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   Octave-Forge is a central location for the collaborative
   development of packages for <a href="http://www.octave.org">GNU Octave</a>.
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  <p>
    The Octave-forge packages contains the source for all the functions and are
    designed to work with the Octave package system. In general the packages are
    designed to work with the latest development version of Octave, but it should
    be possible to use most packages with earlier versions.
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  <p>
    You can find the list of packages by clicking on the <em>Packages</em> link to the left.
    To install a package, download the package file, and install it from the Octave prompt
    by typing
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    <code>
    pkg install package_file_name.tar.gz
    </code>
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    where <em>package_file_name.tar.gz</em> is the name of the file you downloaded.
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  <p>
    If you have code to contribute, send a message to the
    <a href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/octave-dev">repository mailing list</a>
    or <a href="developers.html">join the development team</a>.
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<h2>Recent News</h2>
<p>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 <a href="__BASE_ADDRESS__/NEWS.html">News Archive</a> or the
<a href="__BASE_ADDRESS__/ChangeLog">ChangeLog</a>.</p>
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<dt>October 20, 2006</dt>
<dd>
<p>Octave-forge reorganized as a series of packages for use with
the Octave package manager. See the <a
href="__BASE_ADDRESS__/packages.html">packages</a> for more details
Apart from the changes associated with the conversion to use the
package manager, the following additional changes are notable:</p>
<ul>
   <li>odepkg: A new matlab compatible package for ODE that replaces
   the existing extra/ode package</li>
   <li>info-theory: A new package of information theory functions</li>
   <li>linear-algebra: New function bicg</li>
   <li>spline: Allow NDArrays in csape and make it compatible</li>
   <li>comm: New functions fibodeco, fibodeco, fiboenco, fibosplitstream,
   golombdeco, golombenco, huffmandeco, huffmandict, huffmandict,
   huffmanenco, ricedeco, riceenco, rledeco, rleenco, shannonfanodeco,
   shannonfanodict and shannonfanoenco</li>
   <li>specfun: New functions dirac, erfcx, expint_E1, expint_Ei, expint,
   heaviside, psi, Si, sinint and zeta</li>
   <li>statistics: New functions betastat, binostat, chi2stat,
   expstat, fstat, gamstat, geostat, hygestat, lognstat,
   normstat, pascal_stat, poisstat, tstat, unidstat,
   unifstat and weibstat</li>
   <li>polynomial: New function polyint</li>
   <li>miscellaneous: New functions zagzig, zigzag</li>
   <li>image: __magick_read__ Fix for non 8bit Quantum sizes in
   imagemagick</li>
   <li>general bug fixes and improvements</li>
</ul>
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<dt>July 09, 2006</dt>
<dd>
<p>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.</p>
<p>An abbreviated list of changes is:</p>
<ul>
   <li>purge functions moved to Octave and remove pre-2.9.x support.</li>
   <li>comm: new functions pam/genqam/psk mod/demod</li>
   <li>combinatorics: new functions for integer partitions</li>
   <li>geometry: fix qhull problems (finally!?)</li>
   <li>signal: new function square to generate square waves</li>
   <li>statistics: new function hmm viterbi/generate</li>
   <li>strings: remove regexp; api changed when moved to Octave</li>
   <li>linear-algebra: new function for gsvd</li>
   <li>general bug fixes and improvements</li>
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