# Release of Dynare 6.1

**URL:** <https://forum.dynare.org/t/release-of-dynare-6-1/25674>\
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**Created:** [2 May 2024 14:53 UTC](https://forum.dynare.org/t/release-of-dynare-6-1/25674 "2024-05-02T14:53:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![sebastien](https://forum.dynare.org/user_avatar/forum.dynare.org/sebastien/32/19973_2.png) [@sebastien](https://forum.dynare.org/u/sebastien)\
**Post date:** [2 May 2024 14:53 UTC](https://forum.dynare.org/t/release-of-dynare-6-1/25674/1 "2024-05-02T14:53:37Z")

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We are pleased to announce the release of Dynare 6.1.

This maintenance release fixes various bugs.

The Windows, macOS, MATLAB online and source packages are already available for download at [the Dynare website](https://www.dynare.org/download/).

This release is compatible with MATLAB versions ranging from 9.5 (R2018b) to 24.1 (R2024a), and with GNU Octave versions ranging from 7.1.0 to 9.1.0 (NB: the Windows package requires version 9.1.0 specifically).

Here is a list of the problems identified in version 6.0 and that have been fixed in version 6.1:

- Identification: simulated moments were triggered instead of theoretical ones
- Variance decompositions would crash with measurement errors when zero variance shocks were present
- The handling of Lagrange multipliers in the display of problems with the Jacobian was wrong
- The option `auxname` was missing in the documentation of the `pac_model` command
- PAC equation estimation/simulation was crashing in the case of composite target
- The PAC equation estimation would crash if the PAC target was a transformed variable
- The `perfect_foresight_with_expectation_errors_solver` command could return incorrect results when used in conjunction with `homotopy_linearization_fallback` or `homotopy_marginal_linearization_fallback` options
- For scalar values, the description of the `horizon` option of the `var_expectation_model` command was incorrect
- The steady state computation with the `bytecode` option in a Ramsey model was broken
- OccBin: the piecewise Kalman filter would crash in case of a periodic solution
- The `heteroskedastic_filter` option of the `estimation` command would cause a crash if there was only one shock
- The `method_of_moments` command would crash during the J-test for just and underidentified models
- User-defined `warning` settings were internally overwritten with the `method_of_moments` command or the piecewise Kalman filter
- The SMC sampler would crash if any of the `bayesian_irf`, `moments_varendo`, or `smoother` options of the `estimation` command had been specified
- The `bvar_irf` command would ignore the `SquareRoot` option and instead employ a Cholesky decomposition
- The univariate Kalman filter erroneously treated observations with negative prediction variances due to numerical issues as missing values instead of discarding the parameter draw

Moreover, a new `homotopy_exclude_varexo` option to the `perfect_foresight_solver` command has been added, to exclude some exogenous variables from the homotopy procedure (_i.e._ to keep them at their value corresponding to 100% of the shock during all homotopy iterations).

As a reminder, the list of new features introduced in versions 6.x can be found in the [release notes for 6.0](https://www.dynare.org/new-dynare-release/dynare-6.0-released/).

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**Author:** ![sebastien](https://forum.dynare.org/user_avatar/forum.dynare.org/sebastien/32/19973_2.png) [@sebastien](https://forum.dynare.org/u/sebastien)\
**Post date:** [2 May 2024 14:54 UTC](https://forum.dynare.org/t/release-of-dynare-6-1/25674/2 "2024-05-02T14:54:11Z")

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