changeset 12432:455f2db40a8f release-3-4-x

update NEWS
author John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
date Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:29:14 -0500
parents aa2cc2533306
children 357d593d87c1
files ChangeLog NEWS
diffstat 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) [+]
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+2011-02-09  John W. Eaton  <jwe@octave.org>
+
+	* NEWS: Update.
+
 2011-02-09  Ben Abbott  <bpabbott@mac.com>
 
 	* README.MacOS: Spelling corrections.
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -358,6 +358,20 @@
     appended, and the anonymous function call does not occur on the
     call stack.
 
+ ** For compatibility with Matlab, mu2lin (x) is now equivalent to
+    mu2lin (x, 0).
+
+ ** The new function `history_control' may be used to control the way
+    command lines are added to the history list when Octave is using
+    readline for command-line editing.  For example
+
+      history_control ("ignoredups")
+
+    tells Octave to avoid adding duplicate lines to the history list.
+
+ ** Octave now uses the gnulib library for improved portability and to
+    avoid bugs in operating system functions.
+
  ** Deprecated functions.
 
     The following functions were deprecated in Octave 3.0 and have been
@@ -417,9 +431,6 @@
       autocov  dispatch  glpkmex    replot
       betai    fstat     is_global  saveimage
 
- ** For compatibility with Matlab, mu2lin (x) is now equivalent to
-    mu2lin (x, 0).
-
 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 3.2:
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