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title:  "GNU Octave 5.2.0 Released"
date:   2020-01-31
categories: news release
---

Octave Version 5.2.0 has been released and is now available for [download][1].
An official [Windows binary installer][2] is also available.
For [macOS][3] see the installation instructions in the wiki.

This version is a bug fixing release:

## Improvements

- Avoid color changes in MS Windows GUI terminal
  ([bug #57658](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57658)).
- Lock amd and symbfact to avoid segmentation fault with SuiteSparse
  ([bug #57435](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57435)).
- Fix segfault when calculating patch vertex normals
  ([bug #57353](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57353)).
- Fix segfault in constructing patch normals for lighting
  ([bug #57353](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57353)).
- mat2str.m: Fix for logical matrix (add `transpose`).
- improve file equality check for MS Windows
  ([bug #55161](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55161)).
- ismember.m: Fix second return argument when values are complex
  ([bug #52437](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52437)).
- findobj.m: Fix typo and correctly handle numeric properties
  ([bug #57030](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57030)).
- Correctly display integer types with format hex
  ([bug #56966](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56966)).
- Cast `winqueryreg` `REG_DWORD` types to `DWORD`
  ([bug #56703](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56703)).
- Fix numerous errors in `audiowrite` / `audioread`
  ([bug #56889](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56889)).
- print.m: Pass quoted path to `octave-svgconvert`
  ([bug #56768](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56768)).
- dir.m: Fix occasionally returning incorrect folder field
  ([bug #55448](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55448)).
- Stop segfault when calling 3-input form of `diag` with cell arrays
  ([bug #56711](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56711)).
- improve message for setting breakpoint in nonexistent function
  ([bug #56157](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56157)).
- Use framebuffer object for printing invisible Qt figures on mac
  ([bug #55268](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55268)).
- Escape backslash characters in `EPS` output
  ([bug #56448](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56448)).
- Use replacement characters to display non UTF-8 strings in figures
  ([bug #55974](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55974)).
- inputrc: Add warning about modification
  ([bug #56079](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56079)).
- documentation.cc (global_search): just return if query string is empty
  ([bug #56388](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56388)).
- Default (c)transpose for old style class arrays
  ([bug #56323](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56323)).
- Always reserve at least 1 element of storage for sparse matrices
  ([bug #56232](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56232)).
- Don't segfault at exit after reading malformed HDF5 file
  ([bug #56149](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56149)).
- Fix pause() with no arguments called on Windows
  ([bug #55943](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55943)).
- refactor minimum eigenvalue index search in `qp`
  ([bug #56037](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56037)).
- qp: fix obscure corner case when calculating `qp` caused by a typo
  ([bug #56037](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56037)).
- use `std::streampos` instead of `std::ios::streampos`
  ([patch #9782](https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?9782)).
- fix `pause` and `kbhit` with glibc 2.28 end-of-file state behavior
  ([bug #55029](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55029)).
- Fix return of left-handed vectors when inputs are complex
  ([bug #56026](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56026)).
- waitbar.m: Fix hang when using `createcancelbtn` property
  ([bug #55963](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55963)).
- shading.m: Fix unexpected error when multiple `hggroups` present
  ([bug #55993](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55993)).
- dec2base.m: Correctly handle zero matrix input
  ([bug #56005](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56005)).
- eliminate duplicate graphics callback object stack
  ([bug #55908](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55908)).
- Improve performance when closing figures
  ([bug #55908](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55908)).
- Reduce time to process `pkg -forge list` by 30X
  ([bug #39479](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?39479)).
- Feed `fig2dev` with PDF files converted from svg
  ([bug #55906](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55906)).
- Improve error checking for `iconv_open`.
- poly.m: fix the fix for input of complex conjugate pairs
  ([bug #53897](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53897)).
- mkoctfile: use the `TMPDIR` environment variable if set
  ([bug #55814](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55814)).
- line.m: Fix creation of unwanted axes
  ([bug #55840](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55840)).
- Accept 4-input form for quiver3
  ([bug #55570](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55570)).
- pkg.m: restore installing packages from zip archives
  ([bug #55788](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55788)).
- axis.m: Fix issues with `equal` argument
  ([bug #55619](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55619),
  [bug #55614](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55614),
  [bug #55574](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55574),
  [bug #55514](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55514),
  [bug #54848](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54848),
  [bug #53724](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53724),
  [bug #53504](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53504),
  [bug #53336](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53336),
  [bug #51938](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51938),
  [bug #50356](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50356)).
- ordeig.m: Do not fail on 1x1 matrices
  ([bug #55779](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55779)).

## GUI

- fix editors search and replace in selection
  ([bug #56405](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56405)).
- undo a complete replace all action in the editor
  ([bug #56405](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56405)).
- fix missing unlock of mutex when gui editor is not present
  ([bug #56097](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56097)).
- prevent unnamed editor tab from being closed by `rmdir`
  ([bug #55888](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55888)).
- prevent editor from closing files that are not affected by `rmdir`
  ([bug #55823](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55823)).
- fix creating keyword files for editor autocompletion
  ([bug #55835](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55835)).
- fix dock widget position when being dragged out of the main window
  ([bug #55704](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55704)).

## Build system / Tests

- fetch upstream gnulib changes using `git fetch`
- update gnulib archive if requested changeset is not in the local archive
- eliminate gnulib subrepo
  ([bug #57044](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57044)).
- configure: prevent overlinking when SUNDIALS is disabled
  ([bug #55956](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55956)).
- use QtCore and Qt5Gui modules instead of Qt5OpenGL
  ([bug #55735](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55735)).
- make building with Qt4 QGLWidget work again
  ([bug #55735](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55735)).
- build: adapt mk-qthelp.pl to changes in Texinfo 6.7.
- BIST should not rely on the current directory to be writable.
- bp-table.cc: Fix test.
- maint: Make old style class tests Matlab compatible.
- Add BIST tests for `unlink`
  ([bug #56097](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56097)).

## Documentation

- fix many spelling errors
  ([bug #57613](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57613)).
- help: improve documentation for the `startup.m` user script.
- avoid conflict with @seealso macro in Texinfo 6.6
  ([bug #55952](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55952))
- mk-doc-cache.pk: Also translate `@seealso` here.
  ([bug #55952](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55952)).
- __makeinfo__.m: Also translate `@seealso` here
  ([bug #55952](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55952)).
- polar.m: Document that input is expected to be in radians
  ([bug #57052](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57052)).
- gallery.m: Fix typo in docstring for poisson
  ([bug #56267](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56267)).
- Add 1024x1024 Octave logo icon
  ([bug #55836](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55836)).
- add `.editorconfig` for default file encoding and indentation.
- octave.doap: Copy localized (short) description over from appdata
  ([bug #55279](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55279)).
- org.octave.Octave.appdata.xml: Add German and French description
  ([bug #55279](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55279)).
- languages/*.ts: updated language files
  ([bug #55772](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55772)).
- quiver3.m: Fix texinfo typo in docstring from cset f7b10bd40045.
- doc: fix `.` Operator Index entry to build with Texinfo 6.7.
- doc: improve example of using global variables from oct-files.
- doc: Create en-dashes and em-dashes correctly in documentation.
- doc: expand `page_output_immediately` doc string, mention `page_screen_output`.
- doc: Clarify documentation of `history_file`
  ([bug #57027](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57027)).
- doc: Improve documentation for `get_help_text`, `get_help_text_from_file`.
- doc: Add documentation for `GNUTERM` variable used with gnuplot
  ([bug #56906](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56906)).
- doc: Improve `contour` docstring example
  ([bug #56849](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56849)).
- doc: Add example to show limitations of the given BLAS integer size.
- doc: Improve documentation of sparse functions.
- doc: Improve spelling of `bicgstab`
  ([bug #56812](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56812)).
- doc: Remove `Map` functions `keys`, `values`, `remove` from unimplemented list
  ([bug #56718](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56718)).
- doc: Add function index entry for alias `inverse`
  ([bug #56629](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56629)).
- add content rating declaration to AppStream metadata
  ([bug #56466](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56466))
- doc: Remove stray semicolons from `pie`, `pie3` calling forms.
- doc: Redo documentation for `rats` function.
- doc: Specify `position` property for text objects is a three-element vector
  ([bug #56303](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56303)).
- doc: state that Octave can only load HDF5 files created by itself
  ([bug #56148](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56148)).
- doc: Fix names of options in `issorted`
  ([bug #56087](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56087)).
- doc: Small fixes to `mat2cell` and `polyeig` docstrings
  ([bug #55985](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55985)).
- doc: Improve example code for using `-pdflatexstandalone`
  ([bug #55945](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55945)).
- doc: Refer to "root object" rather than "root figure object".
- doc: Place cross-reference from list of graphics object properties back to object
  ([bug #46076](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?46076)).
- doc: document the newline character in warning messages
  ([bug #49158](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49158)).
- doc: pkg versions can be more general than "x.y.z"
  ([bug #55798](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55798)).

The above list was generated using the following command and some manual
post-processing and grouping:

{% highlight bash %}
hg log -r "release-5-1-0:release-5-2-0" -b stable \
| grep "summary:" | nl | sort -rn | cut -f 2- \
| sed 's/summary:\s*/- /' \
| sed 's/\(bug #\)\([0-9]*\)/[\1\2](https:\/\/savannah.gnu.org\/bugs\/?\2)/' \
| sed 's/\(patch #\)\([0-9]*\)/[\1\2](https:\/\/savannah.gnu.org\/patch\/?\2)/'
{% endhighlight %}

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