which are sufficient to create a valid conflict
6281
6282- Constraint Handler:
6283 - Added a parameter `restart` to the SCIP_DECL_CONSEXITSOL() callback method, indicating whether this call was
6284 triggered by a restart.
6285 - Added a parameter `relaxedbd` to SCIP_DECL_CONSRESPROP() callback method. If explaining a given bound change
6286 (index), it is sufficient to explain the reason for reaching the `relaxedbd` value, see above
6287 - Removed parameters `isunbounded`, `isinfeasible` and `result` from SCIP_DECL_CONSINITPRE() and SCIP_DECL_CONSEXITPRE()
6288 callback methods. It is not allowed to determine unboundedness or infeasibility in these callbacks, anymore.
6289 - added a `SCIP_CONS*` parameter to SCIPcreateConsDisjunction() which can represent the linear relaxation of the whole
6290 disjunction constraint as a conjunction constraint, or `NULL`
6291 - remove problematic function cons_indicator:SCIPsetSlackVarIndicator()
6292 - Renamed SCIPgetCountedSparseSolutions() to SCIPgetCountedSparseSols() in cons_countsols.{c,h}.
6293
6294- Counting:
6295 - Changed the counting system within SCIP heavily. New method for `SCIP_SPARSESOL` usage, SCIPsparseSolCreate(),
6296 SCIPsparseSolFree(), SCIPsparseSolGetVars(), SCIPsparseSolGetNVars(), SCIPsparseSolGetLbs(), SCIPsparseSolGetUbs()
6297 in (pub_)misc.{c,h}.
6298
6299- Cuts and Separation:
6300 - removed `targetscip` parameter from SCIPconvertCutsToConss(), now this function can only convert cuts on one instance,
6301 otherwise use SCIPcopyCuts()
6302 - added `ncutsadded` parameter to SCIPcopyCuts() to be able to store the number of copied/converted cuts
6303 - New functions SCIPcreateEmptyRowCons(), SCIPcreateEmptyRowSepa(), SCIPcreateRowCons(), and SCIPcreateRowSepa() that allow
6304 to set the originating constraint handler or separator of a row respectively; this is, for instance, needed for statistics
6305 on the number of applied cuts. If rows are created outside a constraint handler or separator use SCIPcreateRowUnspec() and
6306 SCIPcreateEmptyRowUnspec(). The use of SCIPcreateEmptyRow() and SCIPcreateRow() is deprecated.
6307 - New functions SCIProwGetOrigintype(), SCIProwGetOriginCons(), and SCIProwGetOriginSepa() to obtain the originator
6308 that created a row.
6309
6310- LP:
6311 - new parameter numerics/lpfeastol for primal feasibility tolerance used in LP solver
6312 - SCIPcomputeLPRelIntPoint() takes two new arguments giving a time and iteration limit
6313 - SCIPcolGetStrongbranchLPAge(), SCIPgetVarStrongbranchLPAge(), SCIPgetNLPs(), SCIPgetNPrimalLPs(), SCIPgetNDualLPs(),
6314 SCIPgetNBarrierLPs(), SCIPgetNResolveLPs(), SCIPgetNPrimalResolveLPs(), SCIPgetNDualResolveLPs(), SCIPgetNNodeLPs(),
6315 SCIPgetNNodeInitLPs(), SCIPgetNDivingLPs(), SCIPgetNStrongbranchs(), SCIPgetNRootStrongbranchs() now return a longint
6316 instead of an integer
6317
6318- Message Handler and Printing:
6319 - New callback method SCIP_DECL_MESSAGEHDLRFREE() which is called when the message handler is freed.
6320 - The old callback method SCIP_DECL_MESSAGEERROR() was replaced by the callback method SCIP_DECL_ERRORPRINTING().
6321 - the follwing methods additionally need the SCIP pointer as parameter to make the output thread save:
6322 SCIPprintVersion(), SCIPsetMessagehdlr(), SCIPgetMessagehdlr() and SCIPwarningMessage()
6323 - the error printing method can be replaced using the method SCIPmessageSetErrorPrinting(); the default error message
6324 printing can be recoverd via SCIPmessageSetErrorPrintingDefault() (see pub_message.h)
6325 - Changed the message handler system within SCIP heavily such that it is thread-safe. SCIPcreateMessagehdlr() in
6326 scip.{c,h} was replaced by SCIPmessagehdlrCreate() in pub_message.h/message.c with a changed parameter list;
6327 see pub_message.h and type_message.h.
6328 - removed method SCIPcreateMesshdlr(), please use SCIPmessagehdlrCreate() (see pub_message.c)
6329 - removed method SCIPfreeMesshdlr(), please use SCIPmessagehdlrRelease() (see pub_message.c)
6330 - Error messages (SCIPerrorMessage()) are not handled via the message handler anymore; per default the error
6331 message is written to stderr.
6332 - the following methods need an additional message handler: SCIPdispLongint(), SCIPdispInt(), SCIPdispTime(), all message
6333 handler methods (see pub_message.h), SCIPhashtablePrintStatistics(), SCIPhashmapPrintStatistics(), SCIPlpiCreate()
6334 - SCIPprintCons() does not print termination symbol `;\n` anymore; if wanted, use SCIPinfoMessage() to print `;\n` manually
6335 - remove SCIPcolPrint() and SCIProwPrint(), please use SCIPprintCol() SCIPprintRow() see scip.h
6336 - method SCIPprintError() does not need the file stream anymore. The error is written via the error message callback.
6337
6338- Nonlinear expressions, relaxation, and solver interface:
6339 - Method SCIPexprtreeRemoveFixedVars() is not public anymore.
6340 - Renamed SCIPmarkNonlinearitiesPresent() to SCIPenableNLP()
6341 - Renamed SCIPhasNonlinearitiesPresent() to SCIPisNLPEnabled().
6342 - removed SCIPmarkContinuousNonlinearitiesPresent(),
6343 renamed SCIPhasContinuousNonlinearitiesPresent() to SCIPhasNLPContinuousNonlinearity() and allow call only during
6344 initsolve and solve,
6345
6346- Parameters:
6347 - Replaced SCIPparamSet*() by SCIPchg*Param()
6348 + replaced SCIPparamSetBool() by SCIPchgBoolParam()
6349 + replaced SCIPparamSetInt() by SCIPchgIntParam()
6350 + replaced SCIPparamSetLongint() by SCIPchgLongintParam()
6351 + replaced SCIPparamSetReal() by SCIPchgRealParam()
6352 + replaced SCIPparamSetChar() by SCIPchgCharParam()
6353 + replaced SCIPparamSetString() by SCIPchgStringParam()
6354
6355- Presolving:
6356 - Removed parameters `isunbounded`, `isinfeasible` and `result` from SCIP_DECL_PRESOLINITPRE() and
6357 SCIP_DECL_PRESOLSEXITPRE(). It is not allowed to determine unboundedness or infeasibility in these callbacks, anymore.
6358
6359- Propagator:
6360 - changed parameters of function SCIPpropagateCutoffboundVar() in prop_pseudoobj.{c,h}
6361 - Added a parameter `restart` to SCIP_DECL_PROPEXITSOL() callback method, indicating whether this call was triggered
6362 by a restart.
6363 - Added a parameter `relaxedbd` to SCIP_DECL_PROPRESPROP() callback method. If explaining a given bound change
6364 (index), it is sufficient to explain the reason for reaching the `relaxedbd` value.
6365 - Removed parameters `isunbounded`, `isinfeasible` and `result` from SCIP_DECL_PROPINITPRE() and
6366 SCIP_DECL_PROPEXITPRE() callback methods. It is not allowed to determined unboundedness or infeasibility in
6367 these callbacks, anymore.
6368
6369- Sort and Copy:
6370 - The methods SCIPsortedvecInsert*() have an additional parameter which can be used to receive the position where
6371 the new element was inserted, if this is not of interest a `NULL` pointer can be given
6372 - new parameter in SCIPcopyPlugins() to indicate whether the message handler from the source SCIP should be passed to the
6373 target SCIP (only the pointer is copied and the usage counter of the message handler is increased)
6374 - New parameter in SCIPcopy() to indicate whether the message handler from the source SCIP
6375 should be passed to the target SCIP (only the pointer is copied and the usage counter of the message handler is
6376 increased). In multi theaded enviroment this parameter needs to be set to FALSE.
6377
6378- Variable usage:
6379 - rename SCIPvarGetBestBound() to SCIPvarGetBestBoundLocal()
6380 - rename SCIPvarGetWorstBound() to SCIPvarGetWorstBoundLocal()
6381 - Method SCIPvarGetProbvarSum() is not public anymore, use SCIPgetProbvarSum() instead.
6382 - Replaced method SCIPvarGetRootRedcost() by SCIPvarGetBestRootRedcost().
6383
6384### New API functions
6385
6386- setup timer to all plugins and therefore SCIP<plugin-type>GetSetupTime() methods in all pub_plugin-type.h to ask
6387 for this time (, e.g. SCIPeventhdlrGetSetupTime() in pub_event.h)
6388- new GML(Graph Modeling Language) methods SCIPgmlWriteOpening(), SCIPgmlWriteCosing(), SCIPgmlWriteArc(), SCIPgmlWriteEdge(),
6389 SCIPgmlWriteNode() that write to a given GML file
6390- new LPI method SCIPlpiGetObjsen() to query objective sense
6391- SCIPpermuteIntArray() in pub_misc.h and misc.c for permuting an integer array
6392- SCIPcalcBinomCoef() in pub_misc.h and misc.c which calculates a binomial coefficient up to 33 over 16
6393- SCIPheurPassSolAddSol() in heur_trysol.c; solution which are passed via this method are just without any feasibility check
6394- SCIPgetGlobalPseudoObjval() which returns the global pseudo objective value which is all variables
6395 set to their best (w.r.t. the objective function) global bound
6396- SCIPhashGetKeyStandard() which returns the element itself as the key, SCIPhashKeyEqPtr(),
6397 SCIPhashKeyValPtr() which do the hash-comparison/-conversion on a pointer in pub_misc.h
6398- SCIPhashtableClear() which removes all elements of a hash table
6399- SCIPisUpdateUnreliable() to check whether an iteratively updated value should be recomputed from scratch
6400 (e.g., for activities; uses new parameter `misc/num_recompfac`)
6401- SCIPisHugeValue() to check whether a value is huge and should be handled separately from other values
6402 (e.g., in activity computations) and SCIPgetHugeValue() to get the smallest value counting as huge
6403- SCIPfixParam() and SCIPunfixParam() to fix and unfix a parameter, respectively;
6404 the fixing status of a parameter can be requested by SCIPparamIsFixed();
6405- SCIPsetBasePointClosecuts() to set the base point for close cut separation
6406- SCIPchgCutoffboundDive() to change the cutoffbound in diving mode
6407- SCIPupdateCutoffbound() which can be used to pass a cutoff bound
6408
6409- Presolving:
6410 - SCIPpropIsPresolDelayed() which return if a propagator is delay during presolving
6411 - Added method SCIPisPresolveFinished() which returns whether the presolving process would be stopped after the
6412 current presolving round, given no further reductions will be found, can be used to ensure that a presolver is called very late
6413
6414- Memory:
6415 - added forgotten implementation of SCIPfreeMemorySize(), SCIPfreeMemorySizeNull() in scip.h and BMSfreeMemorySize(),
6416 BMSfreeMemorySizeNull() in memory.h
6417 - SCIPmemccpy() in pub_misc.h and misc.c which copies either a specified number of charcters of a source
6418 string to a destination string or until it hits a stoping character
6419 - BMSmoveMemory(), BMSmoveMemoryArray(), BMSmoveMemorySize() and corresponding BMSmoveMemory_call() in
6420 memory.{h,c} too move memory elements
6421
6422- Conflict Analysis:
6423 - SCIPisConflictAnalysisApplicable() which return FALSE is the conflict will not runs; can be used
6424 to avoid unnecessary initialization of the conflict analysis
6425 - SCIPaddConflictRelaxedLb(), SCIPaddConflictRelaxedUb() and SCIPaddConflictRelaxedBd(); these methods
6426 can be used to give for a bound change which is part of an explanation a relaxed bound; this means the relaxed bound
6427 is already efficient to be part of a valid explanation
6428 - SCIPisConflictVarUsed() returns TRUE if the given bound change is already part of the conflict set;
6429 that is the bound change is redundant;
6430 - SCIPgetConflictVarLb() and SCIPgetConflictVarUb() returning the lower/upper bound of the given
6431 variable within the current active conflict set
6432
6433- Variable usage:
6434 - SCIPvarsGetProbvar() in pub_var.h and var.c, which returns for a given array of variables the active, fixed
6435 or multiaggregated representation
6436 - SCIPgetActiveVars() in scip.{h,c}, which returns for a given array of variables the active counterparts
6437 - SCIPgetNObjVars() which returns the number of variables which have a non-zero objective coefficient
6438 - SCIPenableVarHistory() and SCIPdisableVarHistory() which can be used to turn off and on the collection
6439 of variables statistics which is used for example for branching
6440 - SCIPbranchVarHole() which branches a variable w.r.t. a given domain hole
6441 - SCIPvarGetAggregatedObj() which computes for a (not active) variable the corresponding objective value
6442 - SCIPsolIsOriginal() that returns whether a solution is defined on the original variables
6443 - SCIPgetVarImplRedcost() which returns the implied reduced costs
6444 - SCIPvarGetBestRootSol(), SCIPvarGetBestRootRedcost(), SCIPvarGetBestRootLPObjval() which return the best
6445 combination for a variable w.r.t. root solution value, root LP objective value and root reduced cost
6446 - SCIPhaveVarsCommonClique() in scip.{h,c}, to check for common clique information on two given variables
6447 - added basic creation methods SCIPcreateVarBasic() and SCIPcreateProbBasic() and setter functions for
6448 non-fundamental callbacks of variables and problems.
6449 - added new methods SCIPvarGetBestBoundGlobal() and SCIPvarGetWorstBoundGlobal().
6450
6451- Constraint Handler:
6452 - added public wrapper functions for calling constraint handler callback methods for a single constraint:
6453 SCIPactiveCons(), SCIPdeactiveCons(), SCIPinitlpCons(), SCIPsepalpCons(), SCIPsepasolCons(), SCIPpropCons(),
6454 SCIPrespropCons(), SCIPenfopsCons(), SCIPenfolpCons()
6455 - added basic creation methods for all constraint handlers
6456 - SCIPchgCapacityKnapsack() which can be used to change the capacity of a knapsack constraint
6457 - SCIPconsIsAdded() which returns whether a constraint was already to a SCIP instance
6458 - SCIPconshdlrGetNCutsApplied() in pub_cons.h to get the number of cuts applied to the lp
6459 - SCIPconshdlrIncNAppliedCuts() in cons.h to increase the number of applied cuts (used by sepastore.c)
6460 - SCIPchgVarName() and SCIPchgConsName() which can be used to change name of variables and
6461 constraints in problem creation stage
6462 - New methods SCIPgetConsVars() and SCIPgetConsNVars() which return for a given constraint the involved variables and
6463 the number of variables if the corresponding constraint supports this (optional) callbacks
6464 (corresponding callbacks need to be implemented, see above)
6465
6466- Message Handler:
6467 - SCIPmessagehdlrCapture() which captures a given message handler (increases number of uses)
6468 - SCIPmessagehdlrRelease() which releases and possibly frees a given message handler (decreases number of uses)
6469 - SCIPsetMessagehdlrLogfile() which can be used to write into a log file
6470 - SCIPsetMessagehdlrQuiet() which can be used to turn the screen output on and off
6471
6472### Command line interface
6473
6474- in the interactive shell, parameters can be fixed and unfixed with `fix` (instead of `set`), e.g., `fix heuristics rens freq TRUE`;
6475- new shell command `change minuc` to minimize the number of unsatisfied constraints
6476
6477### Interfaces to external software
6478
6479- beta-version of a MATLAB interface can be found under interfaces/matlab
6480- beta-version of a AMPL interface can be found under interfaces/ampl
6481
6482### Changed parameters
6483
6484- `branching/fullstrong/reevalage` changed from an integer to a longint parameter
6485
6486- Removed parameters:
6487 - `separating/closecuts/separootonly`
6488 - `constraints/quadratic/defaultbound`
6489 - `separating/cgmip/nodelimit`
6490
6491### New parameters
6492
6493- `constraints/%s/timingmask` for changing the timingmask for calling the propagtion method of all constraint plugins
6494- `constraints/and/dualpresolving` by default set to TRUE, enabling dual-presolving on and-constraints
6495- `constraints/indicator/{sepacouplingcuts,sepacouplinglocal}` to enable separation of (local) cuts
6496- `constraints/indicator/{maxsepacuts,maxsepacutsroot}` to restrict the number of separated cuts
6497- `constraints/indicator/dualreductions` to enable dual presolving/propagation steps
6498- `constraints/setppc/cliquelifting`, `constraints/setppc/addvariablesascliques`,
6499 `constraints/setppc/cliqueshrinking`, first for enabling/disabling the clique lifting algorithm in cons_setppc.c,
6500 second parameter is for trying to create extra clique constraints in lifting algorithm, third parameter is for trying
6501 to decrease the number of variable in a clique constraint in the lifting algorithm
6502- `limits/totalnodes` that allows to stop at the correct node if a restart occurred; therefore the new
6503 `SCIP_STATUS_TOTALNODELIMIT` is added
6504- `lp/{rootiterlim,iterlim}` to set a limit on the LP iterations spend in the initial root LP and each
6505 LP resolve, respectively
6506- `misc/transorigsols` by default set to TRUE, that switches whether SCIP tries to transfer original
6507 solutions into the transformed space (in initsol and if a heuristic adds an original solution during solving)
6508- `numerics/hugeval` that defines the smalles value counting as huge (see new method SCIPisHugeValue())
6509- `numerics/recompfac` which denotes the factor, by which the absolute of an iteratively updated value has
6510 to be decreased in order to recompute the value from scratch
6511- `presolving/convertinttobin/maxdomainsize` by default is set to `SCIP_LONGINT_MAX`, which deternmines
6512 the domainsize for which integers are converted to their binary representation
6513- `presolving/convertinttobin/onlypoweroftwo` by default is set to FALSE, that parameter allows you to
6514 only convert integer variables with a domainsize of 2^p-1 to their binary representation
6515- `presolving/convertinttobin/samelocksinbothdirections` by default is set to FALSE, that parameter allows
6516 you to convert only integer variables to their binary representation, which have the same amount of up- and downlocks
6517- `presolving/gateextraction/sorting` by default is set to 1, that parameter determines if you want to try
6518 to extract big-gates(-1) or small-gates(1) at first by ordering bigger/smaller logicor constraint up front, or use
6519 them as they are (0)
6520- `presolving/gateextraction/onlysetpart` by default is set to FALSE, that parameter allows you to
6521 only extract set-partitioning and no and-constraints
6522- `presolving/gateextraction/searchequations` by default is set to TRUE, that parameter allows you to
6523 search for logicor constraints and set-packing/-partitioning constraints with same variables
6524- `propagating/%s/timingmask` for changing the timingmask for calling the propagtion method of all propagator plugins
6525- `propagating/probing/maxdepth` to set the maximal depth until the probing propagation is executed
6526- `reading/cnfreader/useobj` to state whether an artificial objective, depending on the number of clauses
6527 a variable appears in, should be used, by default set to FALSE, old default behavior of reader corresponds to TRUE
6528- `separating/cgmip/{minnodelimit,maxnodelimit}` to determine node limit.
6529- `separating/closecuts/maxlpiterfactor` for iteration limit in relative interior point computation
6530- `separating/oddcycle/maxunsucessfull` to automatically turn off separation
6531- `oncepernode` in Rounding and Simple Rounding heuristic
6532
6533### Data structures
6534
6535- new data structure for binary trees (`SCIP_BT` and `SCIP_BTNODE` in pub_misc.h)
6536- renamed data structure `SCIP_STAIRMAP` to `SCIP_PROFILE`
6537- added new stages `SCIP_STAGE_INITPRESOLVE`, `SCIP_STAGE_EXITPRESOLVE` and `SCIP_STAGE_FREE`; renamed `SCIP_STAGE_FREESOLVE`
6538 to `SCIP_STAGE_EXITSOLVE`
6539- Changed the counting system within SCIP heavily. `SPARSESOLUTION` was renamed to `SCIP_SPARSESOL` and moved
6540 from cons_countsols.h to struct_misc.h
6541
6542Testing
6543-------
6544
6545- the check script now recognizes MIQCP and MINLP instances
6546- make test now also checks instances in wbo, cnf, osil and fzn format
6547- renamed parameter SCRDIR of `make testgams` to CLIENTTMPDIR and changed its default to `/tmp`
6548
6549Build system
6550------------
6551
6552### Makefile
6553
6554- CppAD source code is now distributed with SCIP (`src/cppad`), so that `lib/cppad` is not used anymore;
6555 the default for EXPRINT has changed from none to cppad
6556
6557Fixed bugs
6558----------
6559
6560- fixed bug with strong branching with the LP status for conflict analysis
6561- fixed bug w.r.t. adding a value to the objective offset of the transformed problem
6562- fixed wrong assert in feasibility pump stage 3
6563- fixed bug in solve.c, applied bounding for the initial lp was only done if root-lp-solution was valid but another
6564 solution could also have been added
6565- primal solutions with infinite objective value are now automatically discarded
6566- all plugins that solve sub-SCIPs now do not stop the whole solution process if there has been an error
6567- fixed bug in cip reader, wrong use of SCIPstrtok()
6568
6569- Variables:
6570 - fixed bug in shiftandpropagate w.r.t. SCIPconstructLP() which can have the side effect that variables are created
6571 - method SCIPvarGetProbvarSum() (and thus also SCIPgetProbvarSum()) returns +/-infinity if the variable resolves to a
6572 variable fixed to +/-infinity (depending on the sign of the scalar) but does not multiply with the scalar, anymore
6573 - better handling of infinite solution values for aggregated and negated variables
6574 - fixed bug that disabled multi-aggregation of two integer or implicit integer variables
6575 - fixed bug in sol.c with requesting values of transformed variables in original solution; previously this had only
6576 been handled in SCIPgetSolVal(), now the handling has been moved to SCIPsolGetVal()
6577 - fixed several bugs writing an mps file in the reader_mps.c, e.g. writing fixed variables which are not (yet) removed
6578 and writing integer variables even with an objective value of 0, if they only exist in non-linear constraints
6579
6580- Separation:
6581 - fixed minor bugs with respect to counting generated and lifted cuts in sepa_oddcycle
6582 - fixed bug in sepa_clique.c, could not handle only empty cliques, that were not removed
6583
6584- Heuristics:
6585 - fixed potential bugs in shiftandpropagate heuristic concerning the transformation update of a variable with free status
6586 - fixed bug in heur_zirounding with computation of up/downslacks
6587 - fixed bug in mutation heuristic with unnecessary aborts due to a wrong memory limit
6588 - fixed potential bug in fix-and-infer heuristic with variables being fixed to infinite value
6589 - fixed bug in diving heuristics with variables being fixed to values outside their domain
6590 - fixed bug in simple rounding heuristic with column generation for variables with strictly positive lower bound
6591 - made Octane heuristic numerically more stable to avoid asserts being caused by cancellation
6592 - fixed bug in mutation heuristic with variables being fixed to infinite values
6593 - do not run heur_shiftandpropagate if there is no LP
6594
6595- LP Interface:
6596 - fixed bug in Cplex LPI: after running simplex, solisbasic flag was always true, which might be wrong if Cplex hit a
6597 time limit
6598 - fixed bug in SCIP probing mode with cleared LPI state but solved LP
6599 - fixed assert with `LPI=none` (need to count rows/cols in lpi_none)
6600 - fixed bug in SoPlex LPI where objective sense was not correct after reading LP from file in SCIPlpiReadLP()
6601
6602- Constraints:
6603 - fixed bug in scip.c adding a constraint in SCIPgetConsCopy() to the constraint hashmap
6604 - fixed bug in cons_linear w.r.t recalculation of unreliable activities
6605 - fixed bug in cons_linear concerning huge activity values: besides infinite contributions, we now also treat huge
6606 contributions separately, count their occurences in a constraint and provide a relaxed activity value
6607 - fixed bug in cons_xor.c parsing a constraint
6608 - fixed count of propagations in cons_indicator and only try to propagate if variables are not yet fixed
6609 - fixed some bugs in cons_disjunction.c (wrong assert, forgotten deletion of constraint, wrong SCIPreleaseCons() call)
6610
6611Miscellaneous
6612-------------
6613
6614- first release of GCG, a generic branch-cut-and-price solver built on top of SCIP
6615- first release of UG, a framework for solving mixed integer programs, mixed integer
6616 nonlinear programs and constraint integer programs in parallel
6617- new SCIP T-shirts
6618- renamed ZIB Optimization Suite to SCIP Optimization Suite
6619
6620@page RN2_1 Release notes for SCIP 2.1
6621
6622@section RN212 SCIP 2.1.2
6623*************************
6624
6625Performance improvements
6626------------------------
6627
6628- fixed performance issue in debug mode, where SCIPvarGetLPSol_rec() calculated a value to often, which in the end lead
6629 to exponential growth in running time
6630- force cuts from linearizations of convex constraint in NLP relax solution into LP, thus allowing faster proving of
6631 optimality for convex NLPs
6632
6633Fixed bugs
6634----------
6635
6636- fixed bug in varAddTransitiveImplic() in var.c, when adding implications on special aggregated, namely negated, variables
6637- fixed issue if a primal solution leads to a cutoff of the current focus node
6638- fix compilation issues with zlib 1.2.6
6639- fixed bug in SCIPsolveKnapsackExactly(), trying to allocate too much memory which led to an overflow and later to a segmentation fault
6640- fixed bug in sepa_rapidlearning, carrying on the optimization process, when already solved
6641
6642- Heuristics:
6643 - fixed bug in heur_undercover.c, where a variable with fixed bounds but not of status `SCIP_VARSTATUS_FIXED` was wrongly handled
6644 - fixed bug in heur_oneopt.c which forgot to check LP rows if local rows are present
6645
6646- Constraints:
6647 - fixed bug in SCIPsolveKnapsackExactly()
6648 - fixed bug in cons_quadratic where bounds on activity of quadratic term were not always invalidated when quadratic variables were removed
6649 - fixed bug in cons.c, where after a restart the arrays for all initial constraints were corrected in the initsol process
6650 instead of the initpre process, this was to late because you might change the status in presolving which lead to an assert()
6651 - fixed bug in NLP representation of abspower constraints handling (x+a)^2 with nonzero a
6652 - fixed bug parsing an and-constraint in cip format
6653 - fixed bug in cons_setppc, did not handle new constraints with inactive variables
6654 - fixed bug in cons_xor.c which did not copy the artificial integer variable (used for the lp relaxation)
6655
6656@section RN211 SCIP 2.1.1
6657*************************
6658
6659Features
6660--------
6661
6662- the pseudo objective propagator can be forced to propagate if active pricers are present; this can be done
6663 if for all (known or unknown) variables follows that: they have positive (negative) objective coefficient
6664 and the global lower (upper) bound is zero.
6665
6666Performance improvements
6667------------------------
6668
6669- improvements in undercover heuristic
6670- improve SCIPintervalSolveBivariateQuadExpressionAllScalar() for ax=0 case if x has 0 in the interval for the linear coef.
6671- better domain propagation for quadratic constraints that consist of `non-overlapping` bilinear terms only
6672- ensure that a fixing of a variable in an abspower constraint is propagated to a fixing of the other variable
6673- improvements in undercover heuristic, e.g., bound disjunction constraints are considered when setting up the covering problem
6674
6675Interface changes
6676-----------------
6677
6678### Changed parameters
6679
6680- changed parameter `propagating/pseudoobj/maxcands` to `propagating/pseudoobj/minuseless` (see prop_pseudoobj.c)
6681 due to revision of the pseudo objective propagator
6682
6683### New parameters
6684
6685- added parameters `heuristics/undercover/coverbd` and `heuristics/undercover/fixingorder`
6686
6687Fixed bugs
6688----------
6689
6690- fixed numeric issue in aggregations
6691- fixed pseudo cost computation
6692- fixed bug with setting type of slack variables to be implicitly integral
6693- fixed bug when copying problem data in c++ case returned with the result `SCIP_DIDNOTRUN`
6694- fixed computation of counter which state the changes since the last call of a presolver
6695- fixed handling of unbounded solutions, including double-checking their feasibility and that the primal ray is a
6696 valid unboundedness proof and reoptimizing the LP with modified settings if the solution is not feasible
6697- fixed compilation issues with negate() function in intervalarith.c on exotic platforms
6698- fixed bug in SCIPsortedvecDelPos...() templates
6699- pseudo objective propagator does not propagate it active pricers are present
6700- fixed bug in heur_shiftandpropagate.c concerning the treatment of unbounded variables
6701- workaround for trying to add variable bounds with to small coefficients
6702
6703- Reading and Writing:
6704 - gams writer now also substitutes $-sign from variable/equation names
6705 - fixed bug in reader_mps.c: INTEND marker is now also written, if COLUMNS section ends with non-continous variables
6706 - fixed bug in flatzinc reader w.r.t. boolean expressions
6707
6708- Constraints:
6709 - fixed constraint flags evaluation within the ZIMPL reader (reader_zpl.c)
6710 - fixed bug in SCIPmakeIndicatorFeasible() in cons_indicator.c
6711 - fixed bug with conflict clause modification in cons_indicator
6712 - fixed bug in cons_bounddisjunction with uninitialized return values
6713 - fixed bug in cons_orbitope with calling conflict analysis
6714 - fixed bug in nlpi_oracle w.r.t. changing linear coefs in a NLP constraint
6715
6716@section RN210 SCIP 2.1.0
6717*************************
6718
6719Features
6720--------
6721
6722- New original solution storage capability, which allows transfering solutions between SCIP runs
6723- SCIP-CPX is now threadsafe
6724- comparison of solutions now also works for original solutions
6725- can now compute the relative interior point of the current LP
6726- interval arithmetics for power, log, exp, bivariate quadratic expressions should be rounding safe now
6727- LP iterations in resolving calls can now be limited w.r.t. the average number of LP iterations in previous calls
6728 (after the root node); this is currently only done for the initial LP solve at a node and the corresponding parameter
6729 resolveiterfac is set to -1 (no limit) per default
6730- it is now possible in `SCIP_STAGE_TRANSFORMED` to call SCIPaddVarLocks() (i.e. to lock variables in initialization methods)
6731- changed computation of optimality gap which is now done in the same way as described in the MIPLIB 2010 paper: the gap
6732 is 0, if primalbound (pb) and dualbound (db) are equal (within tolerances), it is infinity if pb and db have opposite
6733 signs and (this changed), if both have the same sign, the difference between pb and db is devided by the minimum of
6734 the absolute values of pb and db (instead of always the dual bound)
6735- functionality to use the bound flipping ratio test of SoPlex is available (requires at least version 1.5.0.7)
6736- there exists now a solution candidate store for the original problem; during transformation these solutions are tried;
6737 during free the transformed problem the best feasible solution of the transformed problem are copied to the solution
6738 candidate store of the original problem; this useful if you solve several problems iteratively, solutions get now
6739 carried over automatically.
6740- reworked concept of lazy bounds: they can now also be used for problems where constraints and objective together
6741 ensure the bounds; to allow this also for diving heuristics that might change the objective and thus destroy this
6742 property, lazy bounds are explicitly put into the LP during diving and removed afterwards
6743- `SCIP_HASHMAP` now works also without block memory
6744- The variable deletion event is now a variable specific event and not global, anymore.
6745- All timing flags are now defined type_timing.h.
6746- all C template files are now called <plugintype>_xyz.{c,h} instead of <plugintype>_xxx.{c,h}
6747
6748- Separators and Cuts:
6749 - reorganized computation of scores in cut filtering: instead of the computation at the time of addition, scores are now
6750 only computed w.r.t. the current LP solution and when cut filtering is performed; one can now fill the cut storage
6751 with cuts that were separated for different solutions
6752 - New separator for close cuts and a new function to compute relative interior points of the LP
6753 - added first version of sepa_closecuts.{c,h} to separate cuts w.r.t. a point that is closer to the integral polyhedron
6754
6755- Constraints:
6756 - implement possibility to force a restart in cons_indicator if enough indicator variables have been fixed
6757 - the xor constraint handler can now parse its constraints
6758 - the bounddisjunction constraint handler can now parse its constraints
6759 - the knapsack, setppc and soc constraint handler can now parse their constraints
6760 - the varbound constraint handler can now parse its constraints
6761 - added beta version of variable deletion: for branch-and-price application, variables can now be completely deleted
6762 from the problem; variables that are deletable have to be marked with SCIPvarMarkDeletable(), constraint handlers can
6763 implement the new `SCIP_DECL_DELVARS` callback that should remove variables from the constraints; at the moment, only
6764 the linear, the setppc and the knapsack constraint handler support this callback; furthermore, when using this
6765 feature, all used plugins have to capture and release variables they store in their data, this is currently only done
6766 for the aforementioned constraint handlers as well as the and, the varbound and the logicor constraint handler; for
6767 more details about this feature, see the FAQ
6768 - added pseudoboolean constraint handler (cons_pseudoboolean.{c,h})
6769 - added first version of cons_disjunction.{c,h} which allows a disjunction of constraints
6770 - added constraint handler for (absolute) power constraints (cons_abspower.{c,h}) to handle equations like z = sign(x)abs(x)^n, n > 1
6771
6772- Heuristics:
6773 - new heuristic vbounds which use the variables lower and upper bounds to fix variable and performs a neighborhood search
6774 - added vbound heuristic (heur_vbounds.{c,h})
6775 - added clique heuristic (heur_clique.{c,h})
6776
6777- Reading and Writing:
6778 - added writing for wbo files
6779 - added writing for pip files (linear, quadratic, polynomial nonlinear, polynomial abspower, polynomial bivariate, and
6780 and constraints)
6781 - CIP format variable characters defined, e.g. `SCIP_VARTYPE_INTEGER_CHAR`
6782 - Improved support for wbo format for weighted PBO problems, IBM's xml-solution
6783 format and pip and zimpl format for polynomial mixed-integer programs
6784 - New reader for (standard) bounds on variables
6785 - Extended reader for CIP models to handle various new constraints, including all types of linear constraints
6786 - flatzinc reader is now capable to read cumulative constraints
6787 - changed opb(/wbo) reader which now creates pseudoboolean constraints instead of linear- and and-constraints, only a
6788 non-linear objective will create and-constraints inside the reader and while reading a wbo file the topcost constraint
6789 is created as well
6790 - added clock for determine the time for reading
6791 - added reader for variable bounds (reader_bnd.{c,h})
6792 - Removed method SCIPreadSol(); call solution reading via SCIPreadProb() which calls the solution reader for .sol files.
6793
6794- Nonlinear:
6795 - Major extensions for nonlinear CIP, new option for n-ary branching on nonlinear variables (within pseudocost branching rule)
6796 - added BETA version of constraint handler for nonlinear constraints (cons_nonlinear.{c,h}) to handle nonlinear
6797 equations given by algebraic expressions using operands like addition, multiplication, power, exp, log, bivariate
6798 nonlinear constraints; currently no trigonometric functions
6799 - added BETA version of constraint handler for bivariate nonlinear constraints (cons_bivariate.{c,h}) to compute tight
6800 estimators for 1-convex and convex-concave bivariate nonlinear functions (given as expression tree)
6801 - the gams writer can now write nonlinear, abspower and bivariate constraints
6802 - Extended writer for GAMS and pip format to write more types of nonlinear constraints
6803 - the pip and zimpl reader now create nonlinear constraints for polynomials of degree > 2
6804
6805- Presolving:
6806 - new dual presolving methods in cons_setppc and cons_logicor
6807 - new presolving step `removeConstraintsDueToNegCliques` in locigor constraint handler which updates logicor constraints
6808 to setppc constraints if a negated clique inside this constraint exist, by default is off
6809 - new presolving step in cons_knapsack (detectRedundantVars, deleteRedundantVars) which determines redundant variables
6810 in knapsack constraint with or without using clique information
6811 - cons_logicor is now able to replace all aggregated variables in presolving by there active or negation of an active
6812 variable counterpart
6813 - prop_pseudoobj is now working in presolving as well
6814 - implement presolving in exitpre() in cons_orbitope and cons_indicator
6815
6816- Propagators:
6817 - added counter for number calls and timing for resolve propagation calls for constraint handler and propagators
6818 - Propagators are now also called in node presolving
6819 - the probing presolver presol_probing.{c.h} is now a propagator prop_probing.{c,h}, all corresponding parameters moved as well
6820 - the redcost separator sepa_redcost.{c.h} is now a propagator prop_redcost.{c,h}, all corresponding parameters moved as well
6821 - outsourced propAndSolve() method in solve.c which calls domain propagation and solving of the lp and relaxation
6822
6823- Statistic:
6824 - solutions which are given by the user from the outside are now marked by `#` in the output
6825 - the `Solving Time` is now spitted into presolving, solving and reading time
6826 - Presolvers section has new column `AddCons` which states the number of added constraint
6827 - Constraints section has new column named \#ResProp which show the number of resolve propagation calls of certain
6828 constraint handler
6829 - Constraint Timing section has a new column \#ResProp which states the time spend in resolve propagation method of the
6830 constraint handler
6831 - improved output of propagators in display statistics
6832 - new section `Propagator Timing` which shows the time spend in different callbacks of the propagator
6833 - rearranged first two columns of Propagators section; \#Propagate and \#ResProp stating the number of call for
6834 propagation and resolve propagation; the Time column is moved into the new section Propagator Timings
6835 - Constraints section has new column named `MaxNumber` which the maximum number of active constraint of a certain
6836 constraint handler
6837 - added two columns `Time-0-It` and `Calls-0-It` in the LP section which states the number of LP call and time spend for
6838 solving LPs with zero iterations (only refactorization)
6839 - The display of statistics for presolvers, propagators, constraints and LP solving has changed.
6840
6841Performance improvements
6842------------------------
6843
6844- Reorganized filtering process of separation storage (allows adding cuts for different solutions)
6845- Improved presolving for various constraint handlers
6846- Improved propagation methods for variable bound constraints
6847- Improved performance for quadratic constraints
6848- performance improvements in prop_vbounds
6849- child selection rules now get also applied when the relaxation value is equal to the bound changed in branching
6850- added dual reduction to cons_cumulative.c
6851- for continuous variables, the pseudo costs update and the pscost branching rule now use the same strategies for
6852 updating the pseudo costs and estimating the improvement in the LP bound
6853- only perform probing if the variables are locked
6854- performance and memory consumption improvements in xmlparse.c
6855- Improved knapsack cover cuts
6856- avoid very long separation times of LEWIs in cons_knapsack for very large minimal covers
6857- used SCIPallocMemoryArray() instead of SCIPallocBlockMemoryArray() which leads to fewer memory consumption in
6858 getLiftingSequence() in cons_knapsack, also improved cache use bei using an extra array instead blockmemory chunks
6859- switched FASTMIP from 1 to 2 for CPLEX and changed default pricing rule back to steepest edge pricing instead of
6860 quickstart steepest edge pricing
6861- made sorting method more robust
6862- LNS heuristics now use SCIPcopy() by default
6863- considering inactive variables in undercover heuristic; limiting effort for solving covering problem
6864- if during probing mode the LP relaxation is solved from scratch, e.g., when calling the shiftandpropagate heuristic
6865 before root node solving, then we clear the resulting LP state, since it might be a bad starting basis for the next
6866 solve of the LP relaxation (controlled by new parameter `lp/clearinitialprobinglp`)
6867- included LP simplifier into SoPlex LP interface, applied when solving from scratch (lpi_spx.cpp)
6868- new presolving steps in varbound constraint handler, tightening bounds, coefficients, sides and pairwise presolving
6869
6870Interface changes
6871-----------------
6872
6873- Miscellaneous:
6874 - The emphasis setting types now distinguish between plugin-type specific parameter settings (default, aggressive, fast, off),
6875 which are changed by SCIPsetHeuristics/Presolving/Separating(), and global emphasis settings (default, cpsolver, easycip,
6876 feasibility, hardlp, optimality, counter), which can be set using SCIPsetEmphasis().
6877
6878### New and changed callbacks
6879
6880- added propagator timings `SCIP_PROPTIMING_BEFORELP`, `SCIP_PROPTIMING_DURINGLPLOOP` and `SCIP_PROPTIMING_AFTERLPLOOP` for
6881 all propagation callbacks (see propagators and constraint handlers) which lead to calling the propagation methods of a
6882 propagator before the lp is solved, during the lp loop and after the lp solving loop
6883
6884- Conflict Analysis:
6885 - Added parameter `separate` to conflict handler callback method SCIP_DECL_CONFLICTEXEC() that defines whether the conflict
6886 constraint should be separated or not.
6887
6888- Constraint Handler:
6889 - The new constraint handler callback SCIP_DECL_CONSDELVARS() is called after variables were marked for deletion.
6890 This method is optional and only of interest if you are using SCIP as a branch-and-price framework. That means,
6891 you are generating new variables during the search. If you are not doing that just define the function pointer
6892 to be `NULL`.
6893 If this method gets implemented you should iterate over all constraints of the constraint handler and delete all
6894 variables that were marked for deletion by SCIPdelVar().
6895
6896- NLP Solver Interface:
6897 - The callbacks SCIP_DECL_NLPIGETSOLUTION() and SCIP_DECL_NLPISETINITIALGUESS() got new parameters to get/set values of
6898 dual variables.
6899 - The callback SCIP_DECL_NLPICOPY() now passes the block memory of the target SCIP as an additional parameter.
6900
6901- Presolving:
6902 - New parameters `isunbounded` and `isinfeasible` for presolving initialization (SCIP_DECL_CONSINITPRE(),
6903 SCIP_DECL_PRESOLINITPRE(), SCIP_DECL_PROPINITPRE()) and presolving deinitialization (SCIP_DECL_CONSEXITPRE(),
6904 SCIP_DECL_PRESOLEXITPRE(), SCIP_DECL_PROPEXITPRE()) callbacks of presolvers,
6905 constraint handlers and propagators, telling the callback whether the problem was already declared to be
6906 unbounded or infeasible. This allows to avoid expensive steps in these methods in case the problem is already
6907 solved, anyway.
6908
6909 Note, that the C++ methods
6910 - scip::ObjConshdlr::scip_presol() corresponding to SCIP_DECL_CONSPRESOL()
6911 - scip::ObjConshdlr::scip_initpre() corresponding to SCIP_DECL_CONSINITPRE()
6912 - scip::ObjPresol::scip_initpre() corresponding to SCIP_DECL_PRESOLINITPRE()
6913 - scip::ObjProp::scip_initpre() corresponding to SCIP_DECL_PROPINITPRE()
6914 - scip::ObjConshdlr::scip_exitpre() corresponding to SCIP_DECL_CONSEXITPRE()
6915 - scip::ObjPresol::scip_exitpre() corresponding to SCIP_DECL_PRESOLEXITPRE()
6916 - scip::ObjProp::scip_exitpre() corresponding to and SCIP_DECL_PROPEXITPRE()
6917 are virtual functions. That means, if you are not adding the new parameters, your code will still compile, but these methods are not executed.
6918 - Propagators are now also called in during presolving, this is supported by the new callback methods SCIP_DECL_PROPINITPRE(),
6919 SCIP_DECL_PROPEXITPRE(), and SCIP_DECL_PROPPRESOL().
6920 - The new parameters `nnewaddconss` and `naddconss` were added to the constraint handler callback method SCIP_DECL_CONSPRESOL()
6921 and the presolver callback method SCIP_DECL_PRESOLEXEC(). These parameters were also added to corresponding C++ wrapper
6922 class methods (scip_presol() in objconshdlr.h and scip_exec() in objpresol.h)
6923
6924- Problem Data:
6925 - The callback SCIP_DECL_PROBCOPY() got a new parameter `global` to indicate whether the global problem or a local version is copied.
6926
6927### Deleted and changed API functions
6928
6929- implemented SCIPlpiGetPrimalRay() in SoPlex interface that has become available with SoPlex version 1.5.0.2
6930- allowed calling SCIPgetRowSolActivity() in `SCIP_STAGE_SOLVED`, since LP is still available
6931- various extensions and modifications for expressions and expression trees (too much to state here)
6932- The result value `SCIP_NEWROUND` has been added, it allows a separator/constraint handler to start a new separation round
6933 (without previous calls to other separators/conshdlrs).
6934- SCIPcalcNodeselPriority() got a new parameter `branchdir`, which defines the type of branching that was performed: upwards, downwards, or fixed.
6935
6936- Constraint Handlers:
6937 - Method SCIPincludeQuadconsUpgrade() of quadratic constraint handler got new parameter `active` to indicate whether the upgrading method is active by default.
6938 - Method SCIPseparateRelaxedKnapsack() in knapsack constraint handler got new parameter `cutoff`, which is a pointer to store whether a cutoff was found.
6939
6940- Nonlinear expressions, relaxation, and solver interface:
6941 - SCIPcreateNLPSol() now creates a `SCIP_SOL` that is linked to the solution of the current NLP relaxation
6942 - Various types and functions dealing with polynomial expressions have been renamed to use the proper terms `monomial` and
6943 `polynomial` in nonlinear expressions (nlpi/∗expr*); results in many renamings of types, structs and methods.
6944 - The methods SCIPnlpGetObjective(), SCIPnlpGetSolVals(), and SCIPnlpGetVarSolVal() have been removed, use SCIPgetNLPObjval(),
6945 SCIPvarGetNLPSol() and SCIPcreateNLPSol() to retrieve NLP solution values instead.
6946 SCIPcreateNLPSol() now returns an error if NLP or NLP solution is not available
6947 - Removed methods SCIPmarkRequireNLP() and SCIPisNLPRequired(), because the NLP is now always constructed if nonlinearities
6948 are present.
6949 - SCIPgetNLP() has been removed and NLP-methods from pub_nlp.h have been moved to scip.h, which resulted in some renamings, too.
6950 - renamed SCIPexprtreeEvalSol() to SCIPevalExprtreeSol() and now located in scip.h.
6951 - renamed SCIPexprtreeEvalIntLocalBounds() to SCIPevalExprtreeLocalBounds() and now located in scip.h.
6952 - renamed SCIPexprtreeEvalIntGlobalBounds() to SCIPevalExprtreeGlobalBounds() and now located in scip.h.
6953 - The functions SCIPnlpiGetSolution() and SCIPnlpiSetInitialGuess() got additional arguments to get/set dual values.
6954 - The method SCIPgetNLPI() got a new parameter `nlpiproblem`, which is a pointer to store the NLP solver interface problem.
6955
6956- Timing:
6957 - SCIPincludeProp() got additional parameters to set the timing mask of the propagator and the new callbacks and parameters
6958 related to calling the propagator in presolving.
6959 - SCIPincludeConshdlr() got additional parameters to set the variable deletion callback function and the timing mask for
6960 propagation.
6961 - removed parameters timelimit and memorylimit from SCIPapplyRens()
6962 - The parameters `timelimit` and `memorylimit` were removed from SCIPapplyRens().
6963
6964- Problem Data:
6965 - The method SCIPcopyProb() got a new parameter `global` to indicate whether the global problem or a local version is copied.
6966
6967- Writing and Parsing Constraints:
6968 - The methods SCIPwriteVarName(), SCIPwriteVarsList(), and SCIPwriteVarsLinearsum() got a new boolean parameter `type`
6969 that indicates whether the variable type should be written or not.
6970 - The methods SCIPparseVarName() and SCIPparseVarsList() got a new output parameter `endptr` that is filled with the position
6971 where the parsing stopped.
6972 - The method SCIPwriteVarsList() got additionally a new parameter `delimiter` that defines the character which is used for delimitation.
6973
6974- Variables:
6975 - SCIPmarkDoNotMultaggrVar()/SCIPvarMarkDoNotMultaggr() now allow to mark negated and aggregated variables
6976 - SCIPgetVarCopy() got a new parameter `success` that will be FALSE if method is called after problem creation stage and no hash map is
6977 given or no image for the given variable is contained in the given hash map.
6978 - SCIPchgVarType() got an extra boolean parameter to store if infeasibility is recognized while upgrading a variable from continuous
6979 type to an integer type.
6980 - SCIPdelVar() got a new parameter `deleted`, which stores whether the variable was successfully marked to be deleted.
6981
6982### New API functions
6983
6984- information about the quality of the solution of an LP (currently the condition number of the basis matrix) can now be:
6985 + requested from the LPI (currently only available for CPLEX): methods SCIPlpiGetRealSolQuality() and
6986 + SCIPprintLPSolutionQuality() command display lpsolquality in interactive shell display column lpcond to show
6987 + estimate on condition number, if available
6988- SCIPround() and SCIPfeasRound() to round to nearest integer
6989- SCIPsortRealRealIntInt() and corresponding sorting/inserting/deleting methods in pub_misc.h and necessary defines in misc.c
6990- SCIPsortRealIntLong(), SCIPsortPtrPtrRealInt() and corresponding sorting/inserting/deleting methods in
6991 pub_misc.h and necessary defines in misc.c
6992- SCIPcomputeLPRelIntPoint() to compute relative interior point of the current LP
6993- SCIPstartSolvingTime() and SCIPstopSolvingTime() which can be used to start or stop the solving time clock
6994- SCIPstrToRealValue() and SCIPstrCopySection() in pub_misc.h; these methods can be used to convert a string
6995 into a `SCIP_Real` value and to copy a substring.
6996- SCIPgetBinvarRepresentatives() which gets binary variables that are equal to some given binary variables,
6997 and which are either active, fixed, or multi-aggregated, or the negated variables of active, fixed, or multi-aggregated variables
6998- SCIPhasPrimalRay() and SCIPgetPrimalRayVal() that return whether a primal ray is stored and which value a
6999 given variable has in the primal ray, respectively
7000- SCIPsetConsModifiable()
7001- SCIPsetParam() which is a generic parameter setter method, independent of the parameter type
7002- SCIPpropInitpre(), SCIPpropExitpre(), SCIPpropPresol() which initializes, exists and executes the presolving phase
7003- SCIProwGetAge() to access the age of a row (pub_lp.h/lp.c)
7004- SCIPsolGetOrigObj() in pub_sol.h which returns for a solution in the original problem space the objective value
7005- SCIPretransformSol() in scip.h that allows to retransform a solution to the original space
7006- SCIPlpiClearState() to LP interfaces for clearing basis information in the LP solver
7007- SCIPgetSubscipDepth() to access the depth of the current SCIP as a copied subproblem
7008- SCIPdebugAddSolVal() and SCIPdebugGetSolVal() to add/get values to/from a debug solution
7009- SCIPsepastoreRemoveInefficaciousCuts() to remove non-efficious cuts from the separation storage
7010
7011- Nodes:
7012 - SCIPnodeGetParent() to get parent node of a node
7013 - SCIPnodesSharePath() in pub_tree.h that determines whether two nodes are on the same leaf-root path
7014 - SCIPnodesGetCommonAncestor() in pub_tree.h that finds the common ancestor node for two given nodes
7015
7016- Read and Write:
7017 - SCIPgetReadingTime() which returns the time for reading in seconds
7018 - SCIPparseVarsLinearsum(), SCIPparseVarsPolynomial() and SCIPwriteVarsPolynomial() and for writing and
7019 parsing polynomials in constraint handler writing/parsing methods
7020
7021- Memory:
7022 - SCIPcreateMesshdlrPThreads() and SCIPfreeMesshdlrPThreads() for allocating and deleting necessary memory
7023 for message handlers for parallel pthread version
7024 - SCIPallocClearMemoryArray() and BMSallocClearMemoryArray() for allocating cleared memory arrays in scip.h and memory.h
7025
7026- Intervals:
7027 - SCIPintervalPowerScalarInverse() to solve an equation y = x^p for given bounds on y and scalar exponent p
7028 - SCIPintervalQuadBivar() to compute tight bounds on a bivariate quadratic form
7029 - SCIPintervalSolveBivariateQuadExpressionAllScalar() to compute tight bounds on the solutions of a bivariate quadratic equation
7030
7031- Variables:
7032 - SCIPcomputeVarCurrent{L,U}b{Local,Global}() to compute local or global lower or upper bounds of a
7033 multiaggregated variable from the bounds of the aggregation variables
7034 - SCIPbranchVarValNary() for n-ary variable branching
7035 - SCIPgetNegatedVars() which returns all negated variables for a given array of variables, if the negated
7036 variables are not existing yet, they will be created
7037 - SCIPgetNTotalVars() that returns the total number of created vars, icluding variables that were deleted in the meantime
7038 - SCIPvarGetHashkey(), SCIPvarIsHashkeyEq(), SCIPvarGetHashkeyVal() in pub_var.h which can be used for `SCIP_HASHTABLE` of variables
7039 - SCIPvarGetNBdchgInfosLb() and SCIPvarGetNBdchgInfosUb() in pub_var.h returning the number of lower or upper bound changes on the active path
7040 - SCIPvarGetBdchgInfoLb() and SCIPvarGetBdchgInfoUb() returning the bound change information at the given position
7041 - SCIPvarMarkDeletable() to mark a variable to be deletable completely from the problem (for
7042 branch-and-price); can only be called before the variable is added to the problem
7043 - SCIPvarMarkNotDeletable() that marks a variable to be non-deleteable (used within SCIP for forbidding
7044 deletion of variables contained in solution, LP bases, (multi)aggregation, ...)
7045 - SCIPvarIsDeletable() that returns whether a variable is marked to be deletable (each variable is per default non-deletable)
7046
7047- NLP:
7048 - SCIPgetNLPVarsNonlinearity() to get for each variable in the NLP the number of NLP rows in which this variable appears in a nonlinear way
7049 - SCIPnlrowGetDualsol(), SCIPgetNLPVarsLbDualsol(), SCIPgetNLPVarsUbDualsol() to retrieve dual values from an NLP solution
7050 - SCIPgetNLPFracVars() to get the fractional variables in an NLP solution
7051
7052- Propagator:
7053 - SCIPpropSetPresolPriority() which changes the presolving priority of a given propagator
7054 - SCIPpropGetPresolPriority(), SCIPpropGetPresolTime(), SCIPpropWasPresolDelayed(), SCIPpropGetNFixedVars(),
7055 SCIPpropGetNAggrVars(), SCIPpropGetNChgVarTypes(), SCIPpropGetNChgBds(), SCIPpropGetNAddHoles(), SCIPpropGetNDelConss(),
7056 SCIPpropGetNAddConss(), SCIPpropGetNUpgdConss(), SCIPpropGetNChgCoefs(), SCIPpropGetNChgSides(), SCIPpropGetTimingmask(),
7057 SCIPpropDoesPresolve() which return corresponding presolving information
7058 - SCIPpropGetNRespropCalls() and SCIPconshdlrGetNRespropCalls() which return the number of times a
7059 propagator or a constraint handler was called for resolving a propagation
7060 - SCIPpropGetRespropTime() and SCIPconshdlrGetRespropTime() which return time spent for resolving a
7061 propagation within a propagator or a constraint handler
7062 - SCIPcheckCumulativeCondition(), SCIPpropCumulativeCondition() and SCIPrespropCumulativeCondition() in
7063 cons_cumulative.h; these methods can be used to check, propagate, or resolve the propagation of a cumulative condition
7064 - SCIPpropagateCutoffboundVar() in prop_pseudoobj.h which can be used to propagate the cutoff bound for the given variables
7065
7066- Constraints:
7067 - added to linear constraint handler SCIPsetUpgradeConsLinear(), which (de-)activates the possibility to
7068 upgrade a linear constraint to a specialized linear constraint (e.g. knapsack)
7069 - SCIPconvertCutsToConss() and SCIPcopyCuts() to scip.{c,h} for copying cuts to linear constraints
7070 - SCIPaddCoefLogicor() to add a variable to a logic or constraint
7071 - SCIPfindOrigCons() which return a original constraint with the given name or `NULL`
7072 - SCIPconshdlrGetNAddConss() which returns the number of added constraints during presolving by a given constraint handler
7073 - SCIPpresolGetNAddConss() which returns the number of added constraints during presolving by a given presolver
7074
7075### Command line interface
7076
7077- New funtionalities in the interactive shell (modify current CIP instance, write NLP relaxation)
7078- added dialog `write nlp` to write current NLP relaxation to a file
7079- new dialog `change freetransproblem` to free transformed problem in the interactive shell before changing the problem
7080- it is possible to change bounds of a variable in the interactive shell
7081- it is possible to add a constraint to a problem in the interactive shell
7082
7083### Interfaces to external software
7084
7085- Improved SOPLEX interface (LP simplifier)
7086- Improved CPLEX interface, including measures for numerical stability
7087
7088### Changed parameters
7089
7090- change default value of parameter `nodeselection/restartdfs/selectbestfreq` 100
7091- moved parameters for pseudoboolean constraints from opb-reader to pseudoboolean constraint handler
7092- changed possible parameter values of `branching/pscost/strategy` from `bri` to `cdsu`: default is now `u`, i.e., to
7093 estimate the LP gain by a branching for external branching candidates (esp. continuous variables) the same way as
7094 their pseudo costs are updated
7095- added possible value `d` for `constraints/soc/nlpform` to choose a convex division form for SOC constraint
7096 representation in NLP
7097- renamed parameter `constraints/quadratic/linearizenlpsol` to `constraints/quadratic/linearizeheursol` and do
7098 linearizations in every solution found by some heuristic
7099- renamed parameter `constraints/quadratic/mincutefficacyenfo` to `constraints/quadratic/mincutefficacyenfofac` and
7100 interpret it as a factor of the feasibility tolerance
7101- removed fastmip setting 2, which means the dualsolution would not be calculated but because SCIP always asks for the
7102 dual solution, the lp would be reoptimized to calculate them; so it had no real effect
7103- all parameters in cons_indicator and cons_sos1 have been converted to lower case!
7104- changed default value of parameter `separating/gomory/maxroundsroot` to 10
7105- changed default value of parameter `separating/gomory/maxsepacutsroot` to 50
7106- removed parameter `heuristics/subnlp/nlpsolver`, use `nlp/solver` instead
7107
7108### New parameters
7109
7110- `branching/delaypscostupdate` to delay the update of pseudo costs for continuous variables behind the separation round: default is TRUE
7111- `branching/lpgainnormalize` to set the strategy how the LP gain for a continuous variable is normalized when updating the
7112 variables pseudocosts: default is to divide LP gain by reduction of variable's domain in sibling node
7113- `branching/pscost/nchildren` and `branching/pscost/nary*` to enable and customize n-ary branching on
7114 external branching candidates (e.g., in spatial branching for MINLP)
7115- `conflict/bounddisjunction/continuousfrac` which defines the maximum percantage of continuous variables
7116 within a conflict create by the bounddisjunction conflict handler
7117- `conflict/separate` which enables or disables the separation of conflict constraints
7118- `constraints/{nonlinear,quadratic,soc,abspower}/sepanlpmincont` to specify minimal required fraction
7119 of continuous variables in problem to enable linearization of convex constraints in NLP relaxation solution in root
7120- `constraints/indicator/forcerestart` and `constraints/indicator/restartfrac` to control forced restart in cons_indicator
7121- `constraints/indicator/generatebilinear` to generate bilinear (quadratic) constraints instead of indicator constraints
7122- `constraints/indicator/maxconditionaltlp` to enable a quality check for the solution of the alternative LP
7123- `constraints/indicator/removeindicators` to remove indicator constraints if corresponding vub has been added
7124- `constraints/linear/nmincomparisons` and `constraints/linear/mingainpernmincomparisons` to influence
7125 stopping criterium for pairwise comparison of linear constraints
7126- `constraints/pseudoboolean/decompose`, for pseudoboolean constraints to transform pseudoboolean constraints into linear- and and-constraints
7127- `constraints/quadratic/binreforminitial` to indicate whether linear (non-varbound) constraints added due to reformulation of products with
7128 binary variables in a quadratic constraints should be initial (if the quadratic constraint is initial), default is FALSE
7129- `constraints/quadratic/checkfactorable` to disable check for factorable quadratic functions (xAx = (ax+b)*(cx+d)) in quadratic constraints
7130 and not to use of this information in separation (generates lifted tangent inequalities according to Belotti/Miller/Namazifar if also
7131 linear vars are present)
7132- `constraints/quadratic/disaggregate` to split a block-separable quadratic constraint into several quadratic constraint
7133- `constraints/quadratic/maxproprounds` and `constraints/quadratic/maxproproundspresolve` to limit the
7134 number of propagations rounds for quadratic constraints within one propagation round of SCIP solve or during SCIP presolve
7135- `constraints/varbound/presolpairwise` that allows pairwise presolving of varbound constraints, default is TRUE
7136- `heuristics/shiftandpropagate/onlywithoutsol` to switch whether the heuristic should be called in case a primal solution is already present
7137- `limit/maxorigsol` which defines the size of the solution candidate store (default value is 10)
7138- `lp/resolverestore` controlling how LP solution is restored after diving: if TRUE by resolving them,
7139 if FALSE by buffering them; if `lp/freesolvalbuffers` is TRUE, we free the buffer memory each time (FALSE by default)
7140- `lp/clearinitialprobinglp` to clear LP state at end of probing mode, if LP was initially unsolved
7141- `lp/resolveitermin` and `lp/resolveiterfac` to limit the number of LP iterations in resolving calls:
7142 resolveiterfac is a factor by which the average number of iterations per call is multiplied to get the limit, but the
7143 limit is at least resolveitermin; default is -1 (no limit) for resolveiterfac and 1000 for resolveitermin
7144- `lp/resolverestore` and `lp/freesolvalbuffers` possibility to buffer and restore LP solution after diving without
7145 having to resolve the LP; currently turned off, because performance impact is unclear;
7146- `misc/improvingsols` which states whether only solutions which have a better (or equal) primal bound
7147 as the best known are checked; this is of interest if the check of a solution is expensive; default value is FALSE
7148- `misc/resetstat` which state if the statistics should be reseted if the transformed problem is freed
7149 (in case of a benders decomposition this parameter should be set to FALSE) default value is TRUE
7150- `nodeselection/restartdfs/countonlyleafs` in node selector restart dfs which can be used to select the counting process of processed nodes
7151- `presolving/donotaggr` to deactivate aggregation of variables globally
7152- `pricing/delvars` and `pricing/delvarsroot` that define, whether variables created at a node / the
7153 root node should be deleted when the node is solved in case they are not present in the LP anymore
7154- `propagating/%s/maxprerounds` for all propagators which allows to change to maximal number of rounds
7155 of presolving where this propagator participates in
7156- `propagating/%s/presoldelay` for all propagators which allows to change if the presolving call of the given propagator should be delayed
7157- `propagating/%s/presolpriority` for all propagators which allows to change the priority of calling the given propagator
7158- `propagating/pseudoobj/propfullinroot` for allowing to propagate all variables in the root node,
7159 instead of stopping after `maxcands` which is set by a parameter as well
7160- `reading/gmsreader/bigmdefault` and `reading/gmsreader/indicatorreform` reader_gms is now able to write indicator
7161 constraints (reformulated either via big-M or sos1)
7162- `reading/gmsreader/signpower` to enable writing sign(x)abs(x)^n as the rarely used gams function signpower(x,n)
7163- `separating/closecuts/maxunsucessful` to turn off separation if we can not find cuts
7164- `timing/reading` to add reading time to solving time
7165
7166### Data structures
7167
7168- split off `PARAMEMPHASIS` from `PARAMSETTING` (in pub_paramset.c/paramset.c)
7169- new data structure `SCIP_STAIRMAP`
7170- add expression graph data structures and methods for reformulation, domain propagation, simple convexity check on
7171 nonlinear expressions and simplification for expression trees and graphs
7172
7173Testing
7174-------
7175
7176- New scripts for running tests with GAMS
7177- added scripts check_gams.sh, evalcheck_gams.sh and check_gams.awk and target `testgams` in Makefile
7178- adjusted all test scripts to use the same new optimality gap computation as in SCIP
7179- added Makefile option `VALGRIND=true` to enable running the SCIP checks (make test) through valgrind; valgrind errors
7180 and memory leaks are reported as fails
7181- moved *.test and *.solu files to subdirectory testset in check directory and adjusted test scripts
7182
7183Build system
7184------------
7185
7186### Makefile
7187
7188- Variables:
7189 - via `PARASCIP=true` as a `Makefile` option it is possible to compile SCIP threadsafe in DEBUG-mode, (in OPT-mode it's
7190 only necessary if non-default messagehandler or CppAD is used)
7191 - the `make` parameter `PARASCIP=true` leads to threadsafe message handlers where you need to call
7192 SCIPcreateMesshdlrPThreads() and SCIPmessageSetHandler()/SCIPmessageSetDefaultHandler() and SCIPfreeMesshdlrPThreads();
7193 therefore we need to link with pthread library
7194 - new variable $(INSTALLDIR) in Makefile which define installation directory for the libraries, $(INSTALLDIR)/lib/,
7195 binary, $(INSTALLDIR)/bin and include headers, $(INSTALLDIR)/include, the default value is the empty string
7196
7197- Linking:
7198 - Linking against Clp and Ipopt has been simplified. Only the directory where the
7199 package has been installed need to be provided now. For details see the INSTALL file.
7200 - to link against IPOPT, only the base directory of an Ipopt installation need to be specified now; additionally, if
7201 building with gnu compilers, the Ipopt libraries directory is stored in the SCIP binary, which should make it easier
7202 to run with Ipopt shared libraries
7203 - to link against Clp, only the base directory of an Clp installation needs to be specified now
7204
7205- Targets:
7206 - New targets `(un)install` in Makefile, support for valgrind in testing environment
7207 - new target `make libs` which compiles only the libraries
7208 - new target in Makefile `install` performs `make` and copies using the install command the include headers, binary, and
7209 libraries
7210 - new target in Makefile `uninstall` removes libraries, binary and include headers form `INSTALLDIR`
7211 - removed target `lintfiles`, this target is now imitated by the `lint` target and a none empty variable `FILES`
7212
7213Fixed bugs
7214----------
7215
7216- fixed bug in copying if the target SCIP already is in solving stage: it might be that the copy of a variable cannot be found/created
7217- fixed bug trying to print big messages bigger than `SCIP_MAXSTRLEN`
7218- fixed bug w.r.t. counting feasible solutions and turned of sparse solution test
7219- LP solution status is now checked when checking root LP solution. Otherwise, due to different time measurements, it
7220 might happen that the LP solving was stopped due to the time limit, but SCIP did not reach the limit, yet.
7221- fixed bug trying to tighten multiaggregated variables, which have only one active representation and this variable is already tightened
7222- fixed possible buffer overrun in tclique_graph.c
7223- fixed issue with interactive shell in case (user) plugins are included after the default plugins
7224- fixed bug where mutiaggregating leads to an aggregation and both variables were of implicit or integral type
7225- fixed bug in conflict.c, where LPi was manipulated, but not marked as not solved
7226
7227- Tree:
7228 - fixed assertion in tree.c w.r.t. node estimation
7229 - fixed bug in debug.c: removed tree nodes had not been checked if they were pruned due to an incumbent solution found by a diving heuristic
7230
7231- Bounds:
7232 - fixed bug which occurred when changing a bound in the solving stage when this variables got upgraded from continuous to
7233 a integer type, where the bounds of this variable were still not integral; due to that SCIPchgVarType() has changed (see above)
7234 - fixed bug in handling of lazy bounds that resulted in putting the bounds explicitly into the LP
7235
7236- Separation:
7237 - fixed assert in sepa_clique.c which is currently not valid because implicit binary variables in cliques are ignored
7238 - fixed bug in sepa_zerohalf.c concerning inconsistent construction of solution array of variables and fixed wrong assert about variable bounds
7239
7240- Constraints:
7241 - fixed not correct merging of variable in logicor constraint handler and changed the name of the method to a common
7242 name used by other constraint handlers too(findPairsAndSets->mergeMultiples)
7243 - fixed bugs in changing the initial and checked flags for constraints in original problem
7244 - fixed bug in cons_linear.c, when scaling a constraint maxabscoef was not set correctly, furthermore the correction of
7245 maxabscoef was not handled correctly
7246 - fixed bug in cons_indicator.c trying to copy a constraint where the pointer to the linear constraint did not point to
7247 the already transformed linear constraint (, happend when SCIPcopy() is used after transforming before presolving)
7248 - fixed numerical bug in linear constraint handler: polishing of coefficients after fixing variables led to wrong
7249 results for continuous variables fixed to a close-to-zero value.
7250 - fixed bug in cons_bounddisjunction where branching on multiaggregated variables was tried while all aggregation variables are fixed
7251 - fixed bug in presolving of cons_logicor.c: adding variable implications can lead to further reductions; added call to applyFixings()
7252 - fixed bug in cons_countsols.c w.r.t. none active variables
7253 - fixed bug in cons_linear.c, scaling could have led to wrong values
7254
7255- Reader:
7256 - fixed bug in reader_fzn.c w.r.t. cumulative constraints
7257 - fixed bug in reader_mps.c: if a variables first occurence is in the bounds section, then the corresponding variable bound was lost
7258 - fixed several issues in flatzinc reader
7259 - deactived checking of zero solution in Zimpl reader when no starting values are provided
7260 - reader_lp is now able to read lines longer than 65534 characters
7261
7262- Memory:
7263 - fixed bug in copying NLPI interfaces that use block-memory (NLPI copy used block memory from source SCIP)
7264 - fixed memory leak in reader_pip.c
7265 - fixed memory leak in coloring part of maximum clique algorithm (tclique_coloring.c)
7266 - fixed memory leak in coloring part of maximum clique algorithm (tclique_coloring.c) in a better way
7267
7268- Numerics:
7269 - fixed bug which occurred when the dual farkas multipliers were not available in the lpi because the LP could only be
7270 solved with the primal simplex due to numerical problems
7271 - fixed bug in ZI round heuristic that led to infeasible shiftings for numerically slightly infeasible rows with close-to-zero coefficients
7272 - fixed numerical issue in octane heuristic: close-to-zero values for ray direction could have led to bad computations
7273
7274- Propagation:
7275 - fixed bug in propagation of indicator constraints: cannot fix slack variable to 0 if linear constraint is disabled/not active
7276 - fixed bug in cons_linear.c while sorting the eventdatas during the binary variable sorting for propagation
7277 - fixed bug and wrong assert in heur_shiftandpropagate.c when relaxing continuous variables from the problem
7278 - fixed bug in cons_orbitope:resprop() for the packing case
7279 - fixed wrong changing of wasdelayed flag for propagators
7280 - fixed bug using wrong sign in infinity check in prop_pseudoobj
7281 - fixed bug in redcost propagator: can only be called if the current node has an LP
7282 - fixed bug w.r.t. infinity loop during propagation
7283
7284Miscellaneous
7285-------------
7286
7287- The interface contains several additional callback functions and parameters for plugins. Some effort may be required to compile your old
7288 projects with SCIP 2.1. For details see section `Changes between version 2.0 and 2.1` in the doxygen documentation.
7289
7290@page RN2_0 Release notes for SCIP 2.0
7291
7292@section RN202 SCIP 2.0.2
7293*************************
7294
7295Performance improvements
7296------------------------
7297
7298- improved twoopt-heuristic by considering larger search domains
7299- the SoPlex interface now has the capability to provide a primal ray, provided it is compiled against the next SoPlex release (>= 1.5.0.2)
7300- calculation of node priority now also works when variable's relaxation value is equal to a bound
7301- fixed issue w.r.t. calling primal heuristics after presolving detected infeasibility
7302
7303- Constraints:
7304 - fasten propagation in cons_knapsack.c due to negated clique partitions
7305 - recalculating only needed partitions in cons_knapsack.c, not always both
7306
7307- Memory:
7308 - reduced memory usage of shift-and-propagate heuristic
7309 - knapsack constraints are now separated faster; SCIPsolveKnapsackExactly() now works faster and requires less memory
7310 - fasten knapsack separation by replacing SCIPallocBuffer(Array) through SCIPallocBlockMemory(Array)
7311 - improved runtime and memory consumption in SCIPsolveKnapsackExactly() in cons_knapsack.c
7312
7313Fixed bugs:
7314----------
7315
7316- fixed `make/make.project`
7317- fixed wrong assert in plugins that use SCIPcopy()
7318- fixed bug in DINS w.r.t. column generation
7319- fixed bug in var.c where a possible multiaggregation was resolved to an aggregation but the variables types were not
7320 checked to prefer more general types for aggregating; possible memory loss removed
7321- fixed bug in prop_vbounds.c w.r.t. infinity lower and upper bound of variable bound variables
7322- fixed bug w.r.t. setting wall clocks
7323- fixed wrong assert in var.c (replaced `==` through SCIPsetIsEQ()), real values do not have to be exactly the same when
7324 computed in different function
7325- fixed bug in SCIPsolveIsStopped() where it could happen that TRUE was reported if a nodelimit was reached but
7326 checknodelimits had been set to FALSE
7327- fixed three bugs when writing in fzn format (wrongly splitted writing buffer, wrong variables was used, floats were printed to short)
7328- fixed bug in conflict.c, infeasibility analysis with big values led to wrong result
7329
7330- Heuristics:
7331 - fixed bug in DINS heuristic that occurred when the incumbent solution value is outside the variable's current domain
7332 - fixed behavior of LNS heuristics when the subproblem aborts: continue in optimized mode, stop in debug mode
7333 - fixed segmentation fault in heur_subnlp.c which occurred if resolving the NLP with a tighter feasibility tolerance
7334 failed with a solver error
7335 - fixed bug in heur_subnlp.c where constraints forbidding variable fixations where added if a cutoff was used in the subproblem
7336 - fixed bug in heur_subnlp.c where wrong constraints forbidding variable fixations where added in case of general integers
7337
7338- NLP:
7339 - fixed bug in changing quadratic coefficients of a row in the NLP
7340 - fixed various small bugs in nonlinear expressions code
7341 - fixed removal of fixed linear variables from a nonlinear row: a fixed variable may have not been removed if there was
7342 also a multiaggregated variable
7343
7344- LP:
7345 - implemented SCIPlpiGetPrimalRay() in SoPlex interface that has become available with SoPlex version 1.5.0.2
7346 - fixed two bugs at nodes with unbounded LP relaxation: don't check lp rows of infinite solution; don't analyze conflict
7347 due to primal cutoff bound of -infinity
7348 - fixed wrong assumption that an optimal LP solution in the root is optimal for the problem if there are no active
7349 pricers, need to check also whether all variables are in the LP
7350
7351- Constraints:
7352 - fixed bug in reader_cip regarding reading of very long constraints
7353 - fixed bug while after restarting possible the aggregted variables were not removed in setppc constraints
7354 - fixed bug in cons_knapsack: in seldom circumstances the relaxation of a linear constraint can detect infeasibility,
7355 which was not handled properly
7356 - fixed bug w.r.t. to pricing variables in case new initial constraints come in during the price and cut loop
7357 - fixed bug in cons_soc.c w.r.t. upgrading from quadratic constraints with finite left-hand-side
7358 - fixed bug caused by not (correctly) counting boundchanges in cons_varbound.c
7359 - fixed bug in sorting mechanism in cons_xor.c
7360 - fixed wrong (neg)cliquepartition check in cons_knapsack.c when deleting a coefficient
7361 - fixed bug in cons_quadratic: in seldom cases, fixed variables may have been substituted out wrongly in presolve
7362 - fixed bugs in cons_countsols.c w.r.t. collecting feasible solutions and forbidding a found solution
7363 - fixed bug in cons_linear.c: multiaggregated variables were not removed when adding during solve, leading to a failing
7364 assert in tightenBounds due to an unsuccessful bound tightening
7365
7366- Memory:
7367 - fixed bug concerning overflow in memsize calculation in set.c
7368 - fixed memory leak in SoPlex LP interface when requesting an unbounded solution
7369 - fixed memory leak in SoPlex LP interface when solving with LP scaling
7370 - fixed memory leaks in reader of TSP example
7371
7372@section RN201 SCIP 2.0.1
7373*************************
7374
7375Performance improvements
7376------------------------
7377
7378- SCIP with SoPlex as LP solver now uses auto pricing by default (start with devex, switch to steepest
7379 edge after some iterations); this fixes timeouts on instances where devex converges very slowly
7380- fixing lifting of new knapsack items which are negated items of already included items, this could lead to very long presolving
7381- fixed performance issue in presolving w.r.t. to computing the number of new fixings, aggregated,
7382 and so on before a constraint handler presolver is called
7383- in case of adding constraints during pricing with initial flag set to
7384 TRUE, we add now these constraints after the pricing round to the LP
7385- changed parameter values in clique separator in order to avoid very large branch-and-bound trees
7386
7387Interface changes
7388-----------------
7389
7390### New and changed callbacks
7391
7392- allow access of transformed constraints in `SCIP_STAGE_TRANSFORMED`
7393
7394### Changed parameters
7395
7396- replaced parameter `constraints/quadratic/minefficacy` by `constraints/quadratic/minefficacysepa` and `constraints/quadratic/minefficacyenfo`
7397- added possible values `a` and `e` for `constraints/soc/nlpform` to enable automatic choice and convex exponential-sqrt
7398 form for SOC constraint representation in NLP
7399
7400Fixed bugs
7401----------
7402
7403- fixed bug w.r.t. looseobjval; the counting of number of loose variables in the LP data structure was incorrect in case
7404 a variable got aggregated or multi-aggregated
7405- fixed bug in copy method of objvardata which should only create a new `SCIP_VARDATA` if the implemented subclass create
7406 a copy of the given objvardata object
7407- fixed bug in lp.c where in case of objlimit reached and fastmip not all variables where priced because of an incorrect
7408 dual solution
7409- fixed bugs in binpacking example w.r.t. empty struct and not initializing an array
7410- fixed bugs in sepa_clique.c concerning incorrect way to ignore implicit binary variables in cliques and non-active
7411 variables in implications
7412- fixed some bugs w.r.t. to casting pointer arrays
7413- fixed bug in vars.c which handled arrays with parts of original variables during resolving to active variables (using
7414 SCIPvarsGetProbvarBinary) wrong
7415- fixed bug in nlp.c: nlrowSearchQuadElem was using SCIPquadelemSortedFind() incorrectly
7416
7417- Branching:
7418 - fixed assertion w.r.t. to probing during the propagation round of a branch-and-bound node
7419 - fixed computation of node's objective value estimate when branching on continuous variables (see
7420 SCIPtreeCalcChildEstimate(), SCIPtreeBranchVar())
7421 - fixed bug in statistic w.r.t. number of calls for external branching candidates
7422 - fixes to branching on continuous variables
7423
7424- Reader:
7425 - fixed bug in reader_gms.c: linear coefficients for quadratic variables were not printed if they had no
7426 square-coefficient
7427 - fixed bug in reader_mps: indicator constraints do not output the slack variables anymore
7428
7429- Constraints:
7430 - fixed bugs in SCIPcopyConss: copy all active constraints (including disabled ones), *valid was not initialized to TRUE
7431 - fixed bug in debug.c w.r.t. checking of constraints and continuous variables
7432 - fixed bug in cons.c which didn't allow the changing of the separation and enforcement flag of a constraint in the
7433 problem stage
7434 - corrected behavior of the copy function in cons_indicator.c: create artificial linear constraint if linear constraint
7435 was deleted
7436 - fixed bug in cons_indicator.c: presolving cannot delete linear constraints; several other minor bugfixes
7437 - fixed bugs in cons_bounddisjunction where the branching during the constraint enforcement was done incorrectly
7438 - fixed bugs in cons_orbitope.c: orbitopal fixing for the packing case had two bugs; also fixed one wrong assert
7439 - fixed bugs in cons_sos?.c: take average of objestimate
7440 - fixed bug in cons_logicor, implications on none `SCIP_VARTYPE_BINARY` variable were handled wrong
7441 - fixed bug in cons_linear while trying to add a conflict without any variables
7442 - fixed bug in cons_indicator.c: creating constraints in transformed stage is now possible
7443
7444- LP Interface:
7445 - fixed bug w.r.t. memory allocation for all values of a column in lpi_cpx.c
7446 - fixed bugs in SCIPnlpiOracleChgLinearCoefs() and SCIPnlpiOracleChgQuadCoefs() for the case where new coefficients where
7447 added
7448 - fixed bugs in lpi_none.c w.r.t. debug and opt mode
7449 - fixed bug in lpi_cpx.c w.r.t. to wrong handling in case the crossover did not succeed
7450
7451- Heuristics:
7452 - fixed bug in heur_subnlp when initialized starting values of a fixed variable in the NLP of the subscip
7453 - fixed bug in heur_undercover: removed option globalbounds, since we are not allowed to relax bounds at a probing node
7454 - fixed bug in heur_shiftandpropagate where some variables were initialized too late
7455 - fixed numerical issue in some heuristics: nearly-integral values that are between the feasibility and the integrality
7456 tolerance might not have been rounded correctly
7457 - fixed bug in heur_guideddiving: best solution is now copied to avoid deletion in case of many new solutions
7458 - fixed bug in DINS heuristic, information storage for binary variables could lead to bad memory access in column
7459 generation applications
7460 - fixed bug in heur_shiftandpropagate.c: Now, the heuristic checks rows for global infeasibility at the beginning. This
7461 check is only relevant if presolving is disabled.
7462 - fixed bug in heur_subnlp when forbidding a particular combination of integer variables in the main problem
7463
7464@section RN200 SCIP 2.0.0
7465*************************
7466
7467Features
7468--------
7469
7470- added relaxation structure to SCIP, it represents global relaxation information independent from a specific relaxator;
7471 at the moment, it contains information about the relaxation solution stored in the variables: objective value and
7472 validness
7473- SCIP may now be manually restarted
7474- SCIPsolveKnapsackExactly() got a new 12. parameter `SCIP_Bool* success` which stores if an error occurred during
7475 solving(normally a memory problem)
7476- SCIP can now handle problems with continuous variables w.r.t. to counting (the projection to the integral variables
7477 are counted)
7478- an XML-parser is available in the src/xml subdirectory
7479- We do not distinguish between block memory for the original and the transformed problem anymore. The same
7480 block memory is now used in both problem stages.
7481- added new sorting method SCIPsortLongPtr(), SCIPsortDownLongPtr() and all corresponding methods
7482- added new sorting method SCIPsortRealIntPtr(), SCIPsortDownRealIntPtr() and all corresponding methods
7483
7484- Heuristics:
7485 - SCIP can now copy instances (e.g. for heuristics)
7486 - new undercover heuristic for MINLPs: fixes variables such as to obtain a linear or convex subproblem and solves this
7487 - primal heuristics may now already be called before presolving, using the new timing point
7488 `SCIP_HEURTIMING_BEFOREPRESOL`. Note that solutions that are added before/during presolving, will be retransformed to
7489 the original space.
7490 - primal heuristics may now be called during presolving, using the new timing point `SCIP_HEURTIMING_DURINGPRESOLLOOP`
7491 - added heuristic zirounding (heur_zirounding.{c,h})
7492 - added heuristic twoopt (heur_twoopt.{c,h})
7493 - added new NLP heuristic (heur_subnlp.{c,h}) which solves the sub-NLP that is obtained by fixing all discrete variables
7494 in the CIP and applying SCIP's presolving
7495 - feasibility pump heuristic now implements all functionality for feasibility pump 2.0
7496
7497- Reader:
7498 - can now read XML-solution files as used by CPLEX
7499 - the MPS reader can now read MIQPs and MIQCPs where a quadratic objective function can be specified by a QMATRIX or
7500 QUADOBJ section and the quadratic part of a quadratic constraint by a QCMATRIX
7501 - the MPS reader can now write quadratic and SOC constraints
7502 - the GAMS reader can now write SOC constraints
7503 - added support for bool_gt, bool_lt, bool_ge, bool_le, bool_ne, bool_not, int_times, int_minus, int_plus, int_negate,
7504 float_times, float_minus, float_plus, float_negate constraints to flatzinc reader
7505 - the LP reader (.lp files) can now read MIQPs and MIQCPs and write quadratic and SOC constraints
7506 - the LP reader (.lp files) and MPS reader can now read semicontinuous variables, they are handled by creating bound
7507 disjunction constraints
7508 - added new reader for polynomial mixed-integer programs (reader_pip.{c,h}) as used in the POLIP
7509
7510- Indicator constraints:
7511 - SCIP can now handle indicator constraints (reading (from LP, ZIMPL), writing, solving, ...) see \ref cons_indicator.h.
7512 - the indicator constraint can now decompose the problem, i.e., not add the linear constraint to the problem if all of
7513 its variables are continuous
7514 - can now read and write indicator constraints in the (extended) MPS format
7515 - cons_indicator tries to adapt solutions to get feasible during check
7516 - cons_indicator allows to store information on other linear constraints that might help to separate cuts
7517
7518- Constraint handlers:
7519 - Solution counting extended to constraint integer programs, this also
7520 includes constraint integer programs which contain continuous variables
7521 - The solution behavior of SCIP can be diversified by randomly permuting constraints and variables or randomly
7522 determining a set of branching variables with a unique high priority
7523 - `negated cliques` (1<=i<=n : sum (x_i) >= n-1) were added and we are using them now inside the knapsack constraint
7524 handler, the cliquepartitioning which is returned by SCIPcalcCliquePartition() contains now integer != 0, negatives ones
7525 indicates a negated clique and positive ones indicates a normal clique
7526 - SCIP is now able to detect in DEBUG-mode whether a constraint or variables which will be added, was also created in
7527 the same scip instance, if not an error is thrown
7528 - cons_knapsack is now able to detect negated cliques due to negated cliques on knapsack constraints
7529 - SCIP is now able to write non-linear opb-files(linear instances with and-constraints)
7530 - New constraint handlers for linking constraints (only Beta), cumulative constraints, and for breaking orbitopal symmetries
7531 - `negated cliques` handling in knapsack constraint handler got changed due to the new method
7532 SCIPcalcNegatedCliquePartition() resulting in new consdata members `negcliquepartition`, `negcliquepartitioned` and
7533 `nnegcliques`; changed SCIPcalcCliquePartition() so all cliquepartitions (calculated by SCIPcalcCliquePartition() or
7534 SCIPcalcNegatedCliquePartition(), which uses the first one) contain again not negative integers
7535 - `and`, `knapsack`, `linear`, `logic`, `or`, `quadratic`, `setpp`, `varbound`, `xor` and `clique` constraint handlers
7536 can handle implicit binary variables
7537 - knapsack constraint handler is now able to pairwise presolving constraints
7538 - constraint handlers `logicor`, `and`, `or` can parse their output
7539 - constraint handler `or` can copy its constraints
7540 - added packing/partitioning orbitope constraint handler for symmetry handling (cons_orbitope.{c,h})
7541 - added constraint handler for second order cone constraints (cons_soc.(c|h))
7542 - added constraint handler cons_linking.{c,h} (see cons_linking.c for more details)
7543 - cons_quadratic can make solutions in CONSCHECK feasible for the quadratic constraints by moving values of linear
7544 variables and passing the modified solution to the trysol heuristic
7545 - constraint handler can now register their upgrade functions for quadratic constraints to cons_quadratic (similar to
7546 LINCONSUPGD)
7547
7548- Separation:
7549 - New separators for oddcycle cuts and Chvatal-Gomory cuts using sub-MIPs
7550 - modified implementation of separation algorithms in cons_knapsack.c according to results of diploma thesis; including
7551 super-additive lifting (disabled)
7552 - uncommented decomposeProblem() in sepa_zerohalf.c (in default settings, not used anyway): was not adapted to the case
7553 that contiuous variables are allowed in a row
7554 - new separator rapid learning (sepa_rapidlearning.{c,h}) that produces conflicts, global bound changes, primal
7555 solutions and initializes inference values for branching
7556 - added Chvatal-Gomory cuts separated with a sub-MIP (sepa_cgmip.{c|h})
7557 - added reader for 'Weigted Boolean Optimization': problems (reader_wbo.{c,h}), this reader needs the reader_opb files
7558 - new separator oddcycle (sepa_oddcycle.{c,h}) separates oddcycle inequalities using the implication/conflict graph and
7559 dijkstra-algorithm based on binary heaps (dijkstra/dijkstra_bh.{c,h})
7560
7561- Branching:
7562 - Branching on externally given candidates, the \ref BRANCH 'branching rules' have a second new callback method
7563 (see type_branch.h for more details): SCIP_DECL_BRANCHEXECEXT(x) can be used to branch on external branching candidates,
7564 which can be added by a user's `relaxation handler` or `constraint handler` plugin, calling SCIPaddExternBranchCand().
7565 - added branchcands for relaxator solution, that can be added by the relaxator and used by branching rules
7566 - added relaxsol to variables, s.t. a relaxator can store a solution on which branching or separation can be done
7567 - SCIP can now branch on relaxation solutions that are either installed to the relaxsol field of the variables or added
7568 to the list of relaxation candidates, e.g., by constraint handlers. Branching on relaxation solutions is performed if
7569 the enforcement resulted in an unresolved infeasibility and there are no LP branching candidates, but before pseudo
7570 solution branching. The branching rules leastinf, mostinf, random and pscost implement the callback for branching on
7571 relaxation candidates.
7572 - SCIP can branch on continuous variables. The branching value x' must not be one of the bounds. Two children (x <= x',
7573 x >= x') will be created.
7574 - the vbc visualization adds the branching type (lower or upper bound change) and the new bound to the node information
7575 - the vbc visualization adds the new bound of the branched variable to the node information
7576
7577- Statistic:
7578 - added statistic information about the first primal solution to SCIP statistic; in the statistic output a new line
7579 appears with this information
7580 - now the statistic displays the number of calls of the feasibility checking method of each constraint handler and the
7581 running time of it
7582
7583- Propagation:
7584 - New rounding and propagation heuristics
7585 - New propagator for variable bounds
7586 - primal heuristics may now be called directly after the node's propagation loop, using the new timing point
7587 `SCIP_HEURTIMING_AFTERPROPLOOP`
7588 - following methods SCIPinferVarUbProp(), SCIPinferVarLbProp(), SCIPinferVarLbCons(), SCIPinferVarUbCons() have a new 6th
7589 parameter `SCIP_Bool force` which allows bound tightening even if the difference to the newbound is below bound
7590 strengthening tolerance
7591 - added propagator for variable lower and upper bounds (prop_vbounds.{c,h}); adjusted cons_varbound.c, var.c, and,
7592 implics.c to work correctly with the new propagator
7593
7594- Nonlinear CIPs:
7595 + Improved constraint handler for quadratic constraints
7596 + New constraint handler for second order cone constraints
7597 + New MINLP heuristics (undercover, subnlp)
7598 + Preliminary support for non-linear relaxations (via expression trees)
7599 + Automatic branching on solutions from arbitrary relaxations and on continuous variables
7600
7601Performance improvements
7602------------------------
7603
7604- improved `settings/emphasis/cpsolver.set` to decrease time per node
7605- reworked access to pseudo solution and inference value of variables in order to reduce function calls
7606- changed default value of parameter `nodeselection/restartdfs/selectbestfreq` to 0; this means if the current node has
7607 no children the node with the best bound is selected (SCIPgetBestboundNode())
7608- added a dual reduction step in cons_knapsack.c
7609- fasten check for common cliques in SCIPcliquelistsHaveCommonClique
7610- SCIP with CPLEX as LP solver now uses quickstart steepest edge pricing as default instead of steepest edge pricing
7611- avoid unnecessary domain propagation and LP resolve at nodes with infeasible LP relaxation
7612- improved zerohalf cut separator: more than one delta is tested for MIR cuts, better handling of dense base
7613 inequalities, faster scaling of fractional coefficients in rows (now enabled), improved parameter settings (presolving)
7614
7615- LP solution:
7616 - in root node, first LP solution is checked for feasibility to avoid expensive setup
7617 - avoided restarting if LP solution is feasible
7618 - separators are not called any longer for an integral initial LP solution
7619
7620Examples and applications
7621-------------------------
7622
7623- New branch-and-price example which includes Ryan/Foster branching (binpacking example)
7624- New example illustrating the use of an event handler (`example/Eventhdlr`)
7625
7626Interface changes
7627-----------------
7628
7629- Enhanced user interface for callable library: manual restarts, predefined settings and many other features
7630- Support of wbo format for weighted PBO problems, IBM's xml-solution format and pip format for polynomial mixed-integer programs
7631- Extended reader for Flatzinc models
7632- new API for 'expressions interpreter': code that evaluates expression trees, including first and second derivatives
7633- NLP solver interface (NLPI) now independent of SCIP like LPI
7634- SCIP can now maintain a central NLP relaxation of the problem (similar to LP)
7635- SCIP can now manage a list of external codes (e.g., LP or NLP solver, ZIMPL)
7636- lp.h/lp.c and the lpi's were changed according to the changes mentioned below.
7637- adding and deletion of rows to the separation storage and to the LP can now be catched by events
7638 (`SCIP_EVENTTYPE_ROWADDEDSEPA`, `SCIP_EVENTTYPE_ROWDELETEDSEPA`, `SCIP_EVENTTYPE_ROWADDEDLP`, `SCIP_EVENTTYPE_ROWDELETEDLP`)
7639
7640### New and changed callbacks
7641
7642- new callback SCIP_DECL_BRANCHEXECRELAX(), together with new parameter in SCIPincludeBranchrule() for branching on a
7643 relaxation solution
7644
7645- Copying a SCIP instance:
7646 - Constraint handlers have two new callback methods. One for copying the constraint handler plugins
7647 SCIP_DECL_CONSHDLRCOPY() and the other for copying a constraint itself, SCIP_DECL_CONSCOPY().
7648 - All plugins, like \ref BRANCH `branching rules` and \ref HEUR `primal heuristics`, have a new callback method (see, e.g.,
7649 type_branch.h and type_heur.h for more details):
7650 - SCIP_DECL_BRANCHCOPY(x), SCIP_DECL_HEURCOPY(x) etc.
7651 - When copying a SCIP instance, these methods are called to copy the plugins.
7652 - The main problem has a new callback method (see type_prob.h for more details) SCIP_DECL_PROBCOPY(x) when copying a
7653 SCIP instance, this method is called to copy the problem's data.
7654 - Variables have a new callback method (see type_var.h for more details) SCIP_DECL_VARCOPY(x) when copying a SCIP
7655 instance, this method is called to copy the variables' data.
7656
7657- Restarts:
7658 - The callback SCIP_DECL_PROBEXITSOL(x) in the main problem has one new parameter (see type_prob.h for more details):
7659 - The parameter `restart` is `TRUE` if the callback method was triggered by a restart.
7660
7661### Deleted and changed API functions
7662
7663- All C++ objects and constructors have a SCIP pointer, now.
7664- added parameter scip to ObjCloneable::clone()
7665- changes in a row can now be catched via row events (SCIPcatchRowEvent(), SCIPdropRowEvent(),
7666 `SCIP_EVENTTYPE_ROWCOEFCHANGED`, `SCIP_EVENTTYPE_ROWCONSTCHANGED`, `SCIP_EVENTTYPE_ROWSIDECHANGED`)
7667- added new parameter `varcopy` to SCIPcreateVar() to add the function for copying variable data
7668- in case of using SCIPwriteTransProblem() the currently (locally) valid problem is written this now also includes the
7669 local constraints
7670
7671- Settings:
7672 - The predefined setting files like `settings/cuts/off.set,aggressive.set,fast.set` have been replaced by
7673 interface methods like SCIPsetHeuristics(), SCIPsetPresolving(), SCIPsetSeparating(), and SCIPsetEmphasis() in
7674 \ref scip.h and by user dialogs in the interactive shell like
7675 `SCIP> set {heuristics|presolving|separating} emphasis {aggressive|fast|off}` or
7676 `SCIP> set emphasis {counter|cpsolver|easycip|feasibility|hardlp|optimality}`
7677 - All functions for setting user parameters of different types like SCIPparamSetBool(), SCIPparamSetChar(),
7678 SCIPparamSetInt(), SCIPparamSetLongint(), and SCIPparamSetString() in pub_paramset.h have a new parameter
7679 `quiet` it prevents any output during the assign to a new value.
7680
7681- NLP:
7682 - NLPIs can now be used without generating a SCIP instance (i.e., do not require a SCIP pointer), code moved into src/nlpi
7683 - NLPIs can now be managed like other SCIP plugins, i.e., they can be included into the SCIP core and accessed by
7684 methods SCIPincludeNlpi(), SCIPfindNlpi(), SCIPgetNNlpis(), SCIPgetNlpis(), SCIPsetNlpiPriority()
7685
7686- Intervalarithmetic:
7687 - method SCIPgetVarPseudocostCurrentRun() now returns the pseudocost value of one branching direction, scaled to a unit
7688 interval, old method now called SCIPgetVarPseudocostValCurrentRun()
7689 - renamed SCIPintervalScalarProductRealsIntervals()/SCIPintervalScalarProduct() by
7690 SCIPintervalScalprodScalars()/SCIPintervalScalprod() and redesigned them in intervalarith.c including new methods
7691 SCIPintervalScalprodScalarsInf/Sup()
7692
7693- Branching:
7694 - The usage of strong branching changed. Now, SCIPstartStrongbranch() and SCIPendStrongbranch() must be
7695 called before and after strong branching, respectively.
7696 - The methods SCIPgetVarPseudocost() and SCIPgetVarPseudocostCurrentRun() in \ref scip.h now return the pseudocost value of
7697 one branching direction, scaled to a unit interval. The former versions of SCIPgetVarPseudocost() and
7698 SCIPgetVarPseudocostCurrentRun() are now called SCIPgetVarPseudocostVal() and SCIPgetVarPseudocostValCurrentRun(), respectively.
7699 - The methods SCIPgetVarConflictScore() and SCIPgetVarConflictScoreCurrentRun() in \ref scip.h are now called
7700 SCIPgetVarVSIDS() and SCIPgetVarVSIDSCurrentRun(), respectively.
7701 - The methods SCIPvarGetNInferences(), SCIPvarGetNInferencesCurrentRun(), SCIPvarGetNCutoffs(), and
7702 SCIPvarGetNCutoffsCurrentRun() are now called SCIPvarGetInferenceSum(), SCIPvarGetInferenceSumCurrentRun(),
7703 SCIPvarGetCutoffSum(), and SCIPvarGetCutoffSumCurrentRun(), respectively. Furthermore, they now return
7704 `SCIP_Real` instead of `SCIP_Longint` values.
7705 - The method SCIPgetVarStrongbranch() has been replaced by two methods SCIPgetVarStrongbranchFrac() and
7706 SCIPgetVarStrongbranchInt().
7707
7708- Copying a SCIP instance:
7709 - Every new callback method resulted in a new parameter of the include function for the corresponding plugin,
7710 e.g., SCIPincludeBranchrule() has two new parameters `SCIP_DECL_BRANCHCOPY((*branchcopy))` and
7711 `SCIP_DECL_BRANCHEXECREL((*branchexecrel))`. In the same fashion, the new callbacks
7712 `SCIP_DECL_VARCOPY` and `SCIP_DECL_PROBCOPY` led to new parameters in SCIPcreateVar() and SCIPcreateProb() in
7713 scip.c, respectively.
7714 - W.r.t. to copy and the C++ wrapper classes there are two new classes. These are `ObjCloneable` and `ObjProbCloneable`.
7715 The constraint handlers and variables pricers are derived from `ObjProbCloneable` and all other plugin are derived from `ObjCloneable`.
7716 Both classes implement the function `iscloneable()` which return whether a plugin is clone able or not. Besides that each class has a
7717 function named `clone()` which differ in their signature. See objcloneable.h, objprobcloneable.h, and the TSP example for more details.
7718 - SCIPincludeHeur() and SCIPincludeSepa() in \ref scip.h, as well as scip::ObjSepa() and scip::ObjHeur(), have a new parameter:
7719 `usessubscip`: It can be used to inform SCIP that the heuristic/separator to be included uses a secondary SCIP instance.
7720 - The argument success in `SCIP_DECL_CONSCOPY` has been renamed to valid.
7721
7722- Heuristics:
7723 - SCIPcutGenerationHeuristicCmir() in sepa_cmir.h has three new parameters:
7724 - `maxmksetcoefs`: If the mixed knapsack constraint obtained after aggregating LP rows contains more
7725 than `maxmksetcoefs` nonzero coefficients the generation of the c-MIR cut is aborted.
7726 - `delta`: It can be used to obtain the scaling factor which leads to the best c-MIR cut found within
7727 the cut generation heuristic. If a `NULL` pointer is passed, the corresponding c-MIR cut will already be
7728 added to SCIP by SCIPcutGenerationHeuristicCmir(). Otherwise, the user can generate the cut and add it to SCIP
7729 on demand afterwards.
7730 - `deltavalid`: In case, the user wants to know the best scaling factor, i.e., `delta` passed is not `NULL`,
7731 `deltavalid` will be `TRUE` if the stored scaling factor `delta` will lead to a violated c-MIR cut.
7732
7733### New API functions
7734
7735- added SCIPcalcNegatedCliquePartition() to scip.c to calculate a clique partition on negations of all given binary
7736 variables
7737- SCIPpermuteArray() that randomly shuffles an array using the Fisher-Yates algorithm
7738- SCIPgetRandomSubset() that draws a random subset of disjoint elements from a given set of disjoint elements
7739- SCIPswapPointers()
7740- SCIPlpiGetSolverDesc() to get a descriptive string of an LP solver (developer, webpage, ...)
7741- SCIPholelistGetNext() to get the next hole of the hole list
7742- SCIPlpRecalculateObjSqrNorm() which is used when the old calculated square norm was unreliable
7743- SCIPpricerIsDelayed() which returns if the pricer is delayed (see pub_pricer.h)
7744
7745- Variables:
7746 - SCIPvarIsBinary() which checks if a variable is (implicit) binary (see var.c for more details)
7747 - SCIPvarGetHolelistOriginal(), SCIPvarGetHolelistGlobal(), SCIPvarGetHolelistLocal() to get the original, global and local holes, respectively
7748 - SCIPvarGetProbvarHole() to tranform a given domain hole to the corresponding active, fixed, or multi-aggregated variable
7749
7750- Restart:
7751 - allow user to trigger a restart during presolving SCIPrestartSolve()
7752 - SCIPrestartSolve() that allows the user to manually restart the solving process
7753 - SCIPisInRestart() to detect whether we are currently restarting
7754
7755- Heuristics:
7756 - for heuristics SCIPheurSetFreq() to change the frequency of the heuristic (pub_heur.h, heur.c)
7757 - SCIPsepaUsesSubscip(), SCIPheurUsesSubscip()
7758
7759- Intervalarithmetic:
7760 - SCIPeventGetHoleLeft() and SCIPeventGetHoleRight() for accessing the left right interval bound of a domain hole added or removed event
7761 - SCIPholelistGetLeft() and SCIPholelistGetRight()to get the left and right interval bounds of the open hole interval
7762 - SCIPintervalAddInf/Sup/Vectors(), SCIPintervalMulInf/Sup() in intervalarith.c
7763
7764- Sorting:
7765 - added SCIPsortPtrPtrLongIntInt(), SCIPsortLongPtrPtrIntInt() and corresponding sorting/inserting/deleting methods in
7766 pub_misc.h and necessary defines in misc.c
7767 - added SCIPsortLongPtrInt() and corresponding sorting/inserting/deleting methods in pub_misc.h and necessary defines in misc.c
7768 - added SCIPsortPtrPtrInt() (and various other) and corresponding sorting/inserting/deleting methods in pub_misc.h and
7769 necessary defines in misc.c
7770 - SCIPsortPtrBool() and corresponding sorting/inserting/deleting methods in pub_misc.h and necessary defines in misc.c
7771
7772- Constraint Handlers:
7773 - SCIPconshdlrGetEnfoConss(), SCIPconshdlrGetNEnfoConss()
7774 - can now forbid upgrading of individual linear constraints (SCIPmarkDoNotUpgradeConsLinear())
7775 - SCIPpermuteProb() that randomly permutes constraints and variables
7776 - SCIPgetResultantOr() which returns the resultant of an `or` constraint
7777 - SCIPmarkDoNotUpgradeConsLinear() in cons_linear.?, which allows to forbid upgrading of linear constraints
7778 - SCIPgetNUpgrConss() which returns the number of upgraded constraints
7779 - SCIPconshdlrGetCheckTime() and SCIPconshdlrGetNCheckCalls() which returns the running time in the feasibility checking of the
7780 corresponding constraint handler respectively the number of calls of the checking method (implemented in cons.c)
7781
7782- Copy:
7783 - SCIPcopy() to clone a SCIP instance
7784 - SCIPcopyPlugins(), SCIPcopyParamSettings(), SCIPcopyVars(), SCIPcopyConss(), SCIPgetVarCopy() to copy
7785 individual parts of a SCIP instance separately.
7786 - SCIPcopyProbData() and SCIPprobCopyProbData() which copies the probdata from a sourcescip to a targetscip
7787
7788- Branching:
7789 - two new functions SCIPgetVarsStrongbranchesFrac()/SCIPgetVarsStrongbranchesInt() for computing strong branching
7790 information for several variables
7791 - SCIPbranchruleGetNRelaxCalls() to get the total number of times, a particular branching rule was called on a relaxation solutions
7792 - SCIPbranchRelax() to branch on a relaxation solution
7793 - SCIPbranchVarVal() to branch on an arbitrary value within the variable's bounds
7794 - SCIPbranchGetBranchingPoint() and SCIPgetBranchingPoint() to select branching point for a variable, e.g.,
7795 ensure branching point is inside the interval for a continuous variable
7796 - SCIPexecRelpscostBranching() in branch_relpscost.{c,h}; this method allows of calling the reliability
7797 pseudo cost branching algorithm for given set of branching candidates from the outside
7798 - SCIPinitVarBranchStats() to initialize the branching statistics (such as pseudo costs, VSIDS, inference values) of a variable
7799 - SCIPselectBranchVarPscost() in branch_pscost.{c,h}; this method selects from a given candidate array a
7800 branching variable w.r.t. pseudo cost branching for relax candidates
7801
7802- Reading, Writing and Parsing:
7803 - SCIPparseVarName() which parses a string in cip-format as a variable name
7804 - SCIPparseVarList() which parses a string as a variable list in cip-format
7805 - the Flatzinc reader can now handle the output annotations of the Flatzinc format; the method SCIPprintSolReaderFzn()
7806 outputs the given solution in Flatzinc format w.r.t. the output annotations
7807 - SCIPprintSolReaderFzn() which prints the best solution in Flatzinc format w.r.t. to the output annotations
7808 in the input file of the flatzinc model
7809 - SCIPwriteVarName() which writes a variable in cip-format to given stream
7810 - SCIPwriteVarsList() which writes an array of variables in cip-Format to given stream
7811 - SCIPwriteVarsLinearsum() which writes an array of variables and coefficients as linear sum in cip-Format to given stream
7812
7813- Copying a SCIP instance:
7814 - SCIPapplyRens() in \ref heur_rens.h has a new parameter `uselprows`. It can be used to switch from LP rows
7815 to SCIP constraints as basis of the sub-SCIP constructed in the RENS heuristic.
7816
7817- Parameters:
7818 - SCIPsetParamsCountsols() which sets the parameter for a valid counting process
7819 - SCIPsetEmphasis() which sets parameter to detect feasibility fast, handle hard LP, solves easy CIPs fast, behaves like a
7820 CP solver, set parameter for a valid counting process; the desired behavior is triggered via a parameter of the function
7821 - SCIPresetParam() to reset the value of a single parameter to its default value
7822
7823- Settings:
7824 - added SCIPsortRealRealRealPtr() and corresponding sorting/inserting/deleting methods in pub_misc.h and necessary defines in misc.c
7825 as basis for the subSCIP, setting ist to TRUE (uses LP rows) will lead to same version as before
7826 - SCIPsetHeuristics(), SCIPsetSeparating(), SCIPsetPresolving() which set the heuristics to aggressive, fast, off, or
7827 default settings, depending on the `SCIP_PARAMSET` parameter
7828 - SCIPsetSubscipsOff() which disables all plugins that uses subscips
7829 - SCIPsepaSetFreq() to set the calling frequency of a separator
7830
7831### Command line interface
7832
7833- added new dialog for setting the SCIP parameters for hardlp, optimality, easy CIP, CP like search
7834- added new dialog for setting the SCIP parameters for feasibility problems `SCIP> set emphasis feasibility`
7835- added new dialog for setting the SCIP parameters for counting `SCIP> set emphasis counting`
7836- added new dialog for setting presolving to aggressive, fast, or off in interactive shell
7837- added new dialog for setting separation to aggressive, fast, or off in interactive shell
7838- added new dialog for writing all solutions which are collected during the counting process (see cons_countsols.{c,h})
7839- added new dialog for setting heuristics to aggressive, fast, or off in interactive shell
7840- added new dialog `display pricers` which displays all included pricers
7841
7842### Interfaces to external software
7843
7844- added interface to CppAD (nlpi/exprinterpret_cppad.cpp)
7845- Improved Xpress, CPLEX, SoPlex interfaces
7846- the SoPlex interface now includes equilibrium scaling on lp's solved from scratch without starting basis
7847- the SoPlex interface can now double check each SoPlex result against CPLEX (lpi_spx.cpp)
7848- the SoPlex interface has the option to restore basis only after entire strong branching phase instead of after each
7849 strong branch (off, because it mostly appears to increase strong branching time and iterations) (lpi_spx.cpp)
7850
7851### Changed parameters
7852
7853- removed parameter `constraints/knapsack/maxnumcardlift` and adapted setting files
7854- changed parameter `lp/fastmip` from boolean to integer, possible values are 0 (off), 1 (medium, default), 2 (full,
7855 must not be used with branch-and-price).
7856
7857### New parameters
7858
7859- `branching/clamp` to set the minimal fractional distance of a branching point to a continuous variable' bounds
7860- `branching/random/seed` to change the initial seed value of the branching rule random
7861- `constraints/indicator/addCouplingCons` that allows to add variable upper bounds if addCoupling is true
7862- `constraints/indicator/enforceCuts` that allows to check for violated cust in enforcement
7863- `constraints/indicator/maxCouplingValue` for the maximal value of the coefficient in a coupling inequality/constraint
7864- `constraints/indicator/noLinconsCon` which controls whether the linear constraint is not explicitly
7865 added to the problem. default is FALSE
7866- `constraints/knapsack/dualpresolving` to switch dualpresolving on/off inside the knapsack constraint handler, default is TRUE
7867- `constraints/knapsack/presolpairwise` that allows pairwise presolving of knapsack constraints, default is TRUE
7868- `constraints/knapsack/presolusehashing` that allows fast pairwise presolving of knapsack constraints, default is TRUE
7869- `heuristics/crossover/dontwaitatroot` that allows to call crossover at root node independently from nwaitingnodes
7870- `heuristics/rens/uselprows` that allows to switch between LP row and SCIP constraints as basis for the
7871 subSCIP, default is TRUE (uses LP rows)
7872- `lp/rowrepswitch` telling simplex solver to switch to row representation of the basis (if possible),
7873 if number of rows divided by number of columns exceeds this value (default value infinity, i.e. never switch)
7874- `lp/threads` to change the number of threads used to solve the LP relaxation (default is 0: automatic)
7875- `misc/lexdualstalling` that turns on the lex dual algorithm if the separation process is stalling
7876- `misc/usevartable` and `misc/useconstable` which turns on/off the usage of hashtables mapping from
7877 variable/constraint names to the variables/constraints; when turned off, SCIPfindVar() and SCIPfindCons() may not be
7878 used; the hashtables can be turned off for subMIPs to improve the performance, default value TRUE
7879- `misc/usesmalltables` which results in using smaller tables for names, cliques and cuts and improves
7880 the performace for smaller instances, default value FALSE
7881- `misc/permutationseed` to change the permutation seed value for permuting the problem after the
7882 problem is transformed (-1 means no permutation)
7883- `reading/zplreader/usestartsol` which allows to switch ZIMPL start solutions off, default value TRUE
7884- `vbc/dispsols` to propose if the nodes where solutions are found should be visualized in the branch and bound tree
7885
7886### Data structures
7887
7888- implemented the data structure and events for global and local domain holes added and removed
7889- new data structures and methods to handle nonlinear expressions in NLPI ({type_, struct_, pub_}expression.{h,c}):
7890 nlpioracle can store and evaluate general NLPs now, nlpi_ipopt can solve general NLPs now
7891
7892Testing
7893-------
7894
7895- minor changes on several evaluation scripts (new statuses: better, solved, sollimit, gaplimit) and short-mode for cmpres.awk
7896- support for FreeBSD (32- and 64-bit) including minor changes in several scripts in the check-directory
7897
7898Build system
7899------------
7900
7901### Makefile
7902
7903- added scripts check_*.sh, evalcheck_*.sh and check_*.awk for blis, glkp, gurobi and symphony (including targets in
7904 Makefile) and slightly modified scripts for cplex, cbc and mosek and cmpres-script
7905- added target `lintfiles` which allows to call flexelint with a list of file, for example, make lintfiles
7906 `FILES=src/scip/prop_vbounds.c`
7907- the NLP solver interfaces and expression interpreter are located in a separate library (libnlpi.*; similar to the lpi
7908 library) and is required to link against the SCIP library also projects that use SCIP via `make/make.project` need to
7909 change their Makefile (!!!): in the $(MAINFILE) target, add $(NLPILIBFILE) behind $(LPILIBFILE) in the dependencies
7910 and add $(LINKCXX_l)$(NLPILIB)$(LINKLIBSUFFIX) to the linker flags
7911- The additional NLPI library requires a change in the Makefile of SCIP's project:
7912 The $(MAINFILE) target now has $(NLPILIBFILE) as additional dependency and the linking
7913 command requires $(LINKCXX_l)$(NLPILIB)$(LINKLIBSUFFIX) as additional argument.
7914- A bug in the Makefiles of older versions of the SCIP examples may cause
7915 data loss. If you have a custom Makefile, please ensure that the target
7916 `clean` is changed as described here:
7917 http://scipopt.org/download/bugfixes/scip-1.2.0/make.txt.
7918
7919Fixed bugs
7920----------
7921
7922- fixed bug in conflict.c in the method conflictsetAddBound()
7923- fixed `bug` in projects Makefiles w.r.t. `make clean`
7924- fixed bug in rapid learning with wrong ordering of dual and primal bound update, primal bound is now updated inside
7925 rapid learning
7926- fixed potential bug in rapid learning with dual reductions
7927- fixed potential bug where SCIPselectSimpleValue() returns a value slightly outside of the given bounds due to rounding
7928 errors (probably cancelation in subtraction in SCIPfindSimpleRational), now use rounding control and check result
7929- fixed bug that SCIP could not be continued after it has been stopped due to a limit
7930- fixed bug in var.c: SCIPvarChgLbOriginal() and SCIPvarChgUbOriginal() cannot access original bounds if the variable is
7931 negated
7932- fixed potential bug with pseudo solution branching on free variables
7933- fixed bug with multiaggregations whose infimum and supremum are both infinite: in such a case multiaggregation is now
7934 forbidden
7935- fixed numerical issue with multiaggregations which are infinite in one direction: value of multiaggregated variable
7936 could have been larger then inifinity
7937- fixed bug w.r.t. of adding a variable bound variable to its self
7938- fixed bug concering the incorrect assumption that every solution computed in SCIPlpGetUnboundedSol() is integral (we
7939 will not branch but return `infeasible or unbounded` like in presolving)
7940- fixed bug while breaking an clique down to their impications (in SCIPcliquetableCleanup() in implics.c) where the
7941 variable was not of vartype `SCIP_VARTYPE_BINARY`, instead of adding an implication we add a variable bound
7942- fixed bug with debugging a solution: during restarts erroneously it was claimed that the primal solution is cut off
7943
7944- Interface:
7945 - fixed bug w.r.t. ObjDialog and displaying the description of the dialog
7946 - fixed bug when aborting pricing with Ctrl-C
7947
7948- LP:
7949 - fixed bug in scip.c w.r.t. to call of conflict analysis for LPs which reached the objective limit in case of diving
7950 - fixed bug with resolving LPs at infeasible root node
7951 - fixed bug in lp.c: in sumMIRRow() rowtoolong was not set correctly
7952 - fixed bug in lp.c w.r.t. objective limit reached and the chosen comparison (fixed buglist entry 40)
7953 - fixed bug in lp.c: if in SCIPlpSolveAndEval() the LP has to be solved from scratch due to numerical troubles, reset
7954 `SCIP_LPPARAM_FROMSCRATCH` to `FALSE` afterwards
7955 - fixed bug in lp.c SCIProwGetObjParallelism() due to a wrong parallelism value which arised from cancellations during
7956 calculation of squared euclidean norm of objective function vector of column variables
7957 - fixed bug in lp.c: SCIPlpGetUnboundedSol() did not ensure that unbounded solution lies withing the bounds of the
7958 variables
7959 - fixed bug in lp.c w.r.t. to the number of `active` pricer
7960
7961- Solve:
7962 - fixed bug in solve.c where relaxation branching candidates were cleared, but the relaxation was still marked solved
7963 and not called again, furthermore, adjusted criterions for solving a relaxation again
7964 - fixed bugs in solve.c: even with LP solving disabled, the root LP was solved in case continous variables are
7965 contained; setting pricing/maxvars(root) to 1 resulted in not calling the pricers
7966 - fixed bug in solve.c: make sure SCIP terminates correctly also when a user interrupt or gap limit is reached, i.e.,
7967 avoid error `pricing was aborted, but no branching could be created!`
7968
7969- Tree:
7970 - fixed bug in tree.c: if an explicit branching point is given, we may not recompute a better centering point
7971 - fixed bug in tree.c: propagate implications on multi-aggregated should not be performed
7972
7973- Constraints:
7974 - corrected several asserts in linear and quadratic constraint handler concerning parsing of CIP format
7975 - fixed bug while deleting redundant variables, which have no influence on changing the feasibility of the linear
7976 constraints, we need to update the sides of the constraint at each step, bug number 51 in bugzilla
7977 - fixed bug in copy procedure of AND constraint handler, negated variables have been copied to their originals
7978 - fixed bug when deleting a constraint where the update was delayed and not processed yet (in cons.c)
7979 - fixed bug in cons_linear.c: binary variables should not be multi-aggregated
7980 - fixed bug in cons_quadratic.c: curvature of bivariate quadratic constraints was not detected correctly
7981 - fixed bug in cons_sos2.c: the branching position was sometimes mistakenly increased
7982 - fixed bug in propagation of cons_sos2.c: the node can be cut off at more places: the previous version was not
7983 sucessfull in this respect
7984 - fixed bug in cons_linear.c:applyFixings() which could lead to lhs/rhs smaller/larger than -/+infinity
7985 - fixed bug in cons_linear.c in detectRedundantConstraints() and corrected old bug fix in SCIProwCreate(): we want lhs
7986 <= rhs to be satisfied without numerical tolerances in order to avoid numerical problems in the LP solver
7987
7988- Knapsack Constraint Handler:
7989 - fixed bug in cons_knapsack.c: mergeMultiples() now detects whether a node can be cut off
7990 - fixed bug in cons_knapsack.c w.r.t. to items with zero weight
7991 - fixed bug in cons_knapsack.c: In SCIPseparateRelaxedKnapsack() not all variables need to be active in deeper regions
7992 of the tree
7993 - fixed bug in cons_knapsack.c and sepa_clique.c: the assumption that implications are always nonredundant and contain
7994 only active variables is not correct anymore as the corresponing vbound might be missing because of numerics
7995
7996- Separation and Cuts:
7997 - fixed bug in cutpool.c: the hashkey computation was not constant over time
7998 - fixed bug in cutpool.c: hashkey of a row changed during the solving process (if a row is made integral after creation,
7999 maxabsval can be invalid when adding it to the pool, but might be recomputed later on)
8000 - fixed bug in sepa_rapidlearning.c, stop processing if there are no binary variables left
8001 - fixed bug in sepa_rapidlearning.c, corrected computation of right dualbound
8002 - fixed bugs in sepa_zerohalf.c, e.g., handling of intscaling and substitution of variable bounds
8003 - fixed bug in sepastore.c in sepastoreApplyLb/Ub being to hard on feasibility decisions
8004 - fixed bug in sepa_flowcover.c: numerical issues while computing candidate set for lambda
8005
8006- LP Interfaces:
8007 - fixed bug in SoPlex autopricing due to which autopricing had behaved like steepest edge pricing so far
8008 - fixed bug in lpi_clp.cpp: SCIPlpiChgBounds() checks if the column status exists in Clp before using it
8009 - fixed wrong assert in Cplex LPI: Due to numerical inaccuracies, a few pivots might be performed after refactorization
8010 - fixed bug concerning assert(!SCIPlpDivingObjChanged(lp)) which was caused by wrong infinity double parameters for
8011 cplex
8012 - fixed makefile system for `OSTYPE=darwin` w.r.t. to CPLEX as LP solver
8013
8014- Presolving:
8015 - fixed bug in cons_setppc: aggregated variables were not correctly removed in presolving
8016 - fixed bug in presolving of linear constraint handler: in redundancy detection, two different numerical epsilons were used
8017 - fixed bug in presolving while not applying a bound change on a variable in a single-variable constraint (e.g. x1 =
8018 0.03) in cons_linear which is too small, that lead to another bound change in presol_trivial which is not allowed, so
8019 now this bound change will be forced
8020 - fixed SCIPvarIsTransformedOrigvar() in var.c (variables generated by presol_inttobinary returned false)
8021 - fixed bug w.r.t. an assert in presol_inttobinary.c; it was assumed that the aggregation which is performed there will
8022 never lead to an infeasibility, this is not true, see comment in presol_inttobinary.c
8023 - fixed bug in presol_trivial.c trying to fix continuous variables, now uses a less stricter comparison to fix variables
8024 - fixed bug in cons_bounddisjunction.c: presolve may have tried to tighten bounds on a multiaggregated variable (now
8025 upgrades to linear constraint)
8026
8027- Reading, Writing and Messages:
8028 - fixed bug while trying to write a MIP where SCIP needs to flush the lp changes first
8029 - fixed potential resource leak when running out of memory while writing files
8030 - fixed bug in reader_zpl.c which appeared using the parameter `reading/zplreader/parameters`
8031 - fixed bugs in flatzinc readers with constraints that exclusively consist of constants
8032 - fixed bug in reader_gms: correct handling of nonstandard bounds on general integer variables
8033 - fixed buglist entry 35, which was caused by a wrong read in correction when the reading buffer was full in
8034 reader_opb.c
8035 - fixed bugs in reader_fzn.c w.r.t. parsing and solution output in Flatzinc format
8036 - fixed bug in reader_fzn.c w.r.t. comment lines
8037 - fixed bug in reader_opb.c w.r.t. comment lines
8038 - fixed bug in message handler w.r.t. to messages which are longer then `SCIP_MAXSTRLEN`
8039
8040- Heuristics:
8041 - fixed bugs do to `HEUR_TIMING SCIP_HEURTIMING_AFTERPROPLOOP` which appeared during repropagation
8042 - fixed bug in trivial heuristic: the locking solution might have falsely initialized some values to zero
8043 - fixed bug in heur_oneopt.c w.r.t. to SCIPtrySol(); it is necessary that the bound of the solution is check otherwise,
8044 infeasible solution could be accepted as feasible
8045 - fixed bug in heur_trivial.c w.r.t. to debug messages after a solution was freed
8046 - fixed bug for `HEUR_TIMING SCIP_HEURTIMING_BEFOREPRESOL` and modifiable constraints
8047 - corrected wrong assert in DINS heuristic when called for an empty problem
8048 - fixed potential bug in OCTANE heuristic with nonbasic solutions
8049 - fixed bug in sub-MIP heuristics with parameter change if some default plugins are not included
8050 - fixed bug in trivial heuristic with bounds that are greater than the heuristic's infinity value
8051
8052Miscellaneous
8053-------------
8054
8055- As the interface contains several additional callback functions and
8056 parameters for plugins, some effort may be required to compile your
8057 own projects with SCIP 2.0. See also `Changes between version 1.2 and 2.0` in the doxygen
8058 documentation for additional information.
8059
8060@page RN1_2 Release notes for SCIP 1.2
8061
8062@section RN120 SCIP 1.2.0
8063*************************
8064
8065Features
8066--------
8067
8068- adjusted hard memory limit to (soft memory limit)*1.1 + 100mb in check.sh, checkcount.sh, check_cplex.sh,
8069 check_cluster.sh and check_cbc.sh
8070- new presolving step in cons_knapsack.c, same like `simplifyinequalities` in cons_linear.c
8071- now it's possible to write strings with more than `SCIP_MAXSTRLEN` amount of characters in all message.c functions
8072- the current/root lp can be marked to be no relaxation of the current/root problem
8073- added new preprocessing step (mergeMultiples) in cons_setppc.c where equal variables are merged
8074- Black-box lexicographic dual simplex algorithm; can now run lexicographical dual algorithm (parameter `lp/lexdualalgo`)
8075
8076- Bounds:
8077 - SCIP now has `lazy bounds`, which are useful for column generation: see @ref PRICER_REMARKS `pricer remarks` for an explanation.
8078 Each variable has now two additional `SCIP_Real` parameter which define a lazy lower and upper bound; lazy means that
8079 there exists constraints which implies these (lazy) bounds. If the lazy lower or upper bound is greater or less than
8080 the local lower or upper bound, respectively, then the corresponding bound is not put into the LP. The bounds are set
8081 to minus and plus infinity per default which yields the same behavior as before. With the methods SCIPchgVarLbLazy()
8082 and SCIPchgVarUbLazy() these bounds can be set. This is of interest if SCIP gets used as a branch-and-price
8083 framework. Attention! The lazy bounds need to be valid for each feasible LP solution. If the objective function
8084 implies bounds on the variables for each optimal LP solution, but these bounds may be violated for arbitrary LP
8085 solutions, these bounds must not be declared lazy!
8086 - interval arithmetic functions can work with unbounded intervals added new functions to allow more operations on
8087 intervals, including solving quadratic interval equations
8088
8089- Branching:
8090 - extended hybrid relpscost branching rule by usage of the average length of conflicts a variable appears in
8091 - `early branching`-functionality added: in a branch-and-price code, the user can stop pricing at a node although there
8092 may exist variables with negative reduced costs. In this case, the lp-lowerbound will not be used. The pricer has,
8093 however, the option to return a lower bound. This can be useful for column generation.
8094
8095- Constraints:
8096 - Copy constructors and i/o functionality for constraints: all linear type constraint handlers are able to copy
8097 constraints using the function SCIPgetConsCopy() in scip.h
8098 - the linear constraint handler is able to parse a string in CIP format and create a corresponding linear constraint
8099 - Constraint handler for indicator constraints and parsing them from *.lp and *.zpl files
8100 - the indicator constraint can now try to produce a feasible solution (via heur_trysol)
8101 - one can now write indicator constraints in LP-format
8102 - added constraint handler for quadratic constraints
8103
8104- Cuts:
8105 - added new version of zerohalf cuts from Manuel Kutschka
8106 - added multi-commodity-flow cut separator
8107
8108- Heuristics:
8109 - Heuristics which are applied before root LP
8110 - added heuristic that performs a local search in an NLP (takes only linear and quadratic constraints into account so far)
8111 - added heuristic that gets a solution from other components and tries it (heur_trysol.?)
8112 - new trivial heuristic: tries zero solution, lower and upper bound solution and some variable lock based fixing
8113 - added new timing point, `SCIP_HEURTIMING_DURINGPRICINGLOOP`, for calling heuristics; If this timing point is used the
8114 corresponding heuristics is called during the pricing loop of variables; we also added this timing point to
8115 heur_simplerounding.{h,c} which has the effect that a LP solution which satisfies all integrality conditions during
8116 the pricing loop is detected
8117
8118- Interfaces:
8119 - added first version of an interface to NLP solvers (type_nlpi.h, struct_nlpi.h, nlpi.h, nlpi.c, nlpi_oracle.h, nlpi_oracle.c)
8120 - Preliminary support of non-convex MIQCPs: Constraint handler for quadratic constraints, NLP heuristic and
8121 Ipopt interface, see \ref cons_quadratic.h.
8122 - There are LP-interfaces to QSopt and Gurobi (rudimentary).
8123
8124- Reader and Writer:
8125 - added reader and writer for FlatZinc models (reader_fzn.{c,h})
8126 - added writer for GAMS models (reader_gms.{c,h})
8127
8128Performance improvements
8129------------------------
8130
8131- Enhanced MCF cuts: stable version, used by default
8132- replaced some function calls in loop conditions
8133- in sepa_cmir.c, if mksetcoefs is invalid for delta=1 no other values of delta are tested anymore
8134- changed the timing of the feasibility pump in case of pricing
8135- removed changing of update rule to `ETA` from standard soplex update `Forrest-Tomlin` in lpi_spx.cpp
8136- improved memory usage in heur_octane.c
8137- improved reading time of opb-files, due to using a hashtable for all `and`-constraints
8138- improved performance of merging variables in mergeMultiples() in cons_knapsack.c
8139- improved performance in tightenWeightsLift() and SCIPseparateRelaxedKnapsack() in cons_knapsack.c, due to now
8140 sparse-cleaning `global` arrays instead of using BMSclearMemory... functions for cleaning local arrays each time
8141- improved performance in SCIPcliquelistRemoveFromCliques()
8142- improved performance in SCIPcalcCliquePartition()
8143- improved performance in SCIPvarGetActiveRepresentatives() in var.c
8144
8145- Presolving:
8146 - improved pairwise presolving in cons_and.c due to using a hashtable
8147 - improved pairwise presolving in cons_xor.c due to using a hashtable
8148
8149Interface changes
8150-----------------
8151
8152- A significant change for C++ users is that all include files of SCIP
8153 automatically detect C++ mode, i.e., no `extern `C`` is needed anymore.
8154- Reader for Flatzinc and GAMS models
8155
8156### New and changed callbacks
8157
8158- The callback SCIP_DECL_PRICERREDCOST(x) in the \ref PRICER `pricers` has two new parameters:
8159 + A `result` pointer determines whether the pricer guarantees that there exist no more variables. This allows for early branching.
8160 + A pointer for providing a lower bound.
8161
8162- The \ref CONS `constraint handlers` have two new callback methods (see type_cons.h for more details):
8163 + SCIP_DECL_CONSCOPY(x): this method can be used to copy a constraint.
8164 + SCIP_DECL_CONSPARSE(x): this method can be used to parse a constraint in CIP format.
8165
8166### Deleted and changed API functions
8167
8168- SCIPcalcMIR() in scip.h has two new parameter `mksetcoefsvalid` and `sol`. The parameter `mksetcoefsvalid` stores
8169 whether the coefficients of the mixed knapsack set (`mksetcoefs`) computed in SCIPlpCalcMIR() are valid. If the mixed
8170 knapsack constraint obtained after aggregating LP rows is empty or contains too many nonzero elements the generation of the
8171 c-MIR cut is aborted in SCIPlpCalcMIR() and `mksetcoefs` is not valid. The input parameter `sol` can be used to separate a
8172 solution different from the LP solution.
8173- new parameter `set` in SCIPconsSetInitial().
8174- some interval arithmetic method take an additional argument to denote which value stands for infinity in an interval
8175
8176- Variables:
8177 - SCIPgetVarClosestVlb() and SCIPgetVarClosestVub() in scip.h have a new parameter `sol`. It can be used to obtain the closest
8178 variable bound w.r.t. a solution different from the LP solution.
8179 - new parameters `lowerbound` and `result` in type_pricer.h: lowerbound can save a lower bound computed by the pricer,
8180 result indicates whether the pricer guarantees that there exist no more variables if no variable was found
8181
8182### New API functions
8183
8184- new methods to deactivate a pricer SCIPdeactivatePricer() in scip.c
8185- new methods in pub_misc.h/misc.c to access hash map lists and elements of a hash map list and to clear all entries in a hash map
8186- SCIPsetProbName() to set problem name in scip.h/c (SCIPprobSetName() in prob.h/c)
8187
8188- Objective:
8189 - SCIPgetTransObjscale() and SCIPgetTransObjoffset() in scip.c
8190 - SCIPaddObjoffset() in scip.h; sets offset of objective function
8191 - SCIPgetOrigObjoffset() in scip.h; returns the objective offset of the original problem
8192 - SCIPgetOrigObjscale() in scip.h; returns the objective scale of the original problem
8193
8194- Constraints:
8195 - detectRedundantConstraints() in cons_xor.c and necessary hash-functions for fast pairwise presolving
8196 - SCIPparseCons() in scip.h; parses constraint information (in cip format) out of a string
8197 - SCIPgetConsCopy() in scip.h; which copies a constraint of the source SCIP
8198
8199- Relaxation:
8200 - SCIPisLPRelax() and SCIPisRootLPRelax() in scip.c and scip.h returning whether the current/root LP is a
8201 relaxation of the current/root problem and thus defines a valid lower bound
8202 - SCIPlpSetIsRelax() and SCIPlpSetRootLPIsRelax() in lp.c and lp.h to set the information, whether the lp is a valid relaxation;
8203 this information is per default set to true and constraint be used. The aggregated version has only 2 linear constraints the
8204 default linearization has nvars + 1
8205
8206- Sort:
8207 - extended the sort template functions in sorttpl.c with a `five` array; now it possible to used this template to sort
8208 up to five arrays
8209 - new interface methods SCIPcolSort(), SCIProwSort(), SCIPcolGetIndex()
8210 - added SCIPsortPtrPtrLongInt() and corresponding sorting/inserting/deleting methods in pub_misc.h and necessary defines
8211 in misc.c
8212
8213- Variables:
8214 - SCIPprintNodeRootPath() in scip.h This method prints all branching decisions on variables from the root to the given node
8215 - SCIPnodeGetParentBranchings(), SCIPnodeGetAncestorBranchings(), SCIPnodeGetAncestorBranchingPath(); These methods return
8216 the set of variable branchings that were performed in the parent node / all ancestor nodes to create a given node
8217 - SCIPchgVarLbLazy() and SCIPchgVarUbLazy() in scip.h; These methods can be used to change the lazy lower or
8218 upper bound of a variable; This might has the consequences that the bounds of the corresponding variable is not in
8219 LP. This is the case if the lazy lower or upper bound is greater or less than the local lower or upper bound, respectively
8220 - SCIPvarGetLbLazy() and SCIPvarGetUbLazy() in pub_var.h; These methods return the lazy lower or upper bound, respectively
8221 - SCIPvarCompareActiveAndNegated() and SCIPvarCompActiveAndNegated() in pub_var.h for comparing variables
8222 negated, active or fixed the same way
8223 - SCIPparseVars() in scip.h; parses variable information (in cip format) out of a string
8224 - SCIPgetNFixedonesSetppc() and SCIPgetNFixedzerosSetppc() in cons_setppc.{h,c}; these methods returns
8225 current (local) number of variables fixed to one/zero in the given setppc constraint
8226 - SCIPgetVarConflictlengthScore(), SCIPgetVarAvgConflictlength(), SCIPgetAvgConflictlengthScore() and their pendants for the current run
8227 - added function SCIPvarsGetProbvarBinary() in pub_var.h; gets active, fixed, or multi-aggregated problem variables of
8228 binary variables and corresponding negated status
8229
8230### Interfaces to external software
8231
8232- LP Interfaces:
8233 - heavily revised Mosek interface
8234 - new interface to QSopt due to Daniel Espinoza
8235 - First version of LP interfaces to Gurobi and QSopt
8236 - Major performance improvements in LP interfaces to Clp, Mosek and SoPlex
8237
8238- External Software:
8239 - adjusted interface to ZIMPL (reader_zpl.{c,h} for ZIMPL version 2.10; this interface should also work with older ZIMPL versions
8240 - Adjusted interface to Zimpl version 3.0.0
8241 - added first version of an interface to Ipopt (only QCP, no deletion of vars/cons allowed; nlpi_ipopt.(h|c))
8242
8243- SCIP Interfaces:
8244 - On http://code.google.com/p/python-zibopt/source/checkout you find a beta
8245 version of a python interface to SCIP implemented by Ryan J. O'Neil.
8246
8247### Changed parameters
8248
8249- removed parameter `constraints/and/initiallp` since it is not needed anymore;
8250- set parameter `constraints/and/sepafreq` default value to 1
8251- display character of oneopt heuristic changed to `b`
8252
8253### New parameters
8254
8255- `branching/relpscost/advanced/conflenscore`, default value 0.001
8256- `constraints/and/aggrlinearization` in cons_and.c, aggregated version of the linearization
8257- `constraints/and/enforcecuts` in cons_and.c, should cuts be separated during LP enforcing?
8258- `constraints/and/presolusehashing` in cons_and.c, should pairwise presolving use hashing?, default TRUE
8259- `constraints/countsols/sollimit` in cons_countsols.c, counting stops, if the given number of solutions were found (-1: no limit)
8260- `constraints/xor/presolusehashing` in cons_xor.c, should pairwise presolving use hashing?, default TRUE
8261- `heuristics/oneopt/duringroot`, default value TRUE
8262
8263Build system
8264------------
8265
8266### Makefile
8267
8268- extend Makefile to link against Ipopt if `IPOPT=true` is set
8269
8270Fixed bugs
8271----------
8272
8273- fixed wrong use of pointer in lp.c
8274- fixed bug with array dimension not reset to zero when array is freed in pseudoobj propagator
8275- fixed bug with enforcement of pseudo solutions: if pseudo solution is choosen because LP hit a limit, it has to be
8276 enforced in any case
8277- fixed potential bug in coloring example: SCIPcreateChild() is now given an estimate in terms of the transformed
8278 problem by SCIPgetLocalTransEstimate(), no longer the estimated original problem value. Also clarified this in the
8279 comments for SCIPcreateChild()
8280- fixed compiler warning `warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules` which resuts in
8281 scip-crashes with gcc version 4.4.0
8282- adjusted assert in var.c
8283- fixed bug in SCIPvarGetActiveRepresentatives() in var.c
8284- fixed bug with objective limit in lp.c: previously the infinity value of SCIP was used as default - now the value of
8285 LPI is used. In the earlier version in many cases the problems where never infeasible.
8286- added and adjusted some asserts, initialized some values
8287- increased the numerical stability of coefficient tightening for Big M formulations
8288- fixed bug with incorrect pseudo activities when objective of a variable switches sign in linear constraint handler
8289- fixed bug with empty constraints in several writing routines
8290- fixed `GGT-Kaibel-Bug` in var.c, prop_pseudoobj.c and cons_varbound.c that occurred while computing new values using
8291 infinity values
8292
8293- Bounds:
8294 - fixed bug in coefficient tightening with infinite bounds
8295 - fixed bug in solve.c: in case lowerbound >= upperbound, SCIPsolveIsStopped() returned `SCIP_STATUS_GAPLIMIT`
8296
8297- Nodes:
8298 - fixed bug in SCIPsolveNode() concerning the case that the time limit was hit while solving the LP relaxation of a
8299 subproblem which is already an LP (branching on pseudo solution is not possible)
8300 - fixed bug in vbc tools concerning of marking probing nodes
8301 - fixed bug in solve.c with nodes which are marked to be repropagated while enforcement
8302
8303- Variables:
8304 - fixed possible infinite loop while multiaggregating a variable in var.c
8305 - fixed bug in SCIPgetSolVals() similar to SCIPgetSolVal(): try to get original variables of transformed ones if the
8306 solution lives in original space
8307
8308- Pricing:
8309 - fixed potential bug: restarts are now only done if no active pricers exist
8310 - fixed bug in SCIPlpSolveAndEval(): if fastmip and pricers enabled and objlimit was reached but CPLEX did not perform
8311 the final pivot step in order to exceed the objlimit, do one additional simplex step with pricing strategy steepest
8312 edge, if this doesn't suffice, turn off fastmip temporarily and solve again. Also consider solstat of the new
8313 solution.
8314 - fixed bug with invalid pseudo solution (lower bound was always >= 0) when using pricing.
8315 - fixed bug in SCIPfreeProb() in scip.c: all pricers are deactivated now
8316
8317- Memory:
8318 - now frees debug memory
8319 - fixed bug with exponential complexity for reallocating memory in SCIPvarGetActiveRepresentatives() in var.c
8320 - fixed casting of void* pointers in memory.h for C++, adjusted the same for C in memory.h and due to that adjusted all
8321 header files(set whole files in extern `C`) and cpp-files(removed unnecessary extern `C` lines)
8322 - removed memory leak in connection with freeing branch and bound nodes: focusnode was not freed if both children could
8323 be cut off due to bounding
8324
8325- Reading and Writing:
8326 - corrected bug in reader_lp.c: earlier read bounds were thrown away (implementation was not conforming to standard)
8327 - fixed bug in reader_lp.c with respect to constraint and variable names which start with two or more dots `..`
8328 - fixed bug in all readers w.r.t. SCIPgetProbvarLinearSum()
8329 - fixed bug in reader_mps.c with respect to corrupted files
8330 - fixed bug in reader_mps.c with respect to writing transformed problems
8331 - changed wrong writing of mps files due to constraints without any name
8332 - fixed a bug during reading debug solution file
8333 - fixed bug in case of reading an objective function in opb format with multiple occurrences of the same variable
8334 - fixed bug in case of reading an objective function in lp format with multiple occurrences of the same variable
8335 - fixed a wrong fix of a reading bug, which was in reality a writing bug in MPS format; integer variables in mps format
8336 without bounds are binary variables, if the bound of an integer variable is infinity you have to write this bound
8337
8338- Separation:
8339 - fixed bug in sepa_cmir.c, sepa_mcf.c and sepa_flowcover.c: sol different to LP solution is now separated
8340 - corrected two asserts in sepa_redcost.c (reduced costs can be negative for fixed variables: qsopt uses this)
8341 - fixed bug in sepa_zerohalf.c; replacement of own sorting functions by template functions was incorrect
8342 - fixed bug in var.c, cons_knapsack.c and sepa_flowcover.c: variable bounds corresponding to implication are not
8343 generated if coefficient is large, variable bounds with large coefficients are ignored for construction of knapsack
8344 and snf relaxations
8345 - fixed bug in sepa_impliedbound.c concerning redundant implications
8346
8347- Cuts:
8348 - fixed bug in sepa_cmir.c concerning uninitialized mksetcoefs (if MIR-cut generation is aborted because the aggregated
8349 constraint is empty or contains too many nonzero elements mksetcoefs is invalid)
8350 - interrupts optimization process if a node will be cutoff, which allows the solution
8351 - fixed bug in sepa_impliedbounds.c and sepa_intobj.c: if separating a sol, this sol is now also given to SCIPaddCut()
8352 so that the efficacy of the cut is now computed correctly
8353 - fixed bug in solve.c caused by integer overflow due to setting the number of cuts to INT_MAX
8354
8355- Presolving:
8356 - fixed wrong result in check.awk, if infeasible problems are stopped in presolving
8357 - fixed exponential calculation of solution values during check of original solution, therefore changed
8358 SCIPvarGetActiveRepresentatives() in var.c and flattened all multiaggregated vars at the end of presolving in
8359 exitPresolve()
8360 - fixed bug with wrong abort criterion in presolving
8361 - fixed bug in presol.c caused by not reseting presolver-wasdelayed status
8362 - fixed bug in SCIPconsSetInitial() that occurred in pairwise presolving: add or delete constraint in initconss when
8363 changing the initial flag
8364
8365- Constraints:
8366 - fixed bug in cons.c caused by not resetting conshdlr data after restart
8367 - fixed memory error in cons_countsols.c
8368 - fixed assert in cons_and.c method SCIP_DECL_CONSINITSOL(consInitsolAnd)
8369 - fixed bug in cons_countsols.c we respect to warning message that `The current parameter setting might cause ...`
8370
8371- Knapsack Constraint Handler:
8372 - fixed wrong assert in cons_knapsack.c and handled a special this case in simplifyInequalities()
8373 - fixed some bugs in simplifyInequalities() in cons_knapsack.c
8374 - fixed bug in mergeMultiples() in cons_knapsack.c
8375 - adjusted ConsData and ConsHdlrData in cons_knapsack.c
8376 - fixed compiler warning caused by no initialization of two integer in cons_knapsack.c
8377 - fixed bug in cons_knapsack.c caused by having a multi-aggregated variable in a knapsack constraint, now applyFixing is
8378 able to resolve a binary multi-aggregation with integral values
8379
8380- Linear Constraint Handler:
8381 - fixed infinity loop in simplify inequalities in cons_linear.c
8382 - fixed bug in cons_linear.c: do not select variable as slack variable for multiaggregation in convertLongEquality if it
8383 has been marked as not-multiaggregable
8384 - fixed bug in cons_linear.c: also do not multiaggregate variables in dual preproccessing if it has been marked as
8385 not-multiaggregable
8386 - fixed bug in cons_linear.c: slight decrease of epsilon in order to make sure that scaled coefficients are really
8387 integral
8388 - fixed bug in chgRhs() and chgLhs() of cons_linear.c: after changing lhs or rhs of a constraints lhs <= rhs has to be
8389 satisfied without numerical tolerances
8390
8391- Heuristics:
8392 - added and changed some SCIPisStopped() calls in several heuristics
8393 - fixed bug in oneopt heuritic with start solution which has become infeasible due to global bound changes
8394
8395- Interfaces:
8396 - corrected several bugs in the Clp-interface concerning return values
8397 - fixed potential interface bug: time limits of 0.0 are not anymore passed to the LP solver, which may have caused
8398 errors
8399
8400@page RN1_1 Release notes for SCIP 1.1
8401
8402@section RN110 SCIP 1.1.0
8403*************************
8404
8405Features
8406--------
8407
8408- SCIP can now count integer feasible solutions for IPs/CIPs (without continuous variables) (see SCIPcount())
8409- check.awk now uses TeX package supertabular which supports automatic pagebreak
8410- struct `SCIP_Stat` has now two additional variables: `nprobboundchgs`, `nprobholechgs`; these are used to fix the domain
8411 reduction counts in sepa.c, cons.c, branch.c and prop.c; this means, that now the domain reduction counts are reduced
8412 by those domain reduceds which are preformed during probing
8413- added capabilities to flatten the (multi)-aggregation graph of variables
8414- pseudoobj propagator now also propagates the global lower (dual) bound
8415- new heuristic DINS (distance induced neighborhood search by Ghosh)
8416
8417- Output:
8418 - SCIP can now output a picture of the constraint matrix in PPM format.
8419 - output of real values is now done with 15 digits after the decimal point
8420 - Extended the capabilities of SCIP to output problems in different formats (LP, MPS, CIP, ...). You can output the original and
8421 transformed problem. Furthermore, generic names can be given to the variables and constraints.
8422 - The feasibility test for solutions at the end of the execution now outputs more useful information.
8423 This made some changes in the interface of constraint handlers necessary.
8424
8425- Presolving:
8426 - added predefined settings file presolving/aggressive.set
8427 - new presolver boundshift (presol_boundshift.{c,h}); this presolver is currently turned off with default parameter setting
8428
8429- Constraints:
8430 - linear constraint handler now detects continuous variables that are implicit integer in dual presolve
8431 - replaced some old sorting methods in cons_knapsack.c, heur_octane.c, sepa_flowcover.c and presol_probing.c through
8432 SCIPsort...() interfaces, adjusted misc.{c,h} and pub_misc.h for these changes
8433 - cons_countsols.c is now able to store the collected solution if required
8434 - added first version of SOS type 1 constraint handler (cons_sos1.{c,h})
8435 - added first version of SOS type 2 constraint handler (cons_sos2.{c,h})
8436 - less aggressive scaling in linear constraint handler presolve to improve numerics
8437 - added first version of constraint handler cons_countsols.{c,h}
8438
8439- Reader:
8440 - added ccg-reader (weighted column connectivity graph)
8441 - added reader for pseudo-Boolean problems (reader_opb.{c,h})
8442 - the ZPL reader is now able to pass a starting solution to SCIP
8443 - the MPS reader is now able to write a problem in MPS format
8444 - the ZIMPL reader now understands SOS type 1 and 2 constraints
8445 - the LP reader reads SOS constraints of type 1 and 2
8446 - the MPS reader reads the SOS section (but cannot yet handle `MARKERS`)
8447
8448- LPI:
8449 - The SoPlex LPI can now write basis files.
8450 - revised lpi_clp.cpp (many small changes, in particular writing and reading of bases)
8451 - added FASTMIP settings in lpi_clp.cpp that try to improve the performance of Clp as much as possible
8452
8453- Cuts and Separation:
8454 - the c-MIR separator now also tries to get rid of implicit integer variables by aggregation
8455 - allow cut selection based on support of inequality in orthogonality computation
8456 - disabled zerohalf cuts by default
8457 - adjusted all predefined settings files, e.g., `settings/cuts/fast.set`, such that they are consistent wrt removed,
8458 added and changed parameter values of scip.
8459 - New cutting plane separator MCF (beta version).
8460 - new separator sepa_zerohalf.{c,h}; separates {0,1/2}-Cuts according to Caprara and Fischetti
8461
8462Performance improvements
8463------------------------
8464
8465- heavily decreased the usage of SCIPisStopped(), which costs system time
8466- small performance improvement of c-MIR aggregation heuristic
8467- reworked strong branching in lpi_clp.cpp (scaling works now, bounds can be trusted)
8468
8469- Constraints:
8470 - The preprocessing has been revised. It now applies bound computations in a numerically more stable way. The pairwise
8471 comparison of linear, logicor, and setppc constraints has been improved.
8472 - better branching in SOS1/SOS2 constraints
8473 - fixed performance bug with large number of unnamed constraints that will kill the name hash table (now, unnamed
8474 constraints are not put into the hash table)
8475
8476- Cuts and Separation:
8477 - improved the performance of SCIPcalcMIR() and SCIPcalcStrongCG() by exploiting sparsity
8478 - improved performance of SCIPvarGetLPSol(), which affects many parts of the code, in particular Gomory and strong CG cuts
8479 - do not calculate MIR and StrongCG cut aggregations if number of nonzeros in aggregated row is too large
8480
8481- Presolving:
8482 - improved pairwise presolving in cons_linear.c: reduced cache misses, reduced number of SCIPisStopped() calls and
8483 included detecting of redundant constraints with hash table in advance
8484 - tighter memory limits in knapsack presolve lifting procedure to avoid overly expensive presolving
8485 - included detecting of redundant constraints with hash table in advance in cons_logicor.c and limit other pairwise
8486 presolving
8487 - included detecting of redundant constraints with hash table in advance in cons_setppc.c and limit other pairwise
8488 presolving
8489 - limit pairwise presolving in cons_linear.c
8490
8491Examples and applications
8492-------------------------
8493
8494- Added an example for the graph coloring problem in `examples/Coloring`, showing the usage of column generation.
8495- added SOS2 example
8496- extended TSP example
8497
8498Interface changes
8499-----------------
8500
8501### New and changed callbacks
8502
8503- New callback method SCIP_DECL_READERWRITE(x) in type_reader.h; this method is called to write a problem to file
8504 stream in the format the reader stands for; useful for writing the transformed problem in LP or MPS format. Hence,
8505 also SCIPincludeReader() has changed.
8506- The callback \ref CONSCHECK (SCIP_DECL_CONSCHECK()) in the constraint handlers now has a new parameter `printreason` that tells
8507 a constraint handler to output the reason for a possible infeasibility of the solution to be checked using
8508 SCIPinfoMessage(). Have a look at one of the constraint handlers implemented in SCIP to see how it works. This
8509 methodology makes it possible to output the reason of a violation in human readable form, for instance, for the check
8510 at the end of a SCIP run, where the obtained best solution is checked against the original formulation.\n This change
8511 often has little effect on C-implementations, since this parameter can be safely ignored with respect to the
8512 correctness of the code. The corresponding C++ method scip::ObjConshdlr::scip_check(), however, has to be extended
8513 and will not compile otherwise.
8514- added new LPI pricing option `SCIP_PRICING_LPIDEFAULT`, such that every LP interface can set the default pricing
8515 strategy on its own (`auto` is not useful for this, because for CPLEX, for example, SCIP seems to be worse with `auto`
8516 then with `steepest edge`)
8517- Added user pointer to callback methods of hash table, see pub_misc.h.
8518
8519### Deleted and changed API functions
8520
8521- SCIPgetVarRedcost() now returns 0 for variables that have been aggregated out or removed in presolving.
8522 reduced cost in case of infeasible LPs)
8523- new parameter `maxfrac` for SCIPcalcStrongCG()
8524- new parameter `maxmksetcoefs` for SCIPcalcMIR() and SCIPcalcStrongCG() methods
8525- new parameter `conshdlrname` in SCIPincludeLinconsUpgrade()
8526
8527- Problem:
8528 - new parameters `extension` in SCIPreadProb() defining a desired file format or `NULL` if file extension should be use
8529 - New parameters `extension` and `genericnames` in SCIPprintTransProblem(), SCIPprintOrigProblem(),
8530 SCIPwriteOrigProblem(), and SCIPwriteTransProblem() defining the requested format or `NULL` for default CIP format
8531 and using generic names for the variables and constraints. Examples are
8532 - SCIPprintTransProblem(scip, NULL, NULL, TRUE) displays the transformed problem in CIP format with
8533 generic variables and constraint names
8534 - SCIPprintOrigProblem(scip, NULL, `lp`, FALSE) displays the original problem in LP format with
8535 original variables and constraint names.
8536
8537- Sorting:
8538 - expand sorttpl.c by some parameters
8539 - changed some names for sorting methods
8540 - replaced sorting methods SCIPbsort...() by faster (quicksort/shellsort) algorithms SCIPsort...() Note that the order
8541 of the parameters has been changed to simplify the template code in sorttpl.c!
8542
8543- Checking:
8544 - SCIPcheckSolOrig() is restructured. The last two parameters have changed. They are now bools indicating
8545 whether the reason for the violation should be printed to the standard output and whether all violations should be
8546 printed. This reflects the changes in the constraint handlers above, which allow the automation of the feasibility
8547 test. The pointers to store the constraint handler or constraint are not needed anymore.
8548 - the parameter list of the method SCIPcheckCons() (scip.h) has changed; the new advatage is, that SCIP can print the
8549 reason for the violation of a constraint as for as the constraint handler supports that
8550 - the parameter list of the method scip_check() (objconshdlr.h) has an additional parameter `printreason` see for
8551 explanation the previous point
8552
8553### New API functions
8554
8555- LPI now has a function SCIPlpiGetSolverPointer() that returns a solver dependent pointer. This can be used to directly
8556 access the LP solver. This should, of course, only be used by people that know exactly what they are doing.
8557- added capabilities to avoid multi-aggregation of a single variable by setting a corresponding flag (SCIPmarkDoNotMultaggrVar())
8558- SCIPgetProbvarLinearSum()
8559- SCIPgetResultantAnd() which returns the resultant variable of an `and` constraint
8560- SCIPchgChildPrio() to change the node selection priority of the given child
8561- SCIPconsGetPos()
8562- SCIPrepropagateNode() to mark a node for repropagation
8563- SCIPcount() (in cons_countsols.h) for counting all feasible solution of a given CIP
8564- SCIPcreateRootDialog() (in dialog_default.h) which creates a root dialog
8565- SCIPgetVectorEfficacyNorm()
8566- SCIPseparateRelaxedKnapsack() in cons_knapsack.h
8567- SCIPgetCutoffdepth() which returns the depth of first node in active path that is marked being cutoff
8568- SCIPflattenVarAggregationGraph()
8569- SCIPclockGetLastTime()
8570- SCIPcalcHashtableSize() to get a reasonable hash table size
8571- SCIPgetVarFarkasCoef() and SCIPgetColFarkasCoef() to get the farkas coefficient of a variable (analogon of
8572- SCIPgetRepropdepth() to get the depth of first node in active path that has to be propagated again
8573- SCIPmajorVersion(), SCIPminorVersion() and SCIPtechVersion() returning the corresponding version
8574
8575- Read, Write and Print:
8576 - SCIPprintSysError() which encapsulates the strerror_r calls, the NO_STRERROR_R flag switches between the use
8577 of strerror_r and strerror inside
8578 - SCIPsnprintf() safe version of snprintf (and sprintf)
8579 - SCIPreaderCanRead() and SCIPreaderCanWrite() in pub_reader.h, these return TRUE if the corresponding
8580 reader is capable to read or write, respectively
8581 - SCIPwriteOrigProblem(), e.g., SCIPwriteOrigProblem(scip, `orig.lp`, NULL, FALSE) prints the original
8582 problem in LP format in the file `orig.lp`
8583 - SCIPwriteTransProblem(), e.g., SCIPwriteTransProblem(scip, NULL, NULL, FALSE) displays the transformed problem in CIP format
8584
8585- Heuristics:
8586 - SCIPcutGenerationHeuristicCmir() in sepa_cmir.h
8587 - SCIPheurGetTimingmask() and SCIPheurSetTimingmask()
8588
8589- Sorting:
8590 - added some downwards-sorting methods
8591 - SCIPbsortInd()
8592 - SCIPsortedvecInsert...(), SCIPsortedvecInsertDown...(), SCIPsortedvecDelPos...(),
8593 SCIPsortedvecDelPosDown...(), SCIPsortedvecFind...() and SCIPsortedvecFindDown...() to manage sorted vectors or
8594 groups of vectors of various data types that are sorted w.r.t. the first vector
8595
8596### Command line interface
8597
8598- advanced reading and writing dialog in interactive shell
8599
8600### Interfaces to external software
8601
8602- Many changes in the SoPlex interface: The current one is tailored towards SoPlex 1.4 (aka 1.3.3). All SoPlex functions
8603 (where applicable) should now have an exception handling. The Bugfix for adding columns has been moved to SoPlex. One
8604 can use ROW representation. Reading/writing of a basis has been implemented.
8605
8606### Changed parameters
8607
8608- changed default frequency parameters for RINS, Local Branching, Crossover and Mutation heuristic This should not
8609 change the performance but happened just for consistency reasons
8610- changed parameter default values for the priority of presolver `dualfix` and `inttobinary`
8611- removed parameter `separating/cmir/maxtestdeltaroot`
8612- new value `l` for parameter `lp/pricing`, which is the new default
8613
8614### New parameters
8615
8616- `constraints/and/linearize` to enable linearization of all <and> constraints (in presolving),
8617- `constraints/and/initiallp` to turn on, off, or `auto` that the LP relaxation of the AND constraints are in the initial LP;
8618- `constraints/countsols/collect` to enable the storing of the solutions; default value FALSE;
8619- `constraints/indicator/addCoupling` to enable generation of relaxation
8620- `constraints/indicator/branchIndicators` to decide whether it is branched on indicator constraints in enforcing
8621- `constraints/indicator/genLogicor` to decide whether logicor constraints instead of cuts are generated
8622- `constraints/indicator/sepaAlternativeLP` to decide whether separation takes place using the alternative LP
8623- `constraints/linear/aggregatevariables` to search for aggregations in equations in the presolving step
8624- `constraints/linear/dualpresolving` to disable dual presolving step in the linear constraint handler; default value is TRUE
8625- `constraints/linear/simplifyinequalities` to enable a simplification step for inequalities; default value is set to FALSE = disabled
8626- `constraints/linear/upgrade/binpack` to enable or disable the linear upgrading process
8627- `constraints/linear/upgrade/eqknapsack` to enable or disable the linear upgrading process
8628- `constraints/linear/upgrade/invarknapsack` to enable or disable the linear upgrading process
8629- `constraints/linear/upgrade/knapsack` to enable or disable the linear upgrading process
8630- `constraints/linear/upgrade/logicor` to enable or disable the linear upgrading process
8631- `constraints/linear/upgrade/setppc` to enable or disable the linear upgrading process
8632- `constraints/linear/upgrade/varbound` to enable or disable the linear upgrading process
8633- `constraints/linear/presolusehashing` to use hashing comparison in cons_linear.c; default value is TRUE
8634- `constraints/logicor/presolusehashing` to use hashing comparison in cons_logicor.c; default value is TRUE
8635- `constraints/setppc/presolusehashing` to use hashing comparison in cons_setppc.c; default value is TRUE
8636- `constraints/SOS1/branchNonzeros` to decide whether SOS1 constraint with largest number of nonzero variables is picked for branching
8637- `constraints/SOS1/branchSOS` to enable or disable branching on SOS1 constraints
8638- `heuristics/feaspump/beforecuts` to allow the feaspump to be called before cut separation
8639- `heuristics/mutation/minimprove`
8640- `presol/donotmultaggr` which disables multiaggregation for all variables of the problem
8641- `separating/cmir/densityoffset` to allow for more c-MIR cuts on small models
8642- `separating/orthofunc` to choose function for scalar product computation in orthogonality test
8643
8644Testing
8645-------
8646
8647- updated mmm.{test,solu}, mittelmann.{test,solu}, miplib3.solu, miplib.solu, shortmiplib.test and added
8648 mittelmann_current.test, mittelmann_old.test
8649- added test scripts for testing counting (make testcount)
8650- removed tag make testpre (useless without corresponding scripts)
8651- added tag testcount (make testcount); this allows for testing counting problem
8652- replaced tcsh by bash and gawk by awk in all check scripts to achieve higher compatibility
8653
8654Build system
8655------------
8656
8657### Makefile
8658
8659- added `make/make.project` as default make include for external projects using SCIP
8660- added possibility to compile shared libraries in makefiles (and added `make/make.linux.x86.gnu.opt-shared`)
8661- replaced <string> by <cstring> in all C++-interfaces to get `strlen()` included (gcc-4.3 gave an error)
8662- Moved -rpath option for ld to linux-specific Makefiles.
8663- Re-activated readline library on darwin/ppc.
8664
8665- Flags:
8666 - added in all `make/make.*` `GMP_FLAGS` and `GMP_LDFLAGS`
8667 - new flag GMP with values (`auto`, `true and `false`); in case of `auto` the library gmp is linked if ZIMPL is
8668 included
8669 - adapted all makefiles of the examples accordingly
8670
8671- LP:
8672 - modified makefiles to accept ZIMPLOPT and LPSOPT flags (with values `opt` or `dbg` and default being `opt`), and
8673 removed `LPS=spxdbg` and `LPS=clpdbg`
8674 - added target spx132 for SoPlex version 1.3.2
8675
8676Fixed bugs
8677----------
8678
8679- fixed CTRL-C if NO_SIGACTION is set (e.g., for MinGW)
8680- added checks whether a plugin (handler) has already been included to avoid later complications e.g. with parameters.
8681- fixed bug with wrong `tightened` return value of some of the change bounds methods
8682- forced full propagation in presolving -> this fixes a bug that implied that variable locks became inconsistent
8683- replaced calls to perror() by SCIP error message using strerror(errno); this avoids problems with the error output
8684 stream
8685- fixed bug in method SCIPgetProbvarLinearSum()
8686- fixed bug with errors occurring in sub-MIPs. Search is only aborted in dbg mode, in opt mode a warning will be printed
8687- fixed bug in tclique-graph datastructure concerning insertion of edges into nonempty graph
8688- corrected bug in SCIPtreeBranchVar() (tree.c): several comparison functions needed a `feas`.
8689- fixed bug in SCIPtightenVarLb/Ub() in scip.c concering forcing a bound change (bound improvement is checked now)
8690- improved stage checking for bound computation
8691- fixed usage of command test for string comparison in check-scripts (now compatible with ubuntu)
8692- replaced sprintf and snprintf by SCIPsnprintf() fixed potential bug with overlong strings
8693- corrected bug in the case when soplex threw an exception in autopricing
8694- fixed bug in SCIPvarGetOrigvarSum() concerning the corner case the a negated variable has no parent variable in
8695 original problem
8696
8697- Aggregation:
8698 - avoid aggregation of implicit integers with fractional aggregation scalars
8699 - fixed bug in aggregateActiveIntVars(): If a < 0, multiply a*x + b*y == c by -1 (algo for finding initial solution does
8700 only work for a > 0).
8701 - avoiding aggregation that removes information about implicitly integer variables (removes bug)
8702 - fixed bug with exponential running times due to complicated recursive multi-aggregation
8703 - corrected bug in var.c occuring during applying boundchanges in varUpdateAggregationBounds method
8704
8705- Constraints:
8706 - fixed bug that a missing CONSTRANS in constraint handler leads to `NULL` pointer as constraint data for the copied
8707 constraints instead of pointer copies of the consdata (as explained in the constraint handler `HowTo`)
8708 - fixed bugs in second part of consdataTightenCoefs(): Removed min/maxleftactisinfinity (definition was not correct),
8709 fixed calculation of min/maxleftactivity and removed asserts concerning whether all redundant vars were deleted (led
8710 to different behavior in debug and opt mod).
8711 - fixed typo in documentation: default value for `dynamic` parameter is FALSE for all constraint handlers!
8712 - fixed bug in preprocessing of SOS2 constraints (cons_sos2.c)
8713 - fixed bug in cons_countsols.c concerning variable locking
8714 - fixed bug in cons_varbounds.c, concerning SCIPaddVarVlb() and SCIPaddVarVub()
8715 - fixed bug in applyFixings() in cons_varbound.c concerning tightening the bound of a variable left in a redundant
8716 constraint (bound change is forced now)
8717
8718- Heuristics:
8719 - fixed bug with useless objective cutoff in LNS heuristics
8720 - removed bug for values greater than (-)infinity, heur_shifting.c, heur_intshifting.c, heur_rounding.c, heur_oneopt.c
8721 - fixed bug with errors occurring in heuristic LPs. In opt mode a warning will be printed, abort in dbg mode
8722
8723- Linear Constraints:
8724 - fixed bug with wrong update of activities in linear constraints after global upper bound changes
8725 - fixed bug in preprocessConstraintPairs() in cons_linear.c concerning updating the flags of the constraint that stayes
8726 in the problem (nonredundant information were lost before)
8727 - fixed bug in cons_linear.c caused by comparing two infinity values during checking of using variable as slackvariable
8728 - removed bug for rhs/lhs greater than (-)infinity, cons_linear.c
8729 - removed bug caused by hashcomparison for non-sorted constraints, cons_linear.c
8730 - fixed bugs with wrong presolving due to cancellation in (res-)activities in cons_linear.c
8731 - removed BOUNDSCALETOL adjustment in cons_linear.c. This fixes bug with slightly infeasible variable fixings in
8732 presolving; reliable resactivities should make the BOUNDSCALETOL relaxation redundant.
8733 - removed `epsilontic` bug in cons_linear.c due to adjusting left/right hand side in applyfixing
8734 - fixed bug with multi-aggregated variables in cons_logicor: instead of fixing them, a linear constraint will be created
8735 - corrected bug in cons_linear.c:applyFixings() [if variable was fixed to infinity the rhs/lhs were wrong]
8736 - fixed bugs in pairwise presolving of cons_linear.c concerning deletion of upgraded constraints and inconsistent update
8737 of nchgsides in case of coefsequal and coefsnegated
8738 - fixed false assert and corrected a bug caused by deleting a constraint on `firstchanged` position in pairwise
8739 presolving with hashing in cons_linear.c
8740
8741- LP:
8742 - fixed handling of unbounded variables with 0 objective in SCIPlpGetModifiedPseudo[Proved]Objval() (lp.c)
8743 - fixed bug with uncatched LPSOLSTAT after hitting a time or iteration limit
8744 - corrected bug in SCIPlpGetState() if the LP is empty
8745 - fixed bug in SCIPlpSolveAndEval(): added extra simplex step if objlimit reached, fastmip and pricers enabled in order
8746 to get dual solution for pricing.
8747 - weakened two too strong asserts in lp.c concerning the LP result OBJLIMIT
8748 - fixed bug in SCIPlpSolveAndEval(): allow more than one extra simplex step for getting an objlimit exceeding solution
8749 with fastmip
8750
8751- Memory:
8752 - corrected invalid memory access in tcliqueIsEdge: added check whether node1 has no neighbors (tclique_graph.c)
8753 - removed memory leak detected with the help of coverity in dialog.c
8754 - fixed bug with memory reallocation in SCIPgetProbvarLinearSum()
8755 - tried to fix memory leak in dialog.c occuring from different versions of the readline/history libraries
8756 - removed possible memory leak in objdialog.cpp
8757
8758- Numerical:
8759 - fixed numerical issue in linear constraint propagation: need slightly more aggressive tightening such that probing
8760 does not choose a wrong value for fixing inside an epsilon interval
8761 - fixed numerical bug in dual presolving of linear constraint handler
8762 - avoid fixing variables to infinity in order to get rid of numerical inconsistencies in the original model
8763
8764- Objective:
8765 - added handling of the case of roundable variables with 0 objective in presol_dualfix.c
8766 - fixed bug with writing the MIP relaxation to a file concerning the objective function; in case the original objective
8767 function is requested, the transformed objective function gets re-transformed (scaling, offset)
8768 - fixed bug with wrong objective sense output for transformed problem. The transformed problem is always a minimization
8769 problem!
8770 - fixed bug with objective scaling after restart
8771
8772- Reading:
8773 - fixed bug with reading empty lines in TSP example
8774 - fixed bug with non-conformal parameter name in reader_ppm
8775 - fixed infinite loop in LP file reader if a line exceeds the character limit
8776 - fixed bug in reader_ppm while appending strings for output file
8777 - fixed some `SCIP_RETCODE` bugs in reader_fix.c, reader_sol.c, reader_sos.c and reader_zpl.c
8778 - fixed docu in type_reader.h
8779 - fixed bug with multi-aggregated variables which are de facto aggregated or fixed after flattening the aggregation tree
8780 - fixed bug with bound changes of variables in modifiable constraints during full dual presolving of linear conshdlr
8781 - increased compiler compatibility for C++ wrapper classed by adding extern `C` in obj*.cpp files and changing strlen
8782 calls to std::strlen
8783
8784- Separation:
8785 - corrected bug in priceAndCutLoop(): separation was aborted if domain reduction was applied
8786 - fixed bug in sepa_mir.c: size of testeddeltas-array was too small
8787 - corrected imlementation of SCIPlpiGetBasisInd() in lpi_clp.cpp (this fixes the bug that almost no Gomory cuts are
8788 found with Clp).
8789
8790- Sorting:
8791 - fixed bugs in sorttpl.c: fixed wrong arraysize in shellsort; in case an has at most one element, then no sorting is
8792 applied
8793 - fixed wrong if condition for function call in sorttpl.c
8794 - fixed obvious bug in linear constraint data sorting. Most part of the code assumed pure index sorting, but in fact, it
8795 was sorted by variable type as first criterion and index as second criterion.
8796
8797@page RN1_0 Release notes for SCIP 1.0
8798
8799@section RN100 SCIP 1.0.0
8800*************************
8801
8802Features
8803--------
8804
8805- SCIP now has a couple of specialized settings, all called scip_*.set
8806- SCIP is now compatible to the Exception branch of SoPlex
8807- if possible, objective function is scaled to make objective value integral with gcd 1
8808- slightly modified automatic constraint aging strategy
8809- new C templates disp_xxx.h and dialog_xxx.h and C++ wrapper classes objdisp.h and objdialog.h, respectively
8810- modified reader `sol`, st. files which where created via typing the order of commands `set log *.sol`,
8811 `disp sol var -`, `set log cplex.log` in Cplex can now be read
8812- new dummy LP interface `lpi_none.c`; useful for running SCIP without a LP solver
8813
8814- Presolver:
8815 - modified probing presolver to do multiple cycles if called in subsequent runs
8816 - changed sort algorithm in probing presolver
8817
8818- Node selection:
8819 - new node selection rule `estimate` (best estimate search)
8820 - new node selection rule `hybridestim`
8821
8822- Documentation:
8823 - the doxygen documentation now has HowTo's for all plugin types
8824 - the doxygen documentation now contains a FAQ
8825 - the documentation has now a TAB Modules; there you can find list of available constraint handles, presolvers,
8826 propagators, lpi interfaces, file readers and so on
8827
8828- Time:
8829 - time limit is now forwarded to lp solving algorithm
8830 - presolving, cut separation, primal heuristics and strong branching now better respect time limit
8831
8832- Heuristics:
8833 - best estimate search is now used in all large neighborhood search heuristics
8834 - new improvement heuristic `oneopt`
8835 - new heuristic `actconsdiving` following an idea of John Chinneck
8836
8837- Separation and Cuts:
8838 - modified cut selection code
8839 - cut conversion into linear constraints after a restart now works better
8840 - added flow cover separator
8841 - gomory cuts are now also separated for integral slack variables
8842 - less aggressive in Gomory cut separation
8843 - strong CG cuts are now also separated for integral slack variables
8844
8845Performance improvements
8846------------------------
8847
8848- greatly improved performance of LP file reader by replacing string copies with pointer copies
8849- removed performance bottleneck with non-bfs based node selectors and large leaf queues at the cost of a small memory
8850 overhead (2 ints per node in the leaf queue); this improves performance quite a bit on instances that take a large
8851 number of branching nodes
8852- improved performance of linear constraint propagation by delaying some floor/ceil calculations
8853- improved performance of clique cut separator
8854
8855Interface changes
8856-----------------
8857
8858### New and changed callbacks
8859
8860- new callback method SCIPdialogFree()
8861
8862### Deleted and changed API functions
8863
8864- slightly modified bound substitution heuristic in SCIPcalcMIR() and SCIPcalcStrongCG()
8865- slightly less conservative in numerics for SCIPmakeRowIntegral()
8866- linear and knapsack constraint handler may now deal with coefficients of value zero
8867- new parameter `maxbounddist` for SCIPincludeSepa() and constructor ObjSepa()
8868- new parameter `restart` for method SCIPfreeSolve()
8869- calling SCIPwriteLP() is now possible in Solved Stage
8870- SCIPwrite{LP,MIP} may no longer be called after solving, since the LP data structures may not be valid
8871- All functions SCIP<datatype>Param() got a new parameter `isadvanced`.
8872 This does not influence the performance of SCIP, but the position of the parameter in the settings menu.
8873 Hence, if you do not care about this, you can assign any value to it.
8874 You should add the corresponding flag to the SCIP<datatype>Param() calls in your own source code.
8875
8876- Version:
8877 - modified `SCIP_SUBVERSION` to be a number instead of a string (to be able to use `SCIP_SUBVERSION >= ...`)
8878 - SCIPsubversion() now returns an int instead of a const char*
8879
8880- Tree and Nodes:
8881 - new parameter `estimate` for SCIPcreateChild() giving an estimate for value of best feasible solution in the subtree to
8882 be created. One possibility is to use SCIPgetLocalOrigEstimate() for this value.
8883 - removed method SCIPnodeGetPriority()
8884 - removed parameter `lowestboundfirst` from SCIPincludeNodesel()
8885
8886- Branching:
8887 - removed parameter `branchdir` from SCIPbranchVar()
8888 - new parameters `leftchild`, `eqchild` and `downchild` for SCIPbranchVar()
8889 - SCIPgetVarStrongbranch() now also returns lperror == TRUE if the solving process should be stopped, e.g., because of a
8890 time limit
8891
8892- Variable tightening:
8893 - replaced methods SCIPvarGetClosestVlb() and SCIPvarGetClosestVub() from pub_var.h by new methods
8894 SCIPgetVarClosestVlb() and SCIPgetVarClosestVlb() in scip.h
8895 - new parameter `force` for SCIPtightenVarLb() and SCIPtightenVarUb()
8896
8897### New API functions
8898
8899- SCIPreadSol()
8900- SCIPwriteMIP()
8901- SCIPgetLocalOrigEstimate() and SCIPgetLocalTransEstimate()
8902- SCIPisStopped()
8903- SCIProwIsInGlobalCutpool()
8904- SCIPresetParams()
8905- SCIPgetVarRedcost()
8906- SCIPtightenVarLbGlobal() and SCIPtightenVarUbGlobal()
8907- SCIPsepaGetMaxbounddist()
8908- SCIPboundchgGetNewbound(), SCIPboundchgGetVar(), SCIPboundchgGetBoundchgtype(),
8909 SCIPboundchgGetBoundtype(), SCIPboundchgIsRedundant(), SCIPdomchgGetNBoundchgs(), SCIPdomchgGetBoundchg()
8910- SCIPnodeUpdateLowerboundLP()
8911- SCIPcalcNodeselPriority()
8912- SCIPnodeGetEstimate()
8913- SCIPnodeGetDomchg()
8914- SCIPgetRootNode() (in combination with SCIPcutoffNode(), this allows the immediate finishing of the optimization)
8915
8916### Command line interface
8917
8918- default dialog menu now includes the commands `set default` and `display parameters`
8919- added option to write node LP and MIP relaxations to LP file from interactive shell
8920
8921### Changed parameters
8922
8923- parameters are now separated into basic and advanced, the latter ones have been moved to extra submenus
8924- priority parameters are now restricted to be in [INT_MIN/4,INT_MAX/4] to avoid overflow errors in comparison methods
8925- increased priority of `estimate` node selector, such that this is the new default node selector
8926- changed meaning of parameter setting `nodeselection/childsel = l`; old meaning is now called `r`
8927- changed default value of `conflict/maxvarsfac` to 0.1
8928- changed default value of `conflict/useprop` to TRUE
8929- changed default value of `conflict/useinflp` to TRUE
8930- changed default value of `conflict/usepseudo` to TRUE
8931- changed default value of `conflict/maxlploops` to 2
8932- changed default value of `conflict/lpiterations` to 10
8933- changed default value of `conflict/interconss` to -1
8934- changed default value of `conflict/reconvlevels` to -1
8935- changed default value of `conflict/settlelocal` to FALSE
8936- changed default value of `constraints/linear/propfreq` to 1
8937- changed default values of `heuristics/∗diving/backtrack` to TRUE
8938- changed default value of `nodeselection/restartdfs/stdpriority` to 10000
8939- changed default value of `numerics/boundstreps` to 0.05 in order to avoid very long propagation loops on continuous variables
8940- changed default value of `presolving/restartfac` to 0.05
8941- changed default value of `presolving/restartminred` to 0.10
8942- changed default value of `separating/objparalfac` to 0.01 for performance reasons
8943- changed default value of global `separating/maxbounddist` to 1.0
8944- changed default value of `separating/objparalfac` to 0.0001
8945
8946### New parameters
8947
8948- `conflict/enable` to globally enable or disable conflict analysis
8949- `constraints/linear/maxcardbounddist` and `constraints/knapsack/maxcardbounddist`
8950- `heuristics/∗diving/backtrack` to activate 1-level backtracking for most of the diving heuristics
8951- `heuristics/feaspump/maxstallloops`
8952- `nodeselection/childsel` to control the child selection
8953- `presolving/immrestartfac`
8954- `separating/∗/maxbounddist` to have individual maxbounddist parameters per separator
8955- `separating/clique/backtrackfreq` to speed up clique cut separation in heuristic fashion
8956- `separating/redcost/continuous`
8957
8958Build system
8959------------
8960
8961### Makefile
8962
8963- added version numbers to library files (There will be a softlink generated in the lib/ and bin/ directories without
8964 version number that point to the latest compiled version.)
8965- added .exe extension to binaries of MinGW
8966- removed the `.static` extension associated to the LINK variable from the Makefile system (If you want to build
8967 makefiles for shared library generation, use the OPT variable. For example, you could create a makefile
8968 `make/make.linux.x86.gnu.opt-shared` and compile it with `make OPT=opt-shared`.)
8969
8970- Defaults and Options:
8971 - modified the default LP solver to be SoPlex instead of CPLEX
8972 - added `LPS=none` for compiling SCIP without a LP solver
8973 - made `ZIMPL=true` the default; if you do not want to include ZIMPL support, call `make ZIMPL=false`
8974
8975Fixed bugs
8976----------
8977
8978- fixed bug in rowScale() concerning deletion of almost zero coefficients
8979- weakened assert in primal.c in order to avoid numerical troubles
8980- fixed bug with too long variable names
8981- fixed bug with strange user descriptions of plugins
8982- changed position of some asserts to prevent segmentation faults
8983- SCIPgetAvgPseudocostCount() and SCIPgetAvgPseudocostCountCurrentRun() now return the average over all integer
8984 variables instead of all variables, since pseudo costs are not recorded for continuous variables
8985- fixed wrong sorting of plugins with priorities close to INT_MIN or INT_MAX
8986- replaced `line` by `read` in Makefile, since `line` is non-standard
8987- fixed bug with branching rules that produce only one child with no changes to the problem
8988- fixed bug that external relaxator is not reset appropriately for a new problem instance
8989- removed wrong assert in function paramWrite()
8990- fixed bug with uninitialized in check.awk
8991- fixed bug in ZIMPL file reader for multiple occurrences of a single variable in the objective function
8992- fixed bug with deleting variables from the transformed problem that are contained in the implication graph
8993- fixed bug in root reduced cost fixing propagator that leads to an empty domain for a variable as a proof of optimality
8994 of the current incumbent
8995- fixed bug with fractional coefficients of binary variables in cont --> impl int upgrading
8996
8997- Solution:
8998 - fixed bug with aggregated variables in debug solution test
8999 - now it is possible to add original solutions
9000 - fixed bugs with SCIPgetBestsol() returning `NULL` after a restart with user objective limit
9001 - fixed wrong status code in presence of user objective limit and a feasible solution that is not better than the limit
9002
9003- Bounds:
9004 - fixed bug with wrong bound changes of loose variables
9005 - changed wrong assert in SCIPnodeAddBoundinfer()
9006 - fixed bug in variable bounds search and insertion method
9007 - fixed bug regarding modifying bounds in original problem if negated original variables exist
9008 - fixed bug with multiple pending bound changes on some variable
9009
9010- Separator:
9011 - fixed bug in integer objective separator with restarts
9012 - fixed bug in integer objective separator with dynamic columns
9013
9014- Cuts:
9015 - fixed bug that cut age was not reset to zero for violated cuts
9016 - fixed bug in SCIPcutpoolAddNewRow() concerning update of minidx and maxidx of added row
9017 - fixed numerical bug in rowScaling of lp.c, which possibly cut off feasible solutions
9018 - significantly improved performance of c-MIR and Gomory cuts by caching closest VLB and VUB info
9019
9020- LP:
9021 - fixed numerical buf with slightly different LP optimum after resolving due to probing/diving
9022 - fixed bug in cmir and flowcover separator with variables which are currently not in the LP
9023 - fixed bug with LP size management in probing if column generation is used
9024 - fixed bug in LP file reader with row names identical to section keywords
9025 - fixed potential bugs due to errors in resolving the LP after diving or probing
9026 - fixed potential bugs in SCIPpriceLoop() and priceAndCutLoop(), st. now all LP solution stati are handled appropriately
9027 - fixed potential bug with non-existent LP in SCIPwrite{LP,MIP}
9028
9029- Constraint handler:
9030 - removed wrong assert in bounddisjunction constraint enforcement
9031 - fixed numerical bug in propagator of varbound constraint handler
9032 - fixed bug in variable bound constraint handler with changing bounds on multi-aggregated variables
9033 - fixed bug in linear constraint handler: only tight cuts are transformed into linear constraints after restart
9034 - fixed bug in bounddisjunction constraint handler with propagation of multi-aggregated variables
9035 - fixed bug with numerics in linear constraint handler due to non-representable `BOUNDSCALETOL`
9036 - fixed bug with almost integral multi-aggregation in dual presolve of linear constraint handler
9037 - fixed bug with numerics in update of min/maxactivity in linear constraint handler
9038
9039- Heuristics:
9040 - fixed bug in intshifting and oneopt heuristic with variables which are currently not in the LP
9041 - fixed bug with primal heuristics reducing the cutoff bound such that the current node is cut off
9042 - fixed bug in oneopt heuristic: must not be called on pseudo nodes if continuous variables are present
9043
9044@page RN0_9 Release notes for SCIP 0.9
9045
9046@section RN090 SCIP 0.9.0
9047*************************
9048
9049Features
9050--------
9051
9052- the EXITSOL callback of the plugins is now called before the LP and the global cut pool are freed
9053
9054- Primal Heuristics:
9055 - new primal heuristics `rens`, `mutation` and `veclendiving`
9056 - primal heuristics that run before the node is solved now know already whether the LP will be solved at the current
9057 node or not
9058
9059- Heuristics:
9060 - new heuristic `intshifting` (ID character `i`)
9061 - in the root node of the very first run, heuristics with timing `AFTERNODELPNODE`, `AFTERLPPLUNGE`, `AFTERPSEUDONODE`, and
9062 `AFTERPSEUDOPLUNGE` are now called before the enforcement of the constraint handlers, in particular before the branching
9063 rules; in this way, the branching rule can already benefit from a tighter primal bound
9064 - if a heuristic found a better solution after the LP loop (and in particular the `AFTERNODE` heuristics in the root node
9065 of the very first run, see above), domain propagation and LP solving is triggered again; this allows for additional
9066 reduced cost tightening and other dual propagations
9067 - slightly modified `crossover` and `rins` heuristics
9068 - improved performance of intdiving heuristic
9069 - improved heuristic `octane` and `shifting`
9070 - slightly modified rens and localbranching heuristics
9071 - modified guided diving heuristic such that it equals the original version of the heuristic (i.e., round in direction of the
9072 current incumbent solution instead of the average of all primal feasible solutions)
9073 - ID character for intdiving heuristic is now `I`
9074
9075- Separation and Cuts:
9076 - c-MIR cuts try now to scale the cut to integral values; however, cuts are still generated if this fails
9077 - hard-coded relative objective gain to consider a separation loop to be stalling is now changed from 1e-3 to 1e-4,
9078 which means that separation is not aborted as early as before
9079 - modified c-MIR cut separator to more closely resemble the original version of Marchand and Wolsey
9080
9081- Constraint:
9082 - possibility of SAT-like restarts after a number of conflict constraints have been found
9083 - improved presolving of and, or and xor constraints
9084 - implemented additional dual presolving in linear constraint handler
9085 - slightly modified presolving of varbound constraint handler
9086
9087Interface changes
9088-----------------
9089
9090### New and changed callbacks
9091
9092- new parameter `solinfeasible` for constraint handler callback methods `ENFOLP` and `ENFOPS`
9093- replaced callback parameter `inlploop` and `inplunging` by `heurtiming` in `SCIP_DECL_HEUREXEC`
9094- slightly changed the meaning of the result codes returned by external relaxators: if they modify the LP or tighten
9095 bounds of variables, they are not automatically be called again (it is assumed that they already made use of these
9096 changes). They are only called again, if they returned `SCIP_SUSPENDED` or if some other plugin modified the LP.
9097
9098### Deleted and changed API functions
9099
9100- new parameter `escapecommand` for SCIPdialoghdlrAddHistory()
9101- removed method SCIPgetVarData(); use SCIPvarGetData() from pub_var.h instead
9102- new calls SCIPgetLPBInvCol() and SCIPgetLPBInvACol() to access the basis inverse and simplex tableau columnwise
9103- new parameter `ndomredsfound` of SCIPpropagateProbing()
9104- new parameters `fixintegralrhs`, `maxfrac`, `mksetcoefs` and `fracnotinrange` in SCIPcalcMIR()
9105- modified SCIPfixVar() such that in problem creation stage it will change the bounds as requested even if the fixing
9106 value is outside of the current bounds
9107- replaced parameters `pseudonodes`, `duringplunging`, `duringlploop` and `afternode` by `timingmask` in
9108 SCIPincludeHeur() and constructor of ObjHeur() class use the following table to translate old settings into the new
9109 timingmask:
9110
9111| PSEUDONODES | DURINGPLUNGING | DURINGLPLOOP | AFTERNODE | timingmask |
9112|-------------|----------------|--------------|-----------|---------------------------------------------------------------|
9113| FALSE | FALSE | FALSE | FALSE | SCIP_HEURTIMING_BEFORENODE |
9114| TRUE | FALSE | FALSE | FALSE | SCIP_HEURTIMING_BEFORENODE |
9115| FALSE | TRUE | FALSE | FALSE | SCIP_HEURTIMING_BEFORENODE |
9116| TRUE | TRUE | FALSE | FALSE | SCIP_HEURTIMING_BEFORENODE |
9117| FALSE | FALSE | TRUE | FALSE | SCIP_HEURTIMING_BEFORENODE \| SCIP_HEURTIMING_DURINGLPLOOP |
9118| TRUE | FALSE | TRUE | FALSE | SCIP_HEURTIMING_BEFORENODE \| SCIP_HEURTIMING_DURINGLPLOOP |
9119| FALSE | TRUE | TRUE | FALSE | SCIP_HEURTIMING_BEFORENODE \| SCIP_HEURTIMING_DURINGLPLOOP |
9120| TRUE | TRUE | TRUE | FALSE | SCIP_HEURTIMING_BEFORENODE \| SCIP_HEURTIMING_DURINGLPLOOP |
9121| FALSE | FALSE | FALSE | TRUE | SCIP_HEURTIMING_AFTERLPPLUNGE |
9122| TRUE | FALSE | FALSE | TRUE | SCIP_HEURTIMING_AFTERPLUNGE |
9123| FALSE | TRUE | FALSE | TRUE | SCIP_HEURTIMING_AFTERLPNODE |
9124| TRUE | TRUE | FALSE | TRUE | SCIP_HEURTIMING_AFTERNODE |
9125| FALSE | FALSE | TRUE | TRUE | SCIP_HEURTIMING_AFTERLPPLUNGE \| SCIP_HEURTIMING_DURINGLPLOOP |
9126| TRUE | FALSE | TRUE | TRUE | SCIP_HEURTIMING_AFTERPLUNGE \| SCIP_HEURTIMING_DURINGLPLOOP |
9127| FALSE | TRUE | TRUE | TRUE | SCIP_HEURTIMING_AFTERLPNODE \| SCIP_HEURTIMING_DURINGLPLOOP |
9128| TRUE | TRUE | TRUE | TRUE | SCIP_HEURTIMING_AFTERNODE \| SCIP_HEURTIMING_DURINGLPLOOP |
9129
9130- Constraints:
9131 - renamed all occurences of `removeable` by the correct English word `removable`: SCIPconsIsRemovable(),
9132 SCIPsetConsRemovable(), SCIPvarIsRemovable(), SCIPcolIsRemovable(), SCIProwIsRemovable()
9133 - new parameter `sticktonode` in SCIPcreateCons(), SCIPcreateConsAnd(), SCIPcreateConsBounddisjunction(),
9134 SCIPcreateConsKnapsack(), SCIPcreateConsLinear(), SCIPcreateConsLogicor(), SCIPcreateConsOr(),
9135 SCIPcreateConsVarbound(), SCIPcreateConsXor(), SCIPcreateConsSetpart(), SCIPcreateConsSetpack(),
9136 SCIPcreateConsSetcover(): usually, you should set this to FALSE; if you want to add constraints as node markers with
9137 node data and, e.g., use the `activate` and `deactivate` callbacks to get informed about the activation and
9138 deactivation of the node, you should set this flag to TRUE in order to make sure, that the constraint will always be
9139 associated to the node and not moved to a more global node if this would be possible
9140 - slightly changed semantics of SCIPaddConsNode() and SCIPaddConsLocal(), such that a constraint which is added to the
9141 root node now enters the global problem (and is still existing after a restart)
9142
9143### New API functions
9144
9145- SCIPgetVerbLevel()
9146- SCIPescapeString()
9147- SCIPgetGlobalCutpool(), SCIPgetPoolCuts(), SCIPcutpoolGetCuts(), SCIPcutGetRow() and SCIPcutGetAge()
9148- SCIPconsGetNLocksPos() and SCIPconsGetNLocksNeg()
9149
9150### Command line interface
9151
9152- command shell now understands escape characters `\``,`'` and `\` which makes it possible to read in files with spaces in the
9153 name
9154
9155### Interfaces to external software
9156
9157- updated XPress interface to XPress-MP 17 (contributed by Michael Perregaard)
9158
9159### Changed parameters
9160
9161- changed default value of `heuristics/octane/usediffray` to FALSE
9162- removed parameter `heuristics/octane/usediffbwray`
9163- renamed parameter `heuristics/octane/useavgray` to `heuristics/octane/useavgnbray`
9164- changed default value of `heuristics/rens/binarybounds` to TRUE
9165- changed default value of `heuristics/octane/freq` to -1 in order to deactivate Octane
9166- parameter `heuristics/feaspump/maxsols` is now strict, i.e., if n solutions were already found, the feasibility pump
9167 starts to work only if `maxsols <= n`, instead of `maxsols < n`
9168
9169### New parameters
9170
9171- `conflict/restartnum` and `conflict/restartfac`
9172- `heuristics/octane/useavgray`
9173- `heuristics/octane/useavgwgtray`
9174- `limits/absgap` to define an absolute gap limit
9175- `separating/cmir/aggrtol`
9176- `separating/cmir/densityscore`
9177- `separating/cmir/fixintegralrhs`
9178- `separating/maxruns`
9179- `presolving/restartminred` which forbids another restart if the last one was not successful enough
9180- `propagating/abortoncutoff`
9181- `reading/zplreader/changedir` to control behavior of path switching of ZIMPL file reader
9182- `reading/zplreader/parameters` to pass additional parameters to ZIMPL
9183
9184Build system
9185------------
9186
9187### Makefile
9188
9189- added ncurses to the readline entries in the `make/make.*` files
9190- added quotes to sed expressions in Makefile (needed under Windows)
9191- modified makefiles for Windows/Intel
9192- added automatic query script in the Makefile for soft-link names
9193
9194Fixed bugs
9195----------
9196
9197- fixed bug with string pointer copy instead of string content duplication in constructors of C++ wrapper classes
9198- fixed bug in CPLEX interface with basis access methods that dualopt has to be called for more error status codes
9199- fixed bug with inserting two variable bounds of the same type on the same variable with the same bounding variable but
9200 with different sign of coefficient (e.g., `x <= 10*z + 5` and `x <= -5*z + 10`); in previous version, one of the two was
9201 removed, although both have a useful meaning; now, we keep both and detect a stronger global bound in the implication graph presolving
9202- objective function is now also checked for integrality after problem transformation (fixed a bug that a solution which
9203 was generated between transformation and presolving for an integral objective function did not reduce the cutoff bound by one)
9204- fixed a bug with cmir cut efficacy calculation (however, on my first tests, the performance reduced slightly!)
9205- fixed bug that SCIPvarGetAvgSol() always returned the upper bound (affected guided diving heuristic)
9206- fixed bug in RENS, RINS, Local Branching, Crossover and Mutation heuristics with wrong variable-subvariable assignments
9207- fixed bug in infeasible/bound-exceeding LP conflict analysis if the bounds were relaxed in diving (happens in intshifting heuristic)
9208
9209- Separation:
9210 - fixed bug with adding constraints with `INITIAL=true` and separating them afterwards, which lead to a second addition of
9211 the constraint's relaxation in the child node
9212 - separation LPs are now immediately resolved after a bound change was generated by a cut separator; before, the
9213 separation round was prematurely aborted, which means that a separation round limit was sometimes reached very quickly
9214 and some of the separators were not even called a single time
9215
9216- Cmir Cut Separator:
9217 - too large deltas are now also rejected in c-MIR cut separation
9218 - fixed bug in cmir cut separator, that 8*delta was not tried
9219 - fixed bug in cmir cut separator with wrong sign of slack in row score function
9220 - fixed bug in cmir cut separator with weights fixed to zero, thus making the current aggregation invalid
9221 - fixed bug in cmir cut separator with wrong calculation of cut efficacies
9222
9223@page RN0_8 Release notes for SCIP 0.8
9224
9225@section RN082 SCIP 0.8.2
9226*************************
9227
9228Features
9229--------
9230
9231- additional flag `delay` for pricers
9232- new propagator `rootredcost` which applies reduced cost fixing at the root node whenever a best new primal solution was found
9233- new separator `redcost` which replaces the internal reduced cost strengthening
9234
9235- LP:
9236 - extensions to the LP are kept even if the LP is not solved at the current node; however, if the LP turned out to be
9237 numerically instable, the extensions of the current node are still discarded
9238 - added removal of bound-redundant rows from the LP during root node LP solving loop
9239 - new display column `lpobj`
9240
9241- Constraints:
9242 - slightly changed priorities of constraint handlers
9243 - now, conflict constraints are also created if they were generated in strong branching or diving with insertion depth
9244 equal to the current depth
9245 - new constraint handler `bounddisjunction`
9246
9247- Readers:
9248 - renamed `sol` file reader to `fix` file reader (reads partial solution files and fixes variables to the given values)
9249 - added `sol` file reader which reads complete solution files and adds the solutions to the solution pool
9250 - LP and MPS file readers are now able to parse lazy constraints and user cuts sections
9251
9252- Presolver:
9253 - knapsack presolver now generates cliques in the clique table (this essentially solves `neos1.mps`)
9254 - new presolver `inttobinary`
9255
9256- Heuristics:
9257 - new primal heuristic `shifting`
9258 - diving heuristics abort earlier (did not come back in reasonable time on `fast0507`)
9259
9260Interface changes
9261-----------------
9262
9263- new solution status code `SCIP_STATUS_STALLNODELIMIT`
9264
9265### New and changed callbacks
9266
9267- slightly modified semantics of the `CONSINITLP` callback in the constraint handlers
9268
9269### Deleted and changed API functions
9270
9271- methods SCIPisLbBetter() and SCIPisUbBetter() have an additional parameter and slightly different meaning (they now
9272 compare the bound improvement *relatively* to the width of the domain and the bound itself)
9273- SCIPgetNSols() now returns an int instead of `SCIP_Longint`
9274- method SCIPreadProb() does not call SCIPfreeTransform() anymore; file readers that want to extend the existing problem
9275 must now call SCIPfreeTransform() themselves before modifying the original problem
9276- method SCIPgetBinvarRepresentative() can now also be called in problem creation stage
9277- additional parameter `maxpricerounds` in method SCIPsolveProbingLPWithPricing()
9278- changed name of method SCIPpresolGetNVarTypes() to SCIPpresolGetNChgVarTypes()
9279- method SCIPsplitFilenames() now treats both versions of slashes, `/` and `\`, as directory delimiters (under MinGW and
9280 CygWin, both are valid; so, we cannot treat file names anymore where the other slash is used as a regular character)
9281
9282- Constraints:
9283 - marking a constraint to be `initial` now means in addition, that if the constraint is added to a local node it will
9284 enter the LP at the time the node is first processed, even if parameters forbid separation at this node
9285 - changed name of method SCIPconshdlrGetNVarTypes() to SCIPconshdlrGetNChgVarTypes()
9286
9287- Conflicts:
9288 - method SCIPgetNConflictClausesFound() renamed to SCIPgetNConflictConssFound()
9289 - method SCIPgetNConflictClausesFoundNode() renamed to SCIPgetNConflictConssFoundNode()
9290 - method SCIPgetNConflictClausesApplied() renamed to SCIPgetNConflictConssApplied()
9291
9292### New API functions
9293
9294- SCIPsolveProbingLPWithPricing()
9295- SCIPchgVarLbRoot() and SCIPchgVarUbRoot()
9296- SCIPinRepropagation()
9297- SCIPaddDialogInputLine() and SCIPaddDialogHistoryLine()
9298- SCIPtransformProb() to create the transformed problem; enables the user, e.g., to add primal solutions before the presolving begins
9299- SCIPcreateSolCopy()
9300- SCIPareSolsEqual()
9301
9302- Getters:
9303 - SCIPgetRowKnapsack(), SCIPgetRowLinear(), SCIPgetRowLogicor(), SCIPgetRowSetppc(), and
9304 SCIPgetRowVarbound() for obtaining the linear relaxation of a corresponding constraint
9305 - SCIPgetLhsVarbound(), SCIPgetRhsVarbound(), SCIPgetVarVarbound(), SCIPgetVbdvarVarbound(), and
9306 SCIPgetVbdcoefVarbound()
9307 - SCIPgetLPRootObjval(), SCIPgetLPRootColumnObjval() and SCIPgetLPRootLooseObjval()
9308 - SCIPcolGetMinPrimsol() and SCIPcolGetMaxPrimsol()
9309 - SCIPgetFocusDepth()
9310
9311- Score:
9312 - SCIPgetAvgPseudocostScore()
9313 - SCIPgetAvgPseudocostScoreCurrentRun()
9314 - SCIPgetAvgConflictScore()
9315 - SCIPgetAvgConflictScoreCurrentRun()
9316 - SCIPgetAvgInferenceScore()
9317 - SCIPgetAvgInferenceScoreCurrentRun()
9318 - SCIPgetAvgCutoffScore()
9319 - SCIPgetAvgCutoffScoreCurrentRun()
9320
9321- Reduced Cost:
9322 - SCIPgetColRedcost()
9323 - SCIPvarGetRootRedcost()
9324
9325- Variables:
9326 - SCIPgetNVarsAnd() and SCIPgetVarsAnd()
9327 - SCIPgetWeightsKnapsack(), SCIPgetNVarsKnapsack(), SCIPgetVarsKnapsack() and SCIPgetWeightsKnapsack()
9328 - SCIPgetNVarsLinear(), SCIPgetVarsLinear() and SCIPgetValsLinear()
9329 - SCIPgetNVarsOr() and SCIPgetVarsOr()
9330 - SCIPgetNVarsXor() and SCIPgetVarsXor()
9331
9332### Command line interface
9333
9334- command line syntax changed to support batch modus without piping stdin with `<` or `|` operators
9335- advanced command line syntax:
9336 - `-l <logfile> `: copy output into log file
9337 - `-q `: suppress screen messages
9338 - `-s <settings> `: load parameter settings (.set) file
9339 - `-f <problem> `: load and solve problem file
9340 - `-b <batchfile>`: load and execute dialog command batch file (can be used multiple times)
9341 - `-c <command> `: execute single line of dialog commands (can be used multiple times)
9342
9343### Interfaces to external software
9344
9345### Changed parameters
9346
9347- removed parameter `propagating/redcostfreq`, because reduced cost strengthening is now an external separator plugin
9348- removed parameter `conflict/maxunfixed`
9349- parameter `conflict/maxclauses` renamed to `conflict/maxconss`
9350- parameter `conflict/interclauses` renamed to `conflict/interconss`
9351- parameter `conflict/reconvclauses` replaced by `conflict/reconvlevels`
9352- parameter `conflict/uselp` replaced by `conflict/useinflp` and `conflict/useboundlp`
9353- changed default value of `constraints/obsoleteage` to -1
9354- changed default value of `branching/relpscost/conflictweight` to 0.01
9355- changed default value of `branching/relpscost/inferenceweight` to 0.0001
9356- changed default value of `branching/relpscost/cutoffweight` to 0.0001
9357- in bfs node selector, parameter `minplungedepth` is now stronger than `maxplungedepth` if they conflict
9358
9359### New parameters
9360
9361- `constraints/linear/separateall`
9362- `conflict/lpiterations`
9363- `conflict/keepreprop`
9364- `branching/relpscost/conflictweight`, `branching/relpscost/inferenceweight`,
9365 `branching/relpscost/cutoffweight` and `branching/relpscost/pscostweight`
9366- `conflict/settlelocal`
9367- `conflict/depthscorefac`
9368- `limits/stallnodes`
9369
9370Build system
9371------------
9372
9373### Makefile
9374
9375- removed ncurses and pthread libraries from the Makefile; pthread is now only linked if CPLEX is used
9376
9377Fixed bugs
9378----------
9379
9380- fixed numerical bug in SCIPrealToRational() [thanks to Anders Schack-Nielsen]
9381- fixed bug in crossover heuristic with negative timelimit
9382- removed bug in conflict analysis with wrong redundancy check
9383- fixed bug that unexpected end of stdin (Ctrl-D or piped-in file without `quit` command) gives a segmentation fault
9384- fixed bug with inconsistent data structures after a global bound was changed at a local subproblem and the local
9385 bounds are not contained anymore in the new global bounds
9386- fixed dependency generation in example Makefiles
9387
9388- Knapsack:
9389 - fixed bug in knapsack presolving with redundancy check after applyFixings() [thanks to Anders Schack-Nielsen]
9390 - fixed bug in knapsack separator with empty initial covers
9391 - fixed bug in knapsack constraint disaggregation that may lead to acceptance of infeasible solutions
9392 - fixed bug in knapsack constraint handler where a modifiable constraint may be declared redundant
9393
9394- LP:
9395 - fixed bug with missing LP size updates after pricing or cut separation in probing [thanks to Marc Nuenkesser]
9396 - fixed bug in CPLEX interface with getting basis information after the LP was modified and restored
9397 - fixed bug with updating LP size in probing
9398 - fixed bug that SCIPgetLPSolstat() returns a valid status code even if the LP was not yet constructed for the current node
9399
9400- Variables:
9401 - fixed bug with invalid lazy updates after a restart where the LP is not solved again (e.g., due to all variables being fixed)
9402 - fixed bugs resulting from inactive general integer variables being member of the variable bounds array of a variable
9403 - fixed bug in updatePseudocost() with wrong lpgain distribution on multiple branching variables [thanks to Anders Schack-Nielsen]
9404 - fixed bug in objconshdlr.h where member variable scip_maxprerounds_ was declared as an `SCIP_Bool` instead of an int
9405 - branching on nearly-integral variables is now avoided in relpscost branching, which lead to a numerical assertion
9406
9407- Implication:
9408 - fixed bug with adding implications that fix the implication variable to the opposite value (due to the bug, it was
9409 returned that the whole problem is infeasible)
9410 - removed wrong assert in varRemoveImplicsVbs()
9411
9412- Cliques:
9413 - fixed bug in SCIPcliqueSearchVar() [thanks to Anders Schack-Nielsen]
9414 - fixed bug in SCIPcliqueAddVar() [thanks to Anders Schack-Nielsen]
9415
9416- Readers:
9417 - fixed bug in MPS file reader with `OBJSENSE`
9418 - fixed bug in LP reader with potentially uninitialized pointers [thanks to Martin Mueller]
9419
9420- Constraints:
9421 - it is now possible to branch on constraints without the risk of going into an infinite loop, because constraints marked as `initial`
9422 will be put to the LP relaxation (of the child nodes) even if separation is prohibited by the parameter settings
9423 - fixed bug that locally valid varbound constraints produce VLB/VUB entries [thanks to Anders Schack-Nielsen]
9424
9425@section RN081 SCIP 0.8.1
9426*************************
9427
9428Features
9429--------
9430
9431- improved performance of the priority queue in conflict analysis
9432- slightly modified restartdfs node selector
9433
9434- Presolving:
9435 - new presolver `implics` to find bound changes and aggregations out of the implication graph
9436 - modified probing order in probing presolver
9437
9438- Constraints:
9439 - changed handling of added constraints in separation calls
9440 - modified bookkeeping of locally added and disabled constraints such that the order of enabling and disabling constraints stays the same
9441 - logic or constraint handler now adds implications on clauses with 2 literals to the implication graph
9442 - and/or constraint handlers now add implications to the implication graph
9443 - xor constraint handler now uses stronger LP relaxation without auxiliary variable for xor constraint with 2 operands
9444
9445- Heuristics:
9446 - added preliminary version of `intdiving` heuristic (disabled in default settings)
9447 - added crossover heuristic
9448
9449- Readers:
9450 - LP file reader now accepts the keyword `Integer` for defining the start of the integer variables section
9451 - new file reader for (partial) solutions
9452
9453Examples and applications
9454-------------------------
9455
9456- added two small pricer examples (for C and C++)
9457- updated example code (s.t. it compiles again)
9458
9459Interface changes
9460-----------------
9461
9462### New and changed callbacks
9463
9464- callback method `CONSSEPA` of constraint handler was split into two methods `CONSSEPALP` and `CONSSEPASOL`
9465- callback method `SEPAEXEC` of separator was split into two methods `SEPAEXECLP` and `SEPAEXECSOL`
9466
9467### Deleted and changed API functions
9468
9469- replaced method SCIPsepaWasDelayed() by SCIPsepaWasLPDelayed() and SCIPsepaWasSolDelayed()
9470- additional parameter `sol` for methods SCIPaddCut(), SCIPgetCutEfficacy() and SCIPisCutEfficacious()
9471- additional parameter `sol` for method SCIPseparateKnapsackCover()
9472- primal solutions may now contain values marked to be unknown (value is `SCIP_UNKNOWN`); unknown values don't contribute
9473 to the objective value of the solution; an unknown solution value should be treated as an arbitrary value in the
9474 variable's bounds, e.g., in the calculation of the feasibility of a constraint, a value inside the variable's bounds
9475 should be selected that makes the constraint as feasible as possible
9476- new parameter `printzeros` for methods SCIPprintSol(), SCIPprintTransSol(), SCIPprintBestSol() and SCIPprintBestTransSol()
9477
9478- Constraints:
9479 - replaced method SCIPconshdlrWasSeparationDelayed() by two methods SCIPconshdlrWasLPSeparationDelayed() and
9480 SCIPconshdlrWasSolSeparationDelayed()
9481 - renamed method SCIPgetNGlobalConss() to SCIPgetNConss()
9482
9483### New API functions
9484
9485- SCIPgetCuts()
9486- SCIPgetVarConflictScore() and SCIPgetVarConflictScoreCurrentRun()
9487- SCIPvarSetData()
9488- SCIPcreateUnknownSol()
9489- SCIPgetNConflictClausesFoundNode()
9490- SCIPvarSetDelorigData(), SCIPvarSetTransData() and SCIPvarSetDeltransData()
9491- SCIPvarHasBinaryImplic()
9492- SCIPgetFixedVars() and SCIPgetNFixedVars()
9493- SCIPgetConss(), SCIPgetNOrigConss() and SCIPgetOrigConss()
9494- SCIPsepaGetNConssFound() and SCIPsepaGetNDomredsFound()
9495- SCIPconstructLP() to force constructing the LP of the current node
9496- SCIPisLPConstructed()
9497
9498### Command line interface
9499
9500- added `write statistics` command to default user dialogs
9501
9502### Changed parameters
9503
9504- modified meaning of parameter `presolving/probing/maxtotaluseless`
9505- heuristics with `freq = 0` and `freqofs > 0` are now called in depth level freqofs instead of being called in the root
9506 node
9507- added some parameters in local branching and RINS heuristic
9508- new parameter values `p`rimal simplex and `d`ual simplex in `lp/initalgorithm` and `lp/resolvealgorithm`
9509
9510### New parameters
9511
9512- `branching/inference/conflictweight`
9513
9514Build system
9515------------
9516
9517### Makefile
9518
9519- included version number in binary file name
9520- tried to make the code Windows compatible
9521
9522Fixed bugs
9523----------
9524
9525- also removed history_length, if `NO_REMOVE_HISTORY` is defined to support older versions of the readline library
9526- hopefully fixed bug with wrong path slash `/` under Windows
9527- fixed bug with aggregating fixed variables
9528
9529- Implications:
9530 - fixed bug in transitive implication addition
9531 - fixed wrong assert with implications that imply a fixed variable
9532 - removed bug in implication addition
9533
9534- Readers:
9535 - fixed bug in ZIMPL model reader with wrong chdir, if .zpl file is in current directory
9536 - fixed bug in LP file reader with signed values without space between sign and value (e.g. `+2x` instead of `+ 2x`)
9537 - fixed various bugs in LP file reader
9538 - fixed bug in LP file reader with explicit zero coefficients
9539
9540- Numerics:
9541 - fixed numerics in probing and linear constraint handler (rentacar was detected to be infeasible in presolving)
9542 - fixed numerics in check method of linear constraint handler
9543 - fixed bug with numerical error in LP resolve after probing or diving
9544
9545- Heuristics:
9546 - fixed bug with calling heuristics in depths smaller than their frequency offset
9547 - fixed bugs in local branching and RINS heuristic
9548
9549Known bugs
9550----------
9551
9552- if one uses column generation and restarts, a solution that contains variables that are only present in the
9553 transformed problem (i.e., variables that were generated by a pricer) is not pulled back into the original space
9554 correctly, since the priced variables have no original counterpart
9555
9556@section RN080 SCIP 0.8.0
9557*************************
9558
9559Features
9560--------
9561
9562- adding variable bounds automatically adds the corresponding implication
9563- changed restart dfs nodeselector to sort leaves by node number instead of node depth to aviod jumping around in the
9564 search tree after a restart was applied and the current dive ended due to infeasibility
9565- new Message Handler plugin
9566- added file reader for LP format
9567- introduced subversion string
9568- replaced all abort() calls by SCIPABORT(); this is defined in def.h to be `assert(FALSE)`
9569- added possibility to disable certain features by using `make USRFLAGS=-DNO_REMOVE_HISTORY`, `make
9570 USRFLAGS=-DNO_SIGACTION`, `make USRFLAGS=-DNO_RAND_R`, or `make USRFLAGS=-DNO_STRTOK_R`
9571- improved preprocessing abort criteria
9572- added zlib support
9573
9574- Conflict Analysis:
9575 - conflict clauses are now collected in a conflict store, redundant clauses are eliminated and only the best `conflict/maxclauses`
9576 clauses are added permanently to the problem; the remaining clauses are only added temporarily, if they can be used for repropagation
9577 - modified the influence of the depth level in conflict analysis
9578 - slightly changed LP resolving loop in conflict analysis
9579 - if CPLEX returns that the LP exceeds the bound and if no additional LP solves are allowed in conflict analysis, we
9580 have to perform one additional simplex iteration to get the dual solution that actually violates the objective limit
9581
9582- Constraints:
9583 - reactivated multiaggregation in cons_linear.c on binary variables again (possible due to bug fix below)
9584 - improved preprocessing of variable bounds constraints
9585 - linear constraint handler now catches events of variables after the problem was completely transformed in order to
9586 avoid the whole bunch of `LOCKSCHANGED` events that are generated at problem transformation stage
9587 - added redundancy detection for pairs of constraints in setppc constraint handler
9588
9589- Presolving and Cliques:
9590 - changed linear constraint presolving s.t. redundant sides are not removed if constraint is an equality
9591 - new event type `SCIP_EVENTTYPE_PRESOLVEROUND`
9592 - modified probing presolver to not add implications that are already included in the implication graph and clique table
9593 - incorporated clique and implication information in knapsack constraint presolving
9594 - removed transitive clique generation, because this produces way too many cliques
9595
9596- Heuristics:
9597 - diving heuristics now apply propagation at each step
9598 - removed `objfeaspump` heuristic, because the functionality can be achieved by using the `feaspump` heuristic
9599 - diving heuristics are now applying propagation after each bound change
9600 - new primal heuristic `octane`
9601 - slightly changed feaspump heuristic, s.t. after finding a new best solution the target integral solution is modified randomly
9602
9603- Separation and Cuts:
9604 - improved debugging for infeasible cuts and propagations, given a primal feasible solution
9605 - improved knapsack cover separation
9606 - improved performance of c-MIR separator
9607 - cut pool is now also separated in root node (to find cuts again that were removed from the LP due to aging)
9608
9609Interface changes
9610-----------------
9611
9612- new event type `SCIP_EVENTTYPE_VARDELETED`
9613- new event `SCIP_EVENTTYPE_IMPLADDED`
9614- new event types `SCIP_EVENTTYPE_GLBCHANGED` and `SCIP_EVENTTYPE_GUBCHANGED`
9615
9616### New and changed callbacks
9617
9618- new callback parameter `validnode` for the `CONFLICTEXEC` method of conflict handlers, which should be passed to
9619 SCIPaddConsNode()
9620
9621### Deleted and changed API functions
9622
9623- additional parameter `validnode` for SCIPaddConsLocal() and SCIPaddConsNode()
9624- SCIPhashtableRemove() can now also be called, if the element does not exist in the table
9625- SCIPhashmapRemove() can now also be called, if the element does not exist in the map
9626- additional parameter `branchdir` for SCIPbranchVar()
9627- replaced method SCIPmessage() by SCIPverbMessage() with additional parameter `file`
9628- put block memory shell and tclique algorithm into separate subdirectories
9629- new parameter `duringlploop` of SCIPincludeHeur(): heuristics can now run during the price-and-cut loop at a node
9630
9631### New API functions
9632
9633- SCIPgetNConflictClausesApplied()
9634- SCIPgetNConflictClausesApplied()
9635- SCIPhashtableExists()
9636- SCIPhashmapExists()
9637- SCIPnodeGetNumber()
9638- SCIPsolveProbingLP() to solve the LP in a probing node (enables mixing of propagation and LP solving for diving heuristics)
9639- SCIProwGetDualfarkas()
9640- SCIPgetCurrentNode()
9641- SCIPinterruptSolve()
9642- SCIPpropagateProbingImplications()
9643- SCIPgetLPI() which makes all methods in scip/lpi.h available to the user
9644- SCIPgetRandomInt() and SCIPgetRandomReal()
9645- SCIPstrtok()
9646- SCIPheurGetNBestSolsFound()
9647
9648- Variables:
9649 - SCIPdelVar()
9650 - SCIPgetVarStrongbranchLPAge()
9651 - SCIPvarIsTransformedOrigvar()
9652 - SCIPvarIsDeleted()
9653
9654- Messages and IO:
9655 - SCIPerrorMessage()
9656 - SCIPwarningMessage()
9657 - SCIPdialogMessage()
9658 - SCIPinfoMessage()
9659 - SCIPsetMessagehdlr()
9660 - SCIPsetDefaultMessagehdlr()
9661 - SCIPgetMessagehdlr()
9662 - new file i/o methods SCIPfopen(), SCIPfclose(), SCIPfprintf(), ... that operate on the data type `SCIPFILE`; these
9663 methods automatically use zlib methods if the zlib is enabled
9664
9665- Cliques:
9666 - SCIPvarGetNCliques()
9667 - SCIPvarGetCliques()
9668 - SCIPvarsHaveCommonClique()
9669 - SCIPvarHasImplic()
9670 - SCIPcliqueGetNVars()
9671 - SCIPcliqueGetVars()
9672 - SCIPcliqueGetValues()
9673 - SCIPcliqueGetId()
9674 - SCIPaddClique()
9675 - SCIPcalcCliquePartition()
9676
9677- Constraint handler:
9678 - SCIPgetDualfarkasLinear() of linear constraint handler
9679 - SCIPgetDualfarkasLogicor() of logicor constraint handler
9680 - SCIPgetDualfarkasSetppc() of setppc constraint handler
9681 - SCIPgetDualsolKnapsack() of knapsack constraint handler
9682 - SCIPgetDualfarkasKnapsack() of knapsack constraint handler
9683 - SCIPgetDualsolVarbound() of varbound constraint handler
9684 - SCIPgetDualfarkasVarbound() of varbound constraint handler
9685 - SCIPconsGetValidDepth()
9686 - SCIPsetConsInitial()
9687 - SCIPsetConsSeparated()
9688 - SCIPsetConsEnforced()
9689 - SCIPsetConsChecked()
9690 - SCIPsetConsPropagated()
9691 - SCIPsetConsLocal()
9692 - SCIPsetConsDynamic()
9693 - SCIPsetConsRemoveable()
9694
9695### Command line interface
9696
9697- added command `write solution` to default dialog
9698- added commands `write problem` and `write transproblem` to default dialog
9699
9700### Changed parameters
9701
9702- additional setting `SCIP_VERBLEVEL_DIALOG` in `display/verblevel` parameter
9703- additional LP pricing setting `partial`
9704- replaced parameter `presolving/restartbdchgs` with parameters `presolving/maxrestarts` and `presolving/restartfac`
9705- replaced parameter `constraints/linear/maxpresolaggrrounds` with `constraints/linear/maxpresolpairrounds`
9706- parameters `constraints/agelimit` and `constraints/obsoleteage` now iterprete the value 0 as a dynamic setting
9707- number of fractional variables included in parameter `separating/maxstallrounds`
9708
9709- Changed default values:
9710 - changed default values of `heuristics/∗/maxdiveavgquot` and `heuristics/∗/maxdiveavgquotnosol` to 0
9711 - changed default values of `constraints/agelimit` and `constraints/obsoleteage` to 0
9712 - changed default values of `heuristics/objpscostdiving/maxsols` and `heuristics/rootsoldiving/maxsols` to -1
9713 - changed default value of `separating/strongcg/maxroundsroot` to 20
9714 - changed default value of `separating/cmir/maxroundsroot` to 10
9715 - changed default value of `constraints/linear/maxaggrnormscale` to 0.0, which means to not apply aggregation
9716 - changed default value of `separating/maxstallrounds` to 5
9717 - changed default value of `presolving/probing/maxfixings` to 50
9718 - changed default parameter values to MIP settings:
9719 + `conflict/useprop` = FALSE
9720 + `conflict/usepseudo` = FALSE
9721 + `display/verblevel` = 4
9722 + `separating/poolfreq` = 0
9723 + `constraints/linear/sepafreq` = 0
9724 + `constraints/and/sepafreq` = 0
9725 + `constraints/conjunction/sepafreq` = 0
9726 + `constraints/knapsack/sepafreq` = 0
9727 + `constraints/knapsack/sepacardfreq` = 0
9728 + `constraints/logicor/sepafreq` = 0
9729 + `constraints/or/sepafreq` = 0
9730 + `constraints/setppc/sepafreq` = 0
9731 + `constraints/varbound/sepafreq` = 0
9732 + `constraints/xor/sepafreq` = 0
9733 + `separating/clique/freq` = 0
9734 + `separating/cmir/freq` = 0
9735 + `separating/gomory/freq` = 0
9736 + `separating/impliedbounds/freq` = 0
9737 + `separating/strongcg/freq` = 0
9738
9739### New parameters
9740
9741- `branching/fullstrong/reevalage`
9742- `conflict/maxclauses`
9743- `conflict/allowlocal`
9744- `constraints/knapsack/disaggregation`
9745- `presolving/probing/maxtotaluseless`
9746- `separating/cmir/maxfails`, `separating/cmir/maxfailsroot` and `separating/cmir/trynegscaling`
9747
9748### Data structures
9749
9750- MAJOR CHANGE: preceeded all data types with `SCIP_`: you may use shell script reptypes_scip.sh to rename the SCIP
9751 data types in your own source code (But use with care! Create a backup copy of your source first!)
9752
9753Build system
9754------------
9755
9756### Makefile
9757
9758- modified the Makefile to accept an additional parameter `VERBOSE={true,false}`
9759- added flags `READLINE=true/false`, `ZLIB=true/false`, `ZIMPL=true/false` to Makefile
9760
9761Fixed bugs
9762----------
9763
9764- fixed minor bugs in debug code of primal.c and sol.c
9765- variables that are being multiaggregated are now automatically removed from all other variables' variable bound and
9766 implication arrays; this fixes bugs with methods, that rely on the fact, that the entries in the variable bound and
9767 implication arrays are active variables only
9768- aggregations are now always performed in a way, such that the variable of more general type is aggregated (with type
9769 generality being cont > implint > int > bin); in this way, a binary variable's representant is always binary (which
9770 was not the case before and resulted in a bug in SCIPgetBinvarRepresentative())
9771- removed bug in presol_probing.c: the vars of the sorted variables array have to be captured
9772- fixed bug in the output of solutions with priced variables
9773- fixed bug in propagation with parameters prop_maxrounds and prop_maxroundsroot
9774- conflict analysis can now handle errors in LP solving calls
9775- removed bug in SCIPvarAddVlb() and SCIPvarAddVub() with fractional vlb/vubcoefs
9776- fixed bug that primal or dual rays might not be available because the wrong solver was used
9777- included message.o in LPI library, s.t. one can link this library indepentent of SCIP
9778- fixed bug that if diving heuristic that changes the objective values finds a solution, the cutoff is reinstalled in
9779 the LP solver (although the objective value has no meaning due to the objective function modification)
9780
9781- Feasibiltiy:
9782 - LP primal feasibility for bounds is now defined as absolute measure (was relative to the bound before); this fixes a bug (see alu8_9.mps),
9783 that an LP with an integral variable fixed to a large value yields an accepted solution with that variable slightly different than the fixed
9784 value; the integrality feasibility condition is measured with absolute differences, which leads to the fixed integer variable being fractional;
9785 this leads to an error if branching is performed on this variable
9786 - fixed bug with redundant self implications that wrongly lead to the detection of infeasibility
9787 - fixed bug with potential infinite loop if a separator is delayed and the LP is infeasible
9788
9789- Asserts:
9790 - removed wrong asserts from lpi_cpx.c
9791 - removed wrong assertion in varAddImplic()
9792
9793- Numerics:
9794 - locally fixed variables are no longer used as branching candidates even if their LP solution value is fractional (due
9795 to numerical reasons, see above)
9796 - fixed numerical bug in pseudo objective propagator with only slightly tightened bounds
9797 - removed bug that an LP might be declared to be solved even if it was marked erroneous due to numerical problems
9798
9799- Constraint Handlers:
9800 - fixed bug in linear constraint handler with variables fixed to infinity
9801 - fixed bug with constraint handlers that can only enforce their constraints by adding cuts, but the maximal number of
9802 cuts to separate is set to 0; now, cuts that are generated in the constraint enforcement are used in any case
9803 - fixed bug in knapsack constraint presolving with tightening coefficients and capacity
9804 - fixed bug with modifiable constraints in linear constraint handler preprocessing
9805 - fixed bug in linear constraint handler that global activities are not updated after global bound changes
9806
9807- Separation and Cuts:
9808 - global bound changes now lead to the removal of redundant implications (such that the asserts in sepa_implbounds.c are now correct)
9809 - due to usage of variable bounds, SCIPcalcMIR() may return LOOSE variables in the cut -> modified sepa_cmir.c, sepa_gomory.c and
9810 sepa_strongcg.c to use SCIPcreateEmptyRow() and SCIPaddVarsToRow() instead of SCIPcreateRow() which only works for COLs
9811 - fixed bug in clique separator that reduced performance
9812 - increased performance of clique separator by allowing only a certain number of zero-weighted fill ins
9813
9814@page RN0_7 Release notes for SCIP 0.7
9815
9816@section RN079 SCIP 0.7.9
9817*************************
9818
9819Features
9820--------
9821
9822- aging and cleanup now only remove non-basic columns and basic rows, s.t. resolving can be applied with 0 simplex iterations
9823- it is now possible to create subnodes in probing and use backtracking to undo probing changes
9824- bounds of variables are included in the feasibility checks for solutions
9825- support for barrier algorithm
9826- changed implementation of automatic minplungedepth and maxplungedepth calculation in bfs node selector
9827
9828- Presolving:
9829 - new plugin: probing presolver
9830 - probing is now also possible in presolving stage
9831 - it is now possible to interrupt and continue presolving
9832
9833- Separation and Cuts:
9834 - new plugin: clique separator for clique cuts with at least 3 elements
9835 - new plugin: implied bound cuts separator
9836 - included debugging module to check whether cutting planes cut off the optimal solution
9837
9838- Branching:
9839 - changed implementation of reliability value calculation in reliability branching; slightly modified influence of
9840 maximal total number of strong branching LP iterations in reliability branching
9841 - changed implementation of maximal strong branching iterations calculation in reliability branching
9842
9843- Constraints:
9844 - if verblevel is at least `NORMAL`, an automatical check of the best solution is performed in the original problem, and
9845 an error message is displayed, if it violates an original constraint
9846 - due to the new constraint handler `cons_cumulative.{c,h}` SCIP can resource-constraint scheduling problem
9847 - during probing, propagation of bounds is now always performed in linear constraint handler, ignoring the parameter `tightenboundsfreq`
9848 - new implementation of the clique graph construction method in clique separator
9849 - new constraint handler `cons_cumulative.{c,h}`
9850
9851- Heuristics:
9852 - new implementation of the feasibility pump heuristic by Timo Berthold (replaces old implementation); old
9853 implementation is now called `objfeaspump`; parameter names have been changed accordingly
9854 - diving heuristics now compare their number of LP iterations with the number of node LP iterations instead of the total
9855 number (including their own) LP iterations
9856 - modified the automatic objfactor setting of feaspump heuristic to let the objective function have stronger influence
9857
9858Examples and applications
9859-------------------------
9860
9861- added TSP example in `examples/TSP`
9862
9863Interface changes
9864-----------------
9865
9866### New and changed callbacks
9867
9868- new callback methods `INITSOL` and `EXITSOL` for variable pricers, primal heuristics, conflict handlers, relaxators,
9869 separators, propagators, event handlers, node selectors and display columns
9870- callback method `CONFLICTEXEC` of conflict handlers receive additional parameters `dynamic` and `removeable`
9871- constraint handler callback methods `CONSLOCK` and `CONSUNLOCK` are replaced by a single method `CONSLOCK` with the number
9872 of locks being positive or negative
9873
9874### Deleted and changed API functions
9875
9876- calling SCIPaddCut() with `forcecut=TRUE` will add the cut to the LP even if it is redundant
9877- SCIPreadProb() does not free the current problem, this is done in SCIPcreateProb() now, which is usually
9878 called by a problem reader; in this way, a reader can generate `extra information` for the current problem, s.t. the
9879 full problem information can be distributed to different files read by different readers
9880- SCIPgetVarStrongbranch() and SCIPgetVarStrongbranchLast() now have two additional parameters that can be used
9881 to check, whether the returned values are correct dual bounds
9882- SCIPgetBinvarRepresentative() now returns the fixed or multi-aggregated variable instead of returning `NULL` or
9883 aborting with an error message
9884- SCIPdispDecimal() is replaced by SCIPdispInt() and SCIPdispLongint()
9885- additional parameter `maxproprounds` in SCIPpropagateProbing()
9886- changed memory interface (see memory.h), `MEMHDR` is now called `BLKMEM`
9887- source code was moved into subdirectories: replace includes `scip.h` by `scip/scip.h` and
9888 `objscip.h` by `objscip/objscip.h`; This should allow a user to have include files of the same name as the ones
9889 of SCIP, e.g. `tree.h` or `var.h`.
9890- event handlers are now available as C++ wrapper class
9891- new flag `afterrelaxation` for primal heuristics
9892
9893- Solution:
9894 - removed method SCIPsolGetObj(), use SCIPgetSolOrigObj() or SCIPgetSolTransObj() instead
9895 - additional parameter `checkbounds` for SCIPtrySol(), SCIPtrySolFree(), SCIPcheckSol()
9896
9897- Variables:
9898 - SCIPvarLock(), SCIPvarLockDown(), SCIPvarLockUp(), SCIPvarLockBoth(), SCIPvarUnlock(), SCIPvarUnlockDown(),
9899 SCIPvarUnlockUp() and SCIPvarUnlockBoth() are replaced by SCIPaddVarLocks() which returns a `RETCODE`
9900 - SCIPvarGetLbGlobal(), SCIPvarGetUbGlobal(), SCIPvarGetLbLocal() and SCIPvarGetUbLocal() now return the
9901 corresponding values of the transformed problem or current subproblem even for original problem variables
9902 - SCIPvarGetProbvar(), SCIPvarGetProbvarBinary() now return the fixed or multi-aggregated variable instead of
9903 returning `NULL` or aborting with an error message; in SCIPvarGetProbvarBinary(), the fixing of a fixed variable does
9904 not influence the negation status anymore
9905 - SCIPvarGetProbvarBound() returns the multi-aggregated variable instead of aborting with an error message
9906 - SCIPvarGetProbvarSum() does not set *var to `NULL` for fixed variables anymore; it may also return a
9907 multi-aggregated variable instead of aborting with an error message
9908 - SCIPaddVarImplication() now also adds variable lower and upper bounds, if the implied variable is non-binary
9909 - additional parameter `aggregated` in SCIPmultiaggregateVars()
9910
9911- Constraints:
9912 - SCIPvarLockDownCons(), SCIPvarLockUpCons(), SCIPvarUnlockDownCons() and SCIPvarUnlockUpCons() are replaced by
9913 SCIPlockVarCons() and SCIPunlockVarCons() which return a `RETCODE`
9914 - SCIPlockConsVars() and SCIPunlockConsVars() replaced with method SCIPaddConsLocks()
9915 - SCIPconshdlrGetNConss() is replaced by SCIPconshdlrGetNActiveConss() (returning the number of active
9916 constraints); method SCIPconshdlrGetNConss() does now return the total number of existing constraints, active and inactive
9917 - SCIPconshdlrGetStartNConss() is now called SCIPconshdlrGetStartNActiveConss()
9918 - SCIPconshdlrGetMaxNConss() is now called SCIPconshdlrGetMaxNActiveConss()
9919 - SCIPdisableConsNode() is replaced by SCIPdelConsNode()
9920 - SCIPdisableConsLocal() is replaced by SCIPdelConsLocal()
9921 - added new parameter `dynamic` to SCIPcreateCons() and all plugin methods SCIPcreateCons...()
9922
9923### New API functions
9924
9925- SCIPgetObjNorm()
9926- SCIPcreateOrigSol()
9927- SCIPwriteImplicationConflictGraph()
9928- SCIPinProbing()
9929- SCIPgetProbName()
9930- SCIPgetVarNStrongbranchs()
9931- SCIPcolGetNStrongbranchs()
9932- SCIPfindSimpleRational()
9933- SCIPselectSimpleValue()
9934
9935- Variables:
9936 - SCIPvarGetLbOriginal()
9937 - SCIPvarGetUbOriginal()
9938 - SCIPvarGetImplIds()
9939 - SCIPvarGetOrigvarSum()
9940
9941- Constraints:
9942 - SCIPenableCons()
9943 - SCIPdisableCons()
9944 - SCIPenableConsSeparation()
9945 - SCIPdisableConsSeparation()
9946 - SCIPconsIsSeparationEnabled()
9947
9948- Averages:
9949 - SCIPgetAvgPseudocost()
9950 - SCIPgetAvgPseudocostCurrentRun()
9951 - SCIPgetAvgPseudocostCount()
9952 - SCIPgetAvgPseudocostCountCurrentRun()
9953 - SCIPgetAvgInferences()
9954 - SCIPgetAvgInferencesCurrentRun()
9955 - SCIPgetAvgCutoffs()
9956 - SCIPgetAvgCutoffsCurrentRun()
9957
9958- LPs:
9959 - SCIPisLPSolBasic() to check, whether the current LP solution is basic (i.e. due to a simplex algorithm or barrier with crossover)
9960 - SCIPgetNPrimalLPs()
9961 - SCIPgetNPrimalLPIterations()
9962 - SCIPgetNDualLPs()
9963 - SCIPgetNDualLPIterations()
9964 - SCIPgetNBarrierLPs()
9965 - SCIPgetNBarrierLPIterations()
9966 - SCIPgetNPrimalResolveLPs()
9967 - SCIPgetNPrimalResolveLPIterations()
9968 - SCIPgetNDualResolveLPs()
9969 - SCIPgetNDualResolveLPIterations()
9970
9971- Delayed:
9972 - SCIPsepaIsDelayed()
9973 - SCIPsepaWasDelayed()
9974 - SCIPpropIsDelayed()
9975 - SCIPpropWasDelayed()
9976 - SCIPpresolIsDelayed()
9977 - SCIPpresolWasDelayed()
9978 - SCIPconshdlrIsSeparationDelayed()
9979 - SCIPconshdlrIsPropagationDelayed()
9980 - SCIPconshdlrIsPresolvingDelayed()
9981 - SCIPconshdlrWasSeparationDelayed()
9982 - SCIPconshdlrWasPropagationDelayed()
9983 - SCIPconshdlrWasPresolvingDelayed()
9984
9985### Command line interface
9986
9987- command line history in interactive shell now only stores useful commands
9988
9989### Interfaces to external software
9990
9991- removed storing of dual norms in LPI state of CPLEX interface (too memory consuming)
9992
9993### Changed parameters
9994
9995- default frequency offset of fracdiving heuristic changed to 3
9996- default frequency offset of (new) feaspump heuristic changed to 0
9997- default frequency offset of objfeaspump heuristic changed to 8
9998- changed default priority of primal heuristics
9999- renamed parameter `limits/sol` to `limits/solutions`
10000- changed default check priority of knapsack constraint handler to -600000
10001- changed default priority of Gomory cut separator to -1000 (will now be called after constraint handlers!)
10002- changed default priority of strong CG cut separator to -2000
10003- changed default priority of cmir cut separator to -3000
10004- changed default of parameter `lp/pricing` to `s`teepest edge pricing
10005- default parameter `branching/relpscost/minreliable` changed to 1.0
10006- default parameter `branching/relpscost/maxlookahead` changed to 8
10007- default parameter `branching/relpscost/sbiterofs` changed to 100000
10008- default parameter `heuristics/coefdiving/maxlpiterquot` changed to 0.05
10009- default parameter `heuristics/fracdiving/maxlpiterquot` changed to 0.05
10010- default parameter `heuristics/guideddiving/maxlpiterquot` changed to 0.05
10011- default parameter `heuristics/linesearchdiving/maxlpiterquot` changed to 0.05
10012- default parameter `heuristics/pscostdiving/maxlpiterquot` changed to 0.05
10013- default parameter `heuristics/feaspump/freq` changed to 20
10014- default parameter `heuristics/objfeaspump/freq` changed to 20
10015- default parameter `heuristics/objpscostdiving/freq` changed to 20
10016- default parameter `heuristics/rootsoldiving/freq` changed to 20
10017- default parameter `separating/clique/maxtreenodes` changed to -1
10018
10019### New parameters
10020
10021- new parameter delay for presolvers
10022- new parameter delaypresol for constraint handlers
10023- `branching/scorefunc`
10024- `constraints/.../delaypresol`
10025- `constraints/.../delayprop`
10026- `constraints/.../delaysepa`
10027- `conflict/dynamic`
10028- `conflict/removeable`
10029- `heuristics/coefdiving/maxlpiterofs`
10030- `heuristics/feaspump/maxlpiterofs`
10031- `heuristics/feaspump/maxsols`
10032- `heuristics/fracdiving/maxlpiterofs`
10033- `heuristics/guideddiving/maxlpiterofs`
10034- `heuristics/linesearchdiving/maxlpiterofs`
10035- `heuristics/objfeaspump/maxlpiterofs`
10036- `heuristics/objfeaspump/maxsols`
10037- `heuristics/objpscostdiving/maxlpiterofs`
10038- `heuristics/objpscostdiving/maxsols`
10039- `heuristics/pscostdiving/maxlpiterofs`
10040- `heuristics/rootsoldiving/maxlpiterofs`
10041- `heuristics/rootsoldiving/maxsols`
10042- `heuristics/fixandinfer/proprounds` and `heuristics/fixandinfer/minfixings`
10043- `lp/cleanupcolsroot` and `lp/cleanuprowsroot` to distinguish cleanup settings between root node and other nodes
10044- `lp/checkstability` to disable stability check of LP solver's result code
10045- `lp/initalgorithm` and `lp/resolvealgorithm` for switching between simplex and barrier algorithm
10046- `lp/pricing` to set the pricing strategy used in the LP solver
10047- `numerics/barrierconvtol` to set the convergence tolerance in the barrier algorithm
10048- `presolving/.../delay`
10049- `propagating/.../delay`
10050- `reading/cnfreader/dynamicconss`
10051- `reading/mpsreader/dynamicconss`
10052- `separating/.../delay`
10053
10054### Data structures
10055
10056- new possible result `SCIP_DELAYED` for `EXEC` method of separators, presolvers and propagators and `SEPA`, `PROP` and
10057 `PRESOL` methods of constraint handlers
10058
10059Fixed bugs
10060----------
10061
10062- fixed bug in MPS file reader
10063- removed bug with applying reduced cost strengthening before pricing in all necessary variables
10064- negated variables must also be reset in SCIPvarInitSolve()
10065- fixed documentation of `CONSLOCK`-method (missing parameter `scip` in SCIPaddVarLocks())
10066- included missing `objrelax.h` in includes of objscip.h
10067- fixed bug that after a resolve and further preprocessing, existing primal solutions may get corrupted due to
10068 aggregations or fixings that are possible due to the primal bound (given by the best solution)
10069- fixed bug with primal bound becoming wrong, if in a prior run the optimal solution was found and the cutoff bound was
10070 thereby reduced due to further domain propagation w.r.t. the objective function
10071- fixed bug in SCIPisObjIntegral()
10072- fixed bug in SCIPprintError() with `file == NULL`
10073- heuristic's display character is now only shown the first time, the new solution was found
10074- fixed bug that SCIPreadProb() doesn't discard the transformed problem
10075- fixed bug with wrong euclidean norm calculation of row, if multiple coefficients for the same variable are added and
10076 the sorting of the row was delayed with SCIProwDelaySort()
10077- fixed bug with adding implications: wrong insertion position, if only the lower bound change was present but not the
10078 upper bound change
10079- fixed bug in SCIPvarAddImplics() with wrong variable used in varAdjustBd()
10080- fixed bug in method reduced() of tclique_branch.c with sorting nodes in V
10081
10082- LP:
10083 - removed bug with objective norm calculation and column variables not in the LP (pricing)
10084 - LP error on forced LP resolve (due to 0 unfixed integers) now leads to an error (instead of accepting the pseudo
10085 solution as feasible)
10086 - fixed bug in CPLEX LP interface with dual norms
10087
10088- Presolving:
10089 - fixed bug that presolving time is not counted to solving time, if presolving is called explicitly with SCIPpresolve()
10090 - fixed bug where presolving fixings are counted even if the variable was already fixed
10091 - removed bug with dual presolver, that declared a problem to be unbounded or infeasible, if it could fix a variable to
10092 infinity even if its objective value is zero
10093 - fixed bug in knapsack constraint handler that fixed variables are sometimes not removed in presolving
10094
10095- Numerics:
10096 - fixed bug with unresolved numerical troubles in LP that don't render the LP useless at the current node
10097 - fixed numerical bugs in rounding heuristic and rootsoldiving heuristic
10098
10099- Separator:
10100 - fixed bugs in separation store with single coefficient cuts that are converted into bound changes
10101 - at least one cut per separation round is added to the LP to avoid cycling, even if the cut is redundant
10102 - fixed bug in SCIProwCalcIntegralScalar() with rows consisting of only continuous variables (appeared in gomory cut
10103 separator on miplib/dcmulti.mps)
10104 - fixed bug in linear constraint handler's knapsack relaxation separator
10105 - fixed bugs in intobj separator
10106 - fixed bug in cmir separator with empty rows
10107 - fixed bug in implied bound cut separator: only implications between binary variables were generated before
10108
10109- Constraint Handlers:
10110 - removed bug in knapsack constraint handler with merging multiple items if more than two items of the same variable
10111 appear in the constraint
10112 - removed bug in knapsack constraint handler with merging negated variables of equal weight at the end of the variables' array
10113 - fixed bug in linear constraint handler with eventdatas, if the original constraint has no variables
10114 - fixed bug that `CONSLOCK` method of constraint handlers that don't need constraints is not called
10115 - fixeg bug in setppc constraint handler with pairs of aggregated variables in the same constraint
10116 - fixed bug with globally deleting constraints, that have attached rows which are therefore not released in exitsol methods
10117
10118- Conflict analysis:
10119 - removed conflict analysis of infeasible diving LP if pricing is activated
10120 - made conflict analysis available in presolving stage (for probing conflicts)
10121
10122@section RN078 SCIP 0.7.8
10123*************************
10124
10125Features
10126--------
10127
10128- changed SCIProwCalcIntegralScalar() to a slightly different algorithm
10129- improved knapsack relaxation in linear constraint handler separator to scale the constraint in order to get integral
10130 coefficients instead of just rounding down all coefficients
10131- improved presolving of linear constraint handler: aggregation of two constraints with equal coefficient vector into
10132 single constraint
10133- improved presolving of knapsack constraint handler: aggregation of equal or negated variables in same constraint
10134
10135- Plugins:
10136 + priority of separators, propagators and presolvers decide whether the plugin is called before the corresponding
10137 constraint handler methods or after: plugins with nonnegative priorities are called before, plugins with negative
10138 priorities are called after the constraint handlers
10139 + new plugin class for relaxators (external relaxations, that can be used in parallel with LP relaxations)
10140 + if more than one result code applies to a plugin's execution, it should return the one that is higher in the call's
10141 documentation list
10142
10143Interface changes
10144-----------------
10145
10146- even in optimized mode, the simple functions that are implemented as defines in the include files exist in the
10147 library, s.t. one can include the include files without `NDEBUG` and use the optimized library
10148
10149### New and changed callbacks
10150
10151- new branching rule plugin methods `INITSOL` and `EXITSOL`
10152
10153### Deleted and changed API functions
10154
10155- removed SCIPisFeasible(); use !SCIPisFeasNegative() instead
10156- SCIPisIntegral(), SCIPisFracIntegral(), SCIPfloor(), SCIPceil() and SCIPfrac() don't use the feasibility
10157 tolerance anymore (default: 1e-06); instead, they are using epsilon (default: 1e-09); instead, for handling
10158 integrality of a variable `in feasibility tolerances`, new methods SCIPisFeasIntegral(), SCIPisFeasFracIntegral(),
10159 SCIPfeasFloor(), SCIPfeasCeil() and SCIPfeasFrac() should be used
10160- in LPI, the semantics of SCIPlpiHasPrimalRay() and SCIPlpiHasDualRay() changed: methods return TRUE, if a ray exists
10161 and the solver can return it; new methods SCIPlpiExistsPrimalRay() and SCIPlpiExistsDualRay() check whether a ray
10162 exists without checking, if the solver knows and can return the ray
10163
10164### New API functions
10165
10166- SCIPvarIsInLP()
10167- SCIPgetLPColumnObjval() and SCIPgetLPLooseObjval()
10168- SCIPcalcIntegralScalar() with arbitrary array of Real values
10169- SCIPaddCoefKnapsack() in knapsack constraint handler
10170- SCIPisScalingIntegral() to check, whether the scaling of a value would lead to an integral value, measured
10171 against epsilon which is also scaled by the same scalar
10172- SCIPgetRealarrayMinIdx(), SCIPgetRealarrayMaxIdx(), SCIPgetIntarrayMinIdx(), SCIPgetIntarrayMaxIdx(),
10173 SCIPgetBoolarrayMinIdx(), SCIPgetBoolarrayMaxIdx(), SCIPgetPtrarrayMinIdx() and SCIPgetPtrarrayMaxIdx()
10174- SCIPbsortPtrInt() and SCIPbsortPtrIntInt()
10175- SCIPvarWasFixedAtIndex()
10176- SCIPaddConflictBd()
10177- SCIPprintMemoryDiagnostic()
10178- SCIPfindObj...() and SCIPgetObj...() in C++ wrapper interface to get the corresponding plugin object
10179
10180### Changed parameters
10181
10182- slightly changed the meaning of parameter `presolving/abortfac` a value of 0 now means to abort presolving only after
10183 no more change has been found
10184
10185Fixed bugs
10186----------
10187
10188- assigning a value to a fixed variable in a solution with SCIPsetSolVal() does not return an error anymore, if the
10189 value is equal to the fixed value of the variable
10190- removed bug in SCIPisScalingIntegral()
10191- removed bugs with calling SCIPtightenVarLb(), SCIPtightenVarUb(), SCIPinferVarLbCons(), SCIPinferVarUbCons(),
10192 SCIPinferVarLbProp() and SCIPinferVarUbProp() in `PROBLEM` stage
10193
10194- (Re)solving:
10195 - solving loop is now immediately aborted, if a node on the active path is marked to be cut off
10196 - removed bug in resolving an interrupted problem, after the last solved node was cut off
10197 - removed bug with infinite solving loop if LP solving is turned off
10198 - removed bug with aborted solving in root node (e.g. due to time limit) that is tagged to be restarted
10199
10200- Branching:
10201 - fixed bug in all-fullstrong branching with getting strong branching information for columns not in current LP
10202 - implemented missing case in solve.c with branching rules that add constraints
10203
10204- Numerics:
10205 - changed numerics for integrality check of coefficients (fixed bug with accumulated errors in rows s.t. the row's
10206 activity is no longer integral although the row is marked being integer)
10207 - slightly changed numerics in linear constraint handler presolving to fix a bug with coefficients detected to be scaled
10208 to an integral value, that are not integral after scaling due to a large scalar that increased the integrality gap to
10209 a value larger than epsilon
10210
10211- Constraint handlers:
10212 - fixed bugs in consdataSwitchWatchedVars() of `or` and `and` constraint handlers
10213 - fixed wrong assertion in xor constraint handler with switching both watched variables to unwatched
10214 - fixed bugs in constraint handlers (and, logicor, or, setppc, xor) with calling conflict analysis during presolving
10215 - removed bug in knapsack constraint handler that appears if a variable is fixed to zero in knapsack presolving, which
10216 triggers a variable of the same knapsack to be fixed to one due to aggregation
10217
10218- Presolving:
10219 - removed bug in knapsack presolver
10220 - fixed bug in presolving with wrong number of newly fixed/aggregated/... variables/bounds/... after a restart
10221
10222@section RN077 SCIP 0.7.7
10223*************************
10224
10225Features
10226--------
10227
10228- infeasible LPs in diving now produce conflict clauses (if LP conflict analysis is enabled)
10229- conflict analysis was slightly modified
10230- slightly changed aging strategy of logic or constraint handler
10231
10232Interface changes
10233-----------------
10234
10235### Deleted and changed API functions
10236
10237- method SCIPgetGap() and SCIPgetTransGap() now return infinity, if primal and dual bound have opposite sign (this
10238 removes the oddness with the gap increasing while the dual bound approaches zero)
10239
10240### New API functions
10241
10242- added methods SCIPgetVarsLogicor() and SCIPgetNVarsLogicor() in logic or constraint handler
10243
10244### Changed parameters
10245
10246- `lp/colagelimit` and `lp/rowagelimit` may now be set to -1 to disable deletion of columns/rows due to aging
10247
10248Build system
10249------------
10250
10251### Makefile
10252
10253- the file names in the archive file are now preceeded with a directory `scip-<version>/`
10254- the compiler is now also represented in the LP solver library names (e.g. you have to rename the softlink
10255 `libcplex.linux.x86.a` to `libcplex.linux.x86.gnu.a`)
10256
10257Fixed bugs
10258----------
10259
10260- removed bug in conflict analysis that appears if the conflict is only active at the current depth level
10261- missing SCIPlpiIsPrimalFeasible() and SCIPlpiIsDualFeasible() implemented in lpi_spx.cpp and lpi_spx121.cpp
10262- removed preprocessing of linear constraint pairs with modifiable constraints
10263
10264- Asserts:
10265 - removed wrong assert `assert(eventfilter->len == 0 || eventfilter->eventmask != 0x00000000)` from event.c
10266 - removed wrong assert in conflict analysis (appeared on analyzing diving LP conflicts with both bounds of a non-binary variable changed)
10267
10268@section RN076 SCIP 0.7.6
10269*************************
10270
10271Features
10272--------
10273
10274- creation of reconvergence clauses in conflict analysis
10275- first node of each plunging is not treated as plunging node w.r.t. calling primal heuristics
10276- improved performance of logic or constraint handler due to better watched variables handling
10277
10278Interface changes
10279-----------------
10280
10281### Deleted and changed API functions
10282
10283- changed SCIPcatchVarEvent() and SCIPdropVarEvent()
10284- SCIPstage() is now called SCIPgetStage()
10285- SCIPprintStatus() is now called SCIPprintStage()
10286
10287### New API functions
10288
10289- SCIPgetActivityLinear() in linear constraint handler
10290- SCIPgetFeasibilityLinear() in linear constraint handler
10291- SCIPchgVarBranchDirection()
10292- SCIPvarGetBranchDirection()
10293- SCIPgetStatus() returns the solution status
10294- SCIPprintStatus() outputs the solution status (beware, that the old SCIPprintStatus() method is now called SCIPprintStage())
10295
10296### Changed parameters
10297
10298- changed default frequency offset of pscostdiving `heuristics/pscostdiving/freqofs` to 2 and frequency offset of fracdiving
10299 `heuristics/feaspump/freqofs` to 0 in order to not call pscostdiving in root node, where nearly all pseudo costs are uninitialized.
10300
10301### New parameters
10302
10303- new parameter `separating/efficacynorm` to choose between Euclidean, maximum, sum and discrete norm in efficacy
10304 calculation
10305
10306### Data structures
10307
10308- new possible result code `SCIP_DELAYED` for primal heuristics
10309
10310Fixed bugs
10311----------
10312
10313- removed bugs in CLP Solver interface
10314- SCIP returned `gap limit reached` even if the problem was solved to optimality, if the optimal solution was found at a
10315 node with lower bound equal to the global lower bound
10316- after conversion of the focus node into a junction (e.g. in case of numerical troubles while solving the node's LP), the child
10317 nodes got the wrong LP fork attached (the common LP fork of the old and new focus node instead of the old focus node's LP fork)
10318
10319- Variables:
10320 - bug reconvergence clauses in conflict analysis if bounds on non-binary variables were the reason for the fixing of the
10321 uip to create a reconvergence clause for
10322 - wrong sub calls in SCIPvarGet...CurrentRun() for aggregated variables
10323 - variables' conflict set counter was not reset when the problem was resolved again
10324
10325Known bugs
10326----------
10327
10328- unbounded models lead to an error
10329- air04 and air05 return wrong optimal value (1 too large): possibly due to strong branching or setppc propagation?
10330
10331@section RN075 SCIP 0.7.5
10332*************************
10333
10334Miscellaneous
10335-------------
10336
10337- started change log*/