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annotate NEWS @ 18547:85d31344fb23 stable rc-3-8-1-2

3.8.1 release candidate 2 * configure.ac (OCTAVE_VERSION): Bump to 3.8.1-rc2. (OCTAVE_MINOR_VERSION): Bump to 1-rc2. (OCTAVE_RELEASE_DATE): Set to 2014-02-14.

author	John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
date	Mon, 17 Feb 2014 02:20:39 -0500
parents	8bc09600f0ed
children	728cb7530538 9887440ceb2e

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17752 031eaa90064e NEWS: Update announcements for 3.8 release. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17698 diff changeset	1 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 3.8:
13687 59fd35807941 New GUI branch Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh@octave.org> parents: 13268 diff changeset	2 ---------------------------------------------------------
59fd35807941 New GUI branch Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh@octave.org> parents: 13268 diff changeset	3
18032 482cc05b4f99 update gui info text and corresponding NEWS entry John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 18007 diff changeset	4 ** One of the biggest new features for Octave 3.8 is a graphical user
482cc05b4f99 update gui info text and corresponding NEWS entry John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 18007 diff changeset	5 interface. It is the one thing that users have requested most
482cc05b4f99 update gui info text and corresponding NEWS entry John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 18007 diff changeset	6 often over the last few years and now it is almost ready. But
482cc05b4f99 update gui info text and corresponding NEWS entry John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 18007 diff changeset	7 because it is not quite as polished as we would like, we have
482cc05b4f99 update gui info text and corresponding NEWS entry John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 18007 diff changeset	8 decided to wait until the 4.0.x release series before making the
482cc05b4f99 update gui info text and corresponding NEWS entry John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 18007 diff changeset	9 GUI the default interface (until then, you can use the --force-gui
482cc05b4f99 update gui info text and corresponding NEWS entry John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 18007 diff changeset	10 option to start the GUI).
482cc05b4f99 update gui info text and corresponding NEWS entry John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 18007 diff changeset	11
482cc05b4f99 update gui info text and corresponding NEWS entry John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 18007 diff changeset	12 Given the length of time and the number of bug fixes and
482cc05b4f99 update gui info text and corresponding NEWS entry John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 18007 diff changeset	13 improvements since the last major release Octave, we also decided
482cc05b4f99 update gui info text and corresponding NEWS entry John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 18007 diff changeset	14 against delaying the release of all these new improvements any
482cc05b4f99 update gui info text and corresponding NEWS entry John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 18007 diff changeset	15 longer just to perfect the GUI. So please enjoy the 3.8 release of
18034 8bc09600f0ed Correct spelling in cset 482cc05b4f99. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 18032 diff changeset	16 Octave and the preview of the new GUI. We believe it is working
18032 482cc05b4f99 update gui info text and corresponding NEWS entry John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 18007 diff changeset	17 reasonably well, but we also know that there are some obvious rough
482cc05b4f99 update gui info text and corresponding NEWS entry John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 18007 diff changeset	18 spots and many things that could be improved.
482cc05b4f99 update gui info text and corresponding NEWS entry John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 18007 diff changeset	19
482cc05b4f99 update gui info text and corresponding NEWS entry John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 18007 diff changeset	20 WE NEED YOUR HELP. There are many ways that you can help us fix
482cc05b4f99 update gui info text and corresponding NEWS entry John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 18007 diff changeset	21 the remaining problems, complete the GUI, and improve the overall
482cc05b4f99 update gui info text and corresponding NEWS entry John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 18007 diff changeset	22 user experience for both novices and experts alike:
482cc05b4f99 update gui info text and corresponding NEWS entry John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 18007 diff changeset	23
482cc05b4f99 update gui info text and corresponding NEWS entry John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 18007 diff changeset	24 * If you are a skilled software developer, you can help by
482cc05b4f99 update gui info text and corresponding NEWS entry John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 18007 diff changeset	25 contributing your time to help with Octave's development. See
482cc05b4f99 update gui info text and corresponding NEWS entry John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 18007 diff changeset	26 http://octave.org/get-involved.html for more information.
482cc05b4f99 update gui info text and corresponding NEWS entry John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 18007 diff changeset	27
482cc05b4f99 update gui info text and corresponding NEWS entry John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 18007 diff changeset	28 * If Octave does not work properly, you are encouraged
482cc05b4f99 update gui info text and corresponding NEWS entry John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 18007 diff changeset	29 report the problems you find. See http://octave.org/bugs.html
482cc05b4f99 update gui info text and corresponding NEWS entry John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 18007 diff changeset	30 for more information about how to report problems.
482cc05b4f99 update gui info text and corresponding NEWS entry John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 18007 diff changeset	31
482cc05b4f99 update gui info text and corresponding NEWS entry John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 18007 diff changeset	32 * Whether you are a user or developer, you can help to fund the
482cc05b4f99 update gui info text and corresponding NEWS entry John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 18007 diff changeset	33 project. Octave development takes a lot of time and expertise.
482cc05b4f99 update gui info text and corresponding NEWS entry John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 18007 diff changeset	34 Your contributions help to ensure that Octave will continue to
482cc05b4f99 update gui info text and corresponding NEWS entry John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 18007 diff changeset	35 improve. See http://octave.org/donate.html for more details.
482cc05b4f99 update gui info text and corresponding NEWS entry John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 18007 diff changeset	36
482cc05b4f99 update gui info text and corresponding NEWS entry John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 18007 diff changeset	37 We hope you find Octave to be useful. Please help us make it even
482cc05b4f99 update gui info text and corresponding NEWS entry John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 18007 diff changeset	38 better for the future!
14271 e2a14d1b4eaa rgbplot.m: Add new Matlab compatible function for plotting colormaps Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14188 diff changeset	39
17501 55680de6a897 make fltk the default graphics toolkit John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 17499 diff changeset	40 ** Octave now uses OpenGL graphics by default with FLTK widgets. If
55680de6a897 make fltk the default graphics toolkit John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 17499 diff changeset	41 OpenGL libraries or FLTK widgets are not available when Octave is
55680de6a897 make fltk the default graphics toolkit John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 17499 diff changeset	42 built, gnuplot is used. You may also choose to use gnuplot for
55680de6a897 make fltk the default graphics toolkit John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 17499 diff changeset	43 graphics by executing the command
55680de6a897 make fltk the default graphics toolkit John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 17499 diff changeset	44
55680de6a897 make fltk the default graphics toolkit John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 17499 diff changeset	45 graphics_toolkit ("gnuplot")
55680de6a897 make fltk the default graphics toolkit John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 17499 diff changeset	46
55680de6a897 make fltk the default graphics toolkit John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 17499 diff changeset	47 Adding this command to your ~/.octaverc file will set the default
55680de6a897 make fltk the default graphics toolkit John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 17499 diff changeset	48 for each session.
55680de6a897 make fltk the default graphics toolkit John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 17499 diff changeset	49
17797 06a850f83dd4 build: Remove embedded gl2ps. Require gl2ps as external dependency. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17764 diff changeset	50 ** Printing or saving figures with OpenGL graphics requires the
06a850f83dd4 build: Remove embedded gl2ps. Require gl2ps as external dependency. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17764 diff changeset	51 gl2ps library which is no longer distributed with Octave. The
06a850f83dd4 build: Remove embedded gl2ps. Require gl2ps as external dependency. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17764 diff changeset	52 software is widely available in most package managers. If a
06a850f83dd4 build: Remove embedded gl2ps. Require gl2ps as external dependency. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17764 diff changeset	53 pre-compiled package does not exist for your system, you can find
06a850f83dd4 build: Remove embedded gl2ps. Require gl2ps as external dependency. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17764 diff changeset	54 the current sources at http://www.geuz.org/gl2ps/.
06a850f83dd4 build: Remove embedded gl2ps. Require gl2ps as external dependency. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17764 diff changeset	55
14546 b8edefd8c111 NEWS: Expand section on nested functions and clarify regexprep changes. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14544 diff changeset	56 ** Octave now supports nested functions with scoping rules that are
b8edefd8c111 NEWS: Expand section on nested functions and clarify regexprep changes. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14544 diff changeset	57 compatible with Matlab. A nested function is one declared and defined
b8edefd8c111 NEWS: Expand section on nested functions and clarify regexprep changes. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14544 diff changeset	58 within the body of another function. The nested function is only
b8edefd8c111 NEWS: Expand section on nested functions and clarify regexprep changes. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14544 diff changeset	59 accessible from within the enclosing function which makes it one
b8edefd8c111 NEWS: Expand section on nested functions and clarify regexprep changes. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14544 diff changeset	60 method for making private functions whose names do not conflict with those
b8edefd8c111 NEWS: Expand section on nested functions and clarify regexprep changes. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14544 diff changeset	61 in the global namespace (See also subfunctions and private functions).
b8edefd8c111 NEWS: Expand section on nested functions and clarify regexprep changes. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14544 diff changeset	62 In addition, variables in the enclosing function are visible within the
b8edefd8c111 NEWS: Expand section on nested functions and clarify regexprep changes. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14544 diff changeset	63 nested function. This makes it possible to have a pseudo-global variable
b8edefd8c111 NEWS: Expand section on nested functions and clarify regexprep changes. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14544 diff changeset	64 which can be seen by a group of functions, but which is not visible in
b8edefd8c111 NEWS: Expand section on nested functions and clarify regexprep changes. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14544 diff changeset	65 the global namespace.
b8edefd8c111 NEWS: Expand section on nested functions and clarify regexprep changes. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14544 diff changeset	66
b8edefd8c111 NEWS: Expand section on nested functions and clarify regexprep changes. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14544 diff changeset	67 Example:
b8edefd8c111 NEWS: Expand section on nested functions and clarify regexprep changes. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14544 diff changeset	68 function outerfunc (...)
b8edefd8c111 NEWS: Expand section on nested functions and clarify regexprep changes. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14544 diff changeset	69 ...
b8edefd8c111 NEWS: Expand section on nested functions and clarify regexprep changes. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14544 diff changeset	70 function nested1 (...)
b8edefd8c111 NEWS: Expand section on nested functions and clarify regexprep changes. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14544 diff changeset	71 ...
b8edefd8c111 NEWS: Expand section on nested functions and clarify regexprep changes. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14544 diff changeset	72 function nested2 (...)
b8edefd8c111 NEWS: Expand section on nested functions and clarify regexprep changes. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14544 diff changeset	73 ...
b8edefd8c111 NEWS: Expand section on nested functions and clarify regexprep changes. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14544 diff changeset	74 endfunction
b8edefd8c111 NEWS: Expand section on nested functions and clarify regexprep changes. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14544 diff changeset	75 endfunction
b8edefd8c111 NEWS: Expand section on nested functions and clarify regexprep changes. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14544 diff changeset	76
b8edefd8c111 NEWS: Expand section on nested functions and clarify regexprep changes. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14544 diff changeset	77 function nested3 (...)
b8edefd8c111 NEWS: Expand section on nested functions and clarify regexprep changes. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14544 diff changeset	78 ...
b8edefd8c111 NEWS: Expand section on nested functions and clarify regexprep changes. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14544 diff changeset	79 endfunction
b8edefd8c111 NEWS: Expand section on nested functions and clarify regexprep changes. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14544 diff changeset	80 endfunction
b8edefd8c111 NEWS: Expand section on nested functions and clarify regexprep changes. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14544 diff changeset	81
17294 5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	82 ** Line continuations inside character strings have changed.
14536 6d5c951ec520 Add 'emptymatch', 'noemptymatch' options to regular expressions. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14534 diff changeset	83
17294 5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	84 The sequence '...' is no longer recognized as a line continuation
5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	85 inside a character string. A backslash '\' followed by a newline
5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	86 character is no longer recognized as a line continuation inside
5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	87 single-quoted character strings. Inside double-quoted character
5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	88 strings, a backslash followed by a newline character is still
5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	89 recognized as a line continuation, but the backslash character must
5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	90 be followed immediately by the newline character. No whitespace or
5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	91 end-of-line comment may appear between them.
14536 6d5c951ec520 Add 'emptymatch', 'noemptymatch' options to regular expressions. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14534 diff changeset	92
17294 5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	93 ** Backslash as a continuation marker outside of double-quoted strings
5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	94 is now deprecated.
15541 9db32cabeacf Fix backslash handling in regexp pattern (Bug #37092) Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 15513 diff changeset	95
17294 5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	96 Using '\' as a continuation marker outside of double quoted strings
5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	97 is now deprecated and will be removed from a future version of
5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	98 Octave. When that is done, the behavior of
5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	99
5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	100 (a \
5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	101 b)
5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	102
5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	103 will be consistent with other binary operators.
14544 be18c9e359bf Nested function support (bug #35772) Max Brister <max@2bass.com> parents: 14543 diff changeset	104
14534 ad2ff36996b8 NEWS: Add note about redundant serial comma feature in parser Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14516 diff changeset	105 ** Redundant terminal comma accepted by parser
ad2ff36996b8 NEWS: Add note about redundant serial comma feature in parser Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14516 diff changeset	106
ad2ff36996b8 NEWS: Add note about redundant serial comma feature in parser Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14516 diff changeset	107 A redundant terminal comma is now accepted in matrix
ad2ff36996b8 NEWS: Add note about redundant serial comma feature in parser Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14516 diff changeset	108 definitions which allows writing code such as
ad2ff36996b8 NEWS: Add note about redundant serial comma feature in parser Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14516 diff changeset	109
ad2ff36996b8 NEWS: Add note about redundant serial comma feature in parser Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14516 diff changeset	110 [a,...
ad2ff36996b8 NEWS: Add note about redundant serial comma feature in parser Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14516 diff changeset	111 b,...
ad2ff36996b8 NEWS: Add note about redundant serial comma feature in parser Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14516 diff changeset	112 c,...
ad2ff36996b8 NEWS: Add note about redundant serial comma feature in parser Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14516 diff changeset	113 ] = deal (1,2,3)
ad2ff36996b8 NEWS: Add note about redundant serial comma feature in parser Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14516 diff changeset	114
17249 923ce8b42db2 improve try-catch-statement to save exception to a variable (bug #33217) Stefan Mahr <dac922@gmx.de> parents: 17247 diff changeset	115 ** Octave now has limited support for named exceptions
923ce8b42db2 improve try-catch-statement to save exception to a variable (bug #33217) Stefan Mahr <dac922@gmx.de> parents: 17247 diff changeset	116
923ce8b42db2 improve try-catch-statement to save exception to a variable (bug #33217) Stefan Mahr <dac922@gmx.de> parents: 17247 diff changeset	117 The following syntax is now accepted:
923ce8b42db2 improve try-catch-statement to save exception to a variable (bug #33217) Stefan Mahr <dac922@gmx.de> parents: 17247 diff changeset	118
923ce8b42db2 improve try-catch-statement to save exception to a variable (bug #33217) Stefan Mahr <dac922@gmx.de> parents: 17247 diff changeset	119 try
923ce8b42db2 improve try-catch-statement to save exception to a variable (bug #33217) Stefan Mahr <dac922@gmx.de> parents: 17247 diff changeset	120 statements
923ce8b42db2 improve try-catch-statement to save exception to a variable (bug #33217) Stefan Mahr <dac922@gmx.de> parents: 17247 diff changeset	121 catch exception-id
923ce8b42db2 improve try-catch-statement to save exception to a variable (bug #33217) Stefan Mahr <dac922@gmx.de> parents: 17247 diff changeset	122 statements
923ce8b42db2 improve try-catch-statement to save exception to a variable (bug #33217) Stefan Mahr <dac922@gmx.de> parents: 17247 diff changeset	123 end
923ce8b42db2 improve try-catch-statement to save exception to a variable (bug #33217) Stefan Mahr <dac922@gmx.de> parents: 17247 diff changeset	124
923ce8b42db2 improve try-catch-statement to save exception to a variable (bug #33217) Stefan Mahr <dac922@gmx.de> parents: 17247 diff changeset	125 The exception-id is a structure with the fields "message" and
923ce8b42db2 improve try-catch-statement to save exception to a variable (bug #33217) Stefan Mahr <dac922@gmx.de> parents: 17247 diff changeset	126 "identifier". For example
923ce8b42db2 improve try-catch-statement to save exception to a variable (bug #33217) Stefan Mahr <dac922@gmx.de> parents: 17247 diff changeset	127
923ce8b42db2 improve try-catch-statement to save exception to a variable (bug #33217) Stefan Mahr <dac922@gmx.de> parents: 17247 diff changeset	128 try
923ce8b42db2 improve try-catch-statement to save exception to a variable (bug #33217) Stefan Mahr <dac922@gmx.de> parents: 17247 diff changeset	129 error ("Octave:error-id", "error message");
923ce8b42db2 improve try-catch-statement to save exception to a variable (bug #33217) Stefan Mahr <dac922@gmx.de> parents: 17247 diff changeset	130 catch myerr
923ce8b42db2 improve try-catch-statement to save exception to a variable (bug #33217) Stefan Mahr <dac922@gmx.de> parents: 17247 diff changeset	131 printf ("identifier: %s\n", myerr.identifier);
923ce8b42db2 improve try-catch-statement to save exception to a variable (bug #33217) Stefan Mahr <dac922@gmx.de> parents: 17247 diff changeset	132 printf ("message: %s\n", myerr.message);
923ce8b42db2 improve try-catch-statement to save exception to a variable (bug #33217) Stefan Mahr <dac922@gmx.de> parents: 17247 diff changeset	133 end_try_catch
923ce8b42db2 improve try-catch-statement to save exception to a variable (bug #33217) Stefan Mahr <dac922@gmx.de> parents: 17247 diff changeset	134
923ce8b42db2 improve try-catch-statement to save exception to a variable (bug #33217) Stefan Mahr <dac922@gmx.de> parents: 17247 diff changeset	135 When classdef-style classes are added to Octave, the exception-id
923ce8b42db2 improve try-catch-statement to save exception to a variable (bug #33217) Stefan Mahr <dac922@gmx.de> parents: 17247 diff changeset	136 will become an MException object.
923ce8b42db2 improve try-catch-statement to save exception to a variable (bug #33217) Stefan Mahr <dac922@gmx.de> parents: 17247 diff changeset	137
17752 031eaa90064e NEWS: Update announcements for 3.8 release. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17698 diff changeset	138 ** Warning states may now be set temporarily, until the end of the
031eaa90064e NEWS: Update announcements for 3.8 release. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17698 diff changeset	139 current function, using the syntax
031eaa90064e NEWS: Update announcements for 3.8 release. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17698 diff changeset	140
031eaa90064e NEWS: Update announcements for 3.8 release. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17698 diff changeset	141 warning STATE ID "local"
031eaa90064e NEWS: Update announcements for 3.8 release. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17698 diff changeset	142
031eaa90064e NEWS: Update announcements for 3.8 release. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17698 diff changeset	143 in which STATE may be "on", "off", or "error". Changes to warning
031eaa90064e NEWS: Update announcements for 3.8 release. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17698 diff changeset	144 states that are set locally affect the current function and all
031eaa90064e NEWS: Update announcements for 3.8 release. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17698 diff changeset	145 functions called from the current scope. The previous warning state
031eaa90064e NEWS: Update announcements for 3.8 release. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17698 diff changeset	146 is restored on return from the current function. The "local"
031eaa90064e NEWS: Update announcements for 3.8 release. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17698 diff changeset	147 option is ignored if used in the top-level workspace.
031eaa90064e NEWS: Update announcements for 3.8 release. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17698 diff changeset	148
14469 29aabe9b37a2 Rename array-as-vector, array-as-scalar warning IDs to match documentation (bug #35838) Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14446 diff changeset	149 ** Warning IDs renamed:
29aabe9b37a2 Rename array-as-vector, array-as-scalar warning IDs to match documentation (bug #35838) Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14446 diff changeset	150
29aabe9b37a2 Rename array-as-vector, array-as-scalar warning IDs to match documentation (bug #35838) Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14446 diff changeset	151 Octave:array-as-scalar => Octave:array-to-scalar
29aabe9b37a2 Rename array-as-vector, array-as-scalar warning IDs to match documentation (bug #35838) Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14446 diff changeset	152 Octave:array-as-vector => Octave:array-to-vector
29aabe9b37a2 Rename array-as-vector, array-as-scalar warning IDs to match documentation (bug #35838) Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14446 diff changeset	153
17294 5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	154 ** 'emptymatch', 'noemptymatch' options added to regular expressions.
5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	155
5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	156 With this addition Octave now accepts the entire set of Matlab options
5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	157 for regular expressions. 'noemptymatch' is the default, but 'emptymatch'
5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	158 has certain uses where you need to match an assertion rather than actual
5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	159 characters. For example,
5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	160
5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	161 regexprep ('World', '^', 'Hello ', 'emptymatch')
5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	162 => Hello World
5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	163
5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	164 where the pattern is actually the assertion '^' or start-of-line.
5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	165
5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	166 ** For compatibility with Matlab, the regexp, regexpi, and regexprep
5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	167 functions now process backslash escape sequences in single-quoted pattern
5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	168 strings. In addition, the regexprep function now processes backslash
5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	169 escapes in single-quoted replacement strings. For example,
5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	170
5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	171 regexprep (str, '\t', '\n')
5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	172
5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	173 would search the variable str for a TAB character (escape sequence \t)
5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	174 and replace it with a NEWLINE (escape sequence \n). Previously the
5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	175 expression would have searched for a literal '\' followed by 't' and
5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	176 replaced the two characters with the sequence '\', 'n'.
5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	177
17365 9b7ca74489c7 NEWS: Add announcement about TeX parser for FLTK toolkit. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17332 diff changeset	178 ** A TeX parser has been implemented for the FLTK toolkit and is the default
9b7ca74489c7 NEWS: Add announcement about TeX parser for FLTK toolkit. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17332 diff changeset	179 for any text object including titles and axis labels. The TeX parser is
9b7ca74489c7 NEWS: Add announcement about TeX parser for FLTK toolkit. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17332 diff changeset	180 supported only for display on a monitor, not for printing.
17571 6e4ea5c8a4bb NEWS: Re-word a sentance about ostrsplit behavior. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17516 diff changeset	181
17365 9b7ca74489c7 NEWS: Add announcement about TeX parser for FLTK toolkit. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17332 diff changeset	182 A quick summary of features:
9b7ca74489c7 NEWS: Add announcement about TeX parser for FLTK toolkit. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17332 diff changeset	183
9b7ca74489c7 NEWS: Add announcement about TeX parser for FLTK toolkit. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17332 diff changeset	184 Code Feature Example Comment
17505 3dcd7fb9945d NEWS: Update with changes made to plot directory functions. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17501 diff changeset	185 -----------------------------------------------------------------
17365 9b7ca74489c7 NEWS: Add announcement about TeX parser for FLTK toolkit. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17332 diff changeset	186 _ subscript H_2O formula for water
9b7ca74489c7 NEWS: Add announcement about TeX parser for FLTK toolkit. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17332 diff changeset	187 ^ exponent y=x^2 formula for parabola
9b7ca74489c7 NEWS: Add announcement about TeX parser for FLTK toolkit. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17332 diff changeset	188 \char symbol \beta Greek symbol beta
9b7ca74489c7 NEWS: Add announcement about TeX parser for FLTK toolkit. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17332 diff changeset	189 \fontname font \fontname{Arial} set Arial font
9b7ca74489c7 NEWS: Add announcement about TeX parser for FLTK toolkit. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17332 diff changeset	190 \fontsize fontsize \fontsize{16} set fontsize 16
9b7ca74489c7 NEWS: Add announcement about TeX parser for FLTK toolkit. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17332 diff changeset	191 \color[rgb] fontcolor \color[rgb]{1 0 1} set magenta color
9b7ca74489c7 NEWS: Add announcement about TeX parser for FLTK toolkit. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17332 diff changeset	192 \bf bold \bfBold Text bold font
9b7ca74489c7 NEWS: Add announcement about TeX parser for FLTK toolkit. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17332 diff changeset	193 \it italic \itItalic Text italic font
9b7ca74489c7 NEWS: Add announcement about TeX parser for FLTK toolkit. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17332 diff changeset	194 \sl slanted \slOblique Text slanted font
9b7ca74489c7 NEWS: Add announcement about TeX parser for FLTK toolkit. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17332 diff changeset	195 \rm normal \bfBold\rmNormal normal font
9b7ca74489c7 NEWS: Add announcement about TeX parser for FLTK toolkit. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17332 diff changeset	196 {} group {\bf Bold}Normal group objects
17752 031eaa90064e NEWS: Update announcements for 3.8 release. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17698 diff changeset	197 e^{i*\pi} = -1 group objects
17365 9b7ca74489c7 NEWS: Add announcement about TeX parser for FLTK toolkit. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17332 diff changeset	198
17505 3dcd7fb9945d NEWS: Update with changes made to plot directory functions. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17501 diff changeset	199 ** The m-files in the plot directory have been overhauled.
3dcd7fb9945d NEWS: Update with changes made to plot directory functions. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17501 diff changeset	200
3dcd7fb9945d NEWS: Update with changes made to plot directory functions. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17501 diff changeset	201 The plot functions now produce output that is nearly visually compatible
3dcd7fb9945d NEWS: Update with changes made to plot directory functions. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17501 diff changeset	202 with Matlab. Plot performance has also increased, dramatically for some
3dcd7fb9945d NEWS: Update with changes made to plot directory functions. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17501 diff changeset	203 functions such as comet and waitbar. Finally, the documentation for most
3dcd7fb9945d NEWS: Update with changes made to plot directory functions. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17501 diff changeset	204 functions has been updated so it should be clearer both how to use a
3dcd7fb9945d NEWS: Update with changes made to plot directory functions. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17501 diff changeset	205 function and when a function is appropriate.
3dcd7fb9945d NEWS: Update with changes made to plot directory functions. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17501 diff changeset	206
15683 806ea52af230 Overhaul m-files in image directory to provide better support for images stored as integers. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 15625 diff changeset	207 ** The m-files in the image directory have been overhauled.
15698 ea2788117ee3 NEWS: Add notice about extending error functions to accept complex inputs. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 15683 diff changeset	208
15683 806ea52af230 Overhaul m-files in image directory to provide better support for images stored as integers. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 15625 diff changeset	209 The principal benefit is that Octave will now no longer automatically
806ea52af230 Overhaul m-files in image directory to provide better support for images stored as integers. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 15625 diff changeset	210 convert images stored with integers to doubles. Storing images as uint8
806ea52af230 Overhaul m-files in image directory to provide better support for images stored as integers. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 15625 diff changeset	211 or uint16 requires only 1/8 or 1/4 the memory of an image stored using
806ea52af230 Overhaul m-files in image directory to provide better support for images stored as integers. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 15625 diff changeset	212 doubles. For certain operations, such as fft2, the image must still be
806ea52af230 Overhaul m-files in image directory to provide better support for images stored as integers. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 15625 diff changeset	213 converted to double in order to work.
806ea52af230 Overhaul m-files in image directory to provide better support for images stored as integers. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 15625 diff changeset	214
15712 74ff287f41cb Remove default colormap for ind2rgb and ind2gray. Carnë Draug <carandraug+dev@gmail.com> parents: 15704 diff changeset	215 Other changes include fixes to the way indexed images are read from a
74ff287f41cb Remove default colormap for ind2rgb and ind2gray. Carnë Draug <carandraug+dev@gmail.com> parents: 15704 diff changeset	216 colormap depending on the image class (integer images have a -1 offset to
17332 eb7e9a991ffb Implement writing of CMYK and fix writing of image alpha channel (bug #32986). Carnë Draug <carandraug@octave.org> parents: 17294 diff changeset	217 the colormap row number).
eb7e9a991ffb Implement writing of CMYK and fix writing of image alpha channel (bug #32986). Carnë Draug <carandraug@octave.org> parents: 17294 diff changeset	218
17505 3dcd7fb9945d NEWS: Update with changes made to plot directory functions. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17501 diff changeset	219 ** The imread and imwrite functions have been completely rewritten.
17332 eb7e9a991ffb Implement writing of CMYK and fix writing of image alpha channel (bug #32986). Carnë Draug <carandraug@octave.org> parents: 17294 diff changeset	220
eb7e9a991ffb Implement writing of CMYK and fix writing of image alpha channel (bug #32986). Carnë Draug <carandraug@octave.org> parents: 17294 diff changeset	221 The main changes relate to the alpha channel, support for reading and
eb7e9a991ffb Implement writing of CMYK and fix writing of image alpha channel (bug #32986). Carnë Draug <carandraug@octave.org> parents: 17294 diff changeset	222 writing of floating point images, implemented writing of indexed images,
eb7e9a991ffb Implement writing of CMYK and fix writing of image alpha channel (bug #32986). Carnë Draug <carandraug@octave.org> parents: 17294 diff changeset	223 and appending images to multipage image files.
eb7e9a991ffb Implement writing of CMYK and fix writing of image alpha channel (bug #32986). Carnë Draug <carandraug@octave.org> parents: 17294 diff changeset	224
eb7e9a991ffb Implement writing of CMYK and fix writing of image alpha channel (bug #32986). Carnë Draug <carandraug@octave.org> parents: 17294 diff changeset	225 The issues that may arise due to backwards incompatibility are:
eb7e9a991ffb Implement writing of CMYK and fix writing of image alpha channel (bug #32986). Carnë Draug <carandraug@octave.org> parents: 17294 diff changeset	226
eb7e9a991ffb Implement writing of CMYK and fix writing of image alpha channel (bug #32986). Carnë Draug <carandraug@octave.org> parents: 17294 diff changeset	227 * imwrite no longer interprets a length of 2 or 4 in the third dimension
eb7e9a991ffb Implement writing of CMYK and fix writing of image alpha channel (bug #32986). Carnë Draug <carandraug@octave.org> parents: 17294 diff changeset	228 as grayscale or RGB with alpha channel (a length of 4 will be saved
17505 3dcd7fb9945d NEWS: Update with changes made to plot directory functions. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17501 diff changeset	229 as a CMYK image). Alpha channel must be passed as separate argument.
3dcd7fb9945d NEWS: Update with changes made to plot directory functions. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17501 diff changeset	230
17332 eb7e9a991ffb Implement writing of CMYK and fix writing of image alpha channel (bug #32986). Carnë Draug <carandraug@octave.org> parents: 17294 diff changeset	231 * imread will always return the colormap indexes when reading an indexed
eb7e9a991ffb Implement writing of CMYK and fix writing of image alpha channel (bug #32986). Carnë Draug <carandraug@octave.org> parents: 17294 diff changeset	232 image, even if the colormap is not requested as output.
17505 3dcd7fb9945d NEWS: Update with changes made to plot directory functions. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17501 diff changeset	233
3dcd7fb9945d NEWS: Update with changes made to plot directory functions. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17501 diff changeset	234 * transparency values are now inverted from previous Octave versions
17332 eb7e9a991ffb Implement writing of CMYK and fix writing of image alpha channel (bug #32986). Carnë Draug <carandraug@octave.org> parents: 17294 diff changeset	235 (0 is for completely transparent instead of completely opaque).
eb7e9a991ffb Implement writing of CMYK and fix writing of image alpha channel (bug #32986). Carnë Draug <carandraug@octave.org> parents: 17294 diff changeset	236
eb7e9a991ffb Implement writing of CMYK and fix writing of image alpha channel (bug #32986). Carnë Draug <carandraug@octave.org> parents: 17294 diff changeset	237 In addition, the function imformats has been implemented to expand
eb7e9a991ffb Implement writing of CMYK and fix writing of image alpha channel (bug #32986). Carnë Draug <carandraug@octave.org> parents: 17294 diff changeset	238 reading and writing of images of different formats through imread
eb7e9a991ffb Implement writing of CMYK and fix writing of image alpha channel (bug #32986). Carnë Draug <carandraug@octave.org> parents: 17294 diff changeset	239 and imwrite.
15712 74ff287f41cb Remove default colormap for ind2rgb and ind2gray. Carnë Draug <carandraug+dev@gmail.com> parents: 15704 diff changeset	240
17505 3dcd7fb9945d NEWS: Update with changes made to plot directory functions. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17501 diff changeset	241 ** The colormap function now provides new options--"list", "register",
3dcd7fb9945d NEWS: Update with changes made to plot directory functions. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17501 diff changeset	242 and "unregister"--to list all available colormap functions, and to
16884 24574e15ac4b NEWS: Add new functions debug_jit, jit_enable to list. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16880 diff changeset	243 add or remove a function name from the list of known colormap
24574e15ac4b NEWS: Add new functions debug_jit, jit_enable to list. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16880 diff changeset	244 functions. Packages that implement extra colormaps should use these
24574e15ac4b NEWS: Add new functions debug_jit, jit_enable to list. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16880 diff changeset	245 commands with PKG_ADD and PKG_DEL statements.
24574e15ac4b NEWS: Add new functions debug_jit, jit_enable to list. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16880 diff changeset	246
24574e15ac4b NEWS: Add new functions debug_jit, jit_enable to list. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16880 diff changeset	247 ** strsplit has been modified to be compatible with Matlab. There
24574e15ac4b NEWS: Add new functions debug_jit, jit_enable to list. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16880 diff changeset	248 are two instances where backward compatibility is broken.
24574e15ac4b NEWS: Add new functions debug_jit, jit_enable to list. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16880 diff changeset	249
24574e15ac4b NEWS: Add new functions debug_jit, jit_enable to list. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16880 diff changeset	250 (1) Delimiters are now string vectors, not scalars.
24574e15ac4b NEWS: Add new functions debug_jit, jit_enable to list. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16880 diff changeset	251
24574e15ac4b NEWS: Add new functions debug_jit, jit_enable to list. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16880 diff changeset	252 Octave's legacy behavior
24574e15ac4b NEWS: Add new functions debug_jit, jit_enable to list. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16880 diff changeset	253
24574e15ac4b NEWS: Add new functions debug_jit, jit_enable to list. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16880 diff changeset	254 strsplit ("1 2, 3", ", ")
24574e15ac4b NEWS: Add new functions debug_jit, jit_enable to list. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16880 diff changeset	255 ans =
24574e15ac4b NEWS: Add new functions debug_jit, jit_enable to list. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16880 diff changeset	256 {
24574e15ac4b NEWS: Add new functions debug_jit, jit_enable to list. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16880 diff changeset	257 [1,1] = 1
24574e15ac4b NEWS: Add new functions debug_jit, jit_enable to list. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16880 diff changeset	258 [1,2] = 2
24574e15ac4b NEWS: Add new functions debug_jit, jit_enable to list. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16880 diff changeset	259 [1,3] =
24574e15ac4b NEWS: Add new functions debug_jit, jit_enable to list. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16880 diff changeset	260 [1,4] = 3
24574e15ac4b NEWS: Add new functions debug_jit, jit_enable to list. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16880 diff changeset	261 }
24574e15ac4b NEWS: Add new functions debug_jit, jit_enable to list. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16880 diff changeset	262
24574e15ac4b NEWS: Add new functions debug_jit, jit_enable to list. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16880 diff changeset	263 Matlab compatible behavior
24574e15ac4b NEWS: Add new functions debug_jit, jit_enable to list. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16880 diff changeset	264
24574e15ac4b NEWS: Add new functions debug_jit, jit_enable to list. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16880 diff changeset	265 strsplit ("1 2, 3", ", ")
24574e15ac4b NEWS: Add new functions debug_jit, jit_enable to list. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16880 diff changeset	266 ans =
24574e15ac4b NEWS: Add new functions debug_jit, jit_enable to list. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16880 diff changeset	267 {
24574e15ac4b NEWS: Add new functions debug_jit, jit_enable to list. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16880 diff changeset	268 [1,1] = 1 2
24574e15ac4b NEWS: Add new functions debug_jit, jit_enable to list. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16880 diff changeset	269 [1,2] = 3
24574e15ac4b NEWS: Add new functions debug_jit, jit_enable to list. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16880 diff changeset	270 }
24574e15ac4b NEWS: Add new functions debug_jit, jit_enable to list. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16880 diff changeset	271
17571 6e4ea5c8a4bb NEWS: Re-word a sentance about ostrsplit behavior. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17516 diff changeset	272 (2) By default, Matlab treats consecutive delimiters as a single
16884 24574e15ac4b NEWS: Add new functions debug_jit, jit_enable to list. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16880 diff changeset	273 delimiter. By default, Octave's legacy behavior was to return an
24574e15ac4b NEWS: Add new functions debug_jit, jit_enable to list. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16880 diff changeset	274 empty string for the part between the delmiters.
24574e15ac4b NEWS: Add new functions debug_jit, jit_enable to list. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16880 diff changeset	275
17571 6e4ea5c8a4bb NEWS: Re-word a sentance about ostrsplit behavior. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17516 diff changeset	276 Where legacy behavior is desired, the call to strsplit() may be
16884 24574e15ac4b NEWS: Add new functions debug_jit, jit_enable to list. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16880 diff changeset	277 replaced by ostrsplit(), which is Octave's original implementation of
24574e15ac4b NEWS: Add new functions debug_jit, jit_enable to list. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16880 diff changeset	278 strsplit().
24574e15ac4b NEWS: Add new functions debug_jit, jit_enable to list. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16880 diff changeset	279
14743 b7675598094a datevec.m: Support more date string input formats for Matlab compatibility (bug #36563) Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14654 diff changeset	280 ** The datevec function has been extended for better Matlab compatibility.
b7675598094a datevec.m: Support more date string input formats for Matlab compatibility (bug #36563) Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14654 diff changeset	281 It now accepts string inputs in the following numerical formats: 12, 21,
b7675598094a datevec.m: Support more date string input formats for Matlab compatibility (bug #36563) Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14654 diff changeset	282 22, 26, 29, 31. This is undocumented, but verifiable, Matlab behavior.
b7675598094a datevec.m: Support more date string input formats for Matlab compatibility (bug #36563) Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14654 diff changeset	283 In addition, the default for formats which do not specify a date is
b7675598094a datevec.m: Support more date string input formats for Matlab compatibility (bug #36563) Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14654 diff changeset	284 January 1st of the current year. The previous default was the current day,
b7675598094a datevec.m: Support more date string input formats for Matlab compatibility (bug #36563) Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14654 diff changeset	285 month, and year. This may produce changes in existing scripts.
b7675598094a datevec.m: Support more date string input formats for Matlab compatibility (bug #36563) Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14654 diff changeset	286
15698 ea2788117ee3 NEWS: Add notice about extending error functions to accept complex inputs. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 15683 diff changeset	287 ** The error function and its derivatives has been extended to accept complex
ea2788117ee3 NEWS: Add notice about extending error functions to accept complex inputs. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 15683 diff changeset	288 arguments. The following functions now accept complex inputs:
ea2788117ee3 NEWS: Add notice about extending error functions to accept complex inputs. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 15683 diff changeset	289
15704 c2b381deca6b NEWS: erfinv and erfcinv do not accept complex inputs. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 15699 diff changeset	290 erf erfc erfcx
15698 ea2788117ee3 NEWS: Add notice about extending error functions to accept complex inputs. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 15683 diff changeset	291
ea2788117ee3 NEWS: Add notice about extending error functions to accept complex inputs. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 15683 diff changeset	292 In addition two new error functions erfi (imaginary error function) and
15699 13d9c90b9cf8 NEWS: Correct typo in changeset ea2788117ee3. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 15698 diff changeset	293 dawson (scaled imaginary error function) have been added.
15698 ea2788117ee3 NEWS: Add notice about extending error functions to accept complex inputs. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 15683 diff changeset	294
17294 5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	295 ** The glpk function has been modified to reflect changes in the GLPK
5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	296 library. The "round" and "itcnt" options have been removed. The
5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	297 "relax" option has been replaced by the "rtest" option. The numeric
5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	298 values of error codes and of some options have also changed.
5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	299
17698 9bb5d3f63cdd NEWS: Announce change in definition of kurtosis function for Matlab compatibility. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17694 diff changeset	300 ** The kurtosis function has changed definition to be compatible with
9bb5d3f63cdd NEWS: Announce change in definition of kurtosis function for Matlab compatibility. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17694 diff changeset	301 Matlab. It now returns the base kurtosis instead of the "excess kurtosis".
9bb5d3f63cdd NEWS: Announce change in definition of kurtosis function for Matlab compatibility. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17694 diff changeset	302 The old behavior can be had by changing scripts to normalize with -3.
17862 46850674da46 NEWS: Add sentence about octave_core_file_name function. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17797 diff changeset	303
17698 9bb5d3f63cdd NEWS: Announce change in definition of kurtosis function for Matlab compatibility. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17694 diff changeset	304 "excess kurtosis" = kurtosis (x) - 3
9bb5d3f63cdd NEWS: Announce change in definition of kurtosis function for Matlab compatibility. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17694 diff changeset	305
17873 58b39152b0f6 moment.m: Compute central, rather than raw, moment for ML compatibility (bug #36718). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17862 diff changeset	306 ** The moment function has changed definition to be compatible with
58b39152b0f6 moment.m: Compute central, rather than raw, moment for ML compatibility (bug #36718). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17862 diff changeset	307 Matlab. It now returns the central moment instead of the raw moment.
58b39152b0f6 moment.m: Compute central, rather than raw, moment for ML compatibility (bug #36718). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17862 diff changeset	308 The old behavior can be had by passing the type argument "r" for raw.
58b39152b0f6 moment.m: Compute central, rather than raw, moment for ML compatibility (bug #36718). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17862 diff changeset	309
17505 3dcd7fb9945d NEWS: Update with changes made to plot directory functions. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17501 diff changeset	310 ** The default name of the Octave crash dump file is now
17862 46850674da46 NEWS: Add sentence about octave_core_file_name function. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17797 diff changeset	311 "octave-workspace" instead of "octave-core". The exact name can
46850674da46 NEWS: Add sentence about octave_core_file_name function. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17797 diff changeset	312 always be customized with the octave_core_file_name function.
15625 acf0addfc610 include Octave Forge java package in core Octave John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 15541 diff changeset	313
16345 45916132522a NEWS: Update list of Java functions added for release 3.8. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16178 diff changeset	314 ** A citation command has been added to display information on how to
45916132522a NEWS: Update list of Java functions added for release 3.8. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16178 diff changeset	315 cite Octave and packages in publications. The package system will
45916132522a NEWS: Update list of Java functions added for release 3.8. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16178 diff changeset	316 look for and install CITATION files from packages.
45916132522a NEWS: Update list of Java functions added for release 3.8. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16178 diff changeset	317
15698 ea2788117ee3 NEWS: Add notice about extending error functions to accept complex inputs. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 15683 diff changeset	318 ** The java package from Octave Forge is now part of core Octave. The
15625 acf0addfc610 include Octave Forge java package in core Octave John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 15541 diff changeset	319 following new functions are available for interacting with Java
acf0addfc610 include Octave Forge java package in core Octave John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 15541 diff changeset	320 directly from Octave:
acf0addfc610 include Octave Forge java package in core Octave John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 15541 diff changeset	321
16345 45916132522a NEWS: Update list of Java functions added for release 3.8. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16178 diff changeset	322 debug_java java_matrix_autoconversion
45916132522a NEWS: Update list of Java functions added for release 3.8. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16178 diff changeset	323 isjava java_unsigned_autoconversion
45916132522a NEWS: Update list of Java functions added for release 3.8. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16178 diff changeset	324 java2mat javaaddpath
45916132522a NEWS: Update list of Java functions added for release 3.8. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16178 diff changeset	325 javaArray javaclasspath
45916132522a NEWS: Update list of Java functions added for release 3.8. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16178 diff changeset	326 javaMethod javamem
45916132522a NEWS: Update list of Java functions added for release 3.8. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16178 diff changeset	327 javaObject javarmpath
45916132522a NEWS: Update list of Java functions added for release 3.8. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16178 diff changeset	328 usejava
15625 acf0addfc610 include Octave Forge java package in core Octave John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 15541 diff changeset	329
acf0addfc610 include Octave Forge java package in core Octave John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 15541 diff changeset	330 In addition, the following functions that use the Java interface
acf0addfc610 include Octave Forge java package in core Octave John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 15541 diff changeset	331 are now available (provided that Octave is compiled with support for
acf0addfc610 include Octave Forge java package in core Octave John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 15541 diff changeset	332 Java enabled):
acf0addfc610 include Octave Forge java package in core Octave John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 15541 diff changeset	333
acf0addfc610 include Octave Forge java package in core Octave John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 15541 diff changeset	334 helpdlg listdlg questdlg
acf0addfc610 include Octave Forge java package in core Octave John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 15541 diff changeset	335 inputdlg msgbox warndlg
acf0addfc610 include Octave Forge java package in core Octave John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 15541 diff changeset	336
14271 e2a14d1b4eaa rgbplot.m: Add new Matlab compatible function for plotting colormaps Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14188 diff changeset	337 ** Other new functions added in 3.8.0:
17499 c3a3532e3d98 linsolve.m: Add new function for Matlab compatibility. Nir Krakauer < nkrakauer@ccny.cuny.edu> parents: 17365 diff changeset	338
17516 21656a949661 Add hook function to handle missing Octave components Mike Miller <mtmiller@ieee.org> parents: 17505 diff changeset	339 atan2d erfi lines
21656a949661 Add hook function to handle missing Octave components Mike Miller <mtmiller@ieee.org> parents: 17505 diff changeset	340 base64_decode expint linsolve
21656a949661 Add hook function to handle missing Octave components Mike Miller <mtmiller@ieee.org> parents: 17505 diff changeset	341 base64_encode findfigs missing_component_hook
17499 c3a3532e3d98 linsolve.m: Add new function for Matlab compatibility. Nir Krakauer < nkrakauer@ccny.cuny.edu> parents: 17365 diff changeset	342 betaincinv flintmax polyeig
c3a3532e3d98 linsolve.m: Add new function for Matlab compatibility. Nir Krakauer < nkrakauer@ccny.cuny.edu> parents: 17365 diff changeset	343 built_in_docstrings_file fminsearch prefdir
c3a3532e3d98 linsolve.m: Add new function for Matlab compatibility. Nir Krakauer < nkrakauer@ccny.cuny.edu> parents: 17365 diff changeset	344 cmpermute gallery preferences
c3a3532e3d98 linsolve.m: Add new function for Matlab compatibility. Nir Krakauer < nkrakauer@ccny.cuny.edu> parents: 17365 diff changeset	345 cmunique gco readline_re_read_init_file
c3a3532e3d98 linsolve.m: Add new function for Matlab compatibility. Nir Krakauer < nkrakauer@ccny.cuny.edu> parents: 17365 diff changeset	346 colorcube hdl2struct readline_read_init_file
c3a3532e3d98 linsolve.m: Add new function for Matlab compatibility. Nir Krakauer < nkrakauer@ccny.cuny.edu> parents: 17365 diff changeset	347 copyobj history_save rgbplot
c3a3532e3d98 linsolve.m: Add new function for Matlab compatibility. Nir Krakauer < nkrakauer@ccny.cuny.edu> parents: 17365 diff changeset	348 dawson imformats save_default_options
c3a3532e3d98 linsolve.m: Add new function for Matlab compatibility. Nir Krakauer < nkrakauer@ccny.cuny.edu> parents: 17365 diff changeset	349 dblist importdata shrinkfaces
17752 031eaa90064e NEWS: Update announcements for 3.8 release. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17698 diff changeset	350 desktop isaxes splinefit
031eaa90064e NEWS: Update announcements for 3.8 release. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17698 diff changeset	351 doc_cache_create iscolormap stemleaf
031eaa90064e NEWS: Update announcements for 3.8 release. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17698 diff changeset	352 ellipj isequaln strjoin
031eaa90064e NEWS: Update announcements for 3.8 release. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17698 diff changeset	353 ellipke jit_debug struct2hdl
031eaa90064e NEWS: Update announcements for 3.8 release. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17698 diff changeset	354 erfcinv jit_enable tetramesh
031eaa90064e NEWS: Update announcements for 3.8 release. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17698 diff changeset	355 jit_startcnt waterfall
16872 5372068bb148 Rename gen_doc_cache() to doc_cache_create(). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16845 diff changeset	356
14271 e2a14d1b4eaa rgbplot.m: Add new Matlab compatible function for plotting colormaps Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14188 diff changeset	357 ** Deprecated functions.
e2a14d1b4eaa rgbplot.m: Add new Matlab compatible function for plotting colormaps Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14188 diff changeset	358
e2a14d1b4eaa rgbplot.m: Add new Matlab compatible function for plotting colormaps Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14188 diff changeset	359 The following functions were deprecated in Octave 3.4 and have been
e2a14d1b4eaa rgbplot.m: Add new Matlab compatible function for plotting colormaps Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14188 diff changeset	360 removed from Octave 3.8.
e2a14d1b4eaa rgbplot.m: Add new Matlab compatible function for plotting colormaps Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14188 diff changeset	361
16827 ac5313d94f20 Remove deprecated function setstr.m from 3.8 release. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16730 diff changeset	362 autocor dispatch is_global setstr
ac5313d94f20 Remove deprecated function setstr.m from 3.8 release. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16730 diff changeset	363 autocov fstat krylovb strerror
ac5313d94f20 Remove deprecated function setstr.m from 3.8 release. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16730 diff changeset	364 betai gammai perror values
14354 55bb8c902a4d maint: Remove deprecated functions from dev branch for next (3.8) release. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14294 diff changeset	365 cellidx glpkmex replot
55bb8c902a4d maint: Remove deprecated functions from dev branch for next (3.8) release. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14294 diff changeset	366 cquad is_duplicate_entry saveimage
14271 e2a14d1b4eaa rgbplot.m: Add new Matlab compatible function for plotting colormaps Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14188 diff changeset	367
e2a14d1b4eaa rgbplot.m: Add new Matlab compatible function for plotting colormaps Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14188 diff changeset	368 The following functions have been deprecated in Octave 3.8 and will
e2a14d1b4eaa rgbplot.m: Add new Matlab compatible function for plotting colormaps Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14188 diff changeset	369 be removed from Octave 3.12 (or whatever version is the second major
e2a14d1b4eaa rgbplot.m: Add new Matlab compatible function for plotting colormaps Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14188 diff changeset	370 release after 3.8):
e2a14d1b4eaa rgbplot.m: Add new Matlab compatible function for plotting colormaps Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14188 diff changeset	371
17694 1efe4c65c5cf Deprecate interp1q.m. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17600 diff changeset	372 default_save_options java_new
1efe4c65c5cf Deprecate interp1q.m. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17600 diff changeset	373 gen_doc_cache java_set
1efe4c65c5cf Deprecate interp1q.m. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17600 diff changeset	374 interp1q java_unsigned_conversion
16936 8f0a82add3da NEWS: Announce deprecation of isequalwithequalnans. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16901 diff changeset	375 isequalwithequalnans javafields
8f0a82add3da NEWS: Announce deprecation of isequalwithequalnans. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16901 diff changeset	376 java_convert_matrix javamethods
8f0a82add3da NEWS: Announce deprecation of isequalwithequalnans. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16901 diff changeset	377 java_debug re_read_readline_init_file
8f0a82add3da NEWS: Announce deprecation of isequalwithequalnans. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16901 diff changeset	378 java_get read_readline_init_file
8f0a82add3da NEWS: Announce deprecation of isequalwithequalnans. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16901 diff changeset	379 java_invoke saving_history
17694 1efe4c65c5cf Deprecate interp1q.m. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17600 diff changeset	380
16936 8f0a82add3da NEWS: Announce deprecation of isequalwithequalnans. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16901 diff changeset	381
14294 9e3983c8963c deprecate the static keyword John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14274 diff changeset	382 The following keywords have been deprecated in Octave 3.8 and will
9e3983c8963c deprecate the static keyword John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14274 diff changeset	383 be removed from Octave 3.12 (or whatever version is the second major
9e3983c8963c deprecate the static keyword John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14274 diff changeset	384 release after 3.8):
9e3983c8963c deprecate the static keyword John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14274 diff changeset	385
9e3983c8963c deprecate the static keyword John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14274 diff changeset	386 static
14271 e2a14d1b4eaa rgbplot.m: Add new Matlab compatible function for plotting colormaps Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14188 diff changeset	387
15167 1c711a646fa7 Deprecate configure variables CC_VERSION, CXX_VERSION. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 15043 diff changeset	388 The following configuration variables have been deprecated in Octave
1c711a646fa7 Deprecate configure variables CC_VERSION, CXX_VERSION. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 15043 diff changeset	389 3.8 and will be removed from Octave 3.12 (or whatever version is the
1c711a646fa7 Deprecate configure variables CC_VERSION, CXX_VERSION. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 15043 diff changeset	390 second major release after 3.8):
1c711a646fa7 Deprecate configure variables CC_VERSION, CXX_VERSION. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 15043 diff changeset	391
1c711a646fa7 Deprecate configure variables CC_VERSION, CXX_VERSION. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 15043 diff changeset	392 CC_VERSION (now GCC_VERSION)
1c711a646fa7 Deprecate configure variables CC_VERSION, CXX_VERSION. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 15043 diff changeset	393 CXX_VERSION (now GXX_VERSION)
1c711a646fa7 Deprecate configure variables CC_VERSION, CXX_VERSION. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 15043 diff changeset	394
16972 45afabc5f7c8 NEWS: Add note about deprecation of class Octave_map. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16941 diff changeset	395 The internal class <Octave_map> has been deprecated in Octave 3.8 and will
45afabc5f7c8 NEWS: Add note about deprecation of class Octave_map. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16941 diff changeset	396 be removed from Octave 3.12 (or whatever version is the second major
45afabc5f7c8 NEWS: Add note about deprecation of class Octave_map. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16941 diff changeset	397 release after 3.8). Replacement classes are <octave_map> (struct array)
17294 5ff843d739fc Add new desktop.m function to Octave (bug #37330). Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 17249 diff changeset	398 or <octave_scalar_map> for a single structure.
16972 45afabc5f7c8 NEWS: Add note about deprecation of class Octave_map. Rik <rik@octave.org> parents: 16941 diff changeset	399
12413 b7d0d6044bd7 remove functions deprecated in 3.2 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12400 diff changeset	400 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 3.6:
b7d0d6044bd7 remove functions deprecated in 3.2 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12400 diff changeset	401 ---------------------------------------------------------
b7d0d6044bd7 remove functions deprecated in 3.2 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12400 diff changeset	402
14188 053404893d02 update NEWS John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14178 diff changeset	403 ** The PCRE library is now required to build Octave. If a pre-compiled
053404893d02 update NEWS John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14178 diff changeset	404 package does not exist for your system, you can find PCRE sources
053404893d02 update NEWS John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14178 diff changeset	405 at http://www.pcre.org
12488 bea828c03969 Add new isrow, iscolumn functions. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12464 diff changeset	406
14176 fbfaafe0471b NEWS: Add note about ARPACK being removed from source. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14116 diff changeset	407 ** The ARPACK library is no longer distributed with Octave.
14188 053404893d02 update NEWS John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14178 diff changeset	408 If you need the eigs or svds functions you must provide an
053404893d02 update NEWS John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14178 diff changeset	409 external ARPACK through a package manager or by compiling it
053404893d02 update NEWS John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14178 diff changeset	410 yourself. If a pre-compiled package does not exist for your system,
053404893d02 update NEWS John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14178 diff changeset	411 you can find the current ARPACK sources at
053404893d02 update NEWS John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14178 diff changeset	412 http://forge.scilab.org/index.php/p/arpack-ng
14176 fbfaafe0471b NEWS: Add note about ARPACK being removed from source. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14116 diff changeset	413
14082 97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	414 ** Many of Octave's binary operators (.*, .^, +, -, ...) now perform
14407 73f02881260f doc: Fix wording in NEWS file. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14188 diff changeset	415 automatic broadcasting for array operations which allows you to use
14082 97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	416 operator notation instead of calling bsxfun or expanding arrays (and
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	417 unnecessarily wasting memory) with repmat or similar idioms. For
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	418 example, to scale the columns of a matrix by the elements of a row
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	419 vector, you may now write
13923 7b83576b3b48 Update NEWS with auto BSX info Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh@octave.org> parents: 13919 diff changeset	420
14082 97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	421 rv .* M
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	422
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	423 In this expression, the number of elements of rv must match the
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	424 number of columns of M. The following operators are affected:
13923 7b83576b3b48 Update NEWS with auto BSX info Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh@octave.org> parents: 13919 diff changeset	425
14082 97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	426 plus + .+
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	427 minus - .-
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	428 times .*
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	429 rdivide ./
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	430 ldivide .\
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	431 power .^ .**
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	432 lt <
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	433 le <=
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	434 eq ==
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	435 gt >
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	436 ge >=
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	437 ne != ~=
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	438 and &
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	439 or \|
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	440 atan2
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	441 hypot
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	442 max
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	443 min
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	444 mod
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	445 rem
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	446 xor
13923 7b83576b3b48 Update NEWS with auto BSX info Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh@octave.org> parents: 13919 diff changeset	447
14408 9f7c22795c94 doc: Correct a few typos in NEWS. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14407 diff changeset	448 additionally, since the A op= B assignment operators are equivalent
14082 97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	449 to A = A op B, the following operators are also affected:
13923 7b83576b3b48 Update NEWS with auto BSX info Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh@octave.org> parents: 13919 diff changeset	450
14082 97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	451 += -= .+= .-= .= ./= .\= .^= .*= &= \|=
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	452
14116 951eacaf9381 Initial documentation for broadcasting and general vectorization guidelines Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh@octave.org> parents: 14093 diff changeset	453 See the "Broadcasting" section in the new "Vectorization and Faster
951eacaf9381 Initial documentation for broadcasting and general vectorization guidelines Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh@octave.org> parents: 14093 diff changeset	454 Code Execution" chapter of the manual for more details.
13923 7b83576b3b48 Update NEWS with auto BSX info Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh@octave.org> parents: 13919 diff changeset	455
12988 7aa9cb7aaa32 Announce in NEWS that we now have a profiler Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh@gmail.com> parents: 12981 diff changeset	456 ** Octave now features a profiler, thanks to the work of Daniel Kraft
13171 19b9f17d22af Overhaul of statistical distribution functions Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12988 diff changeset	457 under the Google Summer of Code mentorship program. The manual has
13262 37e6f54cca15 update NEWS John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 13171 diff changeset	458 been updated to reflect this addition. The new user-visible
14178 3f2a3076b9a6 NEWS: Update list of functions added for 3.6.0 release. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14176 diff changeset	459 functions are profile, profshow, and profexplore.
12988 7aa9cb7aaa32 Announce in NEWS that we now have a profiler Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh@gmail.com> parents: 12981 diff changeset	460
13171 19b9f17d22af Overhaul of statistical distribution functions Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12988 diff changeset	461 ** Overhaul of statistical distribution functions
19b9f17d22af Overhaul of statistical distribution functions Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12988 diff changeset	462
19b9f17d22af Overhaul of statistical distribution functions Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12988 diff changeset	463 Functions now return "single" outputs for inputs of class "single".
19b9f17d22af Overhaul of statistical distribution functions Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12988 diff changeset	464
19b9f17d22af Overhaul of statistical distribution functions Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12988 diff changeset	465 75% reduction in memory usage through use of logical indexing.
19b9f17d22af Overhaul of statistical distribution functions Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12988 diff changeset	466
14188 053404893d02 update NEWS John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14178 diff changeset	467 Random sample functions now use the same syntax as rand and accept
13171 19b9f17d22af Overhaul of statistical distribution functions Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12988 diff changeset	468 a comma separated list of dimensions or a dimension vector.
19b9f17d22af Overhaul of statistical distribution functions Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12988 diff changeset	469
19b9f17d22af Overhaul of statistical distribution functions Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12988 diff changeset	470 Functions have been made Matlab-compatible with regard to special
19b9f17d22af Overhaul of statistical distribution functions Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12988 diff changeset	471 cases (probability on boundaries, probabilities for values outside
19b9f17d22af Overhaul of statistical distribution functions Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12988 diff changeset	472 distribution, etc.). This may cause subtle changes to existing
19b9f17d22af Overhaul of statistical distribution functions Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12988 diff changeset	473 scripts.
19b9f17d22af Overhaul of statistical distribution functions Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12988 diff changeset	474
14188 053404893d02 update NEWS John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14178 diff changeset	475 negative binomial function has been extended to real, non-integer
14408 9f7c22795c94 doc: Correct a few typos in NEWS. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14407 diff changeset	476 inputs. The discrete_inv function now returns v(1) for 0 instead of
9f7c22795c94 doc: Correct a few typos in NEWS. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14407 diff changeset	477 NaN. The nbincdf function has been recoded to use a closed form
14188 053404893d02 update NEWS John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14178 diff changeset	478 solution with betainc.
13171 19b9f17d22af Overhaul of statistical distribution functions Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12988 diff changeset	479
12866 fe6e2afcd9ee Revamp strread, textscan, textread functions for Matlab compatability Philip Nienhuis <prnienhuis@users.sf.net> parents: 12856 diff changeset	480 ** strread, textscan, and textread have been completely revamped.
fe6e2afcd9ee Revamp strread, textscan, textread functions for Matlab compatability Philip Nienhuis <prnienhuis@users.sf.net> parents: 12856 diff changeset	481
fe6e2afcd9ee Revamp strread, textscan, textread functions for Matlab compatability Philip Nienhuis <prnienhuis@users.sf.net> parents: 12856 diff changeset	482 They now support nearly all Matlab functionality including:
fe6e2afcd9ee Revamp strread, textscan, textread functions for Matlab compatability Philip Nienhuis <prnienhuis@users.sf.net> parents: 12856 diff changeset	483
14082 97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	484 * Matlab-compatible whitespace and delimiter defaults
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	485
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	486 * Matlab-compatible options: 'whitespace', treatasempty', format
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	487 string repeat count, user-specified comment style, uneven-length
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	488 output arrays, %n and %u conversion specifiers (provisionally)
12866 fe6e2afcd9ee Revamp strread, textscan, textread functions for Matlab compatability Philip Nienhuis <prnienhuis@users.sf.net> parents: 12856 diff changeset	489
14082 97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	490 ** All .m string functions have been modified for better performance or
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	491 greater Matlab compatibility. Performance gains of 15X-30X have
14093 050bc580cb60 doc: Various docstring improvements before 3.6.0 release. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14082 diff changeset	492 been demonstrated. Operations on cell array of strings no longer pay
14082 97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	493 quite as high a penalty as those on 2-D character arrays.
12981 4ec4096f65d1 doc: State that required input is cellstr, not cell, for strtrim and deblank (Bug #34038) Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12866 diff changeset	494
14082 97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	495 deblank: Now requires character or cellstr input.
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	496
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	497 strtrim: Now requires character or cellstr input.
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	498 No longer trims nulls ("\0") from string for Matlab
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	499 compatibility.
12981 4ec4096f65d1 doc: State that required input is cellstr, not cell, for strtrim and deblank (Bug #34038) Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12866 diff changeset	500
14082 97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	501 strmatch: Follows documentation precisely and ignores trailing spaces
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	502 in pattern and in string. Note that this is documented
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	503 Matlab behavior but the implementation apparently does
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	504 not always follow it.
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	505
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	506 substr: Now possible to specify a negative LEN option which
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	507 extracts to within LEN of the end of the string.
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	508
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	509 strtok: Now accepts cellstr input.
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	510
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	511 base2dec, bin2dec, hex2dec:
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	512 Now accept cellstr inputs.
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	513
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	514 dec2base, dec2bin, dec2hex:
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	515 Now accept cellstr inputs.
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	516
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	517 index, rindex:
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	518 Now accept 2-D character array input.
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	519
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	520 strsplit: Now accepts 2-D character array input.
13262 37e6f54cca15 update NEWS John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 13171 diff changeset	521
13746 7ff0bdc3dc4c Revamp geometry functions dependent on Qhull (Bug #34604, Bug #33346) Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 13268 diff changeset	522 ** Geometry functions derived from Qhull (convhull, delaunay, voronoi)
14082 97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	523 have been revamped. The options passed to the underlying qhull
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	524 command have been changed for better results or for Matlab
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	525 compatibility.
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	526
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	527 convhull: Default options are "Qt" for 2D, 3D, 4D inputs
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	528 Default options are "Qt Qx" for 5D and higher
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	529
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	530 delaunay: Default options are "Qt Qbb Qc Qz" for 2D and 3D inputs
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	531 Default options are "Qt Qbb Qc Qx" for 4D and higher
13746 7ff0bdc3dc4c Revamp geometry functions dependent on Qhull (Bug #34604, Bug #33346) Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 13268 diff changeset	532
14082 97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	533 voronoi: No default arguments
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	534
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	535 ** Date/Time functions updated. Millisecond support with FFF format
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	536 string now supported.
13746 7ff0bdc3dc4c Revamp geometry functions dependent on Qhull (Bug #34604, Bug #33346) Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 13268 diff changeset	537
14082 97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	538 datestr: Numerical formats 21, 22, 29 changed to match Matlab.
14408 9f7c22795c94 doc: Correct a few typos in NEWS. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14407 diff changeset	539 Now accepts cellstr input.
13848 40e32fe44aaa Ugrade time functions to accept millisecond format string FFF (Bug #34586) Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 13841 diff changeset	540
14082 97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	541 ** The following warning IDs have been removed:
13848 40e32fe44aaa Ugrade time functions to accept millisecond format string FFF (Bug #34586) Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 13841 diff changeset	542
14082 97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	543 Octave:associativity-change
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	544 Octave:complex-cmp-ops
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	545 Octave:empty-list-elements
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	546 Octave:fortran-indexing
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	547 Octave:precedence-change
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	548
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	549 ** The warning ID Octave:string-concat has been renamed to
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	550 Octave:mixed-string-concat.
13841 0a158dbdb04a Remove 3 unused warning ids Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 13826 diff changeset	551
14082 97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	552 ** Octave now includes the following Matlab-compatible preference
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	553 functions:
13262 37e6f54cca15 update NEWS John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 13171 diff changeset	554
14082 97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	555 addpref getpref ispref rmpref setpref
13262 37e6f54cca15 update NEWS John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 13171 diff changeset	556
14082 97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	557 ** The following Matlab-compatible handle graphics functions have been
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	558 added:
13926 1f6d17b383f8 Add notes about new handle graphics functions. Michael Goffioul <michael.goffioul@gmail.com> parents: 13923 diff changeset	559
14082 97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	560 guidata uipanel uitoolbar
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	561 guihandles uipushtool uiwait
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	562 uicontextmenu uiresume waitfor
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	563 uicontrol uitoggletool
13926 1f6d17b383f8 Add notes about new handle graphics functions. Michael Goffioul <michael.goffioul@gmail.com> parents: 13923 diff changeset	564
13933 c3c8f513cf1f NEWS: Clarify that uiXXX functions are experimental/preliminary. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 13926 diff changeset	565 The uiXXX functions above are experimental.
c3c8f513cf1f NEWS: Clarify that uiXXX functions are experimental/preliminary. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 13926 diff changeset	566
14082 97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	567 Except for uiwait and uiresume, the uiXXX functions are not
14408 9f7c22795c94 doc: Correct a few typos in NEWS. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14407 diff changeset	568 supported with the FLTK+OpenGL graphics toolkit.
13926 1f6d17b383f8 Add notes about new handle graphics functions. Michael Goffioul <michael.goffioul@gmail.com> parents: 13923 diff changeset	569
14082 97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	570 The gnuplot graphics toolkit does not support any of the uiXXX
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	571 functions nor the waitfor function.
13926 1f6d17b383f8 Add notes about new handle graphics functions. Michael Goffioul <michael.goffioul@gmail.com> parents: 13923 diff changeset	572
14082 97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	573 ** New keyword parfor (parallel for loop) is now recognized as a valid
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	574 keyword. Implementation, however, is still mapped to an ordinary
97f41a44dd80 update NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14018 diff changeset	575 for loop.
13919 8cb79741769d doc: Update NEWS file with more 3.6.0 features Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 13848 diff changeset	576
13792 2eea4a2e6463 NEWS: Update file with more description of changes made to string functions in 3.6.0 Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 13749 diff changeset	577 ** Other new functions added in 3.6.0:
12586 f9b7aa3b88f8 Deprecate studentize(), replace with zscore(). Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12574 diff changeset	578
14178 3f2a3076b9a6 NEWS: Update list of functions added for 3.6.0 release. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14176 diff changeset	579 bicg nthargout usejava
3f2a3076b9a6 NEWS: Update list of functions added for 3.6.0 release. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14176 diff changeset	580 is_dq_string narginchk waitbar
3f2a3076b9a6 NEWS: Update list of functions added for 3.6.0 release. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14176 diff changeset	581 is_sq_string python zscore
3f2a3076b9a6 NEWS: Update list of functions added for 3.6.0 release. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14176 diff changeset	582 is_function_handle register_graphics_toolkit
3f2a3076b9a6 NEWS: Update list of functions added for 3.6.0 release. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14176 diff changeset	583 loaded_graphics_toolkits recycle
3f2a3076b9a6 NEWS: Update list of functions added for 3.6.0 release. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14176 diff changeset	584
12413 b7d0d6044bd7 remove functions deprecated in 3.2 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12400 diff changeset	585 ** Deprecated functions.
b7d0d6044bd7 remove functions deprecated in 3.2 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12400 diff changeset	586
b7d0d6044bd7 remove functions deprecated in 3.2 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12400 diff changeset	587 The following functions were deprecated in Octave 3.2 and have been
b7d0d6044bd7 remove functions deprecated in 3.2 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12400 diff changeset	588 removed from Octave 3.6.
b7d0d6044bd7 remove functions deprecated in 3.2 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12400 diff changeset	589
b7d0d6044bd7 remove functions deprecated in 3.2 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12400 diff changeset	590 create_set spcholinv splu
b7d0d6044bd7 remove functions deprecated in 3.2 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12400 diff changeset	591 dmult spcumprod spmax
b7d0d6044bd7 remove functions deprecated in 3.2 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12400 diff changeset	592 iscommand spcumsum spmin
b7d0d6044bd7 remove functions deprecated in 3.2 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12400 diff changeset	593 israwcommand spdet spprod
b7d0d6044bd7 remove functions deprecated in 3.2 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12400 diff changeset	594 lchol spdiag spqr
b7d0d6044bd7 remove functions deprecated in 3.2 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12400 diff changeset	595 loadimage spfind spsum
b7d0d6044bd7 remove functions deprecated in 3.2 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12400 diff changeset	596 mark_as_command sphcat spsumsq
b7d0d6044bd7 remove functions deprecated in 3.2 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12400 diff changeset	597 mark_as_rawcommand spinv spvcat
b7d0d6044bd7 remove functions deprecated in 3.2 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12400 diff changeset	598 spatan2 spkron str2mat
b7d0d6044bd7 remove functions deprecated in 3.2 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12400 diff changeset	599 spchol splchol unmark_command
b7d0d6044bd7 remove functions deprecated in 3.2 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12400 diff changeset	600 spchol2inv split unmark_rawcommand
b7d0d6044bd7 remove functions deprecated in 3.2 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12400 diff changeset	601
12498 294c0927c762 Deprecate is_duplicate_entry. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12488 diff changeset	602 The following functions have been deprecated in Octave 3.6 and will
294c0927c762 Deprecate is_duplicate_entry. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12488 diff changeset	603 be removed from Octave 3.10 (or whatever version is the second major
294c0927c762 Deprecate is_duplicate_entry. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12488 diff changeset	604 release after 3.6):
294c0927c762 Deprecate is_duplicate_entry. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12488 diff changeset	605
12856 cad4cba03f19 Deprecate corrcoef, cor and replace with Matlab equivalent corr Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12803 diff changeset	606 cut is_duplicate_entry
cad4cba03f19 Deprecate corrcoef, cor and replace with Matlab equivalent corr Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12803 diff changeset	607 cor polyderiv
14018 5d5685216876 Deprecate shell_cmd function and update system, dos, unix commands Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 13933 diff changeset	608 corrcoef shell_cmd
5d5685216876 Deprecate shell_cmd function and update system, dos, unix commands Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 13933 diff changeset	609 __error_text__ studentize
5d5685216876 Deprecate shell_cmd function and update system, dos, unix commands Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 13933 diff changeset	610 error_text sylvester_matrix
12586 f9b7aa3b88f8 Deprecate studentize(), replace with zscore(). Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12574 diff changeset	611
14441 d27e638b1c3a NEWS: mention randperm changes Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh@octave.org> parents: 14408 diff changeset	612 ** The following functions have been modified for Matlab compatibility:
d27e638b1c3a NEWS: mention randperm changes Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh@octave.org> parents: 14408 diff changeset	613
d27e638b1c3a NEWS: mention randperm changes Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh@octave.org> parents: 14408 diff changeset	614 randperm
d27e638b1c3a NEWS: mention randperm changes Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh@octave.org> parents: 14408 diff changeset	615
13251 fd9187676535 3.4.3 release candidate 0 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12766 diff changeset	616 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 3.4.3:
fd9187676535 3.4.3 release candidate 0 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12766 diff changeset	617 -----------------------------------------------------------
fd9187676535 3.4.3 release candidate 0 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12766 diff changeset	618
13254 46f5e41c8610 Fix version numbers in NEWS Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh@octave.org> parents: 13251 diff changeset	619 ** Octave 3.4.3 is a bug fixing release.
13268 571557ddabb9 maint: periodic merge of stable to default. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 13262 13254 diff changeset	620
12766 1887d8400ba3 First release candidate for 3.4.2 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12746 diff changeset	621 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 3.4.2:
1887d8400ba3 First release candidate for 3.4.2 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12746 diff changeset	622 -----------------------------------------------------------
1887d8400ba3 First release candidate for 3.4.2 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12746 diff changeset	623
13254 46f5e41c8610 Fix version numbers in NEWS Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh@octave.org> parents: 13251 diff changeset	624 ** Octave 3.4.2 fixes some minor installation problems that affected
12766 1887d8400ba3 First release candidate for 3.4.2 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12746 diff changeset	625 version 3.4.1.
1887d8400ba3 First release candidate for 3.4.2 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12746 diff changeset	626
12709 96180026afc5 maint: update NEWS. John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12702 diff changeset	627 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 3.4.1:
96180026afc5 maint: update NEWS. John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12702 diff changeset	628 -----------------------------------------------------------
12413 b7d0d6044bd7 remove functions deprecated in 3.2 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12400 diff changeset	629
12709 96180026afc5 maint: update NEWS. John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12702 diff changeset	630 ** Octave 3.4.1 is primarily a bug fixing release.
96180026afc5 maint: update NEWS. John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12702 diff changeset	631
96180026afc5 maint: update NEWS. John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12702 diff changeset	632 ** IMPORTANT note about binary incompatibility in this release:
12488 bea828c03969 Add new isrow, iscolumn functions. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12464 diff changeset	633
12746 07188dbaf89a maint: minor update to NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12739 diff changeset	634 Binary compatibility for all 3.4.x releases was originally planned,
07188dbaf89a maint: minor update to NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12739 diff changeset	635 but this is impossible for the 3.4.1 release due to a bug in the way
07188dbaf89a maint: minor update to NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12739 diff changeset	636 shared libraries were built in Octave 3.4.0. Because of this bug,
07188dbaf89a maint: minor update to NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12739 diff changeset	637 .oct files built for Octave 3.4.0 must be recompiled before they
07188dbaf89a maint: minor update to NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12739 diff changeset	638 will work with Octave 3.4.1.
12498 294c0927c762 Deprecate is_duplicate_entry. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12488 diff changeset	639
12709 96180026afc5 maint: update NEWS. John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12702 diff changeset	640 Given that there would be binary incompatibilities with shared
12746 07188dbaf89a maint: minor update to NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12739 diff changeset	641 libraries going from Octave 3.4.0 to 3.4.1, the following
07188dbaf89a maint: minor update to NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12739 diff changeset	642 incompatible changes were also made in this release:
12709 96180026afc5 maint: update NEWS. John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12702 diff changeset	643
96180026afc5 maint: update NEWS. John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12702 diff changeset	644 * The Perl Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library is now
96180026afc5 maint: update NEWS. John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12702 diff changeset	645 required to build Octave.
12413 b7d0d6044bd7 remove functions deprecated in 3.2 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12400 diff changeset	646
12712 89638f2b844a maint: update NEWS John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12709 diff changeset	647 * Octave's libraries and .oct files are now installed in
89638f2b844a maint: update NEWS John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12709 diff changeset	648 subdirectories of $libdir instead of $libexecdir.
89638f2b844a maint: update NEWS John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12709 diff changeset	649
12709 96180026afc5 maint: update NEWS. John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12702 diff changeset	650 Any future Octave 3.4.x release versions should remain binary
12746 07188dbaf89a maint: minor update to NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12739 diff changeset	651 compatible with Octave 3.4.1 as proper library versioning is now
07188dbaf89a maint: minor update to NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12739 diff changeset	652 being used as recommended by the libtool manual.
12709 96180026afc5 maint: update NEWS. John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12702 diff changeset	653
96180026afc5 maint: update NEWS. John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12702 diff changeset	654 ** The following functions have been deprecated in Octave 3.4.1 and will
96180026afc5 maint: update NEWS. John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12702 diff changeset	655 be removed from Octave 3.8 (or whatever version is the second major
96180026afc5 maint: update NEWS. John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12702 diff changeset	656 release after 3.4):
96180026afc5 maint: update NEWS. John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12702 diff changeset	657
96180026afc5 maint: update NEWS. John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12702 diff changeset	658 cquad is_duplicate_entry perror strerror
12413 b7d0d6044bd7 remove functions deprecated in 3.2 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12400 diff changeset	659
12709 96180026afc5 maint: update NEWS. John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12702 diff changeset	660 ** The following functions are new in 3.4.1:
96180026afc5 maint: update NEWS. John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12702 diff changeset	661
12723 6ed1e0be181e doc: Update NEWS with new functions for release 3.4.1 Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12713 diff changeset	662 colstyle gmres iscolumn isrow mgorth nproc rectangle
12709 96180026afc5 maint: update NEWS. John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12702 diff changeset	663
96180026afc5 maint: update NEWS. John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12702 diff changeset	664 ** The get_forge_pkg function is now private.
12498 294c0927c762 Deprecate is_duplicate_entry. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12488 diff changeset	665
12709 96180026afc5 maint: update NEWS. John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12702 diff changeset	666 ** The rectangle_lw, rectangle_sw, triangle_lw, and triangle_sw
96180026afc5 maint: update NEWS. John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12702 diff changeset	667 functions are now private.
96180026afc5 maint: update NEWS. John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12702 diff changeset	668
96180026afc5 maint: update NEWS. John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12702 diff changeset	669 ** The logistic_regression_derivatives and logistic_regression_likelihood
96180026afc5 maint: update NEWS. John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12702 diff changeset	670 functions are now private.
12498 294c0927c762 Deprecate is_duplicate_entry. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12488 diff changeset	671
12739 8d2d7f9a17be maint: update NEWS John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12723 diff changeset	672 ** ChangeLog files in the Octave sources are no longer maintained
8d2d7f9a17be maint: update NEWS John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12723 diff changeset	673 by hand. Instead, there is a single ChangeLog file generated from
8d2d7f9a17be maint: update NEWS John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12723 diff changeset	674 the Mercurial version control commit messages. Older ChangeLog
8d2d7f9a17be maint: update NEWS John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12723 diff changeset	675 information can be found in the etc/OLD-ChangeLogs directory in the
8d2d7f9a17be maint: update NEWS John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12723 diff changeset	676 source distribution.
8d2d7f9a17be maint: update NEWS John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12723 diff changeset	677
11112 8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	678 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 3.4:
9352 b59cc3252a51 NEWS update Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9215 diff changeset	679 ---------------------------------------------------------
b59cc3252a51 NEWS update Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9215 diff changeset	680
9799 cfd0aa788ae1 remove reference blas and lapack sources John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 9745 diff changeset	681 ** BLAS and LAPACK libraries are now required to build Octave. The
cfd0aa788ae1 remove reference blas and lapack sources John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 9745 diff changeset	682 subset of the reference BLAS and LAPACK libraries has been removed
cfd0aa788ae1 remove reference blas and lapack sources John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 9745 diff changeset	683 from the Octave sources.
12418 b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	684
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	685 ** The ARPACK library is now distributed with Octave so it no longer
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	686 needs to be available as an external dependency when building
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	687 Octave.
9799 cfd0aa788ae1 remove reference blas and lapack sources John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 9745 diff changeset	688
10118 4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	689 ** The `lookup' function was extended to be more useful for
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	690 general-purpose binary searching. Using this improvement, the
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	691 ismember function was rewritten for significantly better
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	692 performance.
9352 b59cc3252a51 NEWS update Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9215 diff changeset	693
b59cc3252a51 NEWS update Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9215 diff changeset	694 ** Real, integer and logical matrices, when used in indexing, will now
b59cc3252a51 NEWS update Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9215 diff changeset	695 cache the internal index_vector value (zero-based indices) when
b59cc3252a51 NEWS update Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9215 diff changeset	696 successfully used as indices, eliminating the conversion penalty for
10118 4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	697 subsequent indexing by the same matrix. In particular, this means it
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	698 is no longer needed to avoid repeated indexing by logical arrays
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	699 using find for performance reasons.
9888 cee6c63cff32 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9880 diff changeset	700
10118 4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	701 ** Logical matrices are now treated more efficiently when used as
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	702 indices. Octave will keep the index as a logical mask unless the
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	703 ratio of true elements is small enough, using a specialized
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	704 code. Previously, all logical matrices were always first converted
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	705 to index vectors. This results in savings in both memory and
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	706 computing time.
9480 bca39c365fda update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9462 diff changeset	707
10118 4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	708 ** The `sub2ind' and `ind2sub' functions were reimplemented as compiled
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	709 functions for better performance. These functions are now faster,
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	710 can deliver more economized results for ranges, and can reuse the
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	711 index cache mechanism described in previous paragraph.
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	712
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	713 ** The built-in function equivalents to associative operators (`plus',
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	714 `times', `mtimes', `and', and `or') have been extended to accept
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	715 multiple arguments. This is especially useful for summing
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	716 (multiplying, etc.) lists of objects (of possibly distinct types):
9408 6729708602ca NEWS update Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9407 diff changeset	717
9449 a35d8ec8a0c4 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9408 diff changeset	718 matrix_sum = plus (matrix_list{:});
a35d8ec8a0c4 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9408 diff changeset	719
10118 4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	720 ** An FTP object type based on libcurl has been implemented. These
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	721 objects allow ftp connections, downloads and uploads to be
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	722 managed. For example,
9880 7f77e5081e83 Add ftp objects David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 9873 diff changeset	723
10118 4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	724 fp = ftp ("ftp.octave.org);
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	725 cd (fp, "gnu/octave");
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	726 mget (fp, "octave-3.2.3.tar.bz2");
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	727 close (fp);
9880 7f77e5081e83 Add ftp objects David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 9873 diff changeset	728
10118 4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	729 ** The default behavior of `assert (observed, expected)' has been
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	730 relaxed to employ less strict checking that does not require the
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	731 internals of the values to match. This avoids previously valid
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	732 tests from breaking due to new internal classes introduced in future
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	733 Octave versions.
9449 a35d8ec8a0c4 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9408 diff changeset	734
a35d8ec8a0c4 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9408 diff changeset	735 For instance, all of these assertions were true in Octave 3.0.x
a35d8ec8a0c4 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9408 diff changeset	736 but false in 3.2.x due to new optimizations and improvements:
a35d8ec8a0c4 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9408 diff changeset	737
a35d8ec8a0c4 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9408 diff changeset	738 assert (2linspace (1, 5, 5), 2(1:5))
a35d8ec8a0c4 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9408 diff changeset	739 assert (zeros (0, 0), [])
a35d8ec8a0c4 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9408 diff changeset	740 assert (2*ones (1, 5), (2) (ones (1,5)))
9462 44e2e568f973 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9449 diff changeset	741
10118 4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	742 ** The behavior of library functions `ismatrix', `issquare', and
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	743 `issymmetric' has been changed for better consistency.
9873 b7acf3cb5984 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9830 diff changeset	744
10292 c1246f17119e update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10276 diff changeset	745 * The `ismatrix' function now returns true for all numeric,
11562 1811f4f8b3b5 Rename cquad to quadcc and add to documentation. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 11540 diff changeset	746 logical and character 2-D or N-D matrices. Previously, `ismatrix'
10292 c1246f17119e update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10276 diff changeset	747 returned false if the first or second dimension was zero.
c1246f17119e update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10276 diff changeset	748 Hence, `ismatrix ([])' was false,
c1246f17119e update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10276 diff changeset	749 while `ismatrix (zeros (1,2,0))' was true.
9873 b7acf3cb5984 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9830 diff changeset	750
10118 4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	751 * The `issquare' function now returns a logical scalar, and is
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	752 equivalent to the expression
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	753
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	754 ismatrix (x) && ndims (x) == 2 && rows (x) == columns (x)
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	755
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	756 The dimension is no longer returned. As a result, `issquare ([])'
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	757 now yields true.
9873 b7acf3cb5984 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9830 diff changeset	758
10118 4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	759 * The `issymmetric' function now checks for symmetry instead of
11562 1811f4f8b3b5 Rename cquad to quadcc and add to documentation. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 11540 diff changeset	760 Hermitianness. For the latter, ishermitian was created. Also,
10118 4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	761 logical scalar is returned rather than the dimension, so
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	762 `issymmetric ([])' is now true.
9873 b7acf3cb5984 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9830 diff changeset	763
10118 4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	764 ** Function handles are now aware of overloaded functions. If a
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	765 function is overloaded, the handle determines at the time of its
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	766 reference which function to call. A non-overloaded version does not
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	767 need to exist.
9873 b7acf3cb5984 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9830 diff changeset	768
10118 4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	769 ** Overloading functions for built-in classes (double, int8, cell,
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	770 etc.) is now compatible with Matlab.
9408 6729708602ca NEWS update Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9407 diff changeset	771
10323 ee93dbfba45b update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10292 diff changeset	772 ** Function handles can now be compared with the == and != operators,
ee93dbfba45b update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10292 diff changeset	773 as well as the `isequal' function.
ee93dbfba45b update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10292 diff changeset	774
10118 4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	775 ** Performance of concatenation (using []) and the functions `cat',
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	776 `horzcat', and `vertcat' has been improved for multidimensional
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	777 arrays.
10117 b9ea485bdfdb update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10109 diff changeset	778
9547 588c6bb6fdcb update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9480 diff changeset	779 ** The operation-assignment operators +=, -=, *= and /= now behave more
10118 4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	780 efficiently in certain cases. For instance, if M is a matrix and S a
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	781 scalar, then the statement
9547 588c6bb6fdcb update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9480 diff changeset	782
10118 4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	783 M += S;
9547 588c6bb6fdcb update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9480 diff changeset	784
10118 4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	785 will operate on M's data in-place if it is not shared by another
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	786 variable, usually increasing both time and memory efficiency.
9547 588c6bb6fdcb update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9480 diff changeset	787
9558 8b3cee6166b8 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9552 diff changeset	788 Only selected common combinations are affected, namely:
9547 588c6bb6fdcb update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9480 diff changeset	789
588c6bb6fdcb update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9480 diff changeset	790 matrix += matrix
588c6bb6fdcb update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9480 diff changeset	791 matrix -= matrix
9558 8b3cee6166b8 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9552 diff changeset	792 matrix .*= matrix
8b3cee6166b8 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9552 diff changeset	793 matrix ./= matrix
8b3cee6166b8 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9552 diff changeset	794
9547 588c6bb6fdcb update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9480 diff changeset	795 matrix += scalar
588c6bb6fdcb update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9480 diff changeset	796 matrix -= scalar
588c6bb6fdcb update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9480 diff changeset	797 matrix *= scalar
588c6bb6fdcb update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9480 diff changeset	798 matrix /= scalar
9558 8b3cee6166b8 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9552 diff changeset	799
9552 ded32956d660 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9547 diff changeset	800 logical matrix \|= logical matrix
ded32956d660 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9547 diff changeset	801 logical matrix &= logical matrix
9547 588c6bb6fdcb update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9480 diff changeset	802
10118 4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	803 where matrix and scalar belong to the same class. The left-hand
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	804 side must be a simple variable reference.
9888 cee6c63cff32 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9880 diff changeset	805
10118 4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	806 Moreover, when unary operators occur in expressions, Octave will
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	807 also try to do the operation in-place if it's argument is a
12702 013cd94d8d7f doc: Spelling fixes for various documentation files John Bradshaw <john@johnbradshaw.org> parents: 12698 diff changeset	808 temporary expression.
9589 8e42bb4ad34d update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9558 diff changeset	809
10118 4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	810 ** The effect of comparison operators (<, >, <=, and >=) applied to
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	811 complex numbers has changed to be consistent with the strict
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	812 ordering defined by the `max', `min', and `sort' functions. More
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	813 specifically, complex numbers are compared by lexicographical
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	814 comparison of the pairs `[abs(z), arg(z)]'. Previously, only real
14188 053404893d02 update NEWS John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14178 diff changeset	815 parts were compared; this can be trivially achieved by converting
053404893d02 update NEWS John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14178 diff changeset	816 the operands to real values with the `real' function.
9547 588c6bb6fdcb update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9480 diff changeset	817
10118 4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	818 ** The automatic simplification of complex computation results has
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	819 changed. Octave will now simplify any complex number with a zero
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	820 imaginary part or any complex matrix with all elements having zero
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	821 imaginary part to a real value. Previously, this was done only for
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	822 positive zeros. Note that the behavior of the complex function is
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	823 unchanged and it still produces a complex value even if the
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	824 imaginary part is zero.
9826 b2a282c37217 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9799 diff changeset	825
10118 4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	826 ** As a side effect of code refactoring in liboctave, the binary
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	827 logical operations are now more easily amenable to compiler
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	828 optimizations and are thus significantly faster.
9595 dbd0c0f82480 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9589 diff changeset	829
10118 4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	830 ** Octave now allows user-defined `subsasgn' methods to optimize out
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	831 redundant copies. For more information, see the manual.
9595 dbd0c0f82480 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9589 diff changeset	832
10453 7d23c19249d6 NEWS: style fixes John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10437 diff changeset	833 ** More efficient matrix division handling. Octave is now able to
10118 4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	834 handle the expressions
9664 2c5169034035 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9609 diff changeset	835
12418 b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	836 M' \ V
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	837 M.' \ V
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	838 V / M
9664 2c5169034035 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9609 diff changeset	839
10118 4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	840 (M is a matrix and V is a vector) more efficiently in certain cases.
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	841 In particular, if M is triangular, all three expressions will be
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	842 handled by a single call to xTRTRS (from LAPACK), with appropriate
10453 7d23c19249d6 NEWS: style fixes John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10437 diff changeset	843 flags. Previously, all three expressions required a physical
10118 4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	844 transpose of M.
9664 2c5169034035 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9609 diff changeset	845
10118 4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	846 ** More efficient handling of certain mixed real-complex matrix
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	847 operations. For instance, if RM is a real matrix and CM a complex
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	848 matrix,
9664 2c5169034035 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9609 diff changeset	849
10118 4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	850 RM * CM
9664 2c5169034035 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9609 diff changeset	851
2c5169034035 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9609 diff changeset	852 can now be evaluated either as
2c5169034035 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9609 diff changeset	853
2c5169034035 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9609 diff changeset	854 complex (RM * real (CM), RM * imag (CM))
2c5169034035 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9609 diff changeset	855
2c5169034035 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9609 diff changeset	856 or as
2c5169034035 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9609 diff changeset	857
2c5169034035 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9609 diff changeset	858 complex (RM) * CM,
2c5169034035 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9609 diff changeset	859
10453 7d23c19249d6 NEWS: style fixes John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10437 diff changeset	860 depending on the dimensions. The first form requires more
7d23c19249d6 NEWS: style fixes John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10437 diff changeset	861 temporaries and copying, but halves the FLOP count, which normally
7d23c19249d6 NEWS: style fixes John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10437 diff changeset	862 brings better performance if RM has enough rows. Previously, the
7d23c19249d6 NEWS: style fixes John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10437 diff changeset	863 second form was always used.
9664 2c5169034035 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9609 diff changeset	864
11111 84ad75921e35 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11109 diff changeset	865 Matrix division is similarly affected.
9664 2c5169034035 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9609 diff changeset	866
10118 4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	867 ** More efficient handling of triangular matrix factors returned from
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	868 factorizations. The functions for computing QR, LU and Cholesky
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	869 factorizations will now automatically return the triangular matrix
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	870 factors with proper internal matrix_type set, so that it won't need
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	871 to be computed when the matrix is used for division.
9717 4fd71e875120 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9664 diff changeset	872
10118 4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	873 ** The built-in `sum' function now handles the non-native summation
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	874 (i.e., double precision sum of single or integer inputs) more
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	875 efficiently, avoiding a temporary conversion of the whole input
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	876 array to doubles. Further, `sum' can now accept an extra option
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	877 argument, using a compensated summation algorithm rather than a
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	878 straightforward sum, which significantly improves precision if lots
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	879 of cancellation occurs in the summation.
9717 4fd71e875120 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9664 diff changeset	880
10118 4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	881 ** The built-in `bsxfun' function now uses optimized code for certain
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	882 cases where built-in operator handles are passed in. Namely, the
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	883 optimizations concern the operators `plus', `minus', `times',
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	884 `ldivide', `rdivide', `power', `and', `or' (for logical arrays),
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	885 the relational operators `eq', `ne', `lt', `le', `gt', `ge', and the
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	886 functions `min' and `max'. Optimizations only apply when both
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	887 operands are of the same built-in class. Mixed real/complex and
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	888 single/double operations will first convert both operands to a
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	889 common type.
9745 30d62079c493 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9722 diff changeset	890
10118 4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	891 ** The `strfind' and `strrep' functions now have compiled
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	892 implementations, facilitating significantly more efficient searching
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	893 and replacing in strings, especially with longer patterns. The code
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	894 of `strcat' has been vectorized and is now much more efficient when
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	895 many strings are concatenated. The `strcmpi' and `strncmpi'
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10117 diff changeset	896 functions are now built-in functions, providing better performance.
12713 8176c16628c8 doc: Add note about str2double API change to NEWS. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12712 diff changeset	897
8176c16628c8 doc: Add note about str2double API change to NEWS. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12712 diff changeset	898 ** 'str2double' now has a compiled implementation and the API conforms
8176c16628c8 doc: Add note about str2double API change to NEWS. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12712 diff changeset	899 to Matlab. The additional Octave-specific features of returning a
8176c16628c8 doc: Add note about str2double API change to NEWS. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12712 diff changeset	900 boolean matrix indicating which elements were successfully converted
8176c16628c8 doc: Add note about str2double API change to NEWS. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12712 diff changeset	901 has been removed.
10208 c54ee101d13c update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10118 diff changeset	902
10453 7d23c19249d6 NEWS: style fixes John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10437 diff changeset	903 ** Matlab-style ignoring input and output function arguments using
11111 84ad75921e35 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11109 diff changeset	904 tilde (~) is now supported. Ignored output arguments may be
84ad75921e35 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11109 diff changeset	905 detected from a function using the built-in function `isargout'.
84ad75921e35 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11109 diff changeset	906 For more details, consult the manual.
10886 9993f1354713 update news Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10873 diff changeset	907
10453 7d23c19249d6 NEWS: style fixes John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10437 diff changeset	908 ** The list datatype, deprecated since the introduction of cells, has
7d23c19249d6 NEWS: style fixes John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10437 diff changeset	909 been removed.
10276 ad6af249c20e update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10233 diff changeset	910
10453 7d23c19249d6 NEWS: style fixes John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10437 diff changeset	911 ** The accumarray function has been optimized and is now significantly
7d23c19249d6 NEWS: style fixes John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10437 diff changeset	912 faster in certain important cases.
10054 8f7f325fa678 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9888 diff changeset	913
10292 c1246f17119e update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10276 diff changeset	914 ** The behavior of isreal and isnumeric functions was changed to be more
c1246f17119e update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10276 diff changeset	915 Matlab-compatible.
c1246f17119e update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10276 diff changeset	916
10406 0c8d2278c57f update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10323 diff changeset	917 ** The integer math & conversion warnings (Octave:int-convert-nan,
0c8d2278c57f update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10323 diff changeset	918 Octave:int-convert-non-int-val, Octave:int-convert-overflow,
11111 84ad75921e35 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11109 diff changeset	919 Octave:int-math-overflow) have been removed.
10406 0c8d2278c57f update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10323 diff changeset	920
10453 7d23c19249d6 NEWS: style fixes John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10437 diff changeset	921 ** rem and mod are now built-in functions. They also handle integer
7d23c19249d6 NEWS: style fixes John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10437 diff changeset	922 types efficiently using integer arithmetic.
10437 0a210203481b update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10406 diff changeset	923
10536 74cb77f0a163 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10522 diff changeset	924 ** Sparse indexing and indexed assignment has been mostly rewritten.
74cb77f0a163 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10522 diff changeset	925 Since Octave uses compressed column storage for sparse matrices,
74cb77f0a163 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10522 diff changeset	926 major attention is devoted to operations manipulating whole columns.
74cb77f0a163 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10522 diff changeset	927 Such operations are now significantly faster, as well as some other
74cb77f0a163 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10522 diff changeset	928 important cases.
74cb77f0a163 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10522 diff changeset	929
74cb77f0a163 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10522 diff changeset	930 Further, it is now possible to pre-allocate a sparse matrix and
74cb77f0a163 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10522 diff changeset	931 subsequently fill it by assignments, provided they meet certain
74cb77f0a163 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10522 diff changeset	932 conditions. For more information, consult the `spalloc' function,
74cb77f0a163 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10522 diff changeset	933 which is no longer a mere dummy. Consequently, nzmax and nnz are no
11111 84ad75921e35 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11109 diff changeset	934 longer always equal in Octave. Octave may also produce a matrix
84ad75921e35 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11109 diff changeset	935 with nnz < nzmax as a result of other operations, so you should
14093 050bc580cb60 doc: Various docstring improvements before 3.6.0 release. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14082 diff changeset	936 consistently use nnz unless you really want to use nzmax (i.e., the
11111 84ad75921e35 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11109 diff changeset	937 space allocated for nonzero elements).
10536 74cb77f0a163 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10522 diff changeset	938
74cb77f0a163 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10522 diff changeset	939 Sparse concatenation is also affected, and concatenating sparse
74cb77f0a163 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10522 diff changeset	940 matrices, especially larger collections, is now significantly more
11111 84ad75921e35 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11109 diff changeset	941 efficient. This applies to both the [] operator and the
10536 74cb77f0a163 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10522 diff changeset	942 cat/vertcat/horzcat functions.
74cb77f0a163 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10522 diff changeset	943
11111 84ad75921e35 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11109 diff changeset	944 ** It is now possible to optionally employ the xGESDD LAPACK drivers
14188 053404893d02 update NEWS John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14178 diff changeset	945 for computing the singular value decomposition using svd, instead
11111 84ad75921e35 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11109 diff changeset	946 of the default xGESVD, using the configuration pseudo-variable
84ad75921e35 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11109 diff changeset	947 svd_driver. The xGESDD driver can be up to 6x times faster when
84ad75921e35 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11109 diff changeset	948 singular vectors are requested, but is reported to be somewhat less
10639 a52cc4f6ebfc update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10536 diff changeset	949 robust on highly ill-conditioned matrices.
a52cc4f6ebfc update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10536 diff changeset	950
a52cc4f6ebfc update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10536 diff changeset	951 ** Configuration pseudo-variables, such as page_screen_output or
a52cc4f6ebfc update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10536 diff changeset	952 confirm_recursive_rmdir (or the above mentioned svd_driver), now
a52cc4f6ebfc update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10536 diff changeset	953 accept a "local" option as second argument, requesting the change
11154 92a7c136ab35 Update NEWS with more deprecated functions from version 3.4 Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 11139 diff changeset	954 to be undone when the current function returns:
10639 a52cc4f6ebfc update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10536 diff changeset	955
a52cc4f6ebfc update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10536 diff changeset	956 function [status, msg] = rm_rf (dir)
a52cc4f6ebfc update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10536 diff changeset	957 confirm_recursive_rmdir (false, "local");
a52cc4f6ebfc update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10536 diff changeset	958 [status, msg] = rmdir (dir, "s");
a52cc4f6ebfc update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10536 diff changeset	959 ...
a52cc4f6ebfc update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10536 diff changeset	960 endfunction
a52cc4f6ebfc update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10536 diff changeset	961
a52cc4f6ebfc update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10536 diff changeset	962 Upon return, confirm_recursive_rmdir will be restored to the value
a52cc4f6ebfc update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10536 diff changeset	963 it had on entry to the function, even if there were subsequent
a52cc4f6ebfc update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10536 diff changeset	964 changes to the variable in function rm_rf or any of the functions
a52cc4f6ebfc update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10536 diff changeset	965 it calls.
a52cc4f6ebfc update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10536 diff changeset	966
11111 84ad75921e35 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11109 diff changeset	967 ** pkg now accepts a -forge option for downloading and installing
84ad75921e35 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11109 diff changeset	968 packages from Octave Forge automatically. For example,
10774 cfb13443434f update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10639 diff changeset	969
cfb13443434f update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10639 diff changeset	970 pkg install -forge general
cfb13443434f update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10639 diff changeset	971
11111 84ad75921e35 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11109 diff changeset	972 will automatically download the latest release of the general
14093 050bc580cb60 doc: Various docstring improvements before 3.6.0 release. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14082 diff changeset	973 package and attempt to install it. No automatic resolving of
11111 84ad75921e35 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11109 diff changeset	974 dependencies is provided. Further,
10639 a52cc4f6ebfc update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10536 diff changeset	975
10774 cfb13443434f update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10639 diff changeset	976 pkg list -forge
cfb13443434f update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10639 diff changeset	977
cfb13443434f update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10639 diff changeset	978 can be used to list all available packages.
cfb13443434f update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10639 diff changeset	979
12418 b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	980 ** The internal data representation of structs has been completely
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	981 rewritten to make certain optimizations feasible. The field data
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	982 can now be shared between structs with equal keys but different
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	983 dimensions or values, making operations that preserve the fields
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	984 faster. Economized storage is now used for scalar structs (just
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	985 like most other scalars), making their usage more
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	986 memory-efficient. Certain array-like operations on structs
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	987 (concatenation, uniform cellfun, num2cell) have gained a
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	988 significant speed-up. Additionally, the octave_scalar_map class
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	989 now provides a simpler interface to work with scalar structs within
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	990 a C++ DLD function.
10639 a52cc4f6ebfc update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10536 diff changeset	991
12418 b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	992 ** Two new formats are available for displaying numbers:
11111 84ad75921e35 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11109 diff changeset	993
12418 b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	994 format short eng
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	995 format long eng
11111 84ad75921e35 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11109 diff changeset	996
12418 b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	997 Both display numbers in engineering notation, i.e., mantissa +
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	998 exponent where the exponent is a multiple of 3.
10776 062304bd692e Update NEWS with description of new engineering format for numbers. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 10774 diff changeset	999
12418 b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	1000 ** The following functions are new in Octave 3.4:
12723 6ed1e0be181e doc: Update NEWS with new functions for release 3.4.1 Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12713 diff changeset	1001 accumdim erfcx nfields pqpnonneg uigetdir
6ed1e0be181e doc: Update NEWS with new functions for release 3.4.1 Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12713 diff changeset	1002 bitpack fileread nth_element quadcc uigetfile
6ed1e0be181e doc: Update NEWS with new functions for release 3.4.1 Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12713 diff changeset	1003 bitunpack fminbnd onCleanup randi uiputfile
6ed1e0be181e doc: Update NEWS with new functions for release 3.4.1 Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12713 diff changeset	1004 blkmm fskipl pbaspect repelems uimenu
6ed1e0be181e doc: Update NEWS with new functions for release 3.4.1 Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12713 diff changeset	1005 cbrt ifelse pie3 reset whitebg
6ed1e0be181e doc: Update NEWS with new functions for release 3.4.1 Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12713 diff changeset	1006 curl ishermitian powerset rsf2csf
6ed1e0be181e doc: Update NEWS with new functions for release 3.4.1 Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12713 diff changeset	1007 chop isindex ppder saveas
6ed1e0be181e doc: Update NEWS with new functions for release 3.4.1 Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12713 diff changeset	1008 daspect luupdate ppint strread
6ed1e0be181e doc: Update NEWS with new functions for release 3.4.1 Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12713 diff changeset	1009 divergence merge ppjumps textread
11109 41d18f6342f9 remove image_viewer function John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10966 diff changeset	1010
12418 b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	1011 ** Using the image function to view images with external programs such
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	1012 as display, xv, and xloadimage is no longer supported. The
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	1013 image_viewer function has also been removed.
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	1014
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	1015 ** The behavior of struct assignments to non-struct values has been
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	1016 changed. Previously, it was possible to overwrite an arbitrary
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	1017 value:
11109 41d18f6342f9 remove image_viewer function John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10966 diff changeset	1018
12418 b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	1019 a = 1;
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	1020 a.x = 2;
10873 8f17e3309a82 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10829 diff changeset	1021
12418 b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	1022 This is no longer possible unless a is an empty matrix or cell
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	1023 array.
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	1024
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	1025 ** The dlmread function has been extended to allow specifying a custom
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	1026 value for empty fields.
10829 61cb53ae9db3 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10776 diff changeset	1027
12418 b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	1028 ** The dlmread and dlmwrite functions have been modified to accept
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	1029 file IDs (as returned by fopen) in addition to file names.
11111 84ad75921e35 edit NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11109 diff changeset	1030
12418 b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	1031 ** Octave can now optimize away the interpreter overhead of an
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	1032 anonymous function handle, if the function simply calls another
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	1033 function or handle with some of its parameters bound to certain
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	1034 values. Example:
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	1035
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	1036 f = @(x) sum (x, 1);
10966 07b4cd795742 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10938 diff changeset	1037
12418 b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	1038 When f is called, the call is forwarded to @sum with the constant 1
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	1039 appended, and the anonymous function call does not occur on the
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 12413 diff changeset	1040 call stack.
10829 61cb53ae9db3 update NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 10776 diff changeset	1041
12424 afb65a7bc065 update NEWS John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12418 diff changeset	1042 ** For compatibility with Matlab, mu2lin (x) is now equivalent to
afb65a7bc065 update NEWS John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12418 diff changeset	1043 mu2lin (x, 0).
afb65a7bc065 update NEWS John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12418 diff changeset	1044
afb65a7bc065 update NEWS John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12418 diff changeset	1045 ** The new function `history_control' may be used to control the way
afb65a7bc065 update NEWS John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12418 diff changeset	1046 command lines are added to the history list when Octave is using
afb65a7bc065 update NEWS John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12418 diff changeset	1047 readline for command-line editing. For example
afb65a7bc065 update NEWS John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12418 diff changeset	1048
afb65a7bc065 update NEWS John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12418 diff changeset	1049 history_control ("ignoredups")
afb65a7bc065 update NEWS John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12418 diff changeset	1050
afb65a7bc065 update NEWS John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12418 diff changeset	1051 tells Octave to avoid adding duplicate lines to the history list.
afb65a7bc065 update NEWS John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12418 diff changeset	1052
afb65a7bc065 update NEWS John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12418 diff changeset	1053 ** Octave now uses the gnulib library for improved portability and to
afb65a7bc065 update NEWS John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12418 diff changeset	1054 avoid bugs in operating system functions.
afb65a7bc065 update NEWS John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12418 diff changeset	1055
11112 8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1056 ** Deprecated functions.
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1057
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1058 The following functions were deprecated in Octave 3.0 and have been
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1059 removed from Octave 3.4.
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1060
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1061 beta_cdf geometric_pdf pascal_pdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1062 beta_inv geometric_rnd pascal_rnd
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1063 beta_pdf hypergeometric_cdf poisson_cdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1064 beta_rnd hypergeometric_inv poisson_inv
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1065 binomial_cdf hypergeometric_pdf poisson_pdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1066 binomial_inv hypergeometric_rnd poisson_rnd
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1067 binomial_pdf intersection polyinteg
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1068 binomial_rnd is_bool setstr
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1069 chisquare_cdf is_complex struct_contains
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1070 chisquare_inv is_list struct_elements
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1071 chisquare_pdf is_matrix t_cdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1072 chisquare_rnd is_scalar t_inv
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1073 clearplot is_square t_pdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1074 clg is_stream t_rnd
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1075 com2str is_struct uniform_cdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1076 exponential_cdf is_symmetric uniform_inv
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1077 exponential_inv is_vector uniform_pdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1078 exponential_pdf isstr uniform_rnd
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1079 exponential_rnd lognormal_cdf weibcdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1080 f_cdf lognormal_inv weibinv
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1081 f_inv lognormal_pdf weibpdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1082 f_pdf lognormal_rnd weibrnd
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1083 f_rnd meshdom weibull_cdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1084 gamma_cdf normal_cdf weibull_inv
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1085 gamma_inv normal_inv weibull_pdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1086 gamma_pdf normal_pdf weibull_rnd
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1087 gamma_rnd normal_rnd wiener_rnd
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1088 geometric_cdf pascal_cdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1089 geometric_inv pascal_inv
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1090
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1091 The following functions were deprecated in Octave 3.2 and will
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1092 be removed from Octave 3.6 (or whatever version is the second major
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1093 release after 3.2):
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1094
11390 7ca273af4309 Deprecate sphcat and spvcat functions. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 11330 diff changeset	1095 create_set spcholinv splu
7ca273af4309 Deprecate sphcat and spvcat functions. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 11330 diff changeset	1096 dmult spcumprod spmax
7ca273af4309 Deprecate sphcat and spvcat functions. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 11330 diff changeset	1097 iscommand spcumsum spmin
7ca273af4309 Deprecate sphcat and spvcat functions. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 11330 diff changeset	1098 israwcommand spdet spprod
7ca273af4309 Deprecate sphcat and spvcat functions. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 11330 diff changeset	1099 lchol spdiag spqr
7ca273af4309 Deprecate sphcat and spvcat functions. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 11330 diff changeset	1100 loadimage spfind spsum
7ca273af4309 Deprecate sphcat and spvcat functions. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 11330 diff changeset	1101 mark_as_command sphcat spsumsq
7ca273af4309 Deprecate sphcat and spvcat functions. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 11330 diff changeset	1102 mark_as_rawcommand spinv spvcat
7ca273af4309 Deprecate sphcat and spvcat functions. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 11330 diff changeset	1103 spatan2 spkron str2mat
7ca273af4309 Deprecate sphcat and spvcat functions. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 11330 diff changeset	1104 spchol splchol unmark_command
7ca273af4309 Deprecate sphcat and spvcat functions. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 11330 diff changeset	1105 spchol2inv split unmark_rawcommand
11112 8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1106
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1107 The following functions have been deprecated in Octave 3.4 and will
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1108 be removed from Octave 3.8 (or whatever version is the second major
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1109 release after 3.4):
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1110
14354 55bb8c902a4d maint: Remove deprecated functions from dev branch for next (3.8) release. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14294 diff changeset	1111 autocor cellidx gammai is_global replot values
55bb8c902a4d maint: Remove deprecated functions from dev branch for next (3.8) release. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14294 diff changeset	1112 autocov dispatch glpkmex krylovb saveimage
55bb8c902a4d maint: Remove deprecated functions from dev branch for next (3.8) release. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14294 diff changeset	1113 betai fstat intwarning perror strerror
11112 8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1114
7990 86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	1115 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 3.2:
5913 e915287e3ef9 [project @ 2006-07-28 17:06:14 by jwe] jwe parents: 5814 diff changeset	1116 ---------------------------------------------------------
2452 a28ed603c65c [project @ 1996-10-31 19:49:29 by jwe] jwe parents: diff changeset	1117
8737 ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1118 ** Compatibility with Matlab graphics has been improved.
6329 1d4b4312f782 [project @ 2007-02-20 06:37:09 by jwe] jwe parents: 5995 diff changeset	1119
8070 3b53b25e2550 Add data sources and line series David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 8014 diff changeset	1120 The hggroup object and associated listener callback functions have
8737 ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1121 been added allowing the inclusion of group objects. Data sources
8070 3b53b25e2550 Add data sources and line series David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 8014 diff changeset	1122 have been added to these group objects such that
3b53b25e2550 Add data sources and line series David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 8014 diff changeset	1123
3b53b25e2550 Add data sources and line series David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 8014 diff changeset	1124 x = 0:0.1:10;
3b53b25e2550 Add data sources and line series David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 8014 diff changeset	1125 y = sin (x);
3b53b25e2550 Add data sources and line series David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 8014 diff changeset	1126 plot (x, y, "ydatasource", "y");
3b53b25e2550 Add data sources and line series David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 8014 diff changeset	1127 for i = 1 : 100
3b53b25e2550 Add data sources and line series David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 8014 diff changeset	1128 pause(0.1)
3b53b25e2550 Add data sources and line series David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 8014 diff changeset	1129 y = sin (x + 0.1 * i);
14188 053404893d02 update NEWS John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 14178 diff changeset	1130 refreshdata ();
8070 3b53b25e2550 Add data sources and line series David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 8014 diff changeset	1131 endfor
3b53b25e2550 Add data sources and line series David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 8014 diff changeset	1132
8737 ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1133 works as expected. This capability has be used to introduce
9031 1052a66078cf Documentation cleanup of top-level Octave directory (READMEs, INSTALL) Rik <rdrider0-list@yahoo.com> parents: 8932 diff changeset	1134 stem-series, bar-series, etc., objects for better Matlab
8737 ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1135 compatibility.
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1136
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1137 ** New graphics functions:
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1138
11576 8ac9687dbe9f rename backend to graphics_toolkit John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11562 diff changeset	1139 addlistener ezcontour gcbo refresh
8ac9687dbe9f rename backend to graphics_toolkit John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11562 diff changeset	1140 addproperty ezcontourf ginput refreshdata
8ac9687dbe9f rename backend to graphics_toolkit John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11562 diff changeset	1141 allchild ezmesh gtext specular
8ac9687dbe9f rename backend to graphics_toolkit John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11562 diff changeset	1142 available_graphics_toolkits ezmeshc intwarning surfl
8ac9687dbe9f rename backend to graphics_toolkit John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11562 diff changeset	1143 graphics_toolkit ezplot ishghandle trisurf
8ac9687dbe9f rename backend to graphics_toolkit John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11562 diff changeset	1144 cla ezplot3 isocolors waitforbuttonpress
8ac9687dbe9f rename backend to graphics_toolkit John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11562 diff changeset	1145 clabel ezpolar isonormals
8ac9687dbe9f rename backend to graphics_toolkit John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11562 diff changeset	1146 comet ezsurf isosurface
8ac9687dbe9f rename backend to graphics_toolkit John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11562 diff changeset	1147 dellistener findall linkprop
8ac9687dbe9f rename backend to graphics_toolkit John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11562 diff changeset	1148 diffuse gcbf plotmatrix
8070 3b53b25e2550 Add data sources and line series David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 8014 diff changeset	1149
8737 ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1150 ** New experimental OpenGL/FLTK based plotting system.
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1151
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1152 An experimental plotting system based on OpenGL and the FLTK
11576 8ac9687dbe9f rename backend to graphics_toolkit John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11562 diff changeset	1153 toolkit is now part of Octave. This graphics toolkit is disabled by
8737 ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1154 default. You can switch to using it with the command
8070 3b53b25e2550 Add data sources and line series David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 8014 diff changeset	1155
11576 8ac9687dbe9f rename backend to graphics_toolkit John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11562 diff changeset	1156 graphics_toolkit ("fltk")
8070 3b53b25e2550 Add data sources and line series David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 8014 diff changeset	1157
3b53b25e2550 Add data sources and line series David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 8014 diff changeset	1158 for all future figures or for a particular figure with the command
3b53b25e2550 Add data sources and line series David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 8014 diff changeset	1159
11576 8ac9687dbe9f rename backend to graphics_toolkit John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11562 diff changeset	1160 graphics_toolkit (h, "fltk")
8070 3b53b25e2550 Add data sources and line series David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 8014 diff changeset	1161
11139 0dd95d1d57e6 update NEWS John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11112 diff changeset	1162 where "h" is a valid figure handle.
8070 3b53b25e2550 Add data sources and line series David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 8014 diff changeset	1163
8737 ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1164 ** Functions providing direct access to gnuplot have been removed.
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1165
7990 86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	1166 The functions __gnuplot_plot__, __gnuplot_set__, __gnuplot_raw__,
86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	1167 __gnuplot_show__, __gnuplot_replot__, __gnuplot_splot__,
8737 ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1168 __gnuplot_save_data__ and __gnuplot_send_inline_data__ have been
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1169 removed from Octave. These function were incompatible with the
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1170 high level graphics handle code.
6329 1d4b4312f782 [project @ 2007-02-20 06:37:09 by jwe] jwe parents: 5995 diff changeset	1171
8885 47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1172 ** The Control, Finance and Quaternion functions have been removed.
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1173
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1174 These functions are now available as separate packages from
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1175
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1176 http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.html
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1177
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1178 and can be reinstalled using the Octave package manager (see
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1179 the pkg function).
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1180
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1181 ** Specific sparse matrix functions removed.
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1182
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1183 The following functions, which handled only sparse matrices have
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1184 been removed. Instead of calling these functions directly, you
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1185 should use the corresponding function without the "sp" prefix.
8737 ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1186
8885 47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1187 spatan2 spcumsum spkron spprod
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1188 spchol spdet splchol spqr
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1189 spchol2inv spdiag splu spsum
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1190 spcholinv spfind spmax spsumsqk
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1191 spcumprod spinv spmin
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1192
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1193 ** Improvements to the debugger.
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1194
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1195 The interactive debugging features have been improved. Stopping
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1196 on statements with dbstop should work correctly now. Stepping
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1197 into and over functions, and stepping one statement at a time
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1198 (with dbstep) now works. Moving up and down the call stack with
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1199 dbup and dbdown now works. The dbstack function is now available
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1200 to print the current function call stack. The new dbquit function
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1201 is available to exit the debugging mode.
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1202
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1203 ** Improved traceback error messages.
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1204
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1205 Traceback error messages are much more concise and easier to
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1206 understand. They now display information about the function call
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1207 stack instead of the stack of all statements that were active at
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1208 the point of the error.
8014 44d206ae68c9 improve fsolve compatibility John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 7990 diff changeset	1209
8737 ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1210 ** Object Oriented Programming.
8405 d79dfbff2f9d document new norm features in NEWS Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8396 diff changeset	1211
8737 ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1212 Octave now includes OOP features and the user can create their own
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1213 class objects and overloaded functions and operators. For
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1214 example, all methods of a class called "myclass" will be found in
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1215 a directory "@myclass" on the users path. The class specific
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1216 versions of functions and operators take precedence over the
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1217 generic versions of these functions.
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1218
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1219 New functions related to OOP include
7189 e8d953d03f6a [project @ 2007-11-26 20:42:09 by dbateman] dbateman parents: 7038 diff changeset	1220
8737 ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1221 class inferiorto isobject loadobj methods superiorto
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1222
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1223 See the Octave manual for more details.
7038 4482ba9814b7 [project @ 2007-10-19 16:05:48 by jwe] jwe parents: 6835 diff changeset	1224
8747 86cfcf133a19 NEWS update John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8738 diff changeset	1225 ** Parsing of Command-style Functions.
86cfcf133a19 NEWS update John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8738 diff changeset	1226
86cfcf133a19 NEWS update John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8738 diff changeset	1227 Octave now parses command-style functions without needing to first
86cfcf133a19 NEWS update John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8738 diff changeset	1228 declare them with "mark_as_command". The rules for recognizing a
86cfcf133a19 NEWS update John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8738 diff changeset	1229 command-style function calls are
86cfcf133a19 NEWS update John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8738 diff changeset	1230
86cfcf133a19 NEWS update John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8738 diff changeset	1231 * A command must appear as the first word in a statement,
86cfcf133a19 NEWS update John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8738 diff changeset	1232 followed by a space.
86cfcf133a19 NEWS update John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8738 diff changeset	1233
86cfcf133a19 NEWS update John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8738 diff changeset	1234 * The first character after the space must not be '=' or '('
86cfcf133a19 NEWS update John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8738 diff changeset	1235
86cfcf133a19 NEWS update John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8738 diff changeset	1236 * The next token after the space must not look like a binary
86cfcf133a19 NEWS update John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8738 diff changeset	1237 operator.
86cfcf133a19 NEWS update John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8738 diff changeset	1238
86cfcf133a19 NEWS update John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8738 diff changeset	1239 These rules should be mostly compatible with the way Matlab parses
86cfcf133a19 NEWS update John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8738 diff changeset	1240 command-style function calls and allow users to define commands in
86cfcf133a19 NEWS update John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8738 diff changeset	1241 .m files without having to mark them as commands.
86cfcf133a19 NEWS update John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8738 diff changeset	1242
86cfcf133a19 NEWS update John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8738 diff changeset	1243 Note that previous versions of Octave allowed expressions like
86cfcf133a19 NEWS update John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8738 diff changeset	1244
86cfcf133a19 NEWS update John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8738 diff changeset	1245 x = load -text foo.dat
86cfcf133a19 NEWS update John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8738 diff changeset	1246
86cfcf133a19 NEWS update John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8738 diff changeset	1247 but an expression like this will now generate a parse error. In
86cfcf133a19 NEWS update John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8738 diff changeset	1248 order to assign the value returned by a function to a variable,
86cfcf133a19 NEWS update John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8738 diff changeset	1249 you must use the normal function call syntax:
86cfcf133a19 NEWS update John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8738 diff changeset	1250
86cfcf133a19 NEWS update John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8738 diff changeset	1251 x = load ("-text", "foo.dat");
86cfcf133a19 NEWS update John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8738 diff changeset	1252
8737 ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1253 ** Block comments.
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1254
8747 86cfcf133a19 NEWS update John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8738 diff changeset	1255 Commented code can be between matching "#{" and "#}" or "%{" and
86cfcf133a19 NEWS update John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8738 diff changeset	1256 "%}" markers, even if the commented code spans several line. This
86cfcf133a19 NEWS update John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8738 diff changeset	1257 allows blocks code to be commented, without needing to comment
86cfcf133a19 NEWS update John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8738 diff changeset	1258 each line. For example,
5814 67bf9b4f2ae2 [project @ 2006-05-11 21:58:34 by jwe] jwe parents: 5798 diff changeset	1259
8747 86cfcf133a19 NEWS update John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8738 diff changeset	1260 function [s, t] = func (x, y)
86cfcf133a19 NEWS update John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8738 diff changeset	1261 s = 2 * x;
86cfcf133a19 NEWS update John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8738 diff changeset	1262 #{
86cfcf133a19 NEWS update John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8738 diff changeset	1263 s *= y;
86cfcf133a19 NEWS update John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8738 diff changeset	1264 t = y + x;
86cfcf133a19 NEWS update John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8738 diff changeset	1265 #}
7990 86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	1266 endfunction
5814 67bf9b4f2ae2 [project @ 2006-05-11 21:58:34 by jwe] jwe parents: 5798 diff changeset	1267
8747 86cfcf133a19 NEWS update John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8738 diff changeset	1268 the lines "s *= y;" and "t = y + x" will not be executed.
8737 ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1269
12400 5252f12537f8 don't warn about coercing nested functions to subfunctions if yyparse failed John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12224 diff changeset	1270 ** If any subfunction in a file ends with "end" or "endfunction", then
5252f12537f8 don't warn about coercing nested functions to subfunctions if yyparse failed John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12224 diff changeset	1271 they all must end that way. Previously, Octave accepted
5252f12537f8 don't warn about coercing nested functions to subfunctions if yyparse failed John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12224 diff changeset	1272
5252f12537f8 don't warn about coercing nested functions to subfunctions if yyparse failed John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12224 diff changeset	1273 function main ()
5252f12537f8 don't warn about coercing nested functions to subfunctions if yyparse failed John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12224 diff changeset	1274 ...
5252f12537f8 don't warn about coercing nested functions to subfunctions if yyparse failed John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12224 diff changeset	1275 # no endfunction here.
5252f12537f8 don't warn about coercing nested functions to subfunctions if yyparse failed John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12224 diff changeset	1276 function sub ()
5252f12537f8 don't warn about coercing nested functions to subfunctions if yyparse failed John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12224 diff changeset	1277 ...
5252f12537f8 don't warn about coercing nested functions to subfunctions if yyparse failed John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12224 diff changeset	1278 endfunction
5252f12537f8 don't warn about coercing nested functions to subfunctions if yyparse failed John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12224 diff changeset	1279
5252f12537f8 don't warn about coercing nested functions to subfunctions if yyparse failed John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12224 diff changeset	1280 but this is no longer allowed.
5252f12537f8 don't warn about coercing nested functions to subfunctions if yyparse failed John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 12224 diff changeset	1281
8737 ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1282 ** Special treatment in the parser of expressions like "a' * b".
2452 a28ed603c65c [project @ 1996-10-31 19:49:29 by jwe] jwe parents: diff changeset	1283
8737 ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1284 In these cases the transpose is no longer explicitly formed and
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1285 BLAS libraries are called with the transpose flagged,
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1286 significantly improving performance for these kinds of
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1287 operations.
8417 654bcfb937bf Add the eigs and svds functions David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 8405 diff changeset	1288
8737 ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1289 ** Single Precision data type.
2452 a28ed603c65c [project @ 1996-10-31 19:49:29 by jwe] jwe parents: diff changeset	1290
8737 ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1291 Octave now includes a single precision data type. Single
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1292 precision variables can be created with the "single" command, or
9034 52515efc50c0 Documentation cleanup on NEWS file Rik <rdrider0-list@yahoo.com> parents: 9031 diff changeset	1293 from functions like ones, eye, etc. For example,
5995 9223672bd578 [project @ 2006-09-21 20:09:44 by jwe] jwe parents: 5913 diff changeset	1294
8737 ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1295 single (1)
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1296 ones (2, 2, "single")
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1297 zeros (2, 2, "single")
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1298 eye (2, 2, "single")
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1299 Inf (2, 2, "single")
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1300 NaN (2, 2, "single")
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1301 NA (2, 2, "single")
7279 72b5e1701da2 [project @ 2007-12-10 21:01:48 by jwe] jwe parents: 7189 diff changeset	1302
8737 ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1303 all create single precision variables. For compatibility with
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1304 Matlab, mixed double/single precision operators and functions
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1305 return single precision types.
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1306
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1307 As a consequence of this addition to Octave the internal
7990 86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	1308 representation of the double precision NA value has changed, and
86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	1309 so users that make use of data generated by Octave with R or
86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	1310 visa-versa are warned that compatibility might not be assured.
7279 72b5e1701da2 [project @ 2007-12-10 21:01:48 by jwe] jwe parents: 7189 diff changeset	1311
8737 ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1312 ** Improved array indexing.
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1313
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1314 The underlying code used for indexing of arrays has been
9034 52515efc50c0 Documentation cleanup on NEWS file Rik <rdrider0-list@yahoo.com> parents: 9031 diff changeset	1315 completely rewritten and indexing is now significantly faster.
8737 ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1316
8755 59c0fde890a0 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8749 diff changeset	1317 ** Improved memory management.
59c0fde890a0 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8749 diff changeset	1318
59c0fde890a0 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8749 diff changeset	1319 Octave will now attempt to share data in some cases where previously
59c0fde890a0 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8749 diff changeset	1320 a copy would be made, such as certain array slicing operations or
9031 1052a66078cf Documentation cleanup of top-level Octave directory (READMEs, INSTALL) Rik <rdrider0-list@yahoo.com> parents: 8932 diff changeset	1321 conversions between cells, structs and cs-lists. This usually reduces
8755 59c0fde890a0 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8749 diff changeset	1322 both time and memory consumption.
9128 c71fe7045aa0 small NEWS update Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9110 diff changeset	1323 Also, Octave will now attempt to detect and optimize usage of a vector
c71fe7045aa0 small NEWS update Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9110 diff changeset	1324 as a stack, when elements are being repeatedly inserted at/removed from
c71fe7045aa0 small NEWS update Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 9110 diff changeset	1325 the end of the vector.
8755 59c0fde890a0 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8749 diff changeset	1326
8738 c32e710407ee NEWS: another update John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8737 diff changeset	1327 ** Improved performance for reduction operations.
c32e710407ee NEWS: another update John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8737 diff changeset	1328
8755 59c0fde890a0 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8749 diff changeset	1329 The performance of the sum, prod, sumsq, cumsum, cumprod, any, all,
59c0fde890a0 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8749 diff changeset	1330 max and min functions has been significantly improved.
8738 c32e710407ee NEWS: another update John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8737 diff changeset	1331
9006 979d0492ff40 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8932 diff changeset	1332 ** Sorting and searching.
979d0492ff40 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8932 diff changeset	1333
979d0492ff40 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8932 diff changeset	1334 The performance of sort has been improved, especially when sorting
10453 7d23c19249d6 NEWS: style fixes John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10437 diff changeset	1335 indices are requested. An efficient built-in issorted
7d23c19249d6 NEWS: style fixes John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10437 diff changeset	1336 implementation was added. The sortrows function now uses a more
12702 013cd94d8d7f doc: Spelling fixes for various documentation files John Bradshaw <john@johnbradshaw.org> parents: 12698 diff changeset	1337 efficient algorithm, especially in the homogeneous case. The lookup
10453 7d23c19249d6 NEWS: style fixes John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10437 diff changeset	1338 function is now a built-in function performing a binary search,
7d23c19249d6 NEWS: style fixes John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10437 diff changeset	1339 optimized for long runs of close elements. Lookup also works with
7d23c19249d6 NEWS: style fixes John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10437 diff changeset	1340 cell arrays of strings.
9006 979d0492ff40 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8932 diff changeset	1341
979d0492ff40 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8932 diff changeset	1342 ** Range arithmetics
979d0492ff40 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8932 diff changeset	1343
10453 7d23c19249d6 NEWS: style fixes John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10437 diff changeset	1344 For some operations on ranges, Octave will attempt to keep the
7d23c19249d6 NEWS: style fixes John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10437 diff changeset	1345 result as a range. These include negation, adding a scalar,
14093 050bc580cb60 doc: Various docstring improvements before 3.6.0 release. Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> parents: 14082 diff changeset	1346 subtracting a scalar, and multiplying by a scalar. Ranges with zero
10453 7d23c19249d6 NEWS: style fixes John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10437 diff changeset	1347 increment are allowed and can be constructed using the built-in
7d23c19249d6 NEWS: style fixes John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10437 diff changeset	1348 function `ones'.
9006 979d0492ff40 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8932 diff changeset	1349
979d0492ff40 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8932 diff changeset	1350 ** Various performance improvements.
979d0492ff40 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8932 diff changeset	1351
10453 7d23c19249d6 NEWS: style fixes John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10437 diff changeset	1352 Performance of a number of other built-in operations and functions
7d23c19249d6 NEWS: style fixes John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 10437 diff changeset	1353 was improved, including:
9006 979d0492ff40 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8932 diff changeset	1354
979d0492ff40 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8932 diff changeset	1355 * logical operations
979d0492ff40 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8932 diff changeset	1356 * comparison operators
979d0492ff40 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8932 diff changeset	1357 * element-wise power
979d0492ff40 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8932 diff changeset	1358 * accumarray
979d0492ff40 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8932 diff changeset	1359 * cellfun
979d0492ff40 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8932 diff changeset	1360 * isnan
979d0492ff40 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8932 diff changeset	1361 * isinf
979d0492ff40 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8932 diff changeset	1362 * isfinite
979d0492ff40 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8932 diff changeset	1363 * nchoosek
979d0492ff40 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8932 diff changeset	1364 * repmat
979d0492ff40 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8932 diff changeset	1365 * strcmp
979d0492ff40 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8932 diff changeset	1366
8737 ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1367 ** 64-bit integer arithmetic.
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1368
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1369 Arithmetic with 64-bit integers (int64 and uint64 types) is fully
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1370 supported, with saturation semantics like the other integer types.
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1371 Performance of most integer arithmetic operations has been
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1372 improved by using integer arithmetic directly. Previously, Octave
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1373 performed integer math with saturation semantics by converting the
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1374 operands to double precision, performing the operation, and then
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1375 converting the result back to an integer value, truncating if
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1376 necessary.
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1377
8885 47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1378 ** Diagonal and permutation matrices.
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1379
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1380 The interpreter can now treat diagonal and permutation matrices as
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1381 special objects that store only the non-zero elements, rather than
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1382 general full matrices. Therefore, it is now possible to construct
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1383 and use these matrices in linear algebra without suffering a
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1384 performance penalty due to storing large numbers of zero elements.
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1385
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1386 ** Improvements to fsolve.
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1387
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1388 The fsolve function now accepts an option structure argument (see
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1389 also the optimset function). The INFO values returned from fsolve
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1390 have changed to be compatible with Matlab's fsolve function.
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1391 Additionally, fsolve is now able to solve overdetermined systems,
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1392 complex-differentiable complex systems, systems with a sparse
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1393 jacobian and can work in single precision if given single precision
9031 1052a66078cf Documentation cleanup of top-level Octave directory (READMEs, INSTALL) Rik <rdrider0-list@yahoo.com> parents: 8932 diff changeset	1394 inputs. It can also be called recursively.
8885 47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1395
8737 ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1396 ** Improvements to the norm function.
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1397
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1398 The norm function is now able to compute row or column norms of a
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1399 matrix in a single call, as well as general matrix p-norms.
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1400
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1401 ** New functions for computing some eigenvalues or singular values.
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1402
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1403 The eigs and svds functions have been included in Octave. These
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1404 functions require the ARPACK library (now distributed under a
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1405 GPL-compatible license).
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1406
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1407 ** New QR and Cholesky factorization updating functions.
8370 34960ba08a81 document more new features in the NEWS file Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8292 diff changeset	1408
8737 ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1409 choldelete cholshift qrdelete qrshift
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1410 cholinsert cholupdate qrinsert qrupdate
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1411
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1412 ** New quadrature functions.
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1413
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1414 dblquad quadgk quadv triplequad
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1415
8885 47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1416 ** New functions for reading and writing images.
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1417
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1418 The imwrite and imread functions have been included in Octave.
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1419 These functions require the GraphicsMagick library. The new
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1420 function imfinfo provides information about an image file (size,
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1421 type, colors, etc.)
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1422
9215 1500d0197484 allow multiple input event hook functions to be installed simultaneously John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 9128 diff changeset	1423 ** The input_event_hook function has been replaced by the pair of
1500d0197484 allow multiple input event hook functions to be installed simultaneously John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 9128 diff changeset	1424 functions add_input_event_hook and remove_input_event_hook so that
1500d0197484 allow multiple input event hook functions to be installed simultaneously John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 9128 diff changeset	1425 more than one hook function may be installed at a time.
1500d0197484 allow multiple input event hook functions to be installed simultaneously John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 9128 diff changeset	1426
8737 ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8439 diff changeset	1427 ** Other miscellaneous new functions.
8370 34960ba08a81 document more new features in the NEWS file Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8292 diff changeset	1428
8932 2d0f8692a82e Add the 'histc' function Soren Hauberg <hauberg@gmail.com> parents: 8888 diff changeset	1429 addtodate hypot reallog
2d0f8692a82e Add the 'histc' function Soren Hauberg <hauberg@gmail.com> parents: 8888 diff changeset	1430 bicgstab idivide realpow
9006 979d0492ff40 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8932 diff changeset	1431 cellslices info realsqrt
979d0492ff40 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8932 diff changeset	1432 cgs interp1q rectint
979d0492ff40 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8932 diff changeset	1433 command_line_path isdebugmode regexptranslate
979d0492ff40 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8932 diff changeset	1434 contrast isfloat restoredefaultpath
979d0492ff40 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8932 diff changeset	1435 convn isstrprop roundb
979d0492ff40 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8932 diff changeset	1436 cummin log1p rundemos
979d0492ff40 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8932 diff changeset	1437 cummax lsqnonneg runlength
979d0492ff40 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8932 diff changeset	1438 datetick matlabroot saveobj
979d0492ff40 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8932 diff changeset	1439 display namelengthmax spaugment
979d0492ff40 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8932 diff changeset	1440 expm1 nargoutchk strchr
979d0492ff40 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8932 diff changeset	1441 filemarker pathdef strvcat
979d0492ff40 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8932 diff changeset	1442 fstat perl subspace
979d0492ff40 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8932 diff changeset	1443 full prctile symvar
979d0492ff40 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8932 diff changeset	1444 fzero quantile treelayout
979d0492ff40 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8932 diff changeset	1445 genvarname re_read_readline_init_file validatestring
979d0492ff40 more NEWS updates Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8932 diff changeset	1446 histc
8370 34960ba08a81 document more new features in the NEWS file Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com> parents: 8292 diff changeset	1447
8885 47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1448 ** Changes to strcat.
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1449
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1450 The strcat function is now compatible with Matlab's strcat
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1451 function, which removes trailing whitespace when concatenating
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1452 character strings. For example
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1453
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1454 strcat ('foo ', 'bar')
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1455 ==> 'foobar'
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1456
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1457 The new function cstrcat provides the previous behavior of
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1458 Octave's strcat.
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1459
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1460 ** Improvements to the help functions.
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1461
9034 52515efc50c0 Documentation cleanup on NEWS file Rik <rdrider0-list@yahoo.com> parents: 9031 diff changeset	1462 The help system has been mostly re-implemented in .m files to make
8885 47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1463 it easier to modify. Performance of the lookfor function has been
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1464 greatly improved by caching the help text from all functions that
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1465 are distributed with Octave. The pkg function has been modified
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1466 to generate cache files for external packages when they are
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1467 installed.
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8858 diff changeset	1468
8888 0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8885 diff changeset	1469 ** Deprecated functions.
0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8885 diff changeset	1470
0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8885 diff changeset	1471 The following functions were deprecated in Octave 3.0 and will be
11112 8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1472 removed from Octave 3.4 (or whatever version is the second major
8888 0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8885 diff changeset	1473 release after 3.0):
0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8885 diff changeset	1474
11112 8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1475 beta_cdf geometric_pdf pascal_pdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1476 beta_inv geometric_rnd pascal_rnd
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1477 beta_pdf hypergeometric_cdf poisson_cdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1478 beta_rnd hypergeometric_inv poisson_inv
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1479 binomial_cdf hypergeometric_pdf poisson_pdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1480 binomial_inv hypergeometric_rnd poisson_rnd
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1481 binomial_pdf intersection polyinteg
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1482 binomial_rnd is_bool setstr
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1483 chisquare_cdf is_complex struct_contains
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1484 chisquare_inv is_list struct_elements
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1485 chisquare_pdf is_matrix t_cdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1486 chisquare_rnd is_scalar t_inv
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1487 clearplot is_square t_pdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1488 clg is_stream t_rnd
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1489 com2str is_struct uniform_cdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1490 exponential_cdf is_symmetric uniform_inv
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1491 exponential_inv is_vector uniform_pdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1492 exponential_pdf isstr uniform_rnd
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1493 exponential_rnd lognormal_cdf weibcdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1494 f_cdf lognormal_inv weibinv
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1495 f_inv lognormal_pdf weibpdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1496 f_pdf lognormal_rnd weibrnd
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1497 f_rnd meshdom weibull_cdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1498 gamma_cdf normal_cdf weibull_inv
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1499 gamma_inv normal_inv weibull_pdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1500 gamma_pdf normal_pdf weibull_rnd
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1501 gamma_rnd normal_rnd wiener_rnd
8888 0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8885 diff changeset	1502 geometric_cdf pascal_cdf
0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8885 diff changeset	1503 geometric_inv pascal_inv
0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8885 diff changeset	1504
0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8885 diff changeset	1505 The following functions are now deprecated in Octave 3.2 and will
11112 8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 11111 diff changeset	1506 be removed from Octave 3.6 (or whatever version is the second major
8888 0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8885 diff changeset	1507 release after 3.2):
0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8885 diff changeset	1508
0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8885 diff changeset	1509 create_set spcholinv spmax
0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8885 diff changeset	1510 dmult spcumprod spmin
0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8885 diff changeset	1511 iscommand spcumsum spprod
0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8885 diff changeset	1512 israwcommand spdet spqr
0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8885 diff changeset	1513 lchol spdiag spsum
0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8885 diff changeset	1514 loadimage spfind spsumsq
0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8885 diff changeset	1515 mark_as_command spinv str2mat
0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8885 diff changeset	1516 mark_as_rawcommand spkron unmark_command
0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8885 diff changeset	1517 spatan2 splchol unmark_rawcommand
0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8885 diff changeset	1518 spchol split
0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8885 diff changeset	1519 spchol2inv splu
0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0 John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> parents: 8885 diff changeset	1520
7990 86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	1521 See NEWS.3 for old news.

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