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maint: Merge stable to default.
author | John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> |
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date | Thu, 02 Dec 2021 14:21:16 -0500 |
parents | 1fda8d2229d7 420608d1d370 |
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Summary of important user-visible changes for version 8 (yyyy-mm-dd): --------------------------------------------------------------------- ### General improvements - The pkg update command now accepts options that are passed to pkg install for each updated package. Specifying @option{-local} or @option{-global} will restrict update checks to local and global installed packgaes, respectively. ### Graphical User Interface ### Graphics backend ### Matlab compatibility ### Alphabetical list of new functions added in Octave 8 ### Deprecated functions, properties, and operators The following functions and properties have been deprecated in Octave 8 and will be removed from Octave 10 (or whatever version is the second major release after 8): The following functions were deprecated in Octave 6 and have been removed from Octave 8. - Functions Function | Replacement -----------------------|------------------ `runtests` | `oruntests` - The environment variable used by `mkoctfile` for linker flags is now `LDFLAGS` rather than `LFLAGS`. `LFLAGS` was deprecated in Octave 6, and has been removed from Octave 8. ### Old release news - [Octave 7.x](etc/NEWS.7) - [Octave 6.x](etc/NEWS.6) - [Octave 5.x](etc/NEWS.5) - [Octave 4.x](etc/NEWS.4) - [Octave 3.x](etc/NEWS.3) - [Octave 2.x](etc/NEWS.2) - [Octave 1.x](etc/NEWS.1)