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maint: Periodic merge of stable to gui-release.
author John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
date Tue, 20 Jan 2015 10:05:42 -0500
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1 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 4.0:
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2 ---------------------------------------------------------
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4 ** For compatibility with Matlab, the "backtrace" warning option is now
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5 enabled by default.
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7 ** The preference
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9 do_braindead_shortcircuit_evaluation
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11 is now enabled by default.
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13 ** The preference
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15 allow_noninteger_range_as_index
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17 is now enabled by default and the warning ID
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19 Octave:noninteger-range-as-index
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21 is now set to "on" by default instead of "error" by default and "on"
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22 for --traditional.
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24 ** polyeig now returns a row vector of eigenvalues rather than a matrix
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25 with the eigenvalues on the diagonal. This change was made for Matlab
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26 compatibility.
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28 ** Other new functions added in 4.0.0:
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30 validateattributes
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32 ** Deprecated functions.
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34 The following functions were deprecated in Octave 3.6 and have been
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35 removed from Octave 4.0.
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37 cut polyderiv
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38 cor shell_cmd
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39 corrcoef studentize
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40 __error_text__ sylvester_matrix
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41 error_text
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43 The following functions have been deprecated in Octave 4.0 and will
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44 be removed from Octave 4.4 (or whatever version is the second major
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45 release after 4.0):
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48 do_braindead_shortcircuit_evaluation
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50 The internal function atan2 of the sparse matrix class has been deprecated
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51 in Octave 4.0 and will be removed from Octave 4.4 (or whatever version is
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52 the second major release after 4.0). Use the Fatan2 function with sparse
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53 inputs as a replacement.
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55 ---------------------------------------------------------
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57 See NEWS.3 for old news.