The Octave developers are pleased to announce a major new release of GNU Octave, version 4.0.0.
Octave 4.0 is a major new release with many new features, including a graphical user interface, support for classdef object-oriented programming, better compatibility with Matlab, and many new and improved functions. An official Windows binary installer is also available from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/windows A list of important user-visible changes is available at http://octave.org/NEWS-4.0, by selecting the Release Notes item in the News menu of the GUI, or by typing "news" at the Octave command prompt. We hope you find Octave to be useful. We could also use your help to make Octave even better for the future, and further improve the user experience for both novices and experts alike. * If you are a skilled software developer, you can help by contributing your time with Octave's development. See http://octave.org/get-involved for more information. * 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 * Your contributions help to make Octave better. Please see https://my.fsf.org/donate/working-together/octave Commercial support options are also available. Please see http://octave.org/support for details. The source code for Octave 4.0.0 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 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 -- If you have a working or partly working program that you'd like to offer to the GNU project as a GNU package, see https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.
