# HG changeset patch # User Markus Mützel # Date 1698321585 -7200 # Node ID 077c0a4d401646f9f04d39baa1e17fda8b14b8f2 # Parent 7143e675c44d5db3ca42649ced7773facd68d235# Parent 4799220fcf7883b1f7e21a3b0e8aab7ae6e31863 maint: Merge release to default. diff -r 7143e675c44d -r 077c0a4d4016 installer-files/README.html --- a/installer-files/README.html Fri Oct 20 08:26:54 2023 -0400 +++ b/installer-files/README.html Thu Oct 26 13:59:45 2023 +0200 @@ -5,14 +5,17 @@

Welcome

Thank you for installing GNU Octave!

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Octave 8.3 is a minor release which mainly fixes bugs and regressions found -since the release of version 8.2. It should be feature and API compatible to -Octave 8.2.

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Octave 8.4 is a minor release which mainly fixes bugs and regressions found +since the release of version 8.3. It should be feature and API compatible to +Octave 8.3.

Octave 8 is not feature or API compatible with Octave 7 or earlier. Binaries (.oct or .mex files) need to be re-built when upgrading from Octave 7 or earlier to this version.

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Octave 8 will be the last major version which is distributed for Windows -32-bit (or WoW64).

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Binaries are no longer distributed for Windows 32-bit (or WoW64) by the +Octave project. Please refer to other distributors if you still need them. +32-bit Windows binaries of Octave are still available from +MSYS2. +

Since Octave 7, the minimum required version of the Windows API is 6.1 (Windows 7 or newer).

A full list of changes can be found in the Release Notes from the News