# HG changeset patch # User Kai T. Ohlhus # Date 1579847062 -32400 # Node ID 92ec1212b3a64c73d0a8ba2ed7f06966f245c8c5 # Parent 9ddad3c063261cad4dbb6b5cf62579842c63b5d0 Prepare for Octave 5.2.0 release. * community-news.html: Increment community-news-page-serial counter for display in Octave's community news. * _posts/2020-01-31-octave-5.2.0-released.markdown: Add release post. diff -r 9ddad3c06326 -r 92ec1212b3a6 _posts/2020-01-31-octave-5.2.0-released.markdown --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/_posts/2020-01-31-octave-5.2.0-released.markdown Fri Jan 24 15:24:22 2020 +0900 @@ -0,0 +1,221 @@ +--- +layout: post +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 + +- 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 + +- 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 %} + + [1]: {{ "download.html" | absolute_url }} + [2]: https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/octave/windows + [3]: {{ site.wiki_url }}/Octave_for_macOS diff -r 9ddad3c06326 -r 92ec1212b3a6 community-news.html --- a/community-news.html Thu Jan 16 14:47:10 2020 +0900 +++ b/community-news.html Fri Jan 24 15:24:22 2020 +0900 @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ entries in the GUI: this-is-the-gnu-octave-community-news-page - community-news-page-serial=12 + community-news-page-serial=13 -->