MATLAB Changelog

What's new in MATLAB R2023b

Sep 14, 2023

Environment:
Live Editor Tasks: Create Live Editor task from selected code with interactive controls
Live Editor Tables: Add tables containing text and images to live scripts and functions
Live Editor Controls: Add color pickers and state buttons to live scripts
Live Editor Controls: Select folders interactively in live scripts using file browser
Live Editor Accessibility: Interact with inline output using the keyboard
Live Editor Export: Interactively customize export options, such as document paper size, orientation, margins, and figure format
export Function: Convert live scripts and functions to Markdown files and Jupyter notebooks
Editor Execution: Run sections even if other sections contain syntax errors
Editor Variable Renaming: Automatically rename next references to variables or functions in file
Find and Replace Dialog Box: Use capture groups in regular expressions to search for and replace groups of characters
Debugging in MATLAB Online: Manage breakpoints and navigate the function call stack using Debugger panel
Desktop Layout in MATLAB Online: Open additional panels directly from sidebars
Themes in MATLAB Online: Save color customizations for individual themes
Window Management in MATLAB Online: Automatically collapse windows
MATLAB on Macs: Better performance and improved battery life on MacBooks with MATLAB and Simulink running natively on Apple silicon
MATLAB on Macs: Java Runtime Environment required for MATLAB and MATLAB Runtime on Apple silicon
Functionality being removed or changed
Language and Programming:
configureDictionary Function: Create dictionaries with configured keys and values
lookup, insert, and remove Functions: Find, add, and remove dictionary entries
codeIssues Object: Export issues identified in code
Code Compatibility Analyzer App: Group and filter code issues with improved interface
Class Diagram Viewer: Add known subclasses to diagrams
mustBeSparse Function: Validate sparsity of arguments
Functionality being removed or changed
Data Analysis:
Experiment Manager App: Design experiments to run MATLAB code, and visualize, filter, and compare results
Pivot Table Live Editor Task: Interactively summarize tabular data in pivoted table
resize, paddata, and trimdata Functions: Change the size of data by adding or removing elements
smoothdata2 Function: Smooth noisy data in two dimensions
kde Function: Estimate a probability function by using kernel density estimation for univariate data
Join Tables Live Editor Task: Sort output timetable by row times when row times are not key values
Data Cleaning: Interactively fill missing data with values from nearest neighbor rows
Live Editor: Display the contents of nested tables as variables
Live Editor: Copy output data as tab-delimited text
pivot Function: Display empty groups in pivoted table
pivot Function: Specify row names for pivoted table as row group names
stackedplot Function: Plot events associated with timetables
Timetable Events: Perform calculations directly on event tables without extracting their data
containsrange, overlapsrange, and withinrange Functions: Specify time ranges by using event filters
Variables Editor in MATLAB Online: Interactively change display format for datetime or duration data
Variables Editor in MATLAB Online: View and interactively edit scalar structures, object arrays, and tables with grouped variables
Accessibility in MATLAB Online: Use a screen reader to interact with the Workspace browser, Variables editor, Property Inspector, and Import Tool
Histogram Distribution Charts: Calculate values and create histograms using percentages
tallrng Function: Specify random number algorithm without specifying seed
Functionality being removed or changed
Data Import and Export:
readstruct Function: Read data from JSON files
writestruct Function: Write structure arrays to JSON files
Parquet: Create ParquetDatastore objects more efficiently with partition control in parallel environments
cmdsep Function: Return command separator for current platform
NetCDF Interface: Import netCDF data using Import Tool in MATLAB Online and Import Data Live Editor Task
NetCDF Interface in MATLAB Online: Import netCDF data by double-clicking netCDF files
Image File Format Libraries: LibTIFF library upgraded to version 4.5.0
Scientific File Format Libraries: HDF4 library upgraded to version 4.2.16
Scientific File Format Libraries: HDF5 library upgraded to version 1.10.10
Scientific File Format Libraries: NetCDF library upgraded to version 4.9.1
serialbreak Function: Send break to device connected to serial port
Functionality being removed or changed
Mathematics:
Ordinary Differential Equations: Use object-oriented solution framework for ODEs
rng Function: Change default algorithm and seed for random number generator, and specify random number algorithm without specifying seed
MATLAB Support Package for Quantum Computing: Solve Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) problems
MATLAB Support Package for Quantum Computing: Control circuit plot appearance and behavior with QuantumCircuitChart objects
deconv Function: Perform least-squares deconvolution with different convolved subsections
svdappend Function: Calculate revised singular value decompositions
expmv Function: Calculate matrix exponential multiplied by vector
expm Function: Improved algorithm for single-precision matrices
scatteredInterpolant Object: Use multivalued interpolation to interpolate multiple data sets simultaneously
Graphics:
piechart and donutchart Functions: Create configurable, interactive pie and donut charts
Plot Colors: Choose from nine color palettes
abyss Function: Apply blue-to-black colormap to charts and images
Legend: Control the order of legend entries
xscale, yscale, and zscale Functions: Quickly change between logarithmic and linear axes scales after plotting
xsecondarylabel, ysecondarylabel, and zsecondarylabel Functions: Create, delete, or modify secondary axis labels
Bar Charts: Specify bar labels as string vectors
xregion and yregion Functions: Create unbounded regions and specify multiple regions as matrix
Text Objects: Control whether text labels are included in axes limits
Contour Plots: Customize colors of contour labels
Colors and Line Styles: Control automatic color and line style selection for additional chart objects
Heatmap Charts: Control text interpreter for text labels in heatmap charts
Images: Display images with datetime, duration, or categorical pixel coordinates
swarmchart Function: Create horizontal swarm charts
Geographic Plots: Some basemaps have improved appearance at high zoom levels
Figure Code in MATLAB Online: Generate code from Camera tab
Figure Code in MATLAB Online: Generate code from Property Inspector
Functionality being removed or changed
App Building:
uislider Function: Create slider to specify range of values in apps and on App Designer canvas
uicontextmenu and uimenu Functions: Access information about action used to open context menu
uispinner and uieditfield Functions: Create spinners and numeric edit fields with placeholder text
uilistbox and uidropdown Functions: Access index of component value in list of items
uitable Function: Query selected table data in current table display
uicontextmenu Function: Context menus on trees appear when you right-click anywhere in the tree
appmigration.migrateGUIDEApp Function: Migrating multiple apps from GUIDE to App Designer updates app references
App Designer: Interactively rearrange tabs, menus, tree nodes, and toolbar tools
App Designer: Write unit tests for custom UI components
App Designer: View changes to HTML UI component source while working in Design View
Comparison Tool: Save app comparison results as PDF or DOCX reports programmatically and interactively
Axes Interactions: Interpolate data tip location
Axes Interactions: Indicate azimuth and elevation angles
Axes Interactions: Zoom into rectangular region of 2-D view of 3-D chart
App Testing Framework: Automatically scroll to components outside viewable area
Web Apps and Standalone Applications: Data brushing supported in graphics
Performance:
Language and Programming: Improved performance for reading and writing class property values
dde23 Function: Improved performance integrating high-dimensional systems
nufftn Function: Improved performance with nonuniform sample points or query points
fillmissing Function: Improved performance when filling entries with previous or next numeric value
ismember Function: Improved performance with small unsorted set array
islocalmax and islocalmin Functions: Improved performance when finding local minima and maxima
Data Cleaner App: Improved rendering performance of Cleaning Parameters panel
Tiled Chart Layouts: Improved performance for flow layouts with spanned axes
Plots in Apps: Improved performance when scrolling to zoom
Plots in Apps: Improved responsiveness for scatter plot interactions in apps
Plots in Apps: Constant lines and constant regions update continuously as you pan
App Building: Improved performance when resizing apps with nested containers
App Building: Improved startup performance for apps with panels in multiple tabs
App Designer: Improved app loading and running performance
App Designer: Improved performance when adding custom UI components to an app
Property Inspector in MATLAB Online: Improved performance when opening for the first time
Graphics in MATLAB Online: Images and 3-D plots in apps have significant performance gains
Software Development Tools:
Source Control API: Interact with Git source control programmatically
Project API: Determine whether file belongs to a project
Source Control in MATLAB Online: Perform source control operations using unified panel
Source Control in MATLAB Online: Expanded support for Git workflows
Projects in MATLAB Online: Added support for team collaboration workflows
Project Examples: Identify and run tests in projects
Build Automation: Use built-in tasks to define common build actions
Build Automation: Automatically open MATLAB project when running builds
Build Automation: Invoke build tool from project subfolders
Build Automation: Operate on file collections
Build Automation: Name the inputs and outputs of tasks for incremental builds
Build Automation: Run tasks using build options
Unit Testing Framework: Programmatically access code coverage results using the runtests function
Unit Testing Framework: Test for missing elements
Unit Testing Framework: Modify test report title
App Testing Framework: Automatically scroll to components outside viewable area
matlab.test.behavior.Missing Class: Test against constructor arguments that result in incompatible values
Functionality being removed or changed
External Language Interfaces:
Call MATLAB from C++: Generate output types for strongly typed methods and functions
Publish C++ Interface: Support for pointer return of string and fundamental types
Call MATLAB from .NET: Generate C# code interface for MATLAB packages, classes, and functions
Call .NET from MATLAB: Create explicit interface view of .NET object
Python: Support for version 3.11
Python Interface: Use of environment variable PYTHONHOME to load interpreter
Python Interface: Convert list and tuple of Python datetime or timedelta objects to MATLAB arrays
Python Interface: Resolve Python configuration issues
Compilers: Download MinGW-w64 8.1 from Add-On Explorer
Compilers: Support for NAG Fortran on Apple silicon
Compilers: Support for Microsoft Visual Studio Build Tools
Functionality being removed or changed
Hardware Support:
Support for ArduCam Multi Camera Adapter Module on Raspberry Pi Hardware

New in MATLAB R2023a (Mar 16, 2023)

Environment:
MATLAB Install: Reduce footprint using default installation without local documentation
Editor: Interactively increment numeric values within section and run section after every change
Live Editor Controls: Add file browser to select file interactively in live script
Live Editor Controls: Align controls within a section when code is hidden
Desktop Layout in MATLAB Online: Access desktop tools and change the desktop layout using sidebars
Code Issues Tool in MATLAB Online: Check code for errors and warnings using Code Issues tool
Find Files Tool in MATLAB Online: Search for files with improved Find Files tool
Editor in MATLAB Online: Edit read-only files
Search in MATLAB Online: Access videos using Search box
System Command Functions: Set and get multiple variables using operating system commands
loadenv Function: Load environment variables from .env and plain text files
Comparison Tool: Save text comparison results as PDF or DOCX reports programmatically and interactively
Toolbox Packaging: Specify packaging options when creating custom toolbox programmatically
Functionality being removed or changed
Language and Programming:
Code Analyzer: Enable custom checks and configure existing checks
fix Function: Fix code issues from the command line
Code Analyzer App: Apply fixes to code issues interactively
dictionary Object: Access and assign dictionary cell values with curly braces
Output Argument Validation: Debug within output argument blocks
Functionality being removed or changed
Data Analysis:
pivot Function: Summarize tabular data using pivot table
table and timetable Data Types: Perform calculations directly on tables and timetables without extracting their data
Timetable Events: Find and label events in timetables using attached event tables
combinations Function: Generate all element combinations of arrays
fillmissing2 Function: Fill missing entries in two-dimensional data
fillmissing Function: Use values from nearest neighbors to fill missing data
Descriptive Statistics and Arithmetic: Omit or include missing data of multiple data types
Find and Remove Trends Live Editor Task: Interactively find and remove periodic and polynomial trends
Data Cleaner App: Save session as MAT-file and reload session
head and tail Functions: Get top or bottom rows of array
groupsummary Function: Compute number of unique elements
movevars Function: Move table variables after last variable without After name-value argument
rowfun and varfun Functions: OutputFormat name-value argument can take "auto" as value
day Function: Return ISO day of week
week Function: Return ISO week of year or week of month
Variables Editor: Edit categories of categorical table variable in MATLAB Online
Data Import and Export:
Import Data Live Editor Task: Import data in live scripts
audiowrite Function: Write MP3 audio files
imfinfo Function: Get information about XMP metadata embedded in JPEG files
Parallel Processing: Use readtable in thread-based environments
Scientific File Format Libraries: CDF library upgraded to version 3.8.1
Scientific File Format Libraries: CFITSIO library upgraded to version 4.1.0
Functionality being removed or changed
Mathematics:
MATLAB Support Package for Quantum Computing: Build, simulate, and run quantum algorithms
pageeig Function: Perform eigenvalue decomposition on pages of N-D arrays
randi Function: Create random logical array
Functionality being removed or changed
Graphics:
xregion and yregion Functions: Highlight horizontal or vertical regions of plots
sky Function: Apply monochromatic colormap to charts
tiledlayout Function: Create horizontal or vertical layouts
animatedline Function: Create animated lines using numeric, datetime, or duration data
Grid Lines: Customize grid line thickness
Axes Labels: Rotate x- and y-axes labels without overlapping the axes
Plotting Series of Lines: Control cycling order of line styles
Plotting Series of Lines: Control whether the data range of a line affects automatic axes limits
fontsize and fontname Functions: Optionally specify the object containing the text
DatetimeRuler Object: Set or get the reference date for plotting datetime values
Image Display Preferences: Access and update imshow preferences in MATLAB Online
Functionality being removed or changed
App Building:
addStyle Function: Add styles to items in list box or drop-down UI component
uistack Function: Change stacking order of UI components in UI figure
uipanel and uibuttongroup Functions: Specify container border color
uihtml Function: Send events between MATLAB and HTML
uiimage Function: Specify image alt text for use with screen readers
appmigration.migrateGUIDEApp Function: Programmatically migrate existing GUIDE apps to App Designer
App Designer: View progress when loading an app
App Designer: Add label to unlabeled UI component
App Designer: Replace assigned callback with new callback
App Testing Framework: Test context menus within labels
Axes Interactions: Customize behavior of interactions with axes view
Plots in Apps: Enable data cursor mode
Plots in Apps: Specify axes for interaction mode
Functionality being removed or changed
Performance:
Language and Programming: Improved performance when calling functions and methods
Function Handles: Improved performance when invoking handles to named functions
varargin Argument: Improved performance when specifying zero or more inputs
timetable Data Type Indexing: Improved performance when subscripting with times or with withtol subscript
Complex Matrices: Improved performance when using colon indexing to copy complex matrices
mean, std, var, and rmse Functions: Improved performance when computing along default vector dimension
Moving Statistics Functions: Improved performance when computing over matrix with sample points
histcounts Function: Improved performance with small numeric and logical input data
fzero function: Improved performance
Plots in Apps: Improved performance when rerendering axes
Plots in Apps: Improved performance when creating axes
Plots in Apps: Improved responsiveness of ruler-pan interaction
Live Editor: Improved performance when filtering numeric table variables
Property Inspector: Improved performance when opening for the first time
Property Inspector: Improved performance when switching between objects
Variables Editor: Improved performance of cell editing in MATLAB Online
Variables Editor: Improved speed of data display when scrolling in MATLAB Online
App Building: Improved app startup performance
App Building: Improved startup performance for apps with multiple tabs
App Building: Improved performance when resizing some apps
Software Development Tools:
Build Automation: Improve build speed and efficiency with incremental builds
Build Automation: Create and run tasks that accept arguments
Dependency Analyzer: Analyze files and folders with or without a project
Project Preferences: Preserve empty project folders in Git repositories
Project API: Determine if file is under project root folder
Project API: Export subset of project files to archive
Project Sharing: Include only specific files in project archive using export profile
Comparison Tool: Automate comparison report generation for continuous integration (CI) workflows
Source Control in MATLAB Online: Save uncommitted changes by creating a Git stash
Source Control in MATLAB Online: Manage Git remote repositories locally using Branch Manager
Source Control in MATLAB Online: Detect and extract conflict markers from text and binary files
Comparison Tool in MATLAB Online: Compare project definition files
Dependency Analyzer in MATLAB Online: Investigate circular dependencies using the Project Hierarchy view
Unit Testing Framework: Run tests interactively by using Test Browser
Unit Testing Framework: Programmatically access code coverage results
Unit Testing Framework: Temporarily set environment variables
Unit Testing Framework: Test for handle validity
Unit Testing Framework: Write text to files in thread-based environment
Unit Testing Framework: Use renamed classes in testing and other automated workflows
App Testing Framework: Test context menus within labels
Performance Testing Framework: Use fewer samples to meet the objective margin of error
Functionality being removed or changed
External Language Interfaces:
Publish C++ Interface: Publish interface for C++ library in Live Editor
Interface to C++ Library: Execute C++ library functions out-of-process
Interface to C++ Library: Support for default arguments
Interface to C++ Library: Support for comments in function templates
Publish C++ Interface: Put libraries on run-time path
Publish C++ Interface: Resolve multiple redefinition and unresolved external symbol errors
Publish C++ Interface: Information to debug C++ library functions
Publish C++ Interface: Support for MATLAB operators for C++ methods
Java Interface: Support for Java 11 JDK and JRE
Java Interface: jenv and matlab_jenv provide environment information
Python Interface: Convert between MATLAB datetime and Python datetime, NumPy datetime64 types
Python Interface: Convert between MATLAB duration and Python timedelta, NumPy timedelta64 types
Python Objects: Use Python objects as keys in dictionary
.NET Interface: Convert between MATLAB dictionary and .NET System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary objects
.NET Objects: Use .NET objects as keys in dictionary
.NET Engine: Support for MATLAB structs
Perl 5.36.0: MATLAB support on Windows
Compiler support changed for building C and C++ interfaces, MEX files, and standalone MATLAB engine and MAT-file applications
Functionality being removed or changed
Hardware Support:
Support for MJPEG format in USB Webcams on Windows
Support for 32-bit Debian Bullseye on Raspberry Pi
Support for Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W and Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4

New in MATLAB R2022b (Sep 15, 2022)

Environment:
Live Editor Controls: Add numeric spinners to increment and decrement variable values in live scripts
Live Editor Tasks: Specify what code to run when control value changes
Suggestions and Completions: Change when to show suggestions and how to accept them
Search in MATLAB Online: Access toolstrip actions, preferences, and Help Center resources using search
System Theme in MATLAB Online: Change colors of MATLAB desktop to match operating system color scheme
Help Center: View documentation for all products and determine which products are installed
unsetenv Function: Remove environment variable
isenv Function: Determine if environment variable exists
Comparison Tool: Compare MAT files, FIG files, live scripts, and live functions in MATLAB Online
Functionality being removed or changed
Language and Programming:
dictionary Object: Map unique keys to values for fast lookup
Output Argument Validation: Validate output arguments in functions and class methods
Code Analyzer App: Identify code issues
codeIssues Object: Identify and store code issues from one or more files
Custom Compact Display: Live Editor, Variables editor, and Workspace browser follow CustomCompactDisplayProvider implementations
Customized Dot Indexing: New methods handle parentheses-dot combinations
Functionality being removed or changed
Data Analysis:
Data Cleaner App: Clean data in table
Data Cleaner App: View sparklines and summary statistics
stackedplot Function: Plot data from multiple tables or timetables
detrend Function: Detrend tabular data
rmoutliers Function: Define outlier locations, and optionally return outlier indicator, thresholds, and center value
mape and rmse Functions: Calculate error between forecast and actual data
isuniform Function: Determine if vector is uniformly spaced
Serial date numbers and date strings are not recommended
datetime and convertTo Functions: Convert between CDF TT2000 times and datetime arrays
Data Preprocessing Live Editor Tasks: Plot multiple table variables
Data Preprocessing Live Editor Tasks: Append cleaned table variables and specify logical tabular output
Clean Missing Data Live Editor Task: Plot nonnumeric table data, specify minimum number of missing entries, and use custom fill method
Clean Outlier Data Live Editor Task: Convert outliers to missing
Live Editor and Variables Editor: Control placement of missing values when sorting numeric data in MATLAB Online
Variables Editor: View sparklines and summary statistics for tabular data in MATLAB Online
Variables Editor: Navigate variable with Find and Go To dialog boxes in MATLAB Online
Variables Editor: Interactively save logical indices of data selection in MATLAB Online
Variables Editor: Replace tabular data with empty arrays in MATLAB Online
Functionality being removed or changed
Data Import and Export:
Parquet: Use Parquet files containing nested structured data
SequentialDatastore Object: Sequentially read data from multiple datastores
Datastores: Create subsets of arbitrarily nested transformations and combinations of datastores
Parallel Processing: Use low-level file I/O operations in thread-based environments
CDF Interface: Read CDF_INT8 and CDF_TIME_TT2000 data
imwrite Function: Use datetime values to write metadata for PNG images
Image File Format Libraries: LibTIFF library upgraded to version 4.4.0
Scientific File Format Libraries: HDF4 and HDF-EOS2 libraries are upgraded
Functionality being removed or changed
Mathematics:
pagenorm Function: Calculate norms using pages of N-D arrays
Functionality being removed or changed
Graphics:
Plotting Table Data: Create stem, stairstep, and geographic plots by passing tables directly to plotting functions
errorbar Function: Plot multiple lines with error bars at once
tightPosition Function: Get the location and size of axes plotting area
tilenum and tilerowcol Functions: Convert between rows and columns and tile numbers in tiled chart layouts
Tiled Chart Layout: Define GridSizeChangedFcn callback that executes when the grid size changes
Contour Plots: Customize contour labels, colors, and transparency
boxchart Function: Specify the box edge color and box median line color
3-D Stem and Bar Plots: Expanded data type support
Image Objects: Control the maximum resolution for displaying images
Figure Code: Generate code for figure formatting in MATLAB Online
Plot Options: Customize figure creation, data linking, and labeling in MATLAB Online
Functionality being removed or changed
App Building:
ClickedFcn and DoubleClickedFcn Callbacks: Program a response to a user clicking or double-clicking a tree, check box tree, list box, table, or drop-down component
uieditfield Function: Specify valid length and input type for edit field text
uiimage Function: Create an image hyperlink
uipanel and uibuttongroup Functions: Specify container border width
uigridlayout Function: Query grid layout manager size and location
uibutton and uitogglebutton Functions: Specify additional icon and icon alignment options
uitoolbar Function: Specify background color of toolbar
scroll Function: Programmatically scroll to specified component in container
isInScrollView Function: Determine if any component in a container is visible, not only direct children
App Designer: Add and delete callbacks more efficiently
App Designer: Move components between tabs
Graphics Support: Restore axes view and display context menu for interaction modes
Graphics Support: Use visual camera toolbar interface
Comparison Tool: Toggle the ability to navigate only mergeable changes
Functionality being removed or changed
Performance:
prctile, quantile, and iqr Functions: Improved performance with small input data
mldivide and pagemldivide Functions: Improved performance with small matrices
conv, conv2, and convn Functions: Improved performance when convolving two vectors, matrices, and arrays
Tall Arrays: Improved performance when indexing tall arrays backed by parquetDatastore
App Building: Improved app startup performance
App Building: Improved startup performance for apps with multiple tabs
Plots in Apps: Improved responsiveness when interacting with large images
Plots in Apps: Ticks and grid lines update as you pan
Plots in Apps: Improved performance and smaller PDF files when exporting complex plots
Tiled Chart Layouts: Improved performance for flow layouts with spanned axes
ArrayDatastore Object: Improved performance when reading data using readall
ArrayDatastore Object: Improved performance when specifying number of rows to read
parquetread Function: Improved performance reading string data from Parquet files
parquetDatastore Function: Improved performance when creating datastore with large number of Parquet files
Workspace Browser: Improved performance of variable-deletion dialog boxes in MATLAB Online
Variables Editor and Live Editor: Improved speed of data display when scrolling in MATLAB Online
lookfor Function: Improved performance when searching
Software Development Tools:
Build Tool: Create and run software-build tasks
Dependency Analyzer: New warnings to identify problems
Project API: Extract project from archive
Source Control in MATLAB Online: Manage Git branches and repositories
Unit Testing Framework: Add methods and properties to test classes interactively
Unit Testing Framework: Specify action to take against invalid test files
Unit Testing Framework: Generate descriptive test parameter names using cell arrays
Unit Testing Framework: Compare dictionaries in tests
Functionality being removed or changed
External Language Interfaces:
.NET Interface: Support for .NET 5 and .NET Core
.NET Engine API: Call MATLAB from .NET applications
Publish C++ Interface: Support for char* output as nullTerminated string
Call MATLAB from C++: Use MATLAB enumeration classes in strongly-typed interface
Python Interface: Display keyword (key-value pair) arguments created by pyargs
Python Interface: Convert scalar logical and numeric Python types to MATLAB types
Python Engine: MATLAB functions accept objects using Python buffer protocol
Python Engine: Install MATLAB Engine API with pip Command
Python: Support for Version 3.10
Functionality being removed or changed
Hardware Support:
Upload Libraries and Configure Pins for I2C, SPI, and Serial Communication Using the Arduino Explorer App
Support for servo and rotary encoder peripherals connected to Arduino-compatible ESP32 boards

New in MATLAB R2022a (May 13, 2022)

Environment:
Themes in MATLAB Online: Change the colors of the MATLAB desktop by selecting a dark or light theme
Live Editor Colors: Change the text and background colors of live scripts and functions
Live Editor Hyperlinks: Insert hyperlinks to specific locations in separate live scripts or live functions
Live Editor Export: Export live scripts and functions programmatically using the export function
Live Editor Accessibility: Interact with output in live scripts using the keyboard
Live Editor Tasks: View and interact with tasks when code is hidden
Component Browser: Reorder children in App Designer or the Property Inspector
Editor Python Support: View and edit Python files with syntax highlighting, auto-indenting, and delimiter matching
Find and Replace Dialog Box: Search text in the Editor and Live Editor using regular expressions
Profiler: Access the Profiler from the Apps tab
Internationalization: UTF-8 system encoding on Windows platforms
Installation Settings: Configure persistent settings for MATLAB installations
Comparison Tool: Save results as HTML report
Comparison Tool: Compare folders in MATLAB Online
Functionality being removed or changed
Language and Programming:
Class Introspection: Description and DetailedDescription properties of metaclasses contain text from code comments
Class Introspection: Access class aliases from meta.class instance
Background Pool: See futures in the background
cancelAll Method: Cancel currently queued and running futures in the background pool
Background Pool: Check the status of the background pool
pcode Function: Create P-code files with enhanced obfuscation
str2num Function: Restrict evaluation to basic math expressions
Functionality being removed or changed
Data Analysis:
Data Cleaner App: Interactively preprocess and organize column-oriented data
allfinite, anynan, and anymissing Functions: Determine if all array elements are finite, any element is NaN, and any element is missing
quantile, prctile, and iqr Functions: Calculate quantiles, percentiles, and interquartile range
rms Function: Calculate root-mean-square value
std and var Functions: Optionally return mean as a second output
Date and Time Functions: Some Financial Toolbox functions combined with MATLAB functions
Date and Time Functions: Some Financial Toolbox functions moved to MATLAB
matlab.datetime.compatibility.convertDatenum Function: Convert text timestamps and serial date numbers to datetime values in a backward-compatible way
categorical Data Type: Use a pattern object to specify category names that match a pattern
table and timetable Data Types: Use a pattern object to specify row, variable, and property names that match a pattern
Data Preprocessing Functions: Append transformed variables to input data using the ReplaceValues name-value argument
Data Preprocessing Functions: Return table with logical values using the OutputFormat name-value argument
ismissing, rmmissing, and groupsummary Functions: Accept data types with no standard missing value
Functionality being removed or changed
Data Import and Export:
Parquet: Read Parquet file data more efficiently using rowfilter to conditionally filter rows
Parquet: Determine and define row groups in Parquet file data
Parquet: Convert, import, and export nested data structures
writelines Function: Write plain text to a file
Reading Online Data: Use web options when reading files over HTTP and HTTPS
Opus Files: Work with Opus (.opus) audio files.
HDF5 Interface: Write datasets using dynamically loaded filters
NetCDF Interface: Enable byte-range reading of remote datasets
NetCDF Interface: Read and write variable length array data types (NC_VLEN)
Scientific File Format Libraries: NetCDF library is upgraded
Hardware Manager App: Discover and connect to your hardware from MATLAB
TCP/IP Client Interface: Specify transfer delay options
Functionality being removed or changed
Mathematics:
pagemldivide, pagemrdivide, and pageinv Functions: Solve linear equations and calculate matrix inverses using pages of N-D arrays
tensorprod Function: Calculate tensor products between two arrays
round Function: Control tiebreak behavior
null and orth Functions: Specify tolerance to treat singular values below a threshold as zero
norm Function: Frobenius norm calculations support N-D arrays
equilibrate Function: Specify output format of factorization
rand, randi, and randn Functions: Support for complex input and RandStream object with the "like" syntax
eps, flintmax, intmax, intmin, realmax, and realmin Functions: Use "like" syntax to return scalars based on prototype object
qr and gsvd Functions: Option for economy-size decompositions
Functionality being removed or changed
Graphics:
Plotting Table Data: Create line plots by passing tables directly to plotting functions
Data Tips: View table variable names as row labels
Data Tips: View visual property values for scatter plots and bubble charts
Bubble Charts and 3-D Scatter Plots: Plot multiple data sets at once
fontname and fontsize Functions: Specify the font and font size for graphics objects
exportgraphics Function: Create animated GIF files
Annotation Graphics Objects: Change the annotation rotation angle with the Rotation property
Quiver Plots: Align the heads, centers, or tails of arrows with data points
xlim, ylim, and zlim Functions: Query the axis limit method
view Function: Change the view on multiple axes simultaneously
rendererinfo Function: Get renderer information without specifying the axes
linkaxes Function: Synchronize axes in all dimensions by default
cameratoolbar Function: Syntax support for figures created with the uifigure function
Callbacks in Live Editor: Create callbacks for figures in the Live Editor
Figure Code: Generate code for figure interactions in MATLAB Online
Functionality being removed or changed
App Building:
uistyle Function: Add icons and format text in table cells and tree nodes
uitable Function: Rearrange columns of table UI components interactively
focus Function: Give keyboard focus to UI components programmatically
isInScrollView Function: Determine if a component is visible in a scrollable container
uigridlayout Function: Resize table, list box, and image UI components to fit content
Live Editor Tasks: Develop your own Live Editor tasks for use in live scripts and functions
Custom UI Components: Interactively create custom UI components in App Designer
App Designer: Modify tab focus order of components
App Designer: Specify error handling options and navigate from error messages when debugging an app
App Designer: Manage image files in your app with an improved workflow
App Designer: Convert components in a grid layout manager to use pixel-based positioning
App Designer: Use App Designer in most modern web browsers in MATLAB Online
App Designer: Customize design environment layout
Comparison Tool: Compare and merge app files in MATLAB Online
Functionality being removed or changed
Performance:
table Data Type Indexing: Improved performance when subscripting with dot notation or multiple levels of indexing
Classes: Improved performance for static methods, constant property access, and package functions in scripts
try Block: Improved performance when statements run error-free
Python Data Type Conversion: Improved performance when converting between Python and MATLAB data types in out-of-process mode
MATLAB Engine API for Python: Improved performance with large multidimensional arrays in Python
Matrix multiplication: Improved performance when multiplying sparse and full matrices
inv Function: Improved performance when inverting large triangular matrices
sprand and sprandn Functions: Improved performance when generating random sparse matrices
fzero Function: Improved performance
diff Function: Improved performance with large number of elements
groupsummary, groupfilter, and grouptransform Functions: Improved performance with small group size
nufftn Function: Improved performance with nonuniform sample points or query points
Variables Editor and Live Editor: Improved speed of data display when scrolling
App Building: Improved performance when creating UI components
uitable Function and UI Containers: Improved performance when updating properties successively
UI Components: Improved performance when setting a property with an unchanged value
App Designer: Improved performance when loading apps with UIAxes components off the canvas
Plots in Apps: Improved responsiveness for event-driven updates in apps
Plots in Apps: Improved responsiveness of axes interactions within apps
Plots in Apps: Improved responsiveness of axes interactions in plots with two y-axes
Plots in Apps: Faster animations in apps when multiple figures are open
Property Inspector: Improved performance when opening for the first time
Software Development Tools:
Projects: Reduce test runtime in continuous integration workflows using the dependency cache
Dependency Analyzer: Save dependency graph as image
Code Compatibility Analyzer App: Identify and address compatibility issues against current version of MATLAB
Unit Testing Framework: Create test classes interactively using the Current Folder browser
Unit Testing Framework: Create temporary folders that are automatically removed
Unit Testing Framework: Generate DOCX, HTML, and PDF reports after test execution
Unit Testing Framework: Debug uncaught errors in tests
Unit Testing Framework: Collect statement and function coverage metrics for your source code
Functionality being removed or changed
External Language Interfaces:
C++ Interface: Array size help text for functions and methods
C Interface: Build third-party C library interface using clibgen.generateLibraryDefinition
C++ Interface: Support for C++ language features
C++ Interface: Publisher options
Call MATLAB from C++: Generate C++ code Interface for MATLAB Packages, Classes, and Functions
MATLAB Data Array API: matlab::data::Array support for row-major order
MEX Functions: UTF-8 system encoding on Windows platforms
Python: Use Name=Value syntax to pass keyword arguments to Python functions
Python: Convert Python list and tuple types to MATLAB types
Perl 5.34.0: MATLAB support on Windows
Compilers: Support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2022
Functionality being removed or changed

New in MATLAB 9.4 R2018a (Mar 15, 2018)

Desktop:
Live Editor: Create live functions with richly formatted documentation, including equations and images
Live Editor: Debug live functions and scripts
Live Editor: Add sliders and drop-down lists to control variable values in a live script
Live Editor: Sort table data interactively
Live Editor: Create a table of contents and add formatted code examples
Live Editor: Select and edit a rectangular area of code
Add-Ons Explorer: Browse by category to discover convenient, helpful add-ons
Comparison Tool: Find differences in live scripts and functions
Favorites: Rerun favorite commands
Toolbox Packaging: Specify portability information for custom toolboxes
Language and Programming:
Empty Arrays: Create complex empty arrays using functions such as zeros and ones
Code Compatibility Report: Generate compatibility report from Current Folder browser
timer Object: Access properties with multilevel indexing
Mathematics:
graph and digraph Objects: Work with multigraphs that have multiple edges between two nodes
graph and digraph Objects: Calculate component sizes and weighted adjacency matrices
GraphPlot Object: Visualize graphs with additional options for 'force', 'force3', and 'circle' layouts
polyshape Objects: Analyze polygons with turningdist, nearestvertex, and overlaps functions
polyshape Objects: Return vertex map and accept arrays with compatible sizes for intersect, subtract, union, and xor functions
polybuffer Function: Create buffer around points or lines
triangulation Objects: Find neighboring vertices and locations of query points with improved performance
ode45 Function: Solve nonstiff differential equations faster
Graphics:
Axes Object: View axes at small size with improved layout, limit selection, and font scaling
Axes Object: Map data values to colormap using linear or logarithmic scale
Legend Object: Create legends with multiple columns
heatmap Function: Zoom and pan data, display data tips, and sort rows and columns interactively
geobubble Function: Explore with interactive data tips and a scale bar
Axes Toolbar: Add toolbars to your axes for quick access to pan, zoom, and other data exploration tools
Property Inspector: Modify graphics interactively with an improved property inspector
Polygon Object: Control color and transparency of hole edges
Data Import and Export:
readtable Function: Specify the number of rows to read from a text file using import options
readtable Function: Easily manage prefixes and suffixes from data using import options
preview Function: Preview first 8 rows of a table in a file without importing the full table
imageDatastore Function: Work with millions of images with improved memory usage and performance
Datastore Functions: Seamlessly work with datasets stored on cloud and local machines
Datastore Functions: Read HDFS data more easily when using Hortonworks or Cloudera
readtable, detectImportOptions, datastore, and tabularTextDatastore Functions: Automatically detect and return duration data in text files
detectImportOptions Function: Control import properties of duration data
VideoReader Function: Read video files faster on all platforms
VideoWriter Function: Write video files faster on all platforms
openDiskFile Function: Read data files in FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) data format
webwrite Function: Support for NTLM authentication
Data Analysis:
groupsummary Function: Group and discretize data for summary operations on table and timetable variables
Table and Timetable Variables: Add, delete, and rearrange column-oriented variables with the functions addvars, removevars, movevars, splitvars, mergevars, rows2vars, and inner2outer
Preallocated Tables and Timetables: Initialize table and timetable variables so that they have specified sizes and data types
Regular Timetables: Create regularly spaced timetables using a time step or sampling rate
retime and synchronize Functions: Synchronize timetables to a time step or sampling rate that you specify
duration Arrays: Create duration arrays from text that represents elapsed times
normalize Function: Normalize array, table, and timetable data
tall Arrays: Operate on tall arrays with more functions, including smoothdata, find, and isoutlier
tall Array Indexing: Use tall numeric arrays to index the first dimension
tall Arrays: Solve linear systems Ax = b
tall Arrays: Return group labels with findgroups
tall Arrays: Set date and time components of tall datetime and tall duration arrays
tall Arrays: Set properties of tall tables and tall timetables
App Building:
App Designer: Create deployed web apps using MATLAB Compiler
App Designer: Add and configure tree components on the App Designer canvas
App Designer: Select from recently used argument sets when running apps with input arguments
App Designer: Edit axes title and label directly in the canvas
GUIDE: Migrate GUIDE apps to App Designer
App Testing Framework: Author automated tests for App Designer apps
Figure Objects: Maximize and minimize figures programmatically
uitable Function: Specify data as table array
uidatepicker Function: Add date selection controls to apps
uiprogressdlg Function: Create modal in-app progress dialog boxes to apps
uitree Function: Create trees with editable node text in the running app
Component Text Alignment: Improved text alignment for labels, check boxes, and radio buttons
Performance:
Startup: Increased speed of MATLAB startup time
Execution Engine: Execute tight loops with scalar math faster
Execution Engine: Improved performance for common programming patterns
App Designer: Starting, loading, and layout tasks are faster
Hardware Support:
Raspberry Pi: Support for Raspberry Pi Zero W board
MATLAB Online: Acquire live images from USB webcams in MATLAB Online
Advanced Software Development:
Tab Completion: Describe your function syntaxes for custom tab completion and other contextual suggestions
Unit Testing Framework: Run tests from the MATLAB Editor toolstrip
App Testing Framework: Author automated tests for App Designer apps
Unit Testing Framework: Rerun failed tests with one click
Unit Testing Framework: Test if values point to existing files or folders with IsFile and IsFolder constraints
Unit Testing Framework: Test if two sets are the same with IsSameSetAs constraint
Unit Testing Framework: Select tests by test class hierarchy
Unit Testing Framework: Direct output stream to unique files for plugins
Unit Testing Framework: Increased access to parameterized testing properties
Unit Testing Framework: Compare cell arrays of character arrays using StringComparator
Unit Testing Framework: Comparison method for objects changed
Performance Testing Framework: Define multiple, labeled measurement boundaries in test methods
Mocking Framework: Specify default property values on mock object
Mocking Framework: Obtain interaction history for mock object
Mocking Framework: Construct mocks for classes that have Abstract properties with other attributes
matlab.net.http Package: Stream data to and from a web service and handle forms and multipart messages
C++ MEX Interface: Access MATLAB data and objects easier from C++
Class Constructors: Author subclass without implementing a constructor solely to pass arguments through to a superclass constructor
Property Validation: Get information about property validation
Property Validation: Define validation for abstract properties
Functions: Call numArgumentsFromSubscript for object dot method from overloaded subsref
Classes: Concatenate matlab.lang.OnOffSwitchState enumeration members with nonmember char and string
Python Version 3.4: Support discontinued
Source Control Integration: View changes, save revisions, and manage repository locks
MATLAB Engine API for C++: Set and get a property value on an object in an object array
MATLAB Data API: Applications built with R2018a API do not run in MATLAB R2017b
MEX Functions: Build C MEX Files with Interleaved Complex API
MEX Functions: Release-specific build options
Version Embedded in MEX Files
Perl 5.26.1: MATLAB support
System objects: Create System Objects in MATLAB
System object support for strings
.NET: Supports string data type
Compiler support changed for building MEX files and standalone MATLAB engine and MAT-file applications

New in MATLAB 9.3 R2017b (Sep 21, 2017)

Desktop:
Live Editor: Write MATLAB commands with automated, contextual hints for arguments, property values, and alternative syntaxes
Live Editor: Export live scripts to LaTeX format
Live Editor: Display high-resolution plots in PDF output
Live Editor: Horizontally align text, equations, and images
Live Editor: Automatically match delimiters and wrap comments while editing code
Live Editor: View and scroll through table data, including variable and row names
Live Editor: Check code for errors and warnings using the message bar and message indicator
Documentation: Use the Live Editor in a web browser to open, edit, and run MATLAB online documentation examples
MATLAB Drive: Store, access, and manage your files from anywhere
Add-On Manager: Customize your MATLAB environment by enabling and disabling add-ons
Add-On Manager: Find installed add-ons faster using sort and search
Toolbox Packaging: Create a Getting Started Guide for your toolbox from a Live Script template
Toolbox Packaging: Share your toolbox on File Exchange directly when you package it
Command Window: View updated display for cell arrays
Language and Programming
Code Compatibility Report: Generate a report that helps the updating of code to a newer MATLAB release
isStringScalar Function: Determine whether input is a string array with one element
convertStringsToChars and convertCharsToStrings Functions: Enable your code to accept all text types as inputs without otherwise altering your code
arrayfun, cellfun, and structfun Functions: Return object arrays as output arguments
Scripts: Run sections in scripts containing local functions
isfile and isfolder Functions: Determine if input is a file or a folder
Functionality being removed or changed
Mathematics:
decomposition Object: Solve linear systems repeatedly with improved performance
lsqminnorm Function: Find minimum-norm solution of underdetermined linear system
dissect Function: Reorder sparse matrix columns using nested dissection ordering
vecnorm Function: Compute vector-wise norms of arrays
polyshape Object: Create, analyze, and visualize 2-D polygons
eigs Function: Improved algorithm and new options
svds Function: Set options with name-value pairs
Interpolation Functions: Method for modified Akima cubic Hermite interpolation
convn Function: Compute convolutions on multidimensional arrays with improved performance
subgraph and highlight Functions: Specify graph nodes with logical vector
Functionality being removed or changed
Graphics:
geobubble Function: Create an interactive map with bubbles whose size and color vary with data values
wordcloud Function: Display words at different sizes based on frequency or custom size data
binscatter Function: Visualize data density with dynamic bin size adjustment
Tall Array Support: Visualize out-of-memory data using plot, scatter, and binscatter
heatmap Function: Sort rows and columns and use custom labels in a heatmap
bar Function: Control individual bar colors
Chart Colors: Create bar and area charts with new default colors
Axes Object: Specify the target axes for more functions
Functionality being removed or changed
Data Import and Export
Custom Datastore: Build a customized datastore
datastore Function: Work with data stored in Windows Azure Blob Storage
datastore Function: Access Hadoop HDFS data more easily
FileDatastore Object: Create uniform output from datastore
HDF5 Functions: Create datasets, groups, attributes, links, and named datatypes using non-ASCII characters
Web services: Skip server name verification in certificates
jsonencode Function: Encode NaN and Inf as null
Functionality being removed or changed
Data Analysis:
ischange Function: Detect abrupt changes in data
islocalmin and islocalmax Functions: Detect local minima and maxima in data
rescale Function: Scale data to a specified range
tall Arrays: Operate on tall arrays with more functions, including fillmissing, filter, median, polyfit, and synchronize
tall Array Indexing: Use subscripted assignment with tall arrays
tallrng Function: Control random number generator used by tall arrays
timetable Data Container: Specify whether each variable in a timetable contains continuous or discrete data using the VariableContinuity property
mink and maxk Functions: Find the k smallest or largest elements in an array
topkrows Function: Find the k top rows in sorted order for numeric arrays, tables, and timetables
App Building:
App Designer: Create apps with a wide variety of 2-D and 3-D plots
App Designer: Add menus to an app from the Component Library
App Designer: Specify input arguments when running an app
App Designer: Add a summary, description, and screenshot for app packaging and compiling
App Designer: Improved component Properties pane in Code View
App Designer: Edit tick labels for gauges, knobs, and sliders directly in the canvas
uitree and uitreenode Functions: Create trees and tree nodes in apps
uiconfirm Function: Create modal in-app confirmation dialog boxes
Toolbox Packaging: Add App Designer apps to the Apps Gallery upon toolbox installation
MATLAB Online: Run App Designer apps in MATLAB Online
Performance:
App Designer: Load apps faster
Execution Engine: Improved performance for vectorized math on CPUs with AVX2
Live Editor: Run live scripts with loops faster
Hardware Support:
Arduino: Wirelessly connect to Arduino boards using low-cost Bluetooth adaptors
Arduino Setup UI: Set up a connection to your Arduino board over USB, Bluetooth, or WiFi
Arduino Plug-In Detection: Discover available Arduino support and examples when plugging a compatible Arduino board
iPhone and Android Sensors: Log sensor data locally on Android or iOS devices for later analysis
Advanced Software Development:
MATLAB Engine API for C++: Run MATLAB code from C++ programs with object-oriented programming support and asynchronous execution
MATLAB Engine API for C++: Pass data between C++ programs and MATLAB using MATLAB Data Array
Java SE 8: MATLAB support, providing improved security and access to new Java features
MinGW 5.3: MATLAB support
Microsoft Visual Studio 2017: MATLAB support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Community, Professional, and Enterprise editions
Compiler support changed for building MEX files and standalone MATLAB engine and MAT-file applications
Python Version 3.6: MATLAB support
Perl 5.24.1: MATLAB support
MATLAB Handle class method: Add a listener for an event without binding the listener to the source object
Unit Testing Framework: Provide code coverage reports in the Cobertura format for improved continuous integration workflows
Unit Testing Framework: Generate HTML report of a test run
Unit Testing Framework: Write tests as live scripts
Unit Testing Framework: Specify additional diagnostics to evaluate upon failures using the onFailure method
Performance Testing Framework: Define multiple measurement boundaries in test methods
Mocking Framework: Construct mocks for classes that have Abstract methods with other attributes
Source Control Integration: Show differences from parent files and save copies in Git Branches
Functionality being removed or changed

New in MATLAB 9.2 R2017a (Mar 9, 2017)

Desktop:
Live Editor: Edit a figure interactively including title, labels, legend, and other annotations
Live Editor: Get suggestions for mistyped commands and variables
Live Editor: Copy live script outputs to other applications
Live Editor: Hover over variables to see their current value
Add-On Explorer: Discover and install File Exchange submissions hosted on GitHub in Add-On Explorer
MATLAB Online: Use MATLAB through your web browser for teaching, learning, and convenient, lightweight access
Startup Folder Behavior Changes: Set initial working folder using new options and behaviors
Language and Programming:
string Arrays: Create string arrays using double quotes
String Functions: Return character arrays or cell arrays instead of string arrays
missing Function: Assign missing values in core data types, including double, datetime, categorical, and string arrays
issortedrows Function: Determine if matrix and table rows are sorted
sort and sortrows Functions: Specify options for sorting complex numbers and placing missing elements
issorted Function: Query sort order with monotonic, strictly monotonic, strictly ascending, and strictly descending options
head and tail Functions: Return top or bottom rows of table or timetable
table Data Containers: Use row labels when performing join, sort, and grouping operations
Functionality being removed or changed
Graphics:
heatmap Function: Visualize table or matrix data as a heatmap
legend Function: Create legends that update when data is added to or removed from the axes
Categorical Plotting: Use categorical data in common plotting functions and customize axes with categorical rulers
histogram Function: Plot histograms of datetime and duration data
histogram Function: Sort categorical bins by bar height, and limit the number of bins displayed
scatter Function: Create scatter plots of datetime and duration data
Scatter Plots: Create scatter plots with varying marker sizes faster
parula Colormap: Create plots with enhanced colors
Functionality being removed or changed
Data Import and Export:
datastore and tabularTextDatastore Functions: Automatically detect and return date and time data in text files
datastore Function: Work with data in Amazon S3 cloud storage
Import Tool: Import strings and categorical arrays interactively
detectImportOptions Function: Control import properties of fixed-width text files
RESTful web services: Support for PUT and DELETE HTTP methods in webread, webwrite, and websave
save Function: Save workspace variables to a MAT-file with or without compression
writetable Function: Select preferred character encoding when writing to a file
NetCDF Functions: Create variable names and attributes containing non-ASCII characters
Webcam Support Package: GStreamer Upgrade on Linux
jsondecode converts JSON null values in numeric arrays to NaN
load and fopen Functions: Use the file separator character ('/') preceding a filename to indicate that the file is in the root folder
Functionality being removed or changed
Data Analysis:
tall Arrays: Operate on tall arrays with more functions, including ismember, sort, conv, and moving statistics functions
tall Arrays: Index tall arrays using sorted indices
tall Arrays: Work with out-of-memory, time-stamped data in a timetable
isoutlier and filloutliers Functions: Detect and replace outliers in an array or table
smoothdata Function: Smooth noisy data in an array or table with filtering or local regression
summary Function: Calculate summary statistics and variable information in tables and timetables
histcounts Function: Bin datetime and duration data
movmad and movprod Functions: Compute moving median absolute deviation and moving product of an array
bounds Function: Simultaneously determine the smallest and largest elements of an array
fillmissing Function: Replace missing data in an array or table using moving mean or moving median option
Moving Statistics Functions: Supply sample points for time-stamped and nonuniform data in moving statistics functions, such as movmean
prod and cumprod Functions: Ignore NaNs using 'omitnan'
Functionality being removed or changed
App Building:
App Designer: Learn to build apps using an interactive tutorial
App Designer: Zoom and pan plots
App Designer: Configure columns of a table to automatically fill the entire width of the table
App Designer: Manage common design-time settings using the Preferences dialog box
App Designer: Include comet, graph, and digraph visualizations in apps
App Designer: Write ButtonDownFcn callbacks for graphics objects displayed in UI axes
App Designer: Edit table column headings directly in the canvas
App Designer: Disable automatic resize behavior when writing SizeChangedFcn callbacks
Performance:
Execution Engine: Improved performance for setting MATLAB object properties
save Function: Save MAT v7.3 files without compression for improved performance on some storage devices
memoize Function: Cache results of a function to avoid rerunning when called with the same inputs
Scripts: Improved performance of scripts with lower script overhead
try, catch Block: Improved performance of try blocks with lower execution overhead
App Designer: Load apps faster
Mathematics Functions: Various performance improvements
Hardware Support:
Arduino: Read from quadrature encoders
Arduino: Wirelessly connect to Arduino MKR1000 board over WiFi
iPhone and Android Sensors: Log sensor data locally on Android or iOS devices for later analysis
Advanced Software Development:
Class matlab.lang.OnOffSwitchState: Represent on and off as logical values
Object Properties: Validate object property values by their type, size, shape, or other parameters
Validation Functions: Validate that values meet specific criteria by calling the appropriate function
Mocking Framework: Isolate a portion of a system to test by imitating behavior of dependent components
Unit Testing Framework: Generate screenshots and figures during testing with ScreenshotDiagnostic and FigureDiagnostic
Unit Testing Framework: Capture screenshots and figures generated during tests using TestReportPlugin
Unit Testing Framework: Control runtests function with debug, strict, and verbosity options
Unit Testing Framework: Select tests by procedure name
Unit Testing Framework: Comparator for MATLAB tables
Performance Testing Framework: View statistics from test measurements with the sampleSummary method
Performance Testing Framework: Apply a function across test measurements with the samplefun method
Source Control Integration: Use Git Pull to fetch and merge in one step
MEX builds with 64-Bit API by default
MEX files and shared libraries: Diagnostic information displayed for failure to load
Java: Supports string data type
Python: Supports string data type
Python Version 3.3: Support discontinued
MATLAB ships with ActiveState Perl version 5.24 on Windows platforms
Compiler support changed for building MEX files and standalone MATLAB engine and MAT-file applications
Functionality being removed or changed

New in MATLAB 9.1 R2016b (Sep 14, 2016)

Desktop:
Live Editor: Pan, zoom, and rotate axes in output figures
Live Editor: Create and edit equations interactively using the equation editor
Live Editor: Create new sections and format text quickly using autoformatting
Live Editor: Automatically rename all functions or variables in a live script
Live Editor: Drag and drop selected code and text within a live script and between other applications
Live Editor: View outputs sooner when running live scripts
Command Window: View updated display for arrays, including headers indicating class, size, and shape
Product Trials: Download trials for MathWorks products using Add-On Explorer
Toolbox Packaging: Include live script examples, generate info.xml and helptoc.xml templates for custom documentation, and modify Java class path on installation
Preferences: Save preferences to new default location on Mac
Documentation: Find examples faster across MathWorks products
Documentation: Open and run examples in MATLAB
Language and Programming:
Functions in Scripts: Define local functions in scripts for improved code reuse and readability
string Array: Manipulate, compare, and store text data efficiently
timetable Data Container: Manage time-stamped tabular data with time-based indexing and synchronization
timerange Function: Access all data in a specified date and time range in a timetable
vartype Function: Access all variables of a specified datatype in a table
table Data Container: Reference all variables in a table with compatible types using the Variables property
dir Function: Search for folders and subfolders recursively
Search Path: Add folders to the MATLAB search path using relative paths
Search Path: Add folders to the MATLAB search path using the MATLABPATH environment variable on Windows
userpath Function: Update code to use simplified userpath on UNIX
regexp and regexpi Functions: Force output arguments into a cell array
regexptranslate Function: Replace matching patterns with escaped regular expression
Private Functions: Visibility rules changed
Message Identifiers: Update code to use modified error message identifiers
Functionality being removed or changed
Mathematics:
Implicit Expansion: Apply element-wise operations and functions to arrays with automatic expansion of dimensions of length 1
graph and digraph Objects: Compute graph isomorphism, biconnected components, cut vertices, and node condensation
graph and digraph Objects: Visualize graphs and networks in 3-D
digraph Object: Reverse edge directions in a directed graph using the flipedge function
conv2 Function: Compute 2-D convolutions with improved performance
Functionality being removed or changed
Graphics:
Date and Time Plotting: Use datetime or duration data in common plotting functions, and customize plots with datetime and duration rulers
polarscatter and polarhistogram Functions: Create scatter and histogram plots in polar coordinates
fimplicit and fimplicit3 Functions: Plot implicit functions of the form f(x,y) = 0 and f(x,y,z) = 0
Tick Formatting Functions: Customize text, position, rotation, and format for axis tick labels
errorbar Function: Create vertical and horizontal error bars and control hat width
plot Function: Control location and frequency of markers with the MarkerIndices property
histogram and histogram2 Functions: Create a histogram from precomputed bin counts
Contour Plots: Generate contour matrix with improved performance
Functionality being removed or changed
Data Import and Export:
readtable Function: Automatically detect and return date and time data in text and spreadsheet files
detectImportOptions Function: Detect layout of text and Excel files and customize import options to readtable
VideoReader Object: Read video frames more quickly from MP4 and MOV files on Windows systems
imageDatastore Function: Read batches of images for faster processing in machine learning and computer vision applications
TallDatastore Object: Efficiently retrieve preprocessed and cleaned-up data saved using the write function of the MATLAB tall arrays
jsondecode, jsonencode Functions: Encode and decode structured data in JSON-formatted text
writetable Function: Support for writing missing fields of a table to a spreadsheet file
readtable, textscan, tabularTextDatastore and spreadsheetTextDatastore Functions: Support string data type using the 'TextType' parameter
weboptions Function: Create custom HTTP headers and specify HTTPS certificates
Scientific File Format Libraries: CDF Library upgraded to version 3.6.1
Functionality being removed or changed
Data Analysis:
tall Arrays: Manipulate and analyze data that is too big to fit in memory
Missing Data Functions: Find, fill, and remove missing data from arrays or tables with ismissing, standardizeMissing, fillmissing, and rmmissing
Cumulative Functions: Ignore NaNs using 'omitnan' in cumsum, cummin, and cummax
discretize Function: Discretize datetime and duration arrays to separate time-stamped data into regular time intervals
Constrained Pan and Zoom: Pan or zoom in a single dimension for 2-D and 3-D plots
Functionality being removed or changed
App Building:
App Designer: Include common 2-D plots in apps, such as area, bar, contour, histogram, yyaxis, and function plots
App Designer: Create legends for 2-D plots in apps
App Designer: Embed tabular displays using uitable in apps
App Designer: Create callback functions that can be shared across multiple components
App Designer: Add, position, and resize labeled components, and create components with names derived from labels
App Designer: Edit spinners and numeric edit field values directly in the canvas and duplicate components into different parents
App Designer: Learn App Designer workflow by showing tips in the code view
App Designer Components: Position property uses 1-based origin
Edit Field Component: Use the ValueChangingFcn property to execute a callback when users edit the value in the UI
Positioning Containers Programmatically: Access the outer bounds and drawable area of containers such as panels and button groups
uisetcolor Function: Use the redesigned color picker to access recent colors and specify RGB values
App Packaging: Automatically include dependent files when packaging apps
Performance:
Graphics Display: Render plots with large numbers of markers faster using less memory
Execution Engine: Execute tight loops with scalar math faster
Execution Engine: Construct objects faster
Hardware Support:
iPhone and Android Sensors: Log data from mobile sensors on the MathWorks Cloud over a Wi-Fi or cellular network
Arduino: Write to shift registers
Raspberry Pi: Generate PWM signals and control servo motors from GPIO pins on Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi: Support for Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
Raspberry Pi: Read from sensors and write to the LED matrix on a Raspberry Pi Sense HAT
Raspberry Pi: Run Linux and file management commands faster
Advanced Software Development:
matlab.net.http Object: Access HTTP services with low-level protocol control
MATLAB Engine API for Java: Run MATLAB code from Java programs
matlab.mixin.SetGet: Allow inexact property names by default in calls to set and get
matlab.mixin.SetGetExactNames: Require exact property names in calls to set and get
Unit Testing Framework: Generate Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF reports of a test run
Unit Testing Framework: Improve continuous integration workflows using TAP Version 13 protocol and YAML diagnostics with the TAPPlugin
Unit and Performance Testing Frameworks: Improve code reuse and readability by using local functions in script-based tests
Unit and Performance Testing Frameworks: Tests that qualify that an empty character vector is a substring now pass
Object Constructors: Construct objects faster with certain constraints
Java: Pass 0-length arrays
Python Version 3.5: MATLAB support
Python Version 3.3: Support to be phased out
Source Control Integration: Customize external source control tools to use MATLAB to compare and merge
Source Control Integration: Include Git Submodules
Source Control Integration: Fix problems with working copy locks using SVN Cleanup option.
Compiler support changed for building MEX files and standalone MATLAB engine and MAT-file applications
Functionality being removed or changed

New in MATLAB 9.0 R2016a (Mar 4, 2016)

Desktop:
Live Editor: Create and run live scripts with embedded output; add equations and images to enhance the interactive narrative
Toolboxes: Programmatically package and install custom MATLAB toolboxes with matlab.addons.toolbox package
Tab Completion: Complete parameter names and options in select MATLAB function calls
Pause Button: Pause the execution of a program from the Editor and enter debug mode
Language and Programming:
datetime Object: Set the default locale and format of datetime objects through the Preference panel
zeros, ones, and eye Functions: Create logical arrays
Mathematics:
Moving Statistics Functions: Calculate moving statistics using the movmean, movsum, movmedian, movmax, movmin, movvar, and movstd functions
datetime and duration Arrays: Compute standard deviations with std
datetime and duration Arrays: Ignore NaNs and NaTs using 'omitnan' or 'omitnat' in the functions mean, median, std, and sum
graph and digraph Classes: Analyze graphs and networks using centrality and nearest nodes functions
svds Function: Compute singular values with improved performance and convergence behavior with a wide variety of matrices
median Function: Compute medians with improved performance
cummin, cummax, cumprod, and cumsum Functions: Compute cumulative minimum, maximum, product, and sum with improved performance
Graphics:
polarplot Function: Plot data in polar coordinates and modify properties of polar axes
yyaxis Function: Create charts with two y-axes and customize each y-axis individually
Legend Object: Add legend title and create callbacks to highlight plots when clicking legend items
histogram2 Function: Enable data linking and brushing for bivariate histograms
Function Plots: Visualize mathematical expressions as parametric line, surface, and contour plots
Graphics Display: Render plots with large numbers of markers faster
3-D Pan and Zoom: Explore data with improved pan and zoom behavior for axes in a 3-D view
App Building:
App Designer: Build MATLAB apps with line and scatter plots using an enhanced design environment and an expanded UI component set
Data Import and Export:
writetable Function: Write to text files significantly faster, especially for large files
readtable Function: Read from Excel files with faster performance
writetable Function: Write to Excel files on Mac and Linux platforms
spreadsheetDatastore Function: Import and process data from a collection of Excel files
datastore Function: Import a TabularTextDatastore object with improved file format detection
ImageDatastore Object: Specify image labels using the Labels property and process with splitEachLabel, countEachLabel, and shuffle functions
fileDatastore Function: Create a custom datastore for a file collection too large to fit in memory
readtable Function: Read text files with automatic detection of delimiters, header lines, and variable names
tabularTextDatastore and imageDatastore Functions: Create objects to import large text and image data collections
Performance:
Performance Testing Framework: Measure MATLAB code performance using the unit testing framework
Graphics Display: Render plots with large numbers of markers faster
writetable Function: Write to text files significantly faster, especially for large files
readtable Function: Read from Excel files with faster performance
median Function: Compute medians with improved performance
cummin, cummax, cumprod, and cumsum Functions: Compute cumulative minimum, maximum, product, and sum with improved performance
Hardware Support:
Raspberry Pi: Acquire images from USB webcams
Arduino: Build custom add-ons to interface with additional hardware and software libraries
Advanced Software Development:
Performance Testing Framework: Measure MATLAB code performance using the unit testing framework

New in MATLAB 8.6 R2015b (Sep 4, 2015)

Desktop:
Add-On Explorer: Add capabilities to MATLAB, including community-authored and MathWorks toolboxes, apps, functions, models, and hardware support
Documentation: Find information faster with redesigned Help navigation and browser-style keyboard shortcuts
Tab Completion: Complete commands with corrected capitalization
Command Suggestions: Get suggested corrections for mistyped function names when calling help command
Language and Programming:
findgroups and splitapply Functions: Split data into groups and apply functions to each group of data
NaT Function: Create array of Not-a-Time values
timezones Function: Display list of time zone names
help Command: Specify a variable as input to the help command instead of specifying the variable class name
Advanced Software Development:
MATLAB Interface to Python: Clear Python class definitions with clear classes command, useful when reloading revised Python classes
MATLAB Interface to Python: Pass a handle to a Python function to other Python functions called from MATLAB
MATLAB Engine for Python: Call MATLAB functions and objects from Python by connecting to a running session of MATLAB
MEX Compiler Support: Compile MEX files with freely available MinGW-w64 compiler on 64-bit Windows
Unit Testing Framework: Improve continuous integration workflows with diagnostics from the TAP plugin and a JUnit-style XML plugin
Unit Testing Framework: Customize the test runner with plugins that immediately report finalized results and perform system-wide qualifications
Unit Testing Framework: Run tests in parallel when available using the runtests function with the UseParallel option
Unit Testing Framework: Detect and prevent warnings issued by tests using the new FailOnWarningsPlugin
Mathematics:
graph and digraph Classes: Create, analyze, and visualize graphs and networks
histcounts2 Function: Bin bivariate data
deg2rad and rad2deg Functions: Convert between radians and degrees
datetime Arrays: Interpolate dates and times using interp1 function
duration Arrays: Perform computations on durations using interp1, eps, cummax, cummin, cumsum, mod, and rem functions
Data Import and Export:
Excel Spreadsheets: Read and write to the same spreadsheet repeatedly with improved performance of xlsread, xlswrite, readtable, and writetable functions
datastore Function: Import data from image collections that are too large to fit in memory as an ImageDatastore
datastore Function: Import data from text files with support for additional character encoding schemes with TabularTextDatastore
VideoReader Object: Read streams of data more quickly from video files on Mac
Graphics:
Graphics Display: Leverage DPI-aware MATLAB graphics for Apple Retina displays and high-resolution displays on Windows
Axes Object: Set the location of each axis in a plot to cross at the origin
Numeric Ruler Object: Customize tick format, exponent, and text style to control the appearance of an individual axis in a plot
histogram2 Function: Plot bivariate histograms with control over bins, normalization, and display
MATLAB Charts: Use transparency in bar, scatter, and area charts
GUI Building:
UI Display: Create DPI-aware UIs for Apple Retina displays and high-resolution displays on Windows
Performance:
MATLAB Execution Engine: Run programs faster with redesigned architecture
table Data Type: Access data with improved performance when using dot-parentheses
Categorical Arrays: Create a larger number of categories, with improved memory efficiency and performance
Hardware Support:
Raspberry Pi 2 Model B: Acquire sensor and image data from Raspberry Pi 2 boards using the MATLAB Support Package for Raspberry Pi Hardware
BeagleBone Black: Acquire sensor and image data from BeagleBone Black boards using the MATLAB Support Package for BeagleBone Black Hardware
iOS Sensors: Acquire sensor data from Apple iOS mobile devices using the MATLAB Support Package for Apple iOS Sensors

New in MATLAB 8.5 R2015a (Mar 6, 2015)

Highlights:
Integration of documentation for custom toolboxes into the MATLAB Help Browser
Scale mapreduce algorithms to MATLAB Distributed Computing Server for data-intensive applications
Support for Arduino Leonardo and other Arduino boards
Desktop:
Documentation: Integrate documentation for custom toolboxes into the MATLAB Help Browser
Documentation: Determine when feature introduced
Array Size Limit: Limit maximum array size to prevent unintended creation of very large matrices
Tab Completion: Complete class properties and methods while editing class definition files
User Interface Preferences: Control user interface language
Language and Programming:
repelem Function: Repeat copies of array elements to create a larger array
sort Function: Now preserves shape of cell array of string inputs
isenum Function: Determine if variable is enumeration
milliseconds Function: Convert duration to number of milliseconds
Publishing Markup: Include external file content
fullfile Function: Maintain all double-dot symbols
Python Objects: Indexing Support
Python Version 3.4: MATLAB Support
MATLAB Engine for Python: Support for startup options
MATLAB Engine for Python: Support for Unicode in Python 2.7
Conversion of Character Arrays to Java Strings: Preserve null characters
WSDL Web Services Documents: Limitations
Unit Testing Framework: Tag tests for categorization and selection
Unit Testing Framework: Run tests in parallel
Unit Testing Framework: Share variables between tests in scripts
Unit Testing Framework: Use prebuilt test fixtures
Unit Testing Framework: Compare objects using isequaln
Unit Testing Framework: Use homogeneous expected causes with Throws constraint
Git Source Control Integration: View branch details and delete branches
C Matrix Library: New functions
Mathematics:
discretize Function: Group numeric data into bins or categories
Descriptive Statistics: Omit NaN values in basic statistical calculations, including max, min, mean, median, sum, var, std, and cov
ismembertol and uniquetol Functions: Perform set comparisons using a tolerance
Random Numbers: Generate random numbers using the double-precision, SIMD-oriented Fast Mersenne Twister (dSFMT) algorithm
nearestNeighbor Function: Determine nearest alphaShape boundary point
Data Import and Export:
Datastore: Read one complete file with 'file' option for ReadSize property
Datastore: Read data in parallel from a datastore with partition function using Parallel Computing Toolbox
webwrite Function: Send data to RESTful Web services using HTTP POST method
webread and websave Functions: Request data from RESTful Web services using HTTP POST method
xlsread and readtable Functions: Read larger spreadsheet files from Excel software
textscan and readtable Functions: Return consistent results when reading quoted strings
Scientific File Format Libraries: Upgrades
Graphics:
drawnow Function: Improve performance in animation loops with new option
Performance:
MapReduce: Run mapreduce algorithms on any computer cluster that supports parallel pools using MATLAB Distributed Computing Server
Interpolation Functions: Execute faster with multithreaded calculations
Hardware Support:
IP camera: Acquire video directly from Internet Protocol cameras
BeagleBone Black Hardware: Access BeagleBone Black hardware with the MATLAB Support Package for BeagleBone Black Hardware
Arduino Hardware: Access to Arduino Leonardo and other boards with the MATLAB Support Package for Arduino Hardware
Arduino Hardware: New configurePin function

New in MATLAB 8.3 R2014b (Oct 3, 2014)

Desktop:
Git and Subversion source control system integration through Current Folder browser, including syncing from Web-hosted repositories such as those on GitHub
Packaging of custom MATLAB toolboxes into a single, installable file
Dialog box for managing custom MATLAB toolboxes
Preference for controlling the initial working folder, with the option to start in the folder from your previous MATLAB session
Copying and pasting variables in the Workspace browser
Self-paced eLearning available from within MATLAB
New startup switch to opt out of automatically switching to software OpenGL
Color settings preferences in Comparison Tool
Automatic file saving when you click away from the Editor
Language and Programming:
datetime, duration, and calendarDuration arrays for efficient computation, comparison, and formatted display of dates and times
Suggested corrections for syntax errors in the Command Window
Suggested MathWorks products for undefined functions
Create multiple search indexes for help files you create
py package for using Python functions and objects in MATLAB, and an engine interface for calling MATLAB from Python
matlab.wsdl.createWSDLClient function for accessing SOAP-based Web services
Graphics objects in MEX-files use object handles instead of numeric handles
Workflow improvements when editing classdef files, including immediate impact on existing and new workspace variables
MATLAB errors attempting to define listener for nonobservable property
Script-based tests in unit testing framework
Plugin to report code coverage in unit testing framework
Control logging and verbosity in unit testing framework
Constraint for scalar values in unit testing framework
Test suites from packaged functions and scripts
Failure of unit tests using a relative tolerance when the expected value is infinite and the actual value is finite
rmdir treatment of asterisk as literal character on Linux and Mac
Functionality being removed or changed
Mathematics:
histcounts function for binning numeric data
triangulation functions nearestNeighbor and pointLocation for identifying the closest vertex and enclosing triangle or tetrahedron for specified point
Option for interpolating to 'next' and 'previous' neighbors with the interp1 function and griddedInterpolant class
Option for rounding numbers to a specified number of decimal or significant digits using the round function
boundary function and alphaShape class for creating a conforming boundary around a discrete set of points
cummin and cummax functions for computing cumulative minimum and maximum of an array
Reverse accumulation option for the cumsum, cummin, cummax, and cumprod functions
Median and mode calculations of categorical data
Functionality being removed or changed
Data Import and Export:
Faster data import from text files using Import Tool, and readtable and textscan functions
Import of data as categorical and datetime arrays using the readtable and textscan functions
Data import from text files and collections of text files that do not fit into memory with datastore
VideoReader performance improvements and ability to start reading from a specified time in the video
tcpclient function for reading and writing data from network connected devices and servers using socket-based connections
webread function for importing online data including JSON, CSV, and image data
Reading non-ASCII encoded files with readtable function
Writing quoted strings with writetable function
hdftool functionality will not be removed
Functionality being removed or changed
Hardware Support:
Documentation installation with hardware support package
Support package for Android sensors
Support package for Arduino hardware
Support package for LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 hardware
Graphics:
Major update of MATLAB graphics system
New look of MATLAB graphics with improved clarity and aesthetics
Improved infrastructure based on MATLAB objects
Rotatable axis tick labels
Automatic update of datetime and duration tick labels with plot function
histogram function for plotting histograms
animatedline function for creating line animations
Display of multilingual text and symbols
Support for multiple colormaps in single figure
Pie charts of categorical data with automatic slice labels
Image conversion functions rgb2gray and im2double, no longer requiring Image Processing Toolbox
imshow function for displaying images from matrices or files, no longer requiring Image Processing Toolbox
savefig option that creates more compact files
Compatibility considerations for graphics changes
Properties and syntaxes being removed or changed
Save and print functionality being removed or changed
GUI Building:
uitab and uitabgroup components for creating user interfaces with tabbed panels
Changes introduced with new graphics system
Functionality being removed or changed
Performance and Big Data:
Big data analysis on your desktop that can scale to Hadoop with mapreduce
Improved performance for sorting categorical data with sort
typecast function performance improvements with long vectors
The performance of the typecast function improves for long input vectors.

New in MATLAB 8.3 R2014a (Mar 7, 2014)

Desktop:
Pop-up Command History for recalling, viewing, filtering, and searching recently used commands in the Command Window
Merge option in MATLAB Comparison Tool for resolving differences between text files
Saving workspace variables and their values to a MATLAB script
Korean and Chinese localization available on Windows and Mac platforms
MathWorks file properties displayed for .SLX, .SLXP, and .MLAPPINSTALL files in file browsers and search engines on Windows and Mac systems
Language and Programming:
Suggested corrections for mistyped, user-defined functions in the Command Window
Streamlined MEX compiler setup and improved troubleshooting
Multidimensional array support for flipud, fliplr, and rot90 functions
Option for circshift to operate on a specified dimension
Changes to empty string matching with validatestring
matlab.lang.makeValidName and matlab.lang.makeUniqueStrings functions for constructing unique MATLAB identifiers
details function displays details about arrays
Changes to passing empty object to isprop
Behavior change of fullfile function output
Support array-creation functions in your class
Custom plugins in unit testing framework
Test parameterization and selection in unit testing framework
matlab.unittest plugin for Test Anything Protocol (TAP) output
Output stream direction for matlab.unittest plugins
Comparator for MATLAB objects in unit testing framework
Changes to compiler support for building MEX-files
Changes to External Programming Language Interfaces documentation
Functionality being removed or changed
Mathematics:
isdiag, isbanded, issymmetric, ishermitian, istril, istriu, and bandwidth functions for testing matrix structure
sylvester function for solving the Sylvester equation
Option for eig function for computing left eigenvectors
Option for rand, randi, and randn functions for creating arrays of random numbers that match data type of an existing variable
Integer type support for mean
complex function with one complex input
Change to ind2sub and sub2ind functions with nondouble inputs
Data Import and Export:
Webcam support for previewing and acquiring live images and video
Raspberry Pi hardware support for controlling devices such as motors and actuators, and for capturing live data from sensors and cameras directly from MATLAB
readtable improvements for reading spreadsheet and text files
Functionality being removed or changed
GUI Building:
Panel Display in GUIDE Layout Area
Functionality being removed or changed
Performance:
conv2 function performance improvements with three inputs
filter function performance improvements for FIR and IIR

New in MATLAB 8.2 R2013b (Sep 6, 2013)

New in MATLAB 8.1 R2013a (Mar 8, 2013)

Desktop:
Option to add separators between controls on the quick access toolbar
Additional icon choices, auto-scaled thumbnails, and text-formatting options for customizing descriptions of MATLAB apps
Left-aligned table of contents for navigating in the Help browser and online Documentation Center
Search term highlighting and content expansion in the Help browser
Context menu items in Help and Web browsers for zooming, page navigation, and saving
Removal of Handle Graphics support under -nojvm startup option
-noFigureWindows startup option suppresses figures on Linux and Mac platforms
No default keyboard shortcut for overwrite mode
Support requests using prerelease versions
Language and Programming:
matlab.unittest package, an xUnit-style testing framework for the MATLAB language that allows writing and running unit tests, and analyzing test results
strsplit and strjoin functions for splitting and joining strings
Additional validateattributes options for checking array size and shape
Help text for enumerations and events
Removal of support for .jar documentation files
Changes to Microsoft .NET Framework support
Changes to compiler support for building MEX-files
Changes to subclasses of built-in classes
Conversion of error and warning message identifiers
No strict-match requirements for month formats when converting date strings
Date functions error on out-of-range quarter values
String representations of large integers using exponential notation
Do not use classpath.txt file to modify Java static path
Functionality being removed or changed
Mathematics:
scatteredInterpolant and griddedInterpolant support for extrapolation
Syntax for ones, zeros, and other functions for creating arrays that match attributes of an existing variable
Integer type support for prod, cumsum, cumprod, median, mode, and number theory functions
flintmax function for largest consecutive integer in floating-point format
Scale option for airy function
scatteredInterpolant class that replaces TriScatteredInterp
triangulation class to replace TriRep
delaunayTriangulation class to replace DelaunayTri
Set functions behavior change
Functionality being removed or changed
Graphics:
gobjects function for preallocating graphics handle array
Functionality being removed or changed
Data Import and Export:
Reading and writing indexed and grayscale AVI files with VideoReader and VideoWriter objects
Writing MPEG-4 H.264 files on Mac with VideoWriter object
Tiff object improvements for reading and writing RGB-class TIFF images
Importing non-ASCII encoded files with textscan function
Multichannel JP2 support in imread function
Previous behavior change of xlsread function output
Authentication, user name, and password inputs for urlread and urlwrite functions
Additional audio and video file reading capabilities using Import Wizard and importdata function
sound function nonblocking
Functionality being removed or changed
Performance:
fft function performance improvements on computers with new Intel and AMD processors
permute function performance improvements for 3-D and higher dimensional arrays

New in MATLAB 8.0 R2012b (Sep 12, 2012)

Desktop:
Toolstrip that replaces menus and toolbars in MATLAB Desktop
Apps gallery that presents apps from the MATLAB product family
Single-file application packaging as a MATLAB App Installer file for inclusion in the apps gallery
Redesigned Help with improved browsing, searching, and filtering
Viewing of multiple documentation pages simultaneously with tabbed browsing
Suggested corrections for mistyped functions and variables in the Command Window
Full-screen view mode on Mac operating systems
Changes to -nojvm startup option on Mac
Tabs in MATLAB Web browser
Direct access to run configurations from the Run button
Multiple vector creation from single selection in Variables editor
Language and Programming:
Abstract attribute for declaring MATLAB classes as abstract
Diagnostic message improvements when attempting to create an instance of an abstract class
Handle and dynamicprops do not support the empty static method
Switch uses eq to compare enumerations
Cannot specify property attributes multiple times
Discontinued compiler support for building MEX-files
Jagged array support for .NET
Java exceptions accessible to MATLAB code
Ability to add jar files to static Java class path
Preservation of string functions for backwards compatibility
Conversion of Error and Warning Message Identifiers
Mathematics:
Performance improvements and multithreading for airy, psi, and Bessel functions
ddensd function that solves delay differential equations of neutral type with state-dependent delays
Signed integer support for bit-wise operations
atan2d function that calculates four-quadrant inverse tangent with result in degrees
Complex number support for trigonometry degree functions
Functionality being removed or changed
Data Import and Export:
Data import from delimited and fixed-width text files using Import Tool
Single-step import of numbers, text, and dates as column vectors from a spreadsheet with Import Tool
audioread and audioinfo functions for reading MP3, MPEG-4 AAC, WAVE, and other audio files
audiowrite function for writing MPEG-4 AAC, WAVE, and other audio files
Reading and writing of BigTIFF image files larger than 4 GB
Reading of XLSM, XLTX, and XLTM files on all platforms with xlsread function
xlsread function now supporting named ranges on all platforms
Multiple delimiter support in textscan function
Timeout, user agent, and character encoding inputs for urlread and urlwrite functions
Functionality being removed or changed

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New in MATLAB 8.3 R2014b (Oct 3, 2014)

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New in MATLAB 8.2 R2013b (Sep 6, 2013)

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New in MATLAB 7.11 (Sep 3, 2010)

New in MATLAB 7.10 (Mar 5, 2010)

New in MATLAB 7.9 (Oct 22, 2009)

New in MATLAB 7.8 (Mar 6, 2009)

New in MATLAB 7.7 (Oct 9, 2008)