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--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/www/NEWS.in Sun Oct 15 20:45:16 2006 +0000 @@ -0,0 +1,436 @@ +__HEADER__([[[Octave-Forge News Archive]]]) + +<div class="section"> +<p>This is an abbreviated list of the changes that were introduced in +various versions of octave-forge. For a full list of changes please +see the <a href="__BASE_ADDRESS__/ChangeLog">ChangeLog</a>.</p> +</div> +<div class="section"> +<dl> +<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="/packages.html">packages</a> for more details</p> +</dd> +<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> +</ul> +</dd> +<dt>March 16, 2006</dt> +<dd> +<p>Octave-forge version 20060316 released. An abbreviated list of +changes is:</p> +<ul> + <li>statistics/regress: new function</li> + <li>general bug fixes and improvements</li> +</ul> +</dd> +<dt>January 28, 2006</dt> +<dd> +<p>Octave-forge version 20060128 released. An abbreviated list of +changes is:</p> +<ul> + <li>audio/waveread: big-endian fix; 2-channel file fix</li> + <li>comm/galois: fix rank calculation for galois array</li> + <li>general/interp2: cubic interpolation</li> + <li>image/: return MxNx3 matrices of appropriate numeric class</li> + <li>io/textread: faster</li> + <li>io/dlmwrite: control precision and line separator; allow append</li> + <li>miscellaneous/mfilename: compatibility function</li> + <li>miscellaneous/listen: subnet patterns; loopback support</li> + <li>NaN/xcovf: missing data xcorr</li> + <li>octcdf/: support for netcdf files</li> + <li>optim/wpolyfit: return row vector; allow centering and scaling</li> + <li>plot/legend: fix error on first call</li> + <li>plot/print: add PDF option</li> + <li>signal/residued,residuez: partial fraction expansion of filters</li> + <li>signal/qp_kaiser: PPN filter bank coefficients</li> + <li>statistics/histfit: allow negative data</li> + <li>statistics/mvnpdf,mvnrnd: multivariate normal distribution</li> + <li>tsa/: improved speed, style and docs</li> + <li>tsa/amarma: adaptive mean ARMA modeling</li> + <li>tsa/y2res: add entropy estimation; add equidistant quantisation</li> + <li>tsa/mvfreqz: add PDCF</li> + <li>support for 2.9.4</li> + <li>support for 64-bit indexing</li> + <li>support for MinGW build</li> + <li>general bug fixes and improvements</li> +</ul> +</dd> +<dt>June 13, 2005</dt> +<dd> +<p>Octave-forge version 20050613 released. An abbreviated list of +changes is:</p> +<ul> + <li>textread now returns cell arrays</li> + <li>use new gnuplot interface for functions</li> + <li>fix rand bug on non-intel architectures</li> + <li>more econometrics functions</li> + <li>new functions: randg, cellfun, cell2mat, bwarea, imresize, savepath</li> + <li>bug fixes and improvements</li> +</ul> +</dd> +<dt>November 16, 2004</dt> +<dd> +<p>Octave-forge version 20041116 released. Extends support to Octave 2.1.62. +An abbreviated list of changes is:</p> +<ul> + <li>initial econometrics toolbox</li> + <li>updated protein databank (extra/pdb) functions</li> + <li>new functions: wavread wavwrite hann strfind randp sprandn conv2nan</li> + <li>many bug fixes and improvements</li> +</ul> +</dd> +<dt>September 07, 2004</dt> +<dd> +<p>Octave-forge version 20040907 released. Extends support to Octave 2.1.58. +An abbreviated list of changes is:</p> +<ul> + <li>Base</li> + <ul> + <li>getfield/setfield now have a compatible interface; for the + old behaviour, use setfields/getfields.</li> + <li>Fill full 53-bit mantissa with the random number generators; new + sequences will be different from old sequences with the same + seed.</li> + <li>Removed restrictions on datenum/datevec and added + calendar/eomday</li> + <li>Added nthroot to return real root if available</li> + <li>Added isa to test for class membership</li> + <li>clf resets to line graphs</li> + <li>Quiver plot is faster and no longer requires clf</li> + <li>Added audio playback on OS X</li> + </ul> + <li>Image processing</li> + <ul> + <li>Initial support for int* types.</li> + <li>Added dilate erode bweuler bwmorph houghtf stretchlim + makelut applylut uintlut padarray roicolor poly2mask + qtdecomp qtgetblk qtsetblk bestblk blkproc nlfilter + cmunique cmpermute col2im im2col graycomatrix conndef isrgb</li> + </ul> + <li>Optimization</li> + <ul> + <li>Replacement fzero using Brent's root finder</li> + </ul> + <li>Communications:</li> + <ul> + <li>Support for concatenation operator [] on galois type</li> + <li>Reduce restrictions on bchpoly syndtable</li> + </ul> + <li>Signal processing:</li> + <ul> + <li>Added flattopwin</li> + <li>fir1/fir2 have more flexible argument handling</li> + </ul> + <li>Sparse:</li> + <ul> + <li>Load/save support</li> + <li>Support for concatenation operator []</li> + <li>Added pcr for preconditioned conjugate gradient</li> + </ul> + <li>Statistics:</li> + <ul> + <li>Added histfit pareto tabulate anderson_darling_cdf + anderson_darling_test</li> + </ul> +</ul> +</dd> +<dt>July 07, 2004</dt> +<dd> +<p>Octave-forge version 20040707 released. Extends support to Octave 2.1.57. +An abbreviated list of changes is:</p> +<ul> + <li>The optimization functions have been replaced but the new interface + is not yet settled. See the files in the optim directory.</li> + <li>New package gsl: GNU Scientific library bindings.</li> + <li>New package fixed: Fixed point numeric operations.</li> + <li>New functions: polyconf wsolve fullfact pcg princomp filtic + rande azimuth deg2rad rad2deg distance zoom inputname fnval + fftconv2 mvaar</li> + <li>Bug fixes everywhere they are found.</li> +</ul> +</dd> +<dt>February 11, 2004</dt> +<dd> +<p>Octave-forge version 20040211 released. Extends support to Octave +2.1.53 for all oct-files. Improved build environment and better +testing. We still need more tests! If you need a function and don't +see any test cases in it, add some and send them our way. See +'help test' for details. An abbreviated list of changes is:</p> +<ul> + <li>Changes</li> + <ul> + <li>rand/randn: generates a different random number sequence + from before.</li> + </ul> + <li>New functions</li> + <ul> + <li>anovan: analysis of variance</li> + <li>append_save: add a variable to a save file</li> + <li>assert: now supports structure arrays and cell arrays</li> + <li>BFGSMin: alternative to bfgs minimizer</li> + <li>conv2nan: 2-D convolution which ignores missing data</li> + <li>convhull/convhulln: now allows direct control of qhull + parameters</li> + <li>csape: support n=3 case --- need to verify it is correct</li> + <li>dxfwrite: output plot to DXF format (AutoCAD)</li> + <li>fail: checks if code fails with a given error message</li> + <li>galois: load/save support</li> + <li>gpick: alternative to ginput</li> + <li>imread: now supports 16-bit grayscale</li> + <li>irsa_*: irregularly sampled data analysis functions</li> + <li>map: apply a function across all elements of a cell array</li> + <li>mex: initial support for structures</li> + <li>pngread/pngwrite: direct access to libpng</li> + <li>quadl: improved adaptive quadrature routine</li> + <li>rand/randn: faster and now supports for nD arrays</li> + <li>sort: fast sort based on python's timsort</li> + <li>sprandn: random sparse matrix filled with normally + distributed values</li> + <li>str2double: convert string to double</li> + <li>struct: now creates structure arrays</li> + <li>toggle_grace_use: use grace plotting package rather than gnuplot</li> + <li>xmlwrite: save data to xml format</li> + </ul> + <li>Plus the usual bug fixes and documentation updates.</li> +</ul> +</dd> +<dt>June 02, 2003</dt> +<dd> +<p>Octave-forge version 20030602 released. For Octave 2.1.36 and up. +An abbreviated list of changes is:</p> +<ul> + <li>Extended support backward to octave 2.1.36 and forward to octave 2.1.49 + for all oct-files. Some scripts make use of features only available in + more recent versions of Octave.</li> + <li>Communications:</li> + <ul> + <li>sqrt over Galois field</li> + <li>BCH code, modulator</li> + <li>bug fixes and documentation improvements</li> + </ul> + <li>Image:</li> + <ul> + <li>added rotate_scale()</li> + </ul> + <li>Optimization:</li> + <ul> + <li>added Nick Higham's adsmax, mdsmax nmsmax for fmins</li> + <li>lp() fix range error</li> + </ul> + <li>Plotting:</li> + <ul> + <li>surf()/surfc() support gnuplot 3.8i shaded surfaces</li> + <li>added peaks()</li> + <li>legend() inside/ouside/boxon/boxoff/right/left</li> + <li>Signal Processing </li> + <li>added freqs, invfreqs, invfreqz</li> + <li>return statespace and laplacian IIR filters (butter, cheby1, + cheby2, ellip)</li> + <li>fixed aryule() to return the correct filter + </ul> + <li>Statistics:</li> + <ul> + <li>added normplot()</li> + <li>scatter() optimization</li> + </ul> + <li>Sparse:</li> + <ul> + <li>added concatenation functions spvcat() and sphcat()</li> + </ul> + </li>Symbolic: </li> + <ul> + <li>added poly2sym, sym2poly, numden, findsymbols, findsym, symlsolve, + symfsolve, syminfo</li> + <li>subs() accepts cell arrays</li> + </ul> + <li>TSA/NaN:</li> + <ul> + <li>many bug fixes and documentation improvements</li> + </ul> + <li>Miscellaneous:</li> + <ul> + <li>added cellstr()</li> + <li>fieldnames() now returns cell array</li> + <li>listen() bugfixes</li> + <li>ellipke() supports m < 0</li> + <li>deal() now supports [a,b] = deal(b,a)</li> + <li>dlmread() converted to C++ for speed and more flexible input</li> + </ul> + <li>administration: </li> + <ul> + <li>target specific build instructions (MacOSX, windows, Irix)</li> + </ul> +</ul> +</dd> +<dt>February 22, 2003</dt> +<dd> +<p>Octave-forge version 20030222 released. An abbreviated list of +changes is:</p> +<ul> + <li>Updates for octave 2.1.45</li> + <li>Parallel: Light weight parallel programming added but + flagged NOINSTALL.</li> + <li>Communications: add galois field functions and others</li> + <li>Signal Processing: add convmtx and dftmtx</li> + <li>Geometry: add (poor) griddata/tsearch support --- please improve!!</li> + <li>VRML: new options 'z(grey|rb|col)' for vmesh() and + vrml_surf(). Fixes and improvements to many functions.</li> + <li>NaN: enhanced cov/covm, NaN arithmetic fixes </li> + <li>TSA: bug fix (matlab 5.3 bug)</li> + <li>Sparse: add spstats and x.^a, more robust</li> + <li>Base functions: add fileparts, filesep, char, dos; improve dlmread</li> + <li>Function overloading: dispatch() lets you call tf rather + than f if the first argument to f is t.</li> + <li>Octave server: listen() sets up a socket to receive octave + commands from a particular host --- please improve!!</li> + <li>Many fixes, compatibility improvements and better Windows support.</li> +</ul> +</dd> +<dt>November 30, 2002</dt> +<dd> +<p>Octave-forge version 20021130 released. For Octave 2.1.40. An +abbreviated list of changes is:</p> +<ul> + <li>New functions</li> + <ul> + <li>general/ndims: compatibility function</li> + <li>image/imginfo: determines size of image using 'convert'</li> + <li>image/colfilt: image block filtering function</li> + <li>image/im{rotate,translate,shear}: image transformations</li> + <li>miscellaneous/inline: generate a function from an expression</li> + <li>miscellaneous/slurp_file: loads a file into a string</li> + <li>miscellaneous/{rotv,rotparams}: parameterize 3D rotation + matrices</li> + <li>plot/contour.f: filled contours</li> + <li>sparse/{sprand,spdiags,issparse}: sparse functions</li> + <li>specfun/lambertw: Lambert's W function: x=w(x)*exp(w(x))</li> + <li>specfun/betaln: log beta</li> + <li>splines/pchip: Piecewise Cubic Hermitian Interpolating + Polynomial</li> + <li>statistics/{boxplot,scatter}: statistical plots</li> + <li>symbolic/{cheb,chebwin}: Dolph-Chebyshev windows</li> + <li>vrml/vmesh: 3D visualization of a surface</li> + <li>vrml/*: represent and show 3D objects as VRML code (needs + FreeWRL)</li> + </ul> + <li>Extended interfaces</li> + <ul> + <li>audio/au{load,save}: support floating point .wav formats</li> + <li>image/colorgradient: allow instantaneous transitions (weight 0)</li> + <li>optim/wpolyfit: option to fit through origin</li> + <li>signal/{ellip,ellipord}: compatible interfac</li> + <li>sparse/spy: accept dense matrices</li> + <li>strings/mat2string: accept [] and complex</li> + <li>symbolic/*: relational operators</li> + <li>time/datestr: more format codes; handle vectors of + dates</li> + </ul> + <li>Changed interfaces</li> + <ul> + <li>image/bwlabel: C++ version---may be different from m-file + interface</li> + <li>extra/ode: moved from v1.06 to v1.14</li> + <li>optim/*: unified interface supporting options</li> + <li>optim/wpolyfit: don't return yf</li> + <li>optim/wpolyfit: return row vectors for compatibility with + polyfit</li> + <li>signal/nellip: replaced by ellip, ellipord</li> + <li>OCTAVE_FORGE_VERSION is now an ordered integer: yyyymmdd</li> + <li>FIXES/fsolve: removed because it hasn't been updated to 2.1.40</li> + </ul> + <li>extra/tsa</li> + <ul> + <li>significance test and confidence intervals for PACF</li> + <li>added histogram functions for multicolumn data</li> + <li>support for new releases of octave and matlab</li> + <li>bug fixes</li> + </ul> + <li>extra/NaN</li> + <ul> + <li>added TRIMEAN, NORMPDF, NORMCDF and NORMRND</li> + <li>extended NANTEST</li> + <li>significance test and confidence intervals for CORRCOEF</li> + <li>faster RANKS</li> + <li>support for new releases of octave and matlab</li> + </ul> + <li>Internal changes</li> + <ul> + <li>extra/symband: eigenvector bug removed</li> + <li>io/dlmread: returned matrix was transposed</li> + <li>general/rat: display 1/0 for infinity</li> + <li>plot/ginput: m-file version based on grab.cc</li> + <li>plot/legend: give gnuplot time to respond to parameter request</li> + <li>signal/{buttord,fir1}: bug fixes</li> + <li>sparse/spy: prettier graph</li> + <li>gcc 3.2 updates</li> + <li>octave 2.1.40 updates</li> + <li>remove functions and fixes that are now in octave</li> + </ul> + <li>Administration</li> + <ul> + <li>vrml/doc: LaTeX tutorial on 3D visualization tools</li> + <li>Octave for Windows FAQ updates</li> + <li>INSTALL.WINDOWS installation notes</li> + <li>support for static build under Windows</li> + </ul> +</ul> +</dd> +<dt>May 09, 2002</dt> +<dd> +<p>Octave-forge version 20020509 released. This is a bug fix release. +Many thanks to the good folks at Debian for finding the portability +problems. An abbreviated list of changes is:</p> +<ul> + <li>New functions</li> + <ul> + <li>miscellaneous/OCTAVE_FORGE_VERSION</li> + <li>extra/tsa/durlev</li> + <li>strings/base64encode</li> + <li>signal/guasswin</li> + <li>image/colfilt</li> + </ul> + <li>Changes</li> + <ul> + <li>audio/sound: uses ssh rather than rsh for remote audio</li> + <li>testfun/assert: use tol>0 for relative error, tol<0 for + absolute err</li> + <li>optim/bfgs: new interface</li> + <li>optim/minimize: ndiff, jac, hess and ihess options</li> + <li>NaN/sumskipnan: additional outputs</li> + <li>NaN/*: bug fixes</li> + </ul> + <li>Bug fixes</li> + <ul> + <li>signal/triang: for n=2, peak=1 at the virtual center of + the window</li> + <li>signal/gaussian: now returns a symmetric window</li> + <li>now compiles on most Debian systems which support Octave.</li> + <li>updated doc strings, tests + </ul> + <li>Administration</li> + <ul> + <li>make check and make icheck added. Only supports the compiled + functions at the moment, but it is a start. + </ul> +</ul> +</dd> +</dl> +</div> +__TRAILER__
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