v0.2.0

Release 0.2.0

Add a lot of new functionality with a few minor breaking changes. We have more
optimizers, better error handling, bootstrap and inference for method of simulated
moments.

Breaking changes

• logging is disabled by default during optimization.
• the log_option "if_exists" was renamed to "if_table_exists"
• The comparison plot function is removed.
• first_derivative now returns a dictionary, independent of arguments.
• structure of the logging database has changed
• there is an additional boolean flag named scaling in minimize and maximize

New features

• Optimizer benchmarking
• Multistart optimization
• More optimizers (fides, ipopt, nlopt, pygmo)
• estimate_msm and estimate_ml functions
• More diagnostic tools for numerical derivatives

v0.1.3

• Improve numerical stability of inference functions
• Better documentation

v0.1.2

• Small fixes to documentation
• Now compatible with newest pandas
• By default not all inputs to maximize/minimize are saved in database

v0.1.1

Complete overhaul of estimagic.

• Restructured documentation
• New internal optimizer interface
• Better handling of derivatives
• Harmonized algo_options

v0.0.31

Release v0.0.31 and relax some version constraints. (#162)

v0.0.30

• Allow custom gradient in maximize and minimize

v0.0.29

• Make estimagic compatible with pandas 1.0

v0.0.28

• New command line interface to dashboard
• Estimagic becomes a noarch package