changeset 30845:022fd8234356

maint: Merge stable to default.
author John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
date Fri, 18 Mar 2022 09:36:42 -0400
parents 3c9e19cd8896 (current diff) 8b50d8916a18 (diff)
children c8c947e1f05c
files configure.ac etc/NEWS.7.md
diffstat 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/.hgtags	Thu Mar 17 13:41:19 2022 -0400
+++ b/.hgtags	Fri Mar 18 09:36:42 2022 -0400
@@ -129,3 +129,4 @@
 3dc9decc98f97d0b05fff9dbb66b2400d6139830 rc-6-3-90
 8d7671609955afabf79ceff678cc41eea61583f2 release-6-4-0
 347dbc9049d55b63435d710e1d9d826cbfe5e54c rc-7-0-90
+266610d855194b2a55e6b501ccc302e6c0d8f6d0 rc-7-0-92
--- a/configure.ac	Thu Mar 17 13:41:19 2022 -0400
+++ b/configure.ac	Fri Mar 18 09:36:42 2022 -0400
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 
 OCTAVE_COPYRIGHT="Copyright (C) 1993-2022 The Octave Project Developers."
 
-OCTAVE_RELEASE_DATE="2022-01-05"
+OCTAVE_RELEASE_DATE="2022-03-18"
 
 ## The "API version" is used as a way of checking that interfaces in the
 ## liboctave and libinterp libraries haven't changed in a backwardly
--- a/etc/NEWS.7.md	Thu Mar 17 13:41:19 2022 -0400
+++ b/etc/NEWS.7.md	Fri Mar 18 09:36:42 2022 -0400
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Summary of important user-visible changes for version 7 (2022-01-05)
+Summary of important user-visible changes for version 7 (2022-03-18)
 --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 ### General improvements
@@ -76,6 +76,11 @@
 same number of digits for each value such as
 `[0x00_00_01; 0x00_01_00; 0x01_00_00]`.
 
+- The colon operator now works for integer (int8, int16, ..., uint64)
+and single data types.  However, only double ranges use a
+memory-efficient storage scheme internally.  Other data types are
+stored as ordinary arrays.
+
 - The increment and decrement operators `++` and `--` must "hug" their
 corresponding variables.  In previous versions of Octave, whitespaces
 between these operators and the variable they affect were allowed.  That