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* NEWS.8: Note change in sparse_auto_mutate.
author John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
date Fri, 04 Mar 2022 14:24:01 -0500
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1 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 8 (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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4 ### General improvements
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6 - Octave's libraries are now built using symbol visibility by default.
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7 That means that less symbols are exported from these libraries.
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8 Configure with `--disable-lib-visibility-flags` to export all symbols
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9 (as in previous versions).
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12 ### Graphical User Interface
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15 ### Graphics backend
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18 ### Matlab compatibility
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21 ### Alphabetical list of new functions added in Octave 8
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24 ### Deprecated functions, properties, and operators
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26 The following functions and properties have been deprecated in Octave 8
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27 and will be removed from Octave 10 (or whatever version is the second
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28 major release after 8):
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30 - Functions
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32 Function | Replacement
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34 `shift` | `circshift`
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35 `sparse_auto_mutate` | none (see below)
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37 - The `sparse_auto_mutate` function no longer has any effect on Octave's behavior. Prevoiusly, after calling `sparse_auto_mutate (true)`, Octave would automatically convert sparse matrices to full when a sparse matrix required more memory than simply using full matrix storage. This setting was `false` by default for compatibility with Matlab. Now you must manually convert to full storage when desired.
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39 The following functions were deprecated in Octave 6 and have been removed
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40 from Octave 8.
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42 - Functions
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44 Function | Replacement
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46 `runtests` | `oruntests`
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48 - The environment variable used by `mkoctfile` for linker flags is now
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49 `LDFLAGS` rather than `LFLAGS`. `LFLAGS` was deprecated in Octave 6,
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50 and will be removed in a future version of Octave.
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52 ### Old release news
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54 - [Octave 7.x](etc/NEWS.7)
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55 - [Octave 6.x](etc/NEWS.6)
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56 - [Octave 5.x](etc/NEWS.5)
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57 - [Octave 4.x](etc/NEWS.4)
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58 - [Octave 3.x](etc/NEWS.3)
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59 - [Octave 2.x](etc/NEWS.2)
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60 - [Octave 1.x](etc/NEWS.1)