shortcut via lm() could not deal with a no-intercept model (part I: unconstrained)
varTable() should treat 'integer' type just lik 'numeric'
better handling of missing values in exogenous variables in the categorical case
avoid using lm() shortcut if some parameters are fixed by the user
PML uses the new 'Cache' slot to store objects that need to be reused; using PML now triggers a small note saying it is work in progress
change some hard stop()'s into warning()'s when S or Sigma is not positive definite
change version number to 0.5-12
add silent=TRUE to all try() statements
use ridging if sample covariance is singular
vnames(partable, type=lv.y/lv.x/ov.y): be more careful with the order of the return variable names
change lavJacobianC to lavJacobianD if complex numbers are problematic
check if rho.init starting value is within [-1,1] range when computing polychoric or polyserial correlations
check for ordered exogenous variables in data
starting values for residual variances for categorical indicators are set to zero (instead of one)
fix bug simulateData() when means are specified and kurtosis or skewness is not null
lavExport gets initial support for Mplus syntax files
sample.cov.rescale is set to FALSE if estimator is not ML
standard errors for standardized parameters: preparation steps
fixed start.user bug in 04lavaanStart
added estfun.R function to compute case-wise scores (contributed by Ed Merkle)