The Octave developers are pleased to announce a major new release of GNU Octave, version 3.8.0.
One of the biggest new features for Octave 3.8 is a graphical user interface. It is the one thing that users have requested most often over the last few years and now it is almost ready. But because it is not quite as polished as we would like, we have decided to wait until the 4.0.x release series before making the GUI the default interface (until then, you can use the --force-gui option to start the GUI). Given the length of time and the number of bug fixes and improvements since the last major release Octave, we also decided against delaying the release any longer. So please enjoy the 3.8 release of Octave and the preview of the new GUI. We believe it is working reasonably well, but we also know that there are some obvious rough spots and many things that could be improved. Please see http://octave.org/NEWS-3.8.html for a more complete list of significant user-visible changes in this release. WE ALSO NEED YOUR HELP to fix the remaining problems, complete the GUI, and improve the overall user experience for both novices and experts alike: * If you are a skilled software developer, you can help by contributing your time to help with Octave's development. See http://octave.org/get-involved.html for more info. * If Octave does not work properly, you are encouraged to report the problems you find. Bug reporting guidelines are available at http://octave.org/bugs.html * Whether you are a user or developer, you can help to fund the project. Octave development takes a lot of time and expertise. Your contributions help Octave continue to improve. The Free Software Foundation's Working Together for Free Software campaign fund now accepts donations for Octave at https://my.fsf.org/donate/working-together/octave We hope you find Octave to be useful. Please help us make it even better for the future! The source code for Octave 3.8.0 is available for download at: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave Please see http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html for mirror sites around the world. Or you may use http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/octave, which will redirect automatically to a nearby mirror. Links to binary (executable) versions for various systems will be listed at http://octave.org/download.html as they become available. As always, many people contributed to this Octave release. A complete list of contributors may be found in the Octave manual. About Octave: GNU Octave is a high-level interpreted language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides capabilities for the numerical solution of linear and nonlinear problems and for performing other numerical experiments. It also provides extensive graphics capabilities for data visualization and manipulation. Octave is normally used through its interactive command line interface, but it can also be used to write non-interactive programs. The Octave language is quite similar to Matlab so that most programs are easily portable. A full description of Octave capabilities is available at http://octave.org/doc/interpreter/index.html. _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list <info-gnu@gnu.org> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu
