From help-octave-request at che dot utexas dot edu Fri Jan 28 16:46:59 1994 Subject: Octave version 0.81 released From: John Eaton To: help-octave cc: jbraw, swinnea Date: Fri, 28 Jan 94 16:46:56 CST Octave version 0.81 is now available for ftp from ftp.che.utexas.edu in the directory /pub/octave. Gzipped tar files are available, as are diffs relative to version 0.80. Binaries for DECstation and SPARCstation systems are also available. Binaries for other systems will be made available as time permits, or as others make them available to us. If you would like help out by making binaries available for other systems, please contact bug-octave at che dot utexas dot edu dot For version 0.81, you must have the GNU C++ compiler (gcc) version 2.5.6 or later to compile Octave. There are no new features with this release, but the following serious bugs have been fixed. * Fixed bug in Array class that resulted in bogus off-diagonal elements when computing eigenvalue and singular value decompositions. * Fixed bug that prevented lsode from working on the SPARCstation, at least with some versions of Sun's f77. This bug was introduced in 0.80, when I changed LSODE to allow the user to abort the integration from within the RHS function. * Fixed bug that prevented global attribute of variables from being saved with save(), and another that prevented load() from working at all. * Octave no longer dumps core if you try to define a function in your .octaverc file. Version 0.81 should also come closer to building out of the box on Solaris 2.x systems, but it may still be necessary to add -DUSG to CFLAGS. -- John W. Eaton | Among other things, we have added the missing semicolon. jwe at che dot utexas dot edu| | -- Jim Blandy, announcing Emacs 19.15.