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changeset 30876:6ddc9c9bab50
NEWS.8.md: Add notes to Matlab Compatibility section.
* NEWS.8.md: Add notes about cylinder() and clock() to Matlab Compatibility
section. Wrap long-line discussion of sparse_auto_mutate() to 72 characters.
| author | Rik <rik@octave.org> |
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| date | Wed, 30 Mar 2022 20:48:06 -0700 |
| parents | 5d3faba0342e |
| children | 2bb539746697 |
| files | etc/NEWS.8.md |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/NEWS.8.md Wed Mar 30 20:40:27 2022 -0700 +++ b/etc/NEWS.8.md Wed Mar 30 20:48:06 2022 -0700 @@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ ### Matlab compatibility +- `cylinder` now accepts a scalar for the radius argument. + +- `clock` now has an optional second output `ISDST` which indicates if + Daylight Savings Time is in effect for the system's time zone. ### Alphabetical list of new functions added in Octave 8 @@ -34,7 +38,12 @@ `shift` | `circshift` `sparse_auto_mutate` | none (see below) -- The `sparse_auto_mutate` function no longer has any effect on Octave's behavior. Prevoiusly, after calling `sparse_auto_mutate (true)`, Octave would automatically convert sparse matrices to full when a sparse matrix required more memory than simply using full matrix storage. This setting was `false` by default for compatibility with Matlab. Now you must manually convert to full storage when desired. +- The `sparse_auto_mutate` function no longer has any effect on Octave's + behavior. Previously, after calling `sparse_auto_mutate (true)`, + Octave would automatically convert sparse matrices to full when a + sparse matrix required more memory than simply using full matrix + storage. This setting was `false` by default for compatibility with + Matlab. Now you must manually convert to full storage when desired. The following functions were deprecated in Octave 6 and have been removed from Octave 8.