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* NEWS.8.md: Announce change in Matlab Compatibility section.
* quadgk.m: Change stopping criterion to use "<=".
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1 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 8 (yyyy-mm-dd): |
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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 parameter from the underlying integrator. |
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14 ### Graphical User Interface |
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17 ### Graphics backend |
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20 ### Matlab compatibility |
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21 |
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22 - `inline` functions now support all Matlab methods. The performance |
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23 of `inline` functions has also been improved. |
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25 - `sub2ind` now supports index values outside of the size specified by |
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26 the subscripts. |
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28 - `cylinder` now accepts a scalar for the radius argument. |
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30 - `clock` now has an optional second output `ISDST` which indicates if |
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31 Daylight Savings Time is in effect for the system's time zone. |
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33 - `print` now accepts option `-image` to specify the "opengl" renderer |
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34 and `-vector` to specify the "painters" renderer. |
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37 calling `format` without any options to reset the default state. |
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40 - `quadgk` now stops iterating when `error <= tolerance` while the previous |
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41 condition was `error < tolerance`. |
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43 ### Alphabetical list of new functions added in Octave 8 |
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46 ### Deprecated functions, properties, and operators |
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48 The following functions and properties have been deprecated in Octave 8 |
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49 and will be removed from Octave 10 (or whatever version is the second |
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50 major release after 8): |
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52 - Functions |
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54 Function | Replacement |
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56 `shift` | `circshift` |
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57 `sparse_auto_mutate` | none (see below) |
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59 - The `sparse_auto_mutate` function no longer has any effect on Octave's |
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60 behavior. Previously, after calling `sparse_auto_mutate (true)`, |
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61 Octave would automatically convert sparse matrices to full when a |
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62 sparse matrix required more memory than simply using full matrix |
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63 storage. This setting was `false` by default for compatibility with |
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64 Matlab. Now you must manually convert to full storage when desired. |
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65 |
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66 The following functions were deprecated in Octave 6 and have been removed |
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67 from Octave 8. |
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69 - Functions |
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71 Function | Replacement |
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73 `runtests` | `oruntests` |
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75 - The environment variable used by `mkoctfile` for linker flags is now |
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76 `LDFLAGS` rather than `LFLAGS`. `LFLAGS` was deprecated in Octave 6, |
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77 and will be removed in a future version of Octave. |
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79 ### Old release news |
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81 - [Octave 7.x](etc/NEWS.7) |
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82 - [Octave 6.x](etc/NEWS.6) |
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83 - [Octave 5.x](etc/NEWS.5) |
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85 - [Octave 3.x](etc/NEWS.3) |
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