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A little bit of Mathematica history

Nasser M. Abbasi

October 1, 2023   Compiled on October 1, 2023 at 4:04am

Summary of Mathematica release dates

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

Detailed table of Mathematica versions and release dates

Dates are written in month/day/year format .

version

Release date

Binary size (bytes)

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)

841 in kernel

kernel_functions_ V22.txt

2.2.3

?

3.0

9/3/1996

600,000

1200

http://reference. wolfram.com/legacy/v3/ index105.html

3.0.1

7/29/1997

4.0

5/19/1999

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

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

  1. HTML
  2. PDF
  3. notebook
  4. mathematica7functions.txt
  5. 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

  1. HTML
  2. PDF
  3. process.nb
  4. 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

  1. HTML
  2. PDF
  3. process.nb
  4. 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 functionsplus 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

13.3

June 28, 2023.

quick-revision-history

Wolfram blog

TODO

"Version 13.3 introduces new functions that utilize large language models"

Length[Names["System`*"]] 7476

13.3.1

August 16, 2023.

quick-revision-history

TODO

"includes multiple critical bug fixes and improvements to Chat-Enabled Notebook stability and usability."

Length[Names["System`*"]] 7478

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