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NEWS: Update for version 5 and move old file to NEWS.4.
* NEWS: Updated for 5.0 release.
* etc/NEWS.4: NEWS file for previous 4.X releases.
* etc/module.mk: Add NEWS.4 to build system.
author | Rik <rik@octave.org> |
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date | Thu, 12 Apr 2018 09:01:02 -0700 |
parents | ff3d24a818a1 |
children | d56ff4681065 |
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Summary of important user-visible changes for version 5.0 (yyyy-mm-dd): ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** The functions issymmetric and ishermitian accept an option "nonskew" or "skew" to calculate the symmetric or skew-symmetric property of a matrix. Performance has also been increased. ** Deprecated functions. The following functions have been deprecated in Octave 5.0 and will be removed from Octave 7 (or whatever version is the second major release after 5.0): Function | Replacement ---------------------|------------------ | ** The following functions were deprecated in Octave 4.2 and have been removed from Octave 5.0. ** Deprecated graphics properties. The following properties or allowed corresponding values have been deprecated in Octave 4.4 and will be removed from Octave 6 (or whatever version is the second major release after 4.4): Object | Property | Value ---------------------|-------------------------|------------------- figure | doublebuffer | | mincolormap | | wvisual | | wvisualmode | | xdisplay | | xvisual | | xvisualmode | axes | drawmode | annotation | edgecolor ("rectangle") | text | fontweight | "demi" and "light" uicontrol | fontweight | "demi" and "light" uipanel | fontweight | "demi" and "light" uibuttongroup | fontweight | "demi" and "light" ** The following properties or allowed corresponding values were deprecated in Octave 4.2 and have been removed from Octave 5.0: Object | Property | Value ---------------------|-------------------------|------------------- axes | xaxislocation | "zero" | yaxislocation | "zero" patch | normalmode | surface | normalmode | --------------------------------------------------------- See NEWS.4 for old news.