# HG changeset patch
# User John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
# Date 1525110101 14400
# Node ID e0f63e77a715f0a3d1890aad3a68dfbdcd745b7a
# Parent  55c1b0e5b07a173b06c98be7c82efb8def4ea472# Parent  d703d8bbc6aecd48237806564164635ff9d09a94
maint: Merge stable to default.

diff -r 55c1b0e5b07a -r e0f63e77a715 .hgtags
--- a/.hgtags	Mon Apr 30 06:56:18 2018 -0700
+++ b/.hgtags	Mon Apr 30 13:41:41 2018 -0400
@@ -112,3 +112,4 @@
 a5ad9c053e41ed39a8c69ff99936cbcf18256abf rc-4-3-90
 ff59be58f0282e418fb3447d5442fa1d618cfe10 rc-4-3-91
 4c14c002cabeb60cf693d5a032b6285f92804643 rc-4-3-92
+cf84db75ab57d4fc5d18682c6ecf9d2e1f66ea94 release-4-4-0
diff -r 55c1b0e5b07a -r e0f63e77a715 NEWS
diff -r 55c1b0e5b07a -r e0f63e77a715 configure.ac
--- a/configure.ac	Mon Apr 30 06:56:18 2018 -0700
+++ b/configure.ac	Mon Apr 30 13:41:41 2018 -0400
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 
 OCTAVE_COPYRIGHT="Copyright (C) 2018 John W. Eaton and others."
 
-OCTAVE_RELEASE_DATE="2018-04-27"
+OCTAVE_RELEASE_DATE="2018-04-30"
 
 ## The "API version" is used as a way of checking that interfaces in the
 ## liboctave and libinterp libraries haven't changed in a backwardly
diff -r 55c1b0e5b07a -r e0f63e77a715 etc/NEWS.4
--- a/etc/NEWS.4	Mon Apr 30 06:56:18 2018 -0700
+++ b/etc/NEWS.4	Mon Apr 30 13:41:41 2018 -0400
@@ -1,17 +1,4 @@
-Summary of important user-visible changes for version 4.6 (yyyy-mm-dd):
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- ** The following properties or allowed corresponding values were deprecated in
-    Octave 4.2 and have been removed from Octave 4.6:
-
-      Object               | Property                | Value
-      ---------------------|-------------------------|-------------------
-      axes                 | xaxislocation           | "zero"
-                           | yaxislocation           | "zero"
-      patch                | normalmode              |
-      surface              | normalmode              |
-
-Summary of important user-visible changes for version 4.4 (yyyy-mm-dd):
+Summary of important user-visible changes for version 4.4 (2018-04-30):
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 
  ** A graphical Variable Editor has been added to the GUI interface.