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1 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 10 (yyyy-mm-dd):
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4 ### General improvements
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6 - Three short form aliases have been added for long form options when starting
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7 `octave`.
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8 * `-e CODE` for `--eval CODE`
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9 * `-g` for `--gui`
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10 * `-G` for `--no-gui`
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12 - Three long form options have been introduced for clarity.
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13 * `--no-init-user` : Don't read user configuration files ~/.octaverc or
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14 .octaverc files at startup.
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15 * `--no-init-site` : Don't read site-wide configuration files at startup.
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16 * `--no-init-all` : Don't read any configuration files at startup.
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18 - `nchoosek` algorithm is now ~2x faster and provides greater precision.
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20 ### Graphical User Interface
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22 ### Graphics backend
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24 - `polar` plots now include the center tick mark value, typically 0, in
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27 value if it is specified.
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29 ### Matlab compatibility
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31 - `height` and `width` are now aliases for the `rows` and `columns` functions.
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33 - All colormaps now default to a size of 256 colors. (The previous default
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34 size was 64.
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37 points when they are input as vectors. When they are same-orientation vectors,
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38 the outputs will be the same size as those vectors. When either is a row
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39 vector and the other is a column vector, the interpolating points are processed
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40 through meshgrid and the output is a matrix the same size as the meshgrid.
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42 - Enable the third output for `unique` with the `stable` sort option.
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44 ### Alphabetical list of new functions added in Octave 10
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46 * `clim`
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48 * `tticklabels`
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50 ### Deprecated functions, properties, and operators
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52 The following functions and properties have been deprecated in Octave 10
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53 and will be removed from Octave 12 (or whatever version is the second
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54 major release after 10):
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56 - Functions
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58 Function | Replacement
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61 - Core
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63 Function | Replacement
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65 symbol_record_rep::mark_as_variable | symbol_record_rep::mark_variable
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67 symbol_record::mark_as_variable | symbol_record::mark_variable
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68 symbol_record::unmark_as_variable | symbol_record::unmark_variable
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69 interpreter::verbose | interpreter::init_trace
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70 cmdline_options::verbose | cmdline_options::init_trace
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73 data in a liboctave `Array` object (or its derived classes such as `Matrix`).
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79 `--init-trace` to print the configuration files executed during initialization.
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81 The following features were deprecated in Octave 8 and have been removed
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82 from Octave 10.
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84 - Functions
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86 Function | Replacement
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88 shift | circshift
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89 sparse_auto_mutate | none (see below)
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91 ### Build system
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97 Summary of bugs fixed for version 10.1.0 (yyyy-mm-dd):
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100 ### Old release news
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107 - [Octave 4.x](etc/NEWS.4)
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108 - [Octave 3.x](etc/NEWS.3)
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110 - [Octave 1.x](etc/NEWS.1)