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NEWS.8.md: Add note about perms taking a new input option.
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1 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 8 (yyyy-mm-dd): |
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15 permutations for inputs with repeated elements. It is faster and takes |
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16 less memory to call `perms ('aaaabbbbcccc', "unique")` than to call |
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17 `unique (perms ('aaaabbbbcccc'), "rows")`. |
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19 ### Graphical User Interface |
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28 ### Matlab compatibility |
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60 ### Alphabetical list of new functions added in Octave 8 |
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64 ### Deprecated functions, properties, and operators |
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66 The following functions and properties have been deprecated in Octave 8 |
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70 - Functions |
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72 Function | Replacement |
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73 -----------------------|------------------ |
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88 date for their removal. |
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108 ### Old release news |
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114 - [Octave 3.x](etc/NEWS.3) |
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115 - [Octave 2.x](etc/NEWS.2) |
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116 - [Octave 1.x](etc/NEWS.1) |