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1 Summary of bugs fixed for version 7.2.0 (tbd): |
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4 For (bug #XXXXX) see https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?XXXXX |
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6 ### Improvements and fixes |
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47 ### GUI |
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54 ### Build system / Tests |
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62 ### Documentation |
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310 to the title displayed on the figure window which contains the plot. |
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313 * `"alphamap"` (not yet implemented) |
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314 * `"alphascale"` (not yet implemented) |
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315 * `"colorscale"` (not yet implemented) |
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316 * `"fontsizemode"` (not yet implemented) |
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317 * `"innerposition"` (equivalent to `"position"`) |
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318 * `"interactions"` (not yet implemented) |
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319 * `"layout"` (not yet implemented) |
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320 * `"legend"` (not yet implemented) |
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322 graphics objects) |
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323 * `"positionconstraint"` (replacement for `"activepositionproperty"` |
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324 which is now a hidden property. No plans for removal.) |
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325 * `"toolbar"` (not yet implemented) |
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326 * `"xaxis"` (not yet implemented) |
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327 * `"yaxis"` (not yet implemented) |
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328 * `"zaxis"` (not yet implemented) |
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333 Interpolation method. In adddition, the function now accepts 3-D inputs |
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334 by passing the data to `griddata3`. |
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337 `cart2pol`, and `pol2cart` now accept either row or column vectors for |
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338 coordinate inputs. A single coordinate matrix with one variable per |
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339 column can still be used as function input, but a single output variable |
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340 will now contain just the first output coordinate, and will no longer |
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342 of input vectors, or in the case of an input matrix will be column |
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343 vectors with rows corresponding to the input coordinate matrix. |
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345 - The function `dec2bin` and `dec2hex` now support negative numbers. |
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346 |
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347 - The function `factor` now supports uint64 inputs larger than |
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348 `flintmax`. |
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352 - The functions `quantile` and `prctile` now permit operating on |
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353 dimensions greater than `ndims (x)`. |
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355 - The function `iqr` now uses Matlab compatible interpolation for |
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356 quantile values. The dimension input now allows a vector, "all", and |
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357 dimensions greater than `ndims (x)`. The function also handles |
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358 `Inf` and `NaN` input values in a Matlab-compatible manner. |
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360 - The function `importdata` now produces more compatible results when |
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361 the file contains a 2-D text matrix. |
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363 - The file functions `copyfile`, `mkdir`, `movefile`, `rmdir` now return |
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364 a logical value (true/false) rather than a numeric value (1/0). |
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366 - `uimenu` now accepts property `"Text"` which is identical to |
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367 `"Label"`. Matlab recommends using `"Text"` in new code, although there |
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368 is no announced date for deprecating `"Label"`. |
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370 - The functions `scatter` and `scatter3` now return a handle to a |
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371 scatter graphics object. For compatibility, they return an `hggroup` of |
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372 patch graphics objects when the `"gnuplot"` graphics toolkit is used. In |
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373 previous versions of Octave, these functions returned an `hggroup` of |
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374 patch graphics objects for all graphics toolkits. |
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376 - The functions `bar` and `barh` now handle stacked negative bar values |
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377 in a Matlab-compatible manner. Negative values now stack below the zero |
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378 axis independently of a positive value bars in the same stack. |
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379 Previously the negative bars could overlap positive bars depending on |
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380 drawing order. |
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382 - The functions `bar` and `barh` now use colors from the `"ColorOrder"` |
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383 axes property rather than the `"Colormap"` figure property unless one |
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384 of the histogram options (@qcode{"hist"}, @qcode{"histc"} was specified. |
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386 - The function `saveas` now defaults to saving in Octave figure format |
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387 (.ofig) rather than PDF (.pdf). |
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389 - A new warning ID (`"Octave:unimplemented-matlab-functionality"`) has |
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391 Matlab code, but for which Octave does not yet implement the |
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392 functionality. By default, this warning is enabled. |
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394 - When Octave is started with the `--traditional` option for maximum |
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395 compatibility the `print_struct_array_contents` internal variable is set |
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396 to true. |
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399 a scalar. |
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402 compute the weigthed variance. Dimension input now allows a vector and |
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403 the keyword "all". |
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407 * `cospi` |
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408 * `getpixelposition` |
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409 * `endsWith` |
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410 * `fill3` |
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412 * `jsonencode` |
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416 * `matlab.net.base64encode` |
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419 * `rng` |
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420 * `sinpi` |
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423 * `turbo` |
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427 * `ztickangle` |
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429 ### Deprecated functions and operators |
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432 and will be removed from Octave 9 (or whatever version is the second |
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433 major release after 7): |
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435 - Functions |
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437 Function | Replacement |
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438 ---------------------------- |---------------------------- |
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439 `disable_diagonal_matrix` | `optimize_diagonal_matrix` |
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440 `disable_permutation_matrix` | `optimize_permutation_matrix` |
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441 `disable_range` | `optimize_range` |
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443 For plot functions, the use of numbers to select line colors in |
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444 shorthand formats was an undocumented feature that is deprecated in |
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445 Octave 7 and will be removed from Octave 9. |
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449 Operator | Replacement | Description |
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450 ---------|-------------|------------ |
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451 `**` | `^` | Matrix exponent |
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452 `.**` | `.^` | Element-by-element exponent |
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453 `.+` | `+` | Element-by-element addition |
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454 `.-` | `-` | Element-by-element subtraction |
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456 - Interpreter |
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458 * The use of `'...'` for line continuations *inside* double-quoted |
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459 strings has been deprecated. Use `'\'` for line continuations |
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460 inside strings instead. |
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463 strings has been deprecated. Use `'...'` for line continuations |
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464 instead. |
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465 |
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466 * Any trailing whitespace after a `'\'` line continuation has been |
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467 deprecated. Delete unnecessary trailing whitespace. |
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470 The following functions were deprecated in Octave 6 and will be removed |
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471 from Octave 8 (or whatever version is the second major release after 6): |
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473 - Functions |
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475 Function | Replacement |
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476 -----------------------|------------------ |
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477 `runtests` | `oruntests` |
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479 - The environment variable used by `mkoctfile` for linker flags is now |
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480 `LDFLAGS` rather than `LFLAGS`. `LFLAGS` was deprecated in Octave 6, |
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481 and a warning is now emitted if it is used, but it will continue to |
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482 work. |
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484 ### Removed functions, properties, and features |
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487 and have been removed from Octave 7. |
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489 - Functions |
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491 Function | Replacement |
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492 -------------------------|------------------ |
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493 `output_max_field_width` | `output_precision` |
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494 `is_keyword` | `iskeyword` |
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496 - Properties |
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498 Object | Property | Value |
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499 -----------------|---------------|------------ |
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500 `text` | `fontangle` | `"oblique"` |
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502 `uicontrol` | `fontangle` | `"oblique"` |
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503 `uipanel` | `fontangle` | `"oblique"` |
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504 `uitable` | `fontangle` | `"oblique"` |
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506 - The prototype JIT compiler has been removed from Octave. Since it was |
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508 has ever seriously taken on further development of it and it still does |
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509 nothing significant. It is out of date with the default interpreter |
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510 that walks the parse tree. Even though we have fixed the configure |
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511 script to disable it by default, people still ask questions about how to |
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512 build it, but it doesn’t seem that they are doing that to work on it but |
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513 because they think it will make Octave code run faster (it never did, |
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514 except for some extremely simple bits of code as examples for |
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515 demonstration purposes only). The following functions related to the |
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516 JIT compiler have also been removed: `debug_jit`, `jit_enable`, |
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517 `jit_failcnt`, and `jit_startcnt`. |
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