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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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31 The following functions were deprecated in Octave 6 and have been removed
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32 from Octave 8.
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34 - Functions
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36 Function | Replacement
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37 -----------------------|------------------
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38 `runtests` | `oruntests`
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40 - The environment variable used by `mkoctfile` for linker flags is now
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41 `LDFLAGS` rather than `LFLAGS`. `LFLAGS` was deprecated in Octave 6,
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42 and will be removed in a future version of Octave.
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44 ### Old release news
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46 - [Octave 7.x](etc/NEWS.7)
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47 - [Octave 6.x](etc/NEWS.6)
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48 - [Octave 5.x](etc/NEWS.5)
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49 - [Octave 4.x](etc/NEWS.4)
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50 - [Octave 3.x](etc/NEWS.3)
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51 - [Octave 2.x](etc/NEWS.2)
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52 - [Octave 1.x](etc/NEWS.1)