A little bit of Mathematica history


version	Release date	Binary size (bytes)	size of Mathematica book by Wolfram	lines of code	Number of Functions (approximate, see plot in ref (3) in System context only )	Functions in System	Mathematica symbols (from Length[Names["System‘*"]])

1.0	6/23/1988			150,000 in C (kernel) + 50,000 in C (front end)	600

1.1	1989

1.2	8/1/1989

2.0	1/15/1991			350,000	883

2.1	6/15/1992

2.2.1	4/21/1993	4.4 MB (on 4 ﬂoppies)	961 2ed		841 in kernel	kernel_functions_ V22.txt	installation screen shots V22_new_ features.txt user guide image

2.2.3	?

3.0	9/3/1996		1403	600,000	1200		http://reference. wolfram.com/ legacy/v3/ index105.html

3.0.1	7/29/1997

4.0	5/19/1999		1496	800,000	1300

4.0.1	9/1999

4.0.2	8/2000

4.1	11/2/2000	49,224,870		850,000			1861 listing

4.2	11/1/2002

5.0	6/12/2003	89,337,856	1488	1.5 millions	1500		1920 listing

5.0.1	1/2004

5.1	11/25/2004	112,734,208					1984 listing

5.1.1	3/2005

5.2	6/20/2005	159,301,632					1984 listing

6.0	5/1/2007	476,127,232		2.5 millions	2100		2958 listing

6.0.1	7/5/2007	468,983,808		2.5 millions

6.0.2	3/2008

6.0.3	6/2008

7.0	11/18/2008	478,662,656			2550	HTML PDF notebook mathematica7functions.txt packagesFunctions.txt	3429 listing

7.0.1	3/5/2009

8.0	11/15/2010	1,315,961,636 (1.3 GB, on Linux) 811 MB (Windows .EXE)			2467	functions and symbols listing HTML PDF process.nb getUsageMessages.nb	4141 HTML PDF

8.0.1	2/23/2011	832.51 MB for windows .EXE (872,945,544 bytes)			2468	functions and symbols listing HTML PDF process.nb getUsageMessages.nb	4129 HTML PDF

8.0.4	10/26/2011	916 MB for windows .EXE (960,254,792 bytes)

9	11/28/2012	windows : 1.2 GB(1,210,695,064 bytes) mac: 1.2 GB (1,273,266,681 bytes) Linux: 1.8 GB (1,781,256,995 bytes)					HTML 92 diﬀerent contexts 7,919 total symbols 4,153 total functions

9.0.1	1/31/2013

10	Wed. July 9, 2014	2 GB (windows) (1,998,657,776 bytes)					HTML 9068 total symbols

10.0.1	Sept 17, 2014	for Microsoft Windows (64-bit) 2 GB (windows) (2,034,844,000 bytes)

10.0.2	December 10, 2014	for Microsoft Windows (64-bit) 2 GB (windows) (2,020,305,024 bytes)

10.1	March 30, 2015	for Microsoft Windows (64-bit) 2.1 GB (windows) (2,131,110,462 bytes) 2.8 GB (Linux) (2,865,437,463 bytes)

10.2	July 14, 2015	for Microsoft Windows 2.2 GB (windows) (2,336,726,505 bytes)

10.3	October 15, 2015	2.2 GB (windows) 2,398,816,027 bytes

10.3.1	December, 2015	2.2 GB (windows) 2,398,225,619 bytes

10.4	March 3, 2016	2.4 GB (windows)

10.4.1	April 12, 2016 (time stamp of .exe)	2.38 GB (2,557,472,768 bytes) (windows)

11	August 8, 2016	Zip ﬁle size (64-bit) 2.9 GB (windows) (3,082,143,354 bytes)

11.0.1	Sept. 28, 2016

11.1	March 16, 2017 Summary Of New Features	Zip ﬁle size (64-bit) 3 GB (windows) (3,267,335,904 bytes)

11.1.1	April 25, 2017	Zip ﬁle size (64-bit) windows 3,328,349,226 bytes

11.2	September 14, 2017 new features in 11.2 Wolfram blog on 11.2 Wolfram twitch TV review of 11.2	Zip ﬁle size (64-bit) windows 3,565,970,199 bytes

11.3	March 8, 2018 new features in 11.3 Wolfram blog on 11.3

12	April 16, 2019 Wolfram blog What is new in 12 List of new functions	Zip ﬁle size (64-bit) windows 3,686,626,865 bytes			278 new functions

12.1	March 18, 2020 What is new in 12.1 Wolfram blog	Zip ﬁle size (64-bit) windows 4,534,832,311 bytes			182 new functions

12.1.1	June 9, 2020 (1,000 bug ﬁxed)	Zip ﬁle size (64-bit) windows 4,566,123,387 bytes

12.2	December 16, 2020 Summary of new features	Windows zip ﬁle size 4,643,085,309 bytes			228 New functions

12.3	May 20, 2021 Wolfram blog	TODO			115 New functions

12.3.1	July 1, 2021	Windows zip ﬁle size 4,758,204,101 bytes			TODO

13	December 13, 2021 What is new in V 13 Wolfram blog	TODO			117 New functions		Length[Names["System`*"]] 7239

13.0.1	Thursday, February 17, 2022 What is new in V 13 Wolfram blog	TODO			N/A

13.1	June 29, 2022. New Features in 13.1 Wolfram blog	TODO			90 completely new functions—plus 203 functions with substantial updates.		Length[Names["System`*"]] 7877

13.2	December 14, 2022. Wolfram blog on 13.2 New Features in 13.2 New in 13.2: Alphabetical Listing quick-revision-history	TODO			41 new functions. Version 13.2 introduces new functionality in astronomy and compilation. This release also includes over a thousand bug ﬁxes.		Length[Names["System`*"]] 7405

13.2.1	February 10, 2023. quick-revision-history	TODO			"Version 13.2.1 includes over a hundred bug ﬁxes, feature enhancements, performance improvements and security updates."		Length[Names["System`*"]] 7402


version	release data	Approximate time from previous release


1	June 1988	N/A

2	Jan 1991	2.5 years

3	sept 1996	5.8 years

4	may 1999	2.8 years

5	June 2003	3 years

6	May 2007	4 years

7	Nov 2008	1.3 years

8	Nov 2010	2 years

9	Nov 2012	2 years

10	July 2014	1.8 years

11	August 2016	2.1 years

12	April 2019	2.75 years

13	December 13 2021	2.6 years

A little bit of Mathematica history

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