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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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7 ### Graphical User Interface
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10 ### Graphics backend
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13 ### Matlab compatibility
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16 ### Alphabetical list of new functions added in Octave 8
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19 ### Deprecated functions, properties, and operators
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21 The following functions and properties have been deprecated in Octave 8
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22 and will be removed from Octave 10 (or whatever version is the second
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23 major release after 8):
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26 The following functions were deprecated in Octave 6 and have been removed
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27 from Octave 8.
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29 - Functions
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31 Function | Replacement
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32 -----------------------|------------------
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33 `runtests` | `oruntests`
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35 - The environment variable used by `mkoctfile` for linker flags is now
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36 `LDFLAGS` rather than `LFLAGS`. `LFLAGS` was deprecated in Octave 6,
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37 and will be removed in a future version of Octave.
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39 ### Old release news
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41 - [Octave 7.x](etc/NEWS.7)
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42 - [Octave 6.x](etc/NEWS.6)
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43 - [Octave 5.x](etc/NEWS.5)
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44 - [Octave 4.x](etc/NEWS.4)
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45 - [Octave 3.x](etc/NEWS.3)
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46 - [Octave 2.x](etc/NEWS.2)
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47 - [Octave 1.x](etc/NEWS.1)