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changeset 8737:ae51dc447bab
NEWS: update for release
author | John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> |
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date | Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:06:50 -0500 |
parents | 53b4fdeacc2e |
children | c32e710407ee |
files | ChangeLog NEWS |
diffstat | 2 files changed, 187 insertions(+), 73 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2009-02-13 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> + + * NEWS: Update for release. + 2009-02-11 Thomas Treichl <Thomas.Treichl@gmx.net> * aclocal.m4 (OCTAVE_GLUTESSCALLBACK_THREEDOTS): New macro.
--- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ Summary of important user-visible changes for version 3.2: --------------------------------------------------------- - ** Compatibility with Matlab graphics is much better now. + ** Compatibility with Matlab graphics has been improved. The hggroup object and associated listener callback functions have - been added allowing the inclusion of group objects. Data sources + been added allowing the inclusion of group objects. Data sources have been added to these group objects such that x = 0:0.1:10; @@ -16,14 +16,36 @@ refreshdata(); endfor - works as expected. This capability has be used to introduce stem-series, - bar-series, etc objects for better Matlab compatibility. + works as expected. This capability has be used to introduce + stem-series, bar-series, etc. objects for better Matlab + compatibility. + + ** New graphics functions: + + addlistener dellistener ezsurf ishghandle + addproperty ezcontour ezsurfc linkprop + allchild ezcontourf findall plotmatrix + available_backends ezmesh gcbf refresh + backend ezmeshc gcbo refreshdata + cla ezplot ginput surfl + clabel ezplot3 gtext waitforbuttonpress + comet ezpolar intwarning - ** Experimental OpenGL/FLTK based backend to replace gnuplot + ** Improvements to the debugger. - An experimental backend to replace the gnuplot backend has been - written based on FLTK. This backend is off by default. You can - switch to using this with the command + The interactive debugging features have been improved. Stopping + on statements with dbstop should work correctly now. Stepping + into and over functions, and stepping one statement at a time + (with dbstep) now works. Moving up and down the call stack with + dbup and dbdown now works. The dbstack function is now available + to print the current function call stack. The new dbquit function + is available to exit the debugging mode. + + ** New experimental OpenGL/FLTK based plotting system. + + An experimental plotting system based on OpenGL and the FLTK + toolkit is now part of Octave. This backend is disabled by + default. You can switch to using it with the command backend ("fltk") @@ -31,38 +53,47 @@ backend (h, "fltk") - where "h" is a valid figure handle. + where "h" is a valid figure handle. Please note that this backend + does not yet support text objects. Obviously, this is a necessary + feature before it can be considered usable. We are looking for + volunteers to help implement this missing feature. - ** Eliminate the functions for direct access to gnuplot from Octave. + ** Functions providing direct access to gnuplot have been removed. + The functions __gnuplot_plot__, __gnuplot_set__, __gnuplot_raw__, __gnuplot_show__, __gnuplot_replot__, __gnuplot_splot__, - __gnuplot_save_data__ and __gnuplot_send_inline_data__ have been - removed from Octave. These function were incompatible with the high - level graphics handle code. + __gnuplot_save_data__ and __gnuplot_send_inline_data__ have been + removed from Octave. These function were incompatible with the + high level graphics handle code. - ** The fsolve function now accepts an option structure argument (see - also the optimset function). - The INFO values returned from fsolve have changed to be compatible - with Matlab's fsolve function. + ** Improvements to fsolve. + + The fsolve function now accepts an option structure argument (see + also the optimset function). The INFO values returned from fsolve + have changed to be compatible with Matlab's fsolve function. Additionally, fsolve is now able to solve overdetermined systems. - ** The norm function is now able to compute row or column norms of a matrix - in a single call, as well as general matrix p-norms. + ** Object Oriented Programming. - ** Object Oriented Programming + Octave now includes OOP features and the user can create their own + class objects and overloaded functions and operators. For + example, all methods of a class called "myclass" will be found in + a directory "@myclass" on the users path. The class specific + versions of functions and operators take precedence over the + generic versions of these functions. + + New functions related to OOP include - Octave now includes OOP features and the user can create their - own class objects and overloaded functions and operators. For - example, all methods of a class called "myclass" will be found in - a directory "@myclass" on the users path. The class specific versions - of functions and operators take precedence over the generic versions - of these functions. See the Octave manual for more details. + class inferiorto isobject loadobj methods superiorto + + See the Octave manual for more details. - ** Block comments + ** Block comments. + Commented code can be between matching "%{" and "%}" markers, even - if the commented code spans several line. This allows blocks code - to be commented, without needing to comment each line. For - example, + if the commented code spans several line. This allows blocks code + to be commented, without needing to comment each line. For + example, function y = func (x) y = 2 * x; @@ -72,61 +103,140 @@ endfunction the line "y += 1;" will not be executed. - - ** Removed the Control, Finance and Quaternions toolboxes - These toolboxes have been removed and ported to octave-forge, as - they are specialized toolboxes that not all users need. These - functions can be reinstalled using the Octave package manager (see - the pkg function) and the packages available at + + ** The Control, Finance and Quaternion functions have been removed. + + These functions are now available as separate packages from + + http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.html - http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.html + and can be reinstalled using the Octave package manager (see + the pkg function). + + ** Special treatment in the parser of expressions like "a' * b". - ** The imwrite and imread function have been included in Octave based - on the GraphicsMagick library. - - ** The eigs and svds functions have been included in Octave based on - the ARPACK library. + In these cases the transpose is no longer explicitly formed and + BLAS libraries are called with the transpose flagged, + significantly improving performance for these kinds of + operations. - ** Special treatment in the parser of expressions like "a' * b". In - these cases the transpose is no longer explicitly formed and BLAS - libraries are called with the transpose flagged. This significantly - improves the speed. + ** Single Precision data type. - ** Single Precision data type - Octave now includes a single precision data type. Single precision - variables can be created with the "single" command, or from - function like ones, etc. For example + Octave now includes a single precision data type. Single + precision variables can be created with the "single" command, or + from function like ones, etc. For example - single (1) - ones (2, 2, "single") - zeros (2, 2, "single") - eye (2, 2, "single") - Inf (2, 2, "single") - NaN (2, 2, "single") - NA (2, 2, "single") + single (1) + ones (2, 2, "single") + zeros (2, 2, "single") + eye (2, 2, "single") + Inf (2, 2, "single") + NaN (2, 2, "single") + NA (2, 2, "single") - all create single precision variables. Mixed double/single - precision operators and functions return single precision - types. As a consequence of this addition to Octave the internal + all create single precision variables. For compatibility with + Matlab, mixed double/single precision operators and functions + return single precision types. + + As a consequence of this addition to Octave the internal representation of the double precision NA value has changed, and so users that make use of data generated by Octave with R or visa-versa are warned that compatibility might not be assured. - ** Improved array indexing - The underlying code used for indexing of arrays has been completely - rewritten and so the indexing of arrays is now significantly faster. + ** Improved array indexing. + + The underlying code used for indexing of arrays has been + completely rewritten and so the indexing of arrays is now + significantly faster. + + ** Diagonal and permutation matrices. + + The interpreter can now treat diagonal and permutation matrices as + special objects that store only the non-zero elements, rather than + general full matrices. Therefore, it is now possible to construct + and use these matrices in linear algebra without suffering a + performance penalty due to storing large numbers of zero elements. + + ** 64-bit integer arithmetic. + + Arithmetic with 64-bit integers (int64 and uint64 types) is fully + supported, with saturation semantics like the other integer types. + Performance of most integer arithmetic operations has been + improved by using integer arithmetic directly. Previously, Octave + performed integer math with saturation semantics by converting the + operands to double precision, performing the operation, and then + converting the result back to an integer value, truncating if + necessary. + + ** Improvements to the norm function. + + The norm function is now able to compute row or column norms of a + matrix in a single call, as well as general matrix p-norms. + + ** New functions for reading and writing images. + + The imwrite and imread function have been included in Octave. + These functions require the GraphicsMagick library. The new + function imfinfo provides information about an image file (size, + type, colors, etc.) + + ** New functions for computing some eigenvalues or singular values. + + The eigs and svds functions have been included in Octave. These + functions require the ARPACK library (now distributed under a + GPL-compatible license). + + ** Changes to strcat. - ** 64-bit integer arithmetic - Arithmetic with 64-bit integers (int64 and uint64 types) is fully supported, - with saturation semantics like the other integer types. Most of the integer - arithmetic operations was rewritten to exploit integer arithmetic in the CPU - efficiently. As a result, performance was significantly improved. + The strcat function is now compatible with Matlab's strcat + function, which removes trailing whitespace when concatenating + character strings. For example + + strcat ('foo ', 'bar') + ==> 'foobar' + + The new function cstrcat provides the previous behavior of + Octave's strcat. + + ** Specific sparse matrix functions removed. + + The following functions, which handled only sparse matrices have + been removed. Instead of calling these functions directly, you + should use the corresponding function without the "sp" prefix. + + spatan2 spcumsum spkron spprod + spchol spdet splchol spqr + spchol2inv spdiag splu spsum + spcholinv spfind spmax spsumsqk + spcumprod spinv spmin + + ** New QR and Cholesky factorization updating functions. - ** Diagonal and permutation matrices - The interpreter can now treat diagonal and permutation matrices as special - objects, rather than general full matrices. Therefore, it is now possible - to construct & use these matrices in linear algebra without suffering a - performance penalty. + choldelete cholshift qrdelete qrshift + cholinsert cholupdate qrinsert qrupdate + + ** New quadrature functions. + + dblquad quadgk quadv triplequad + + ** Other miscellaneous new functions. + addtodate interp1q rectint + bicgstab isdebugmode regexptranslate + cgs isfloat restoredefaultpath + command_line_path isstrprop roundb + contrast log1p rundemos + convn lsqnonneg runlength + datetick matlabroot saveobj + display namelengthmax spaugment + expm1 nargoutchk strchr + filemarker pathdef strvcat + fstat perl subspace + full prctile symvar + fzero quantile treelayout + genvarname re_read_readline_init_file validatestring + hypot reallog which + idivide realpow + info realsqrt See NEWS.3 for old news.