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1 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 9 (yyyy-mm-dd): |
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4 ### General improvements |
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10 respective directory is taken into account for the tests. |
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12 ### Graphical User Interface |
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14 ### Graphics backend |
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16 ### Matlab compatibility |
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18 ### Alphabetical list of new functions added in Octave 9 |
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22 ### Deprecated functions, properties, and operators |
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24 The following functions and properties have been deprecated in Octave 9 |
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25 and will be removed from Octave 11 (or whatever version is the second |
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26 major release after 9): |
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27 |
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28 - Functions |
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30 Function | Replacement |
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31 -----------------------|------------------ |
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33 - Properties |
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35 The following property names are discouraged, but there is no fixed |
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36 date for their removal. |
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38 Object | Property | Replacement |
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39 -----------------|-------------|------------ |
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41 The following features were deprecated in Octave 7 and have been removed |
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42 from Octave 9. |
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44 - Functions |
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47 ---------------------------|------------------ |
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48 disable_diagonal_matrix | optimize_diagonal_matrix |
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52 - Operators |
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55 ---------|------------ |
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56 .+ | + |
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57 .+= | += |
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59 .-= | -= |
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60 ** | ^ |
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86 - [Octave 8.x](etc/NEWS.8) |
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