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quiver: Marker & arrowhead name/value property style consistency (bug #64134) * __quiver__.m: Add have_line_spec check after applying any name-value properties to maintain arrowhead display status. * __quiver__.m (update_plot): Add linewidth property to base marker object set call. * quiver.m: Add BIST to ensure marker properties are updated correctly. Remove unnecessary strcmp from other BIST assert calls. * etc/NEWS.9.md: Update description of changes to quiver note under General Improvements.
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1 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 9 (yyyy-mm-dd):
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115 date for their removal.
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117 Object | Property | Replacement
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118 -----------------|-------------|------------
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122 * The `idx_vector::bool()` function is obsolete and always returns true.
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123 Any uses can simply be removed from existing code with no loss of function.
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125 * The `all_ok(const Array<octave::idx_vector>&)` function in `Array-util.h`
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126 is obsolete and always returns true. Any uses can simply be removed from
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127 existing code with no loss of function.
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131 The following features were deprecated in Octave 7 and have been removed
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136 Function | Replacement
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137 ---------------------------|------------------
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138 disable_diagonal_matrix | optimize_diagonal_matrix
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139 disable_permutation_matrix | optimize_permutation_matrix
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140 disable_range | optimize_range
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142 - Operators
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143
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144 Operator | Replacement
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145 ---------|------------
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146 .+ | +
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147 .+= | +=
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148 .- | -
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149 .-= | -=
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150 ** | ^
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151 **= | ^=
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152 .** | .^
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153 .**= | .^=
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155 - Interpreter
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156
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158 strings has been removed. Use `'\'` for line continuations inside strings
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159 instead.
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161 * The use of `'\'` as a line continuation *outside* of double-quoted
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162 strings has been removed. Use `'...'` for line continuations instead.
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164 * Support for trailing whitespace after a `'\'` line continuation has been
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165 removed. Delete unnecessary trailing whitespace.
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167 - For plot functions, the use of numbers to select line colors in
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168 shorthand formats was an undocumented feature that was removed in Octave 9.
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170 - The environment variable used by `mkoctfile` for linker flags is now
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171 `LDFLAGS` rather than `LFLAGS`. `LFLAGS` was deprecated in Octave 6
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172 and has been removed.
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174 Summary of bugs fixed for version 9.1.0 (yyyy-mm-dd):
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175 ----------------------------------------------------
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177 - Bugfixes to `whos -file`, `urlread`, `mat2cell`, `set`.
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179 - Memory usage reduced for `movfun` by eliminating temporary copies.
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181 - Memory usage reduced when saving to file, preventing OOM and data loss.
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183 - Several race conditions removed in signal handler.
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185 - Performance improvements: avoid unnecessary string construction, use
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186 static casts instead of dynamic casts where possible.
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190 - [Octave 8.x](etc/NEWS.8)
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192 - [Octave 6.x](etc/NEWS.6)
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193 - [Octave 5.x](etc/NEWS.5)
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194 - [Octave 4.x](etc/NEWS.4)
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195 - [Octave 3.x](etc/NEWS.3)
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196 - [Octave 2.x](etc/NEWS.2)
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197 - [Octave 1.x](etc/NEWS.1)