GNU Octave Changelog

What's new in GNU Octave 4.4.1

• Improvements:
• disable compound binary operator optimization (bug #54465)
• Fix initial bracketing for fzero (bug #54445).
• Fix scrolling command window in Windows 10 (bug #52496).
• Produce a single backtrace for global declaration overriding local variable.
• revive setstr (bug #54417)
• ode15i.m: In tests, use unlikely symbol name instead of “foo”.
• run.m: In test, use a symbol name that is unlikely to be a function.
• avoid alignment warning on solaris systems (bug #54389)
• Improve error message if iconv is not available (bug #54384).
• avoid error in gnulib wrapper on systems that don’t have fpu control word
• avoid unused variable warning on some systems
• avoid fprintf format warning on some systems
• eliminate unnecessary sun-utils.h header file
• index.tst: Make tests case insensitive for NaN, NA, Inf values (bug #54385).
• positive value from uname can mean success (bug #54235)
• add some bug numbers to the test suite
• consider any non-zero return from uname to be failure (bug #54235)
• if freetype detection fails, unset FT2_* config variables (bug #54369)
• Produce same random number stream for "state" initialized to Inf (bug #54342).
• avoid crash when loading classdef objects (bug #54319)
• hist.m: Don’t error out if called with identical Y values (bug #54326).
• Parse empty struct input correctly (bug #54318).
• Fix regression in 4.2.0 which disallowed printing with some Ghostscript devices.
• transform libiconv.dll.a to -liconv for mkoctfile (bug #53920)
• trapz.m: Overhaul function to fix errors with different orientations of X and Y (bug #54277).
• Write audio OGG files in smaller chunk sizes (bug #54280).
• Use LAPACK DTGSEN subrouting for ordered-qz computation (bug #53761)
• Fix blkmm to work with empty matrices (bug #54261).
• use octave bat file in pkg install configure/make when in windows (bug #53938).
• repelem.m: Fix behavior when final repeat count is 0 (bug #54275).
• .hgsub: Use hg.octave.org instead of hg-new.octave.org
• move some fortran and dynamic linking configure checks to separate macros
• configure.ac: Reorder tests so that FPICFLAG is correctly set on Solaris (bug #54235).
• eigs.m: Decrease opts.maxit in UnconvergedEigenvalues BIST (bug #54179).
• fix ambiguous overload build error on Solaris (bug #54217)
• pkg.m: Restore ability to use file glob patterns when specifying local pkg files (bug #54224).
• Use %ld format code in xerbla printf (bug #54206).
• use int instead of size_t for xerbla string length (bug #54206)
• Pair fclose with all fopen and prevent file-io.cc test fails (bug #54180).
• fsolve.m: Return info=1 when initial guess x0 is correct (bug #53991).
• fsolve.m: Add BIST test for bug #53991.
• fsolve.m: exit with info=-2 when singularity reached (bug #53991).
• ensure that Make sees Octave exit status when running make check
• interpreter.cc (intialize_xerbla_error_handler, xerbla_abort): New functions.
• improve warnings for global/local variable conflicts (bug #54052)
• maybe preserve local value when declaring variable global (bug #54052)
• fix regression in text (bug #54109)
• create valid tmp scope for who -file (bug #54030)
• polar.m: Correct axes limits when using negative rho values (bug #53999).
• text.m: Fix regression when ‘String’ property is specified (bug #54067).
• allow NULL mxArray* to be returned as undefined from fcn calls (bug #54096)
• treat NULL as [] for mxSetFieldByNumber and mxSetCell (bug #54096)
• Properly test Qt offscreen printing during manual figures generation.
• Avoid segfault with textscan (bug #53786).
• add Qt include needed to build against Qt 5.11 (bug #53978)
• make listing local functions for command completion work again (bug #53925)
• Stop segfault in debug mode with readline complete (bug #53925).
• Remove code to install default colors for qt toolkit from window theme (bug #53805).
• back out changes attempting to automatically call handle class destructor
• residue.m: Use a pre-conditioner on final matrix division for numerical stability (bug #53869)
• track multiple file types (oct|m|mex) for private functions (bug #53856)
• also preserve temporaries in indexing expressions (bug #53844)
• also update load-path info if private subdir time stamp changes (bug #53856)
• defer deletion of temporaries in argument lists (bug #53844)
• improve test for handle class destructor
• call delete method correctly for handle class objects (bug #53844)
• use size_t for f77 char arg length params with GCC 8 (bug #53872)
• Fix lrwork dimension in svd for complex cases (bug #53823).
• lines.m: Don’t open empty figure or axes if none already exist (bug #53648)
• GUI:
• gui: fix editor rendering on some displays, disable QScintilla buffered drawing
• Build system:
• m4/octave_blas_f77_func.m4: Restore 64-bit integer BLAS detection (bug #53853).
• build: include inplace_edit.pl in tarball (bug #54349).
• fix test for 8-byte integer BLAS lib on big-endian systems (bug #53853)
• OCTAVE_CHECK_LIB: avoid shell syntax error if not checking for lib
• build: avoid compiler warning about unused function abs (bug #54237)
• build: Work around bug in perl 5.28.0 (bug #54202).
• Documentation:
• doc: Add version number to top title of HTML manual for clarity.
• flip.m: Update docstring.
• setdiff.m: Fix typo in documentation (bug #54393).
• doc: Replace instances of realroot (non-existent) with realpow (bug #54336).
• HACKING.md: Update for recently removed files.
• remove unused qtinfo source files
• doc: Remove bad calling convention for warning with a mode struct (bug #54288)
• Document work-around for disabling OpenGL software rendering (bug #53845).
• xpow.cc (err_nonsquare_matrix): Clarify error message (bug #54248).
• doc: Miscellaneous documentation fixes all over the manual (bug #54288).
• doc: small fixes to size and plot.txi (bug #54283).
• doc: Clarify description of Example 4 for size (bug #54283).
• doc: Fix malformed URL (bug #54225).
• Fix typo in error statement from containers.Map (bug #54103).
• doc: Use qcode macro to document fseek offsets (bug #51402).
• Use correct abbreviation UTC for Coordinated Universal Time (bug #53918).
• doc: Rewrite section on indexing for clarity (bug #53675).
• md5sum.m: Fix error in sample code (bug #53829).