# HG changeset patch
# User Markus Mützel <markus.muetzel@gmx.de>
# Date 1589129603 -7200
# Node ID 4787d0034c79789b2bd24e5a2c4a26f429605eda
# Parent  496735a910c144f3a695b4df1b01172af65f3b78
NEWS: Announce implementation of scatter graphics object (bug #58282).

* NEWS: Announce that "scatter" and "scatter3" now return a handle to
a scatter object.

diff -r 496735a910c1 -r 4787d0034c79 NEWS
--- a/NEWS	Mon May 04 19:18:56 2020 +0200
+++ b/NEWS	Sun May 10 18:53:23 2020 +0200
@@ -64,6 +64,12 @@
 not possible to change the value of the object (such as modifying text
 in an `Edit` box or clicking on a `RadioButton`).
 
+- The functions `scatter` and `scatter3` now return a handle to a scatter
+graphics object.  For compatibility, they return a hg group of patch
+graphics objects when the "gnuplot" graphics toolkit is used.  In
+previous versions of Octave, these functions returned a hg group of patch
+graphics objects for all graphics toolkits.
+
 ### Alphabetical list of new functions added in Octave 7
 
 * `endsWith`