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__HEADER__([[[Octave-Forge]]])
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Recent News
+
This is a short abbreviated list of the changes that were introduced in
+recent versions of octave-forge. For a full list of changes please
+see the News Archive or the
+ChangeLog.
+
+- October 20, 2006
+-
+
Octave-forge reorganized as a series of packages for use with
+the Octave package manager. See the packages for more details
+Apart from the changes associated with the conversion to use the
+package manager, the following additional changes are notable:
+
+ - odepkg: A new matlab compatible package for ODE that replaces
+ the existing extra/ode package
+ - info-theory: A new package of information theory functions
+ - linear-algebra: New function bicg
+ - spline: Allow NDArrays in csape and make it compatible
+ - comm: New functions fibodeco, fibodeco, fiboenco, fibosplitstream,
+ golombdeco, golombenco, huffmandeco, huffmandict, huffmandict,
+ huffmanenco, ricedeco, riceenco, rledeco, rleenco, shannonfanodeco,
+ shannonfanodict and shannonfanoenco
+ - specfun: New functions dirac, erfcx, expint_E1, expint_Ei, expint,
+ heaviside, psi, Si, sinint and zeta
+ - statistics: New functions betastat, binostat, chi2stat,
+ expstat, fstat, gamstat, geostat, hygestat, lognstat,
+ normstat, pascal_stat, poisstat, tstat, unidstat,
+ unifstat and weibstat
+ - polynomial: New function polyint
+ - miscellaneous: New functions zagzig, zigzag
+ - optim: New function __bfsmin replacing bfgsmin and
+ finitedifference
+ - image: __magick_read__ Fix for non 8bit Quantum sizes in
+ imagemagick
+ - general bug fixes and improvements
+
+
+- July 09, 2006
+-
+
Octave-forge version 200607008 released. This version version
+was the last monolithic release and the first release that only
+supported version of octave later than Octave 2.9.
+An abbreviated list of changes is:
+
+ - purge functions moved to Octave and remove pre-2.9.x support.
+ - comm: new functions pam/genqam/psk mod/demod
+ - combinatorics: new functions for integer partitions
+ - geometry: fix qhull problems (finally!?)
+ - signal: new function square to generate square waves
+ - statistics: new function hmm viterbi/generate
+ - strings: remove regexp; api changed when moved to Octave
+ - linear-algebra: new function for gsvd
+ - general bug fixes and improvements
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