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+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

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 entries in the GUI:
 
   this-is-the-gnu-octave-community-news-page
-  community-news-page-serial=12
+  community-news-page-serial=13
 
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