Maple V Release 5 includes many new capabilities and improvements to existing facilities. These are summarized under the following topics.

Maple V Release 5.1 is an interim release which contains new features. See updates/R5/R51 for a description of them.

Maple's graphical user interface has been substantially enhanced on selected platforms. An overview of these changes is found in updates/R5/gui.

An overview of the most interesting mathematical changes in Release 5 is presented in updates/R5/highlights.

Changes to the Maple programming language, and system level changes are described in updates/R5/language.

Descriptions of new packages and modifications to old packages are listed in updates/R5/packages.

Expanded symbolic capabilities of Maple are described in updates/R5/symbolic.

Continued improvements made to the graphics features of Maple are explained in updates/R5/graphics.

Enhanced numeric processing facilities which are introduced in this release are described in updates/R5/numerics.

Users upgrading from Maple V Release 4 should take note of the items in updates/R5/compatibility.