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NEWS.9.md: Add classdef breakpoints and range warnings, update bugs and features NEWS.9.md: Mention classdef breakpoints, range warnings. Expand list of bugs fixed and features added. Minor copyedits.
author Arun Giridhar <arungiridhar@gmail.com>
date Sat, 23 Sep 2023 11:12:38 -0400
parents 0c32e838e522
children b5337260e574
files etc/NEWS.9.md
diffstat 1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/etc/NEWS.9.md	Sat Sep 23 10:34:13 2023 -0400
+++ b/etc/NEWS.9.md	Sat Sep 23 11:12:38 2023 -0400
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 ### General improvements
 
 - Octave now has an experimental virtual machine (VM) for just-in-time (JIT)
-compilation of m-code.  This VM can be enabled by the end user with the
+evaluation of m-code.  This VM can be enabled by the end user with the
 command `__enable_vm_eval__ (1)` as long as the configuration option
 `--disable-vm-evaluator` was *not* used when building Octave.  Speedups from 2X
 to 40X have been observed for different kinds of m-code.  This feature is
@@ -38,6 +38,13 @@
 will no longer turn arrowhead display back on (bug #64143).  The linewdith
 property now also affect the line width of the base marker.
 
+- Classdefs now support breakpoints inside them.
+
+- Ranges with floating point values in them such as `1.8 : 0.05 : 1.9`
+  or `-2 : (0.3 - 0.2 - 0.1)` now trigger warnings, to avoid hard-to-debug
+  errors when floating point rounding does non-intuitive things.  The Octave
+  manual now lists several safer alternatives for such cases.
+
 - The `inputParser` function has been re-architected for a 60% performance
 improvement.
 
@@ -223,7 +230,8 @@
 Summary of bugs fixed for version 9.1.0 (yyyy-mm-dd):
 ----------------------------------------------------
 
-- Bugfixes to `whos -file`, `urlread`, `mat2cell`, `set`.
+- Bugfixes to `whos -file`, `urlread`, `mat2cell`, `set`, `savepath`,
+  `loadpath` and the general interpreter stack-handling.
 
 - Better input validation for `sparse`, `speye`.
 
@@ -233,13 +241,23 @@
 
 - Memory usage improved when plotting grid tick marks.
 
+- Memory management made more robust in the GUI code and with several GUI
+  components (variable editor, doc browser, etc).
+
 - Text encoding for non-UTF-8 generally made more robust.  File editor now
   lists available encodings.
 
+- Octave on Windows now supports directory names and path names with non-ASCII
+  characters (other platforms had it already for years).  Windows paths now
+  also allow relative paths on different drives.
+
 - Several race conditions removed in signal handler.
 
-- Performance improvements: avoid unnecessary string construction, use
-  static casts instead of dynamic casts where possible.
+- Better compatibility when linking to `libc++`.
+
+- Performance and stability improvements: avoid unnecessary string
+  construction, use static casts instead of dynamic casts where possible,
+  eliminate various isolated crash conditions.
 
 ### Old release news