# HG changeset patch
# User Markus Mützel <markus.muetzel@gmx.de>
# Date 1654160960 -7200
# Node ID 34cfde95c5fa3ff284dc4065d134924b1412d670
# Parent  5f015f2829b7736842e7bf95d3351fb45ddbad74# Parent  28d63e8bcaa79946978a5f943cf3a890ff17064b
maint: Merge stable to default.

diff -r 5f015f2829b7 -r 34cfde95c5fa etc/NEWS.7.md
--- a/etc/NEWS.7.md	Wed Jun 01 17:20:22 2022 -0400
+++ b/etc/NEWS.7.md	Thu Jun 02 11:09:20 2022 +0200
@@ -86,6 +86,11 @@
 between these operators and the variable they affect were allowed.  That
 is no longer the case.
 
+- For compatibility with command syntax, inplace operators (`+=`, `-=`,
+`*=`, `.*=`, `/=`, `./=`, `\=`, `.\=`, `^=`, `.^=`, `|=`, `&=`) must now
+be followed by a whitespace character.  That was not a requirement in
+previous versions of Octave.
+
 - The `mldivide` function (i.e., the `\` operator) now uses an LU
 decomposition to solve nearly singular full square matrices.  This is
 Matlab-compatible and yields results which more nearly minimize `norm