Xpress Community License 8.14

Community Manager

4 years ago

The FICO Xpress Community License has now been updated to the latest Xpress release v8.14.

The FICO Xpress Community license is a free version that enables everyone to apply the latest optimization technology of FICO Xpress to solve their mathematical models, integrate with analytical and Machine Learning models, and operationalize them using FICO Xpress Insight.

Please, use the link on the FICO Xpress Community welcome page, or go directly to FICO® Xpress Community License to download this new version.

The new FICO Xpress Community License comes with 64-bit versions of:

FICO Xpress 8.14 on Linux including Xpress Mosel 6 and Xpress Solver 8.14
FICO Xpress 8.14 on Windows and macOSincluding Xpress Workbench 3.6, Xpress Mosel 6.0, Xpress Solver 8.14
FICO Xpress Insight 4.59 on Windows

Details can be found in the respective release announcements and the release notes.

Xpress Insight 4.59

VDL actions for data transformations including dynamic filtering and aggregations enabling separation of concerns between model development and UI development
A new observable scenario editable state that is helpful in applying conditional logic in views
Scenario execution status can be queried to retrieve information during the solve.
VDL charts support a second entity that is displayed on a dual axis.

Xpress 8.14 Solver

Improved Solver performance on Mixed-integer programming models
New tuner target based on confined primal integral
Python API enhancements (support for the “with” statement for initializing and declaring problems, more functions accepting lists, numpy arrays and Pandas series).

Xpress 8.14 Mosel 6

This is a major release of Mosel that includes several programing language features enabling ease of model development including:

Subroutine types and aliasing
Untyped lists, subroutines with variable number of arguments
Array types with anonymous index sets
Generalization of structures usable with “with”

Efficient reading of JSON formats
The mmreflect module replaces the now deprecated xreflect package providing access routines for arrays and set structures, new versions of callfunc/callproc with subroutine references, and iterators allowing traversing arrays without knowledge of index sets.

Xpress Workbench 3.6

Xpress Workbench 3.6 adds features that support custom progress reporting and Xpress Insight 5 app publishing and debugging. Xpress Insight 5 is a major update to Xpress Insight 4. The community edition of Xpress Insight 5 will be made available at a later date.

Resources:

Watch ourXpress Mosel Video Tutorial Seriesto learn more about FICO’s market-leading analytic orchestration, optimization modelling, and programming language.
Watch ourXpress Insight Video Tutorial Seriesto learn more about how we enable businesses to deploy optimization and other advanced analytics as powerful business applications.
Visit ourXpress Optimization Examples Repositoryto view a wide range of examples that demonstrate the functionality of the product line.
Browse theXpress Optimization Documentationto find installation guides, help for the product line, and more examples.