Octave News Archive

August 24, 2006
Version 2.9.8 is now available for ftp. [Mailing List Thread]
July 28, 2006
Version 2.9.7 is now available for ftp. [Mailing List Thread]
July 27, 2006
Fairly complete support for Matlab's MEX interface has been added to the Octave CVS archive and will be part of the 2.9.7 shapshot. Please see [Mailing List Thread] for more details.
June 29, 2006
Please see this [Mailing List Thread] if you are having trouble compiling Octave 2.9.6 with GCC 3.x. After applying the patch, you'll need to run autogen.sh and configure again. This means you'll need to have a recent version of autoconf installed. Or, you can upgrade to GCC 4.x or you can wait for 2.9.7. So many options!
June 9, 2006
Version 2.9.6 is now available for ftp. [Mailing List Thread]
May 26, 2006
Function file cacheing has been improved with hopefully major speedups when calling m-file functions. [Mailing List Thread]
May 21, 2006
Octave-forge is being cleaned up by moving core functions into the main Octave distribution. [Mailing List Thread]
May 11, 2006
Path manipulation was significantly cleaned up. Now instead of manipulating the LOADPATH variable, you can use the addpath, rmpath, and path functions. [Mailing List Thread]
May 3, 2006
To enable XML reading, mat2cell was developed along with significantly more efficient versions of regexp and regexprep. [Mailing List Thread]
May 2, 2006
All warn_* built-in variables were removed and replaced by warning identifiers that may be used with the warning function. For example, warn_divide_by_zero = false; would now be warning ("off", "Octave:divide-by-zero");. [Mailing List Thread]
March 23, 2006
Versions 2.1.73 and 2.9.5 are now available for ftp.
November 11, 2005
Versions 2.1.72 and 2.9.4 are now available for ftp.
May 18, 2005
Version 2.9.3 is now available for ftp.
May 5, 2005
Version 2.1.70 is now available for ftp.
April 22, 2005
Version 2.9.2 is now available for ftp.
March 29, 2005
Version 2.1.69 is now available for ftp.
March 27, 2005
Version 2.1.68 is now available for ftp.
Version 2.9.1 is now available for ftp.
March 15, 2005
Version 2.9.0 is now available for ftp. This snapshot is the first in the series leading to Octave 3.0.
March 4, 2005
Version 2.1.67 is now available for ftp.
February 24, 2005
Version 2.1.66 is now available for ftp.
February 18, 2005
Version 2.1.65 is now available for ftp.
December 3, 2004
Version 2.1.64 is now available for ftp.
November 17, 2004
Version 2.1.63 is now available for ftp. The CVS archive has been split to allow work to proceed toward Octave 3.0 while also stabilizing a 2.1.x version.