Problems (?? bugs) after recent StataMP 17.0 update (8 March 2023) ..

[Abdullah Algarni]

Dear Statalisters,

I have StataMP 17.0 for macintosh and just updated it on 08 Mar 2023.

. about

Stata/MP 17.0 for Mac (Apple Silicon)
Revision 08 Mar 2023
Copyright 1985-2021 StataCorp LLC

Total physical memory: 16.00 GB

Stata license: Single-user 4-core

. update

Update status
  Last check for updates: 03 Apr 2023
  New update available:  none    (as of 03 Apr 2023)
  Current update level:  08 Mar 2023 (what's new)

Possible actions

  Check for available updates     (or type -update query-)

It was working very well. However, once I updated to the last update level (08 Mar 2023), I noticed some problems that resolve after restarting Stata (I wonder if they can be called a bug).

For example, putexcel command does not merge cells well but does so after restarting.

{ // Setting a destination file
   putexcel set Tables.xlsx, sheet(Table1S) modify
}

{ // Title
   putexcel A1:L1 = "Table 1. Baseline characteristics of the study participants", merge bold top left border(bottom, thin, black) overwrit
}

Also, Stata does not retrieve the content of the local macros but does so after restarting.

. local dep_var = "sex race age_sd"

. logistic died30in `dep_var'

Logistic regression                                     Number of obs =  3,274
                                                        LR chi2(0)    =   0.00
                                                        Prob > chi2   =      .
Log likelihood = -972.67611                             Pseudo R2     = 0.0000

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    died30in |       Odds   Std. err.      z    P>|z|     [95% conf. interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
       _cons |    .096083   .0059378   -37.91   0.0000     .0851223    .1084551
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I'd like to know if any experienced such problems.

Thank you
Abdullah