This is a guest post by Matt Denwood. After a longer-than-anticipated delay, the macOS installer for JAGS 5.0.0 is now available via SourceForge. There are some big changes for how the official binaries of JAGS 5.x are installed on macOS, which is the topic covered by this news post. Multi-threading and BLAS linkage JAGS now has multi-threading support to allow parallel execution of independent chains, which uses Apple’s Grand Central Dispatch for the macOS binaries.

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