# HG changeset patch
# User Markus Mützel <markus.muetzel@gmx.de>
# Date 1627025195 -7200
# Node ID daf351544539cca4d51916d5bcbbe0b819dcd50e
# Parent  3eca54836f97bea6a5e97c0806f55e17d99a4103
NEWS: Add note about changed algorithm for mldivide.

* NEWS: Add note that mldivide now uses a LU decomposition to solve (close to)
  singular full square matrices.

diff -r 3eca54836f97 -r daf351544539 NEWS
--- a/NEWS	Thu Jul 22 13:40:03 2021 -0700
+++ b/NEWS	Fri Jul 23 09:26:35 2021 +0200
@@ -76,6 +76,9 @@
 same number of digits for each value such as
 `[0x00_00_01; 0x00_01_00; 0x01_00_00]`.
 
+- The `mldivide` function (i.e., the `\` operator) now uses a LU
+decomposition to solve (close to) singular full square matrices.
+
 - The `whos` function now displays an additional attribute 's' when
 the variable is a sparse type.
 
@@ -91,8 +94,8 @@
 API is now 6.1 (Windows 7 or newer).
 
 - The non-re-entrant version of the QHull library "libqhull" was
-deprecated upstream.  Octave now requires the re-entrant version of
-that library "libqhull_r" instead.
+deprecated upstream.  Octave now (optionally) requires the re-entrant
+version of that library "libqhull_r" instead.
 
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