v2.15.0

v.2.15.0 (13 April 2017)

New Features

• Efficient blocking algorithm for gradient of the Cholesky (#384)
• Univariate normal distribution on sufficient statistics (#38)
• New to_matrix function for real arrays(real[]) (#467)
• New specialization of stan::math::array_builder for matrix types (#496)

Bug Fixes

• Fixes to hypergeometric functions (#487)

Other

• Speedup for categorical_rng (#503)
• Speedup for non-stiff ODE integration (#512)
• Refactor VectorView into scalar_seq_view (#464)
• Deprecate _log distribution functions; use _lpdf / _lpmf / _lcdf / _lccdf (#320)