New Features in Release 2.11

Release date: December xx, 2011.

• new big object SymmetricPolytope
• improved shared library handling:
  Support for loading the shared library on demand (via dlopen) improved, i.e. it is no longer necessary to specify RTLD_GLOBAL, the correct symbol visibility of libpolymake and libperl is now set automatically during the initialization of polymake::Main (see also the discussion in the forum).
• solves a number of issues arising from empty polytopes
• multitude of minor editions and bugfixes