ALPSCore/ALPSCore: Version 2.3.0-rc.1

The open source ALPSCore project, which is based on ALPS (Algorithms and Libraries for Physics Simulations) project, provides a collection of physics libraries and applications, with a focus on simulations of lattice models and strongly correlated systems. This project strives to provide a convenient set of maintained, well-documented, and reusable components for developing condensed matter physics simulation code, to help application developers make commonly used and proven computational algorithms available to a non-expert community.

The most important changes in this release:

1. The new ALEA module:
   1. Includes hypothesis testing;
   2. Tests improved;
   3. Tutorials added.
2. The Greens Functions (GF) module:
   1. Code cleanup;
   2. Tutorials added.
3. General improvement:
   1. Warning-free compilation by gcc and clang;
   2. A number of important bugs fixed;
   3. Boost is replaced by standard library features in many places;
   4. Build scripts are improved;
   5. Code documentation is improved.

For copyright see COPYRIGHT.TXT. For licensing see LICENSE.TXT. For acknowledgment in scientific publications see ACKNOWLEDGE.TXT.