Summary of important user-visible changes for version 7 (yyyy-mm-dd):
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### General improvements


### Graphics backend

- Support for Qt4 for graphics and the GUI has been removed.

### Matlab compatibility


### Alphabetical list of new functions added in Octave 7

* `XXX`

### Deprecated functions and properties

The following functions and properties have been deprecated in Octave 7
and will be removed from Octave 9 (or whatever version is the second
major release after 7):

- Functions

  Function               | Replacement
  -----------------------|------------------
                         |

- Properties

  Object           | Property      | Value
  -----------------|---------------|------------
                   |               |

### Removed functions and properties

The following functions and properties were deprecated in Octave 5
and have been removed from Octave 7.

- Functions

  Function                 | Replacement
  -------------------------|------------------
  `output_max_field_width` | `output_precision`
  `is_keyword`             | `iskeyword`

- Properties

  Object           | Property      | Value
  -----------------|---------------|------------
  `text`           | `fontangle`   | `"oblique"`
  `uibuttongroup`  | `fontangle`   | `"oblique"`
  `uicontrol`      | `fontangle`   | `"oblique"`
  `uipanel`        | `fontangle`   | `"oblique"`
  `uitable`        | `fontangle`   | `"oblique"`

### Old release news

- [Octave 6.x](etc/NEWS.6)
- [Octave 5.x](etc/NEWS.5)
- [Octave 4.x](etc/NEWS.4)
- [Octave 3.x](etc/NEWS.3)
- [Octave 2.x](etc/NEWS.2)
- [Octave 1.x](etc/NEWS.1)