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diff --git a/CHANGES_5.3.X b/CHANGES_5.3.X new file mode 100755 index 000000000..7ee86c507 --- /dev/null +++ b/CHANGES_5.3.X @@ -0,0 +1,3386 @@ + Changes between versions 5.3.3 and 5.3.3mac0 of Scilab + ================================================= + +Bug fixes: +========== + +* Bug 8718 fixed - Scilab on Mac OS X 10.5 did not start. + +* Bug 9766 fixed - Scilab on Mac OS X 10.7 did not start. + + + + Changes between versions 5.3.2 and 5.3.3 of Scilab + ================================================= + +Bug fixes: +========== + +* Bug 9475 fixed - A mistake in the translation of a string was causing Scinotes + to fail with the Japanese and Polish localizations. + +* Bug 9527 fixed - Problem when a text was exported in SVG from the GUI. + +* Bug 9545 fixed - contrib/loader.sce was no longer installed under GNU/Linux + and Mac OS X. + +* Bug 9590 fixed - Xcos examples were not embedded in Windows binary versions. + +* Bug 9670 fixed - Scilab crashed under Mac OS X 10.6.8. + + + Changes between versions 5.3.1 and 5.3.2 of Scilab + ================================================= + +Scilab: +======= + +* The Mac OS X version is checked to avoid errors on unsupported versions + of Mac OS X. As a reminder, Scilab is supported under Mac OS X 10.6. + +* Under GNU/Linux, in case of an internal (C, C++ or Fortran) programming error + of Scilab or an extension, the full error stack is displayed and Scilab no + longer crashes. + +Scinotes: +========= + +* Tools 'Find Files' (CTRL+SHIFT+B under Windows and Linux / CMD+SHIFT+B under + Mac) and 'Find word in Files' (CTRL+SHIFT+F under Windows and Linux / + CMD+SHIFT+F under Mac) added. + +* Added possibility to replace single quoted by double quoted strings. + +* Added possibility to save and execute the code with F5 key. + +* Added possibility to remove the comments when executing the code in the + console. + +* All occurrences of a search word are now highlighted in yellow in the + text editor. + +* Bug 9012 fixed - Print preview triggered a Java exception. + +* Bug 9047 fixed - edit('foo',12) now opens the function foo 12 lines after the + definition of foo. + +* Bug 9132 fixed - When s = "abc // def" was evaluated WITH ECHO, only s="abc was + executed. + +* Bug 9171 fixed - Encountered problem to enter Japanese chars under Windows + with IME. + +* Bug 9183 fixed - Bad display of selected text when horizontal wrapping was + disabled. + +* Bug 9186 fixed - An exception was thrown when textfield got the focus in code + navigator. + +* Bug 9189 fixed - Some keywords were not helpable. + +* Bug 9257 fixed - Scinotes could not be started from NW / adv-cli mode. + +* Bug 9340 fixed - Bad name was proposed at PDF export. + +* Bug 9348 fixed - Miscolorization of a transposed field. + + +Xcos: +===== + +* Some blocks parameters dialogs now support the translation system. + +* A skeleton of an Xcos module has been introduced and should help the user + to design his own palette. + +* Documentation updated with examples of the blocks and their translations + into French: + - OUT_f - Regular Output Port + - IN_f - Regular Input Port + - Modulo_Count - Modulo counter (0 to N counter) + - OUTIMPL_f - Output implicit port + - CLKINV_f - Input activation port + - CLKOUTV_f - Output activation port + - INIMPL_f - Implicit Input port + - GENSIM_f - Sine wave generator + - STEP_FUNCTION - Step Function + - SAWTOOTH_f - Sawtooth generator + - TEXT_f - Free annotation + - Counter + - RAMP + - INTRPLBLK_f (english update only) + - TKSCALE (english update only) + - EXPRESSION (english update only) + - DELAY_f + - RFILE_f Read from input file + +* Some duplicated tests have been removed. + +* Bug 5425 fixed - Drag and drop of blocks between different Scilab versions + produced an exception. + +* Bug 5605 fixed - REGISTER block was not listed in the discrete palette. + +* Bug 6416 fixed - GENSQR_f block documentation was not complete. + +* Bug 7479 fixed - The diagram did not update its origin on block moving. + +* Bug 8630 fixed - Scopes crashed Scilab on simulation when they had the same + window id. + +* Bug 8692 fixed - Null block parameters were not checked before encoding. + +* Bug 8735 fixed - Mixed (Implicit-Explicit) superblocks I/O blocks produced + warnings. + +* Bug 8931 fixed - Simulations errors were not reported under Linux and Mac. + +* Bug 9024 fixed - Opening a non existing file led to palette closing issues. + +* Bug 9077 fixed - The diagram in Automotive Suspension demo was indicated as + modified on loading. + +* Bug 9111 fixed - Zoom In/Zoom Out keyboard shortcuts did not work under Mac. + +* Bug 9122 fixed - Java check failed on diagram validation. + +* Bug 9160 fixed - Saving a diagram with the default name produced an exception. + +* Bug 9175 fixed - Xcos: Sigbuilder, modify "Data bounds" in curve editor failed. + +* Bug 9237 fixed - Labels were not editable after a block copy. + +* Bug 9219 fixed - AFFICH_m format was not the parameterized one. + +* Bug 9307 fixed - AFFICH_m block only printed the first column for an input + matrix. + +* Bug 9346 fixed - FROMWS_c block had a functional regression since Scilab 5.3.1. + +* Bug 9369 fixed - Diagrams with an origin did not pass validation. + +* Bug 9386 fixed - Diagram root cell could be invalid on hierarchical diagrams. + + +Packaging: +========== + +* Scilab's icons updated. + +* In the source tree, Scilab's icons moved from icons/ to desktop/. + +* In the source tree, scilab-adv-cli.desktop, scilab-cli.desktop, + scilab.desktop can be found desktop/. This follows the FreeDesktop Standards: + "Desktop Entry Specification". + + +toolbox_skeleton: +================= + +* removal of temporary variables created on the stack by the build and load of + the toolbox_skeleton. + + +Javasci: +======== + +* Javasci v2 FAQ updated. + +* Bug 6823 fixed - In Javasci v1, the constructor + SciStringArray(String name, int r, int c) did not work. + Thanks to F. Legrand for providing the fix. + +* Bug 9147 fixed - Javasci v1 was broken since the introduction of the + version 2. + + +Dynamic Link: +============= + +* Under GNU/Linux and Mac OS X, the dynamic link is now creating a subdirectory + of TMPDIR instead of doing everything in the same directory which could have + led to unexpected side effects. + +* Added 'ilib_include_path' macro to handle includes flag for platform + compiler. See SEP 55. + +* bug 7887 fixed - Under some GNU/Linux distributions (like Ubuntu or Mageia), + the dynamic link process was using the libstdc++ embedded + into the Scilab distribution. Now, if the compiler is gcc, + the dynamic link guesses the libstdc++ path and use it + uppermost. + + +Graphics: +========= + +* JPG compression level is now set to 95 by default. + +* Extends the xs2jpg function with a compression argument to set the quality of + the exported JPG. + See Bug 5573 and SEP 54. + +* New functions 'comet' and 'comet3d' have been added. + +* Bug 9428 fixed - A Java exception was displayed in some cases when using event handlers. + + +Localization: +============= + +* Bug 8994 fixed - Some localization templates were not included and + translated. + + +Help: +===== + +* Creation of a "complex" sub-section of "Elementary Functions". + +* Bug 6975 partially-fixed - Beginning of the documentation of xlabel(), + ylabel() and zlabel() functions. + +* Bug 7072 fixed - Fix various issues in the documentation. + Thanks to Yves Barois. + +* Bug 7305 fixed - issparse was not documented. + +* Bug 9362 fixed - An exception was thrown on the pdf doc generation. + +* Bug 9439 fixed - There was no entry "Scilab Home" in help toc list. + + +Compilation: +============ + +* Option --without-scicos renamed to --without-xcos + +* Option --without-ocaml renamed to --without-modelica + +* Detection of Jgoodies / looks updated under GNU/Linux and Mac OS X. + +* g77 is no longer supported. gfortran is replacing it. + +* Explicit check Java version (at least 1.6). + +* Bug 7049 fixed - JgraphX version was checked even if the --without-xcos + flag was set. + +* Bug 9018 fixed - --without-xcos disabled the detection of jhdf5 but was still + building xcos. + + +Optimization: +============= + +* semidef help page updated. + +* Formatting of the leastsq help page updated. + +* Bug 7723 fixed - The demonstrations of the nmplot functions generated + warnings. + + +Numerical Maths: +================ + +* Bug 7101 fixed - The roots had convergence problems for some polynomials. + The default algorithm has been changed to the eigenvalue + of the companion matrix. + +* Bug 9350 fixed - abs(complex(%nan,0)) returned zero instead of nan. + + + +CACSD Module: +============ + +* Bug 6744 fixed - p_margin() returned an erroneous result (new fix). + +* Bug 9205 fixed - Optional argument added to nyquist to control the drawing of + the symetric part and a new function added for high + definition zoom. + +* Bug 9285 fixed - g_margin() returned an erroneous result. + + +Bug Fixes: +========== + +* Bug 5687 fixed - The window title of a figure was not immediately updated when + figure_name was changed. + +* Bug 6789 fixed - The page header was not printed with + toprint(["line 1" "line 2"],"Page header"). + +* Bug 6945 fixed - Conflicting options were confusing Scilab argument processing + (example: scilab-cli with the -nw option). + +* Bug 7954 fixed - Using TCL_EvalStr randomly froze Scilab. + +* Bug 7976 fixed - help/cleaner_help.sce was not called when cleaning a toolbox. + +* Bug 8317 fixed - Examples of Matplot1 updated. + +* Bug 8371 fixed - Each thread used to get the command line was not detached + from the JVM. + +* Bug 8423 fixed - With certain options of the configure, the build process + failed. + +* Bug 8595 fixed - When exporting with several windows opened, the Dialogbox options + did not appear at the front. + +* Bug 8675 fixed - The complex function was undocumented. + +* Bug 8959 fixed - winqueryreg returned an incorrect value if the value name was + false. + +* Bug 8971 fixed - The termination rule of optim was unclear. + +* Bug 9070 fixed - The demonstration "Simulation/Wheel Simulation/Simulation + with ode" displayed a warning about an obsolete use of + ilib_for_link. + +* Bug 9082 fixed - It was not possible to preview LaTeX with second LaTeX + string displayed. + +* Bug 9083 fixed - Bad output with prettyprint and syslin. + +* Bug 9113 fixed - setlookandfeel could led to an exception. + +* Bug 9121 fixed - Doc generation did not fail when an invalid image was displayed. + +* Bug 9125 fixed - Scilab could not start when called through a symbolic link. + +* Bug 9126 fixed - Some new files of the module/toolbox skeleton introduced in + Scilab 5.3.1 were not installed. + +* Bug 9128 fixed - In help page of dir(), infos about bytes field were missing. + +* Bug 9139 fixed - Scilab 5.3.1 had an unexpected dependency on GLIBC_2.7 + causing Scilab to crash under old RHEL / CentOS. + +* Bug 9141 fixed - An extra empty line was present in the console. + +* Bug 9159 fixed - grand(1,3,'uin',1,0) crashed Scilab. + +* Bug 9168 fixed - Bad command line width when completion window was displayed + at the bottom of the console. + +* Bug 9170 fixed - 'help clink' threw an exception. + +* Bug 9195 fixed - Empty lines entered in Scilab console were displayed in + the history browser. + +* Bug 9200 fixed - perl.sci script crashed under Windows with a wrong error + message. + +* Bug 9211 fixed - set("userdata", list()) crashed Scilab. + +* Bug 9232 fixed - Play the example in 'help about' in NW mode led to an + exception. + +* Bug 9246 fixed - It was not possible to insert an integer in an integer array + with a different integer type. + +* Bug 9250 fixed - mkdir used to display a wrong message when called with + two inputs arguments. + +* Bug 9264 fixed - Important loss of performance on some string management + functions in api_scilab (example: on mputl). + +* Bug 9270 fixed - The contour function was broken. + +* Bug 9279 fixed - Add a version number in configuration.xml. + +* Bug 9280 fixed - wavread failed to read PCM 32 bit float file format. + +* Bug 9300 fixed - Scilab crashed when one tried to complete an empty mlist. + +* Bug 9442 fixed - Sometimes, an exception could be thrown in the console. + +* Bug 9457 fixed - set("figure_style", "new") returned a error message. + + + Changes between versions 5.3.0 and 5.3.1 of Scilab + ================================================= + + +Three main improvements particularly deserve to be enlightened with Scilab 5.3.1: +* Improvements of the current features, mainly focusing on usability, better user + experiences and stabilization. +* Consolidation of the undertaken efforts with Scilab documentation (content, + integration with Scilab and Xcos, etc). +* Integration of the Japanese documentation into the Scilab distribution. + Thanks to Rui Hirokawa. + + +Console: +======== + +* Scilab provides an on-the-fly rendering when a LaTeX expression is being typed. + +* The console can now be scrolled with Page Up/Down keyboard keys. + See Bug #6251. + +* Performance improvements on the display of long computation with a lot of + output (the more text was entered in the console, the slower was the display). + See Bug #4840. + +* Evaluate Selection With Echo/No Echo Right click options added in + the console. + See Bug #8749. + + +Documentation: +============== + +* Homepage added in the help browser to highlight the new features of Scilab + and list the online available resources. + +* Add the capability to increase or decrease font size. + Shortcuts under Windows and Linux: CTRL + + / CTRL + - or CTRL + mouse wheel + increases/decreases. + Shortcuts under Mac OS X: CMD + + / CMD + - or CMD + mouse wheel + increases/decreases. + + +* Add an incremental search bar to search for text in the browser. + Shortcut under Windows and Linux: CTRL + F + Shortcut under Mac OS X: CMD + F + +* Enable the creation of links in between external modules with the following + syntax: +<link type="scilab" linkend="mytoolbox/exec/macros/fooexec.sce">macros/fooexec.sce</link> + +* Enable the creation of links between an external module and Scilab main documentation + with the following syntax: +<link type="scilab" linkend="scilab.help/bvode">bvode</link> + +* Enable the execution and the edition of any Scilab example. + +* Enable the execution of demos with the following syntax: +<link type="scilab" linkend="scilab.demos/gui/demos/uicontrol_plot3d.dem">Uicontrol demo</link> + +* Enable the opening of a Xcos diagram from the help browser: +<link type="scilab" linkend="scilab.xcos/xcos/demos/bounce.xcos">Open bounce.xcos</link> + +* Enable the opening of Scilab macros with Scinotes from the help browser: +<link type="scilab" linkend="scilab.scinotes/elementary_functions/macros/log2.sci">Edit log2.sci</link> + +* "See also" links to other interesting functions now display the corresponding + function description. + +* In the documentation, Java, C, C++ and XML codes are now colorized if the role + in the program listing is set (role='java', role='c', role='cpp' or role='xml'). + +* The categories "Bitwise", "Elementary matrices", "Matrix manipulation", + "Matrix operations", "Set operations", "Signal processing", "Symbolic", + "Search and sort" have been created for the elementary functions module. + +* Help pages for the bitxor, bitcmp, bitget and bitset functions have been + created. + +* In documentation's examples, when an undocumented function is used, + a warning is displayed and there is no link on that function name. + +* Bug 3716 fixed - There was no "find text" option in the right area of + the help window. + +* Bug 5362 fixed - There were problems with the same xml:id when different + cases were used. + +* Bug 5511 fixed - printf_conversion help page was unclear. + +* Bug 5796 fixed - No way to increase/decrease font size. + +* Bug 6514 fixed - 'help %k' did not open the correct corresponding + help file. + +* Bug 7069 fixed - Former documentation about the documentation build process + was removed. + +* Bug 8463 fixed - scilab PDF (fr_FR and pt_BR) were not fully generated. + +* Bug 8677 fixed - The factorial function was not documented. + +* Bug 8690 fixed - Typo fixed in min French help page. + +* Bug 8756 fixed - The file id was only expected in refentry which caused + xmltojar not to process XML files. + +* Bug 8915 fixed - ASCII art removed in histplot help page. + +* Bug 8937 fixed - The tag <screenshot> was not handled. + +* Bug 9019 fixed - dsearch help page was unaccurate. + +* Improved the help page of ode. + + +Xcos: +===== + +* Many improvements on Xcos English documentation (better description + of the blocks, arguments, examples, etc). + For now, functions such as EXTRACTBITS, DLATCH, DFLIPFLOP, INTMUL, + SRFLIPFLOP, CONVERT, BITSET, BITCLEAR, etc have been fully documented + and provided with examples of use. + Many thanks to Bernard Dujardin. + +* Capability added to display directly Xcos sample schemas from the help browser. + +* Beginning of the French translation of Xcos documentation. + Thanks to Bernard Dujardin. + +* Improvements of error reporting. + +* The demos have been updated to use the latest features. + +* Most of the old user interface for Xcos/Scicos control functions are now + deprecated and will be removed in Scilab 5.4.0. + See Bug #7232. + +* Bug 5346 fixed - Title was not used as default file name. + +* Bug 5680 fixed - Labels were not visible by default. + +* Bug 6705 fixed - When drag and drop was used, port alignment was not correct. + +* Bug 7194 fixed - Block UUID could not be used on a block implementation. + +* Bug 7363 fixed - Linking CBLOCKs implementation with an external library was + impossible. + +* Bug 7424 fixed - Integer parameters could not be modified when loading a diagram. + +* Bug 7639 fixed - Generating code for Scilab function block was failing with + a syntax error message. + +* Bug 7953 fixed - No error message was displayed when the diagram was invalid. + +* Bug 8042 fixed - After a region to superblock action, the ports were wrongly + positioned. + +* Bug 8064 fixed - Without the grid, a SplitBlock could not be moved. + +* Bug 8223 fixed - Xcos did not produce a visible error when Saxon was used as + XML DOM implementation. + +* Bug 8235 fixed - Using masked superblock did not work when parameters were + defined in the inner-context. + +* Bug 8440 fixed - The SVG background was not exported to SVG. + +* Bug 8480 fixed - The DeBug block did not have a valid function type. + +* Bug 8580 fixed - Mirror and flip icons were inverted. + +* Bug 8639 fixed - Simulations did not stop at Xcos close. + +* Bug 8642 fixed - The getDiagramVersion unit test failed. + +* Bug 8644 fixed - Example added to define customed block. + +* Bug 8658 fixed - Accentuated characters use on file name lead to a Modelica + compiler error. + +* Bug 8674 fixed - xcosShowBlockWarning was not protected against arbitrary + arguments. + +* Bug 8696 fixed - An exception was thrown while linking and deleting the + source block. + +* Bug 8711 fixed - The "Cont. Plant-Hybrid Observer" demo contained a translated + origin point which led to strange links creation. + +* Bug 8731 fixed - Copied superblocks lost some graphical settings. + +* Bug 8737 fixed - Compilation failed when a diagram contained any hidden links + (wrong indexes issues). + +* Bug 8740 fixed - In the Modelica initialization GUI, discrete parameters were + not added to the unknown sum. + +* Bug 8741 fixed - In the Modelica initialization GUI, the "fixed" checkbox + disabled some fields. + +* Bug 8743 fixed - In the Modelica initialization GUI, the fixing states did + not de-fix derivatives. + +* Bug 8798 fixed - The context parameter of scicos_simulate was not taken into + account. + +* Bug 8818 fixed - Generic Modelica blocks did not transform Scilab exponential + notation into Modelica one. + +* Bug 8822 fixed - Remove an implicit link connected to a split block could lead + to an unconnectable port. + +* Bug 8867 fixed - Unconnected links could not be deleted. + +* Bug 8870 fixed - TKSCALE block did not work without TCL. + +* Bug 8884 fixed - Using region to superblock with ports on the same position + was resulting to a non-reconnected link. + +* Bug 8896 fixed - Under Windows, a multi-line context could not be edited twice. + +* Bug 8945 fixed - Blocks did not update their shape on parameters update. + +* Bug 8952 fixed - "lincos" did not produce a valid error message when the + diagram had no inputs nor outputs. + + +Scinotes: +========= + +* Refactorization of the printing. + +* Add the capability to export code to PDF, PS, EPS and RTF. + +* Name of the current function and position (line, column) are now displayed + in the status bar of Scinotes. + +* Replace CTRL key by META key under Mac OS X. + +* A rectangular selection tool is now available. CTRL+selection + (under Windows and Linux) and CMD+selection (under Mac OS X) activates it. + This improves the selection action (of data for example). + +* "edit" function can now open a file at a given line number. + See Bug #9047 + +* Content assist: + * An identifier is now shown in the text editor when a wrong variable is typed. + * When typing a closing char (e.g. ')',']',...), user do not need to insert it + again (like in Eclipse). + +* Bug 8095 fixed - With OpenJDK, the size of the dialog 'Set colors' was bad. + +* Bug 8697 fixed - An exception was thrown when an empty document was reload. + +* Bug 8709 fixed - Default font had no Japanese glyphs. + +* Bug 8714 fixed - Problem was encountered with Incremental Search bar when + Code Navigator was docked. + +* Bugs 8715, 8716 fixed - Problems with dnd'ed tabs. + +* Bug 8764 fixed - File permissions were not checked. + +* Bug 8885 fixed - Anchors were removed on a Replace All action. + +* Bug 9000 fixed - '1+..' was not correctly colorized. + + +New Functions +============= + +* 'repmat' function added. This function replicates and tiles a matrix. + See SEP #49. + + +Graphics: +========= + +* Fix a critical Bug in the graphic rendering which was crashing Scilab. + This Bug was occuring on some Buggy drivers (Intel HD graphics for example). + See Bug #7526 for more information. + +* Bug 2913 fixed - In the histplot function, the legend was displayed over the + graphic. + +* Bug 4818 fixed - It was not possible to export a figure with a lot of circle + marks. + +* Bug 7509 fixed - Update of the legend help page regarding some previous + changes. + +* Bug 7526 fixed - Scilab crashed under Windows and Intel HD graphics cards + while executing a plot command. + +* Bug 7836 fixed - The sub_tics property was not correctly tracking the number + of displayed sub-ticks. Thanks to Paul Griffiths for the patch. + +* Bug 7990 fixed - Box thickness was badly exported in vectorial formats + (SVG/PDF/...). Thanks to Paul Griffiths for the patch. + +* Bug 8163 fixed - datatipToggle could not be called without argument as + stated in the help page. + +* Bug 8518 fixed - When graphic export failed, error messages were not + clear. + +* Bug 8766 fixed - For small input matrices, the "Matplot1" function was not + correctly taking into account its rectangle argument. + +* Bug 8786 fixed - When entering wrong input arguments in 'getcolor' function, + the error message had no sense. + + +GUI: +==== + +* user_data for a uimenu was not displayed. + +* Bug 8203 fixed - It was not possible to close the font chooser or the + color chooser with the escape key. + +* Bug 8717 fixed - Bad window's title just after creation. + +* Bug 8793 fixed - 'waitbar' function crashed when the handle was not initialized. + +* Bug 8826, 8827 fixed - userdata property for a menu crashed Scilab. + +* Bug 8838 fixed - uimenu without input argument crashed Scilab. + +* Bug 9044 fixed - Updating a LaTeXed label of uimenu() misworked. + +Statistics: +========== + +* Bug 8560 fixed - The grand function failed on 64 bits machines. + + +Optimization: +============= + +* Improvement of the karmarkar linear optimization solver: + * User can configure an output function. + * The number of iterations can be put as an output argument. + * x0 can be put as an optional argument. + * Management of inequality constraints. + * Management of bounds. + * Computation of the exitflag. + * Computation of the Lagrange multipliers. + * Documentation provided for the rtolf and gam parameters. + * Documentation provided for the stopping rule. + * More examples provided. + +* Bug 7164 fixed - The help for neldermead does not give examples of + constrained optimization. + Added an example of bound constrained optimization and + and example of nonlinearily constrained optimization. + +* Bug 7165 fixed - The neldermead help page stated that the constraint + is negative, while it is positive. + +* Bug 7166 fixed - The second example in neldermead's help was wrong. + +* Bug 7193 fixed - The karmarkar help page did not document the + eps, gamma, and crit arguments. + +* Bug 8719 fixed - The karmarkar function printed unwanted messages. + +* Bug 8720 fixed - The karmarkar function stopped too early in the iterations. + +* Bug 8726 fixed - The karmarkar function produced a division-by-zero error. + +* Bug 8727 fixed - The karmarkar function required the initial guess x0. + +* Bug 8775 fixed - The karmarkar function did not detect unbounded problems. + +File I/O: +========= + +* mkdir is now able to create recursively directories. + See Bug #8529. + + +Obsolete Functions: +=================== + +* 'loadScicosLibs' is obsolete and will be removed on 5.4.0, please use + 'loadXcosLibs' instead. + +* ilib_for_link, ilib_build will not accept files with ".o" or ".obj" extensions + for source files in Scilab 5.4.0. + + +Removed Functions (previously declared as obsolete): +==================================================== + +* 'maxi' removed. Please use 'max' instead. + +* 'mini' removed. Please use 'min' instead. + +* 'VCtoLCCLib', 'configure_lcc', 'with_lcc', 'chooselcccompiler', 'findlcccompiler' + are now available as ATOMS modules. + See http://atoms.scilab.org/toolboxes/LCC-windows + or type atomsInstall('lcc-windows') in Scilab. + +* 'oldbesseli', 'oldbesselj', 'oldbesselk' and 'oldbessely' removed. + Please use 'besseli', 'besselj', 'besselk' and 'bessely' instead. + + +Javasci: +======== + +* Bug 8807 fixed - Javadoc of javasci v2 was not installed under GNU/Linux and + Mac OS X. + + +Demonstration: +============== + +* A demonstration (Non isothermal plug flow reactor model) of ode usage has been + added. Thanks to Jakub Kopac. + + +Module Skeleton: +================ + +* New example added (function with copy instead of reference). + + +Localization: +============= + +* Bug 8096 fixed - With Russian localization, the banner was not centered. + + +Installer: +========== + +* Bug 8825 fixed - Mac OS X installer reported a wrong version of Scilab. + + +Quality Assurance: +================== + +* C/C++/Fortran test coverage available on the Scilab source code. + Add "--enable-code-coverage" to the configure under GNU/Linux and Mac OS X + Start the unitary tests or launch Scilab + "make code-coverage" creates the report into "/coverage/results/" + +* Using the configure with the option "--enable-compilation-tests" launchs Java + unitary tests (based on TestNG). + +* Bug 6684 fixed - Some Xcos unitary tests encountered problems at native + libraries loading. + +* Bug 6873 fixed - A jar file was not available when testng was called. + + +Compilation: +============ + +* -Wimplicit removed for Gfortran in the enable deBug mode + +* Intel Compiler XE 2011 update 1 C++/Fortran used to build Scilab under Windows. + +* Upgrade to autoconf 2.67 + +* Update of JLaTeXMath to version 0.9.4 + +* Bug 3196 fixed - Minimal version of pcre (7.2) was not checked by the + configure + +* Bug 8053 fixed - For an unknown reason, libtool refused to set the Wl flag + when the Gfortran compiler was set as + ./configure F77=gfortran + +* Bug 8961 fixed - Ubuntu 11.04 explicitly forced the as-needed option to the + linker. It has been disabled. + + +Dynamic link: +============= + +* Intel Fortran Composer XE 2011 (12) used by default if it is detected. + + +Scilab: +======= + +* Scilab startup script of the binary is now automatically synchronized with + the one from the source tree. + + + +Bug Fixes: +========== + +* Bug 476 fixed - find did not work when there were more output arguments + than matrix dimensions. + +* Bug 4930 fixed - When the console was resized from 0-height to x-height, + lines() were not correctly updated. + +* Bug 5551 fixed - With the function dir(), add a trailing filesep() for each + directory. + +* Bug 6884 fixed - Issues with the buttmag help page fixed. + +* Bug 7152 fixed - It was not possible to export LaTeX in SVG. + +* Bug 7377 fixed - Thrownan failed on empty matrix. + +* Bug 7691 fixed - Giving complex arguments to inverse degree trigonometric + functions produced inconsistent results. + +* Bug 8007 fixed - Hit UP key when the message 'Continue display...' was + displayed could lead to a crash. + +* Bug 8383 fixed - "void" and "undefined" items in list were not saved by + import and export hdf5 functions. + +* Bug 8435 fixed - squarewave(t) failed for t<0. Thanks to Samuel Gougeon for + the fix. + +* Bug 8478 fixed - A searched path was missing for docbook xsl under Gentoo. + +* Bug 8492 fixed - When the documentation was generated, error messages were not + displayed in the console but in the terminal. + +* Bug 8563 fixed - Scilab under GNU/Linux 64 bit was unable to load files bigger + than 2GB. + +* Bug 8732 fixed - strchr and strrchr did not work with a non-ASCII character + needle. + +* Bug 8765 fixed - A(1:N,j)=[] returned wrong values if N>size(A,1). + +* Bug 8783 fixed - loadmatfile could not load hyper matrices of integer types. + +* Bug 8789 fixed - read function crashed under Windows XP 64 bit platform. + +* Bug 8809 fixed - Bad top link in the chm files. + +* Bug 8820 fixed - squeeze function returned 2D hyper matrix instead of regular + 2D array function also extended to all array types included + cells ans structs. + +* Bug 8828 fixed - "savematfile" could no more save a structure. + +* Bug 8830 fixed - In call_scilab, TerminateScilab did not clear the last + error. + +* Bug 8836 fixed - fileparts crashed when a matrix of strings was given as + input argument. + +* Bug 8837 fixed - fscanfMat did not read a malformatted text with many blanks + at the end of file. + +* Bug 8845 fixed - An example in call_scilab module with Visual Studio has been + rewritten to use api_scilab. + +* Bug 8854 fixed - warning about Bug 7575 disabled for new Nvidia drivers. + +* Bug 8897 fixed - Typo fixed. + +* Bug 8906 fixed - Bad links to javasci javadoc on the website. + +* Bug 8912 fixed - fullpath did not return same result under Windows and Linux. + +* Bug 8919 fixed - Typo fixed. + +* Bug 8954 fixed - Print the console led to an exception. + +* Bug 9034 fixed - atomsVersionCompare failed on version with '-0'. + +* Bug 9096 fixed - Sometimes an exception was thrown at the Scilab's startup. + + + Changes between versions 5.3.0-beta-5 and 5.3.0 of Scilab + ======================================================== + + +SciNotes: +========= + +* Bug 8465 fixed - Under GNU/Linux, it was not possible to paste with the + middle click. + +Xcos: +===== + +* Bug 8348 fixed - Sometimes when openning the parameters of a block, its ports + changed their index (and position). + +* Bug 8407 fixed - The blocks was always resized after a parameters edition. + +* Bug 8441 fixed - "xcos_block" abstract block were not removed on the + compilation. + +* Bug 8483 fixed - Multiplying a scalar and vector using the MATMUL block did not + work. + +* Bug 8540 fixed - Fix a typo on the "highligthed" term. + +* Bug 8556 fixed - Creating a split block from a link did not work. + +* Bug 8569 fixed - Deleting a link with a split-block did not reconstruct any + valid link. + + +Bug Fixes: +========== + +* Bug 4673 fixed - An example of "addinter" function call was added. + +* Bug 4821 fixed - help file 'man' was obsolete. + +* Bug 5686 fixed - Complex number manipulation could crash Scilab. + +* Bug 6768 fixed - input did not return good value when RETURN was pressed + on Windows XP. + +* Bug 7694 fixed - There were no key shortcuts in the command history browser. + +* Bug 7695 fixed - Only the first selected line was deleted in command history + browser. + +* Bug 7714 fixed - diag, triu, tril applyed to rational matrices changed + the formal variable name + +* Bug 7727 fixed - The help page of sp2adj was not correct. + Improved the help page of adj2sp. + Added unit tests for sp2adj and adj2sp. + Improved implementation by checking the input arguments. + +* Bug 7806 fixed - [a, b] = dos("git 1>&2") returned a wrong error. + +* Bug 7849 fixed - eqfir / remez functions crashed under MacOSX due to + a lapack Bug on slamch function. + +* Bug 7900 fixed - inserting a rational in a rational hymermatrix generated + invalid rationals entries (with zero denominators) + +* Bug 8091 fixed - Scilab was unable to find fortran compiler under MacOSX. + +* Bug 8175 fixed - roots function did not converge under MacOSX due to + a lapack Bug on slamch function. + +* Bug 8254 fixed - The nearfloat function did not work properly for near + denormalized numbers. + +* Bug 8279 fixed - error(144) returned a unexpected message. + +* Bug 8390 fixed - a "Warning : redefining function: mputl" displayed if you + did not install fftw on Windows. + +* Bug 8412 fixed - find returned incorrect values with big vector. + +* Bug 8448 fixed - 'whereis' function with a string as input argument did not work + with ATOMS functions. + +* Bug 8459 fixed - strsplit failed when second input argument was a "/" + +* Bug 8462 fixed - bvodeS crashed on Windows and did not return a error. + +* Bug 8468 fixed - size with 2 input arguments did not work for hypermatrices. + +* Bug 8475 fixed - It was impossible to get the data of an entity through + the graphic editor. + +* Bug 8481 fixed - Scilab crashed when display a rational containing a complex. + +* Bug 8505 fixed - help was not generated on Windows, if there was a path name + with some spaces. + +* Bug 8528 fixed - length returned a wrong size for malformed characters. + +* Bug 8531 fixed - "edit" function failed to open a defined macro loaded on stack. + +* Bug 8532 fixed - size of input arguments of read_csv was not verified. + +* Bug 8540 fixed - Fix a typo in Xcos. + +* Bug 8582 fixed - Under Linux & Mac OS the waitbar window was too small and we + could not see the bar inside it. + +* Bug 8587 fixed - readNamedMatrixOfDouble (readCommonNamedMatrixOfDouble) + returned wrong values. + +* Bug 8598 fixed - Fix a typo in the french help page of "return". + +* Bug 8601 fixed - An help page was misdiplayed when the title contains html tag. + +* Bug 8611 fixed - Path of few images in documentation was bad. + + + + Changes between versions 5.3.0-beta-4 and 5.3.0-beta-5 of Scilab + =============================================================== + +Due to an important change from Apple in the Java environment, a new beta +release of Scilab has been decided. This will allow further testing for +this architecture. + + +Documentation: +============== + +Massive improvement of the documentation system: +* Improved navigation in the help browser and the web interface. +* Improved look and feel in the help browser and the web interface. +* Colorisation of the Scilab code. +* In the examples, functions can be clicked to see their help pages. +* Improved maintainability. +* Faster build process (30 to 60 minutes => less than 30 seconds). + +In the meantime, a work of categorisation has been started in order to +improve the Scilab documentation. More updates will follow in the upcoming +versions of Scilab. + +* Documentation of trigonometry functions moved in a dedicated documentation + section. + +* Documentation of profiling functions moved in a dedicated documentation + section. + +* Documentation of color management in graphics functions moved in a dedicated + section. See Bug 7048. + +* Documentation of floating point functions moved in a dedicated section. + See Bug 7052. + +* Documentation of Integer representation functions moved in a dedicated + section. See Bug 8268. + +* Documentation of adj2sp was not in the sparse help section. See Bug 8269. + +* Documentation of discrete mathematics functions moved in a dedicated section. + See Bug 8270. + +* Bugs 8357, 8358 fixed - There was an encoding problem under Windows. + +* Bug 8367 fixed - In synopsis function, &apos were displayed rather than '. + + +Javasci: +======== + +A new version of the Java => Scilab API called Javasci v2 is now included into +the Scilab distribution. +This version fixes most the issues and limitations of the previous version. +This API is automatically fully tested through unitary tests and code coverage. +Please, note that previous version of Javasci remains available and shipped +into the Scilab distribution. +Advanced documentation and examples will be provided in the stable release of +Scilab 5.3.0. + + +License: +======== + +The license of all demos and examples have been changed to the 3-clause BSD +license. The domain public license was not valid in some countries. + + +Security issue: +=============== + +* Fix a (minor) security issue. CVE-2010-3378 +See: http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-3378 + + +Known incompatibilities: +======================== + +* Due to Bug 7364 fix, "Checked" uimenus have to be manually managed, these + uimenus are no more (un)checked on mouse click. Moreover, they can now have + a callback. + +* The graph of the nyquist function (CACSD module) has been symetrized. + + +Xcos: +===== + +* Loop link on a block produced some error when openning it. + +* Bug 8081 fixed - The context was not checked before being set. + +* Bug 8140 fixed - Masked suberblock became empty when copied and pasted + between two xcos schemes. + +* Bug 8141 fixed - Superblock mask became empty when reopening a file. + +* Bug 8186 fixed - Demos with Superblocks were not simulating. + +* Bug 8195 fixed - Creating implicit links was not working. + +* Bug 8220 fixed - Improve the link creation with split block adding. + +* Bug 8291 fixed - Some blocks (PDE, SQRT) did not display any label. + +* Bug 8322 fixed - Rotated shape had 2 different bounds (icon and shape). + +* Bug 8326 fixed - Region to superblock action did not work with OUT_f blocks. + +* Bug 8331 fixed - Block.doc was not cleared on superblock diagrams. + +* Bug 8397 fixed - the simulation was blocked on a Modelica translator error. + + +* Bug 8400 fixed - start demos from Xcos menu (? --> Xcos demos) did not work. + + +* Bug 8417 fixed - An h5 diagram open a new diagram before the end of the + decoding. + + +Graphic export: +=============== + +* Decrease the amount of feedbacks when exporting a graphic. + + +Graphics: +========= + +Thanks to Samuel Gougeon, many improvements on the polarplot function: +* Clipping was missing. See Bug #7007. +* In some common cases, values of radial labels were wrong with respect to the +plotted radial frame or/and were lacking of digits. +* When the plot was centered around an angle far from 45°, the radial labels +were completely clipped. +* Sampling of the angular frame is improved according to the number of drawn +quadrants. +* Improved H&V positionning of angular labels +* Polar frame drawn in grey instead of black for a better data visibility. +* if the basic radius is >= 10^4 or <=10^-4, LaTeX is used to display smart +$..10^p$ exponents instead of the D+/-## console style display. +* Finally, their positioning is still improved in order to avoid their mutual +overlaying for big values. + +* Bug 7110 fixed - When inserting a structure in a handle, the handle was + overwritten. + +* Bug 7492 fixed - If its "data_mapping" property was set to "direct", the + Grayplot object's data seemed to be transposed when displayed. + +* Bug 8168 fixed - Adding a datatip in a figure that mix surface and curve + generated a zero divide error. + + +Completion: +=========== + +* Add a completion on the fields name of a mlist or a tlist. + + +SciNotes: +========= + +* Incremental search added with the shortcut: the F2 key. + +* Add a "Save file in..." menu which gives the capability to save a file + in favorite directories. + +* Bug 4399 fixed - It was not possible to distinguish lines from inner functions + and from normal functions. + +* Bugs 5321, 7760 fixed - It was not easy to configure the tabulation. + +* Bug 7263 fixed - Scilab code could not be copy as HTML to keep the formatting. + +* Bug 7762 fixed - A keyword was not fully helpable depending on the caret + position. + +* Bug 7806 fixed - Blocks elseif...end and else...end were not highlighted. + +* Bug 8095 fixed - The Set Colors window was too height with OpenJDK. + +* Bug 8135 fixed - An exception was thrown when restoring files on MacOS X. + +* Bug 8166 fixed - All the checkboxes in SciNotes 'Preferences' menu were + inefficient. + +* Bug 8227 fixed - The commands evaluated with "Evaluate selection" were not + stored in history. + +* Bug 8229 fixed - There was a problem of selection after an indentation. + +* Bug 8230 fixed - Save As action did not propose the current file name as + default. + +* Bug 8267 fixed - The file encoding was not correctly detected and no default + encoding was set. + +* Bug 8277 fixed - Under Windows, exceptions were thrown when a key was hit on + a keyboard in chinese mode. + +* Bug 8304 fixed - A Java exception was thrown on Exit menu. + +* Bug 8309 fixed - Bad display of the line number in whereami mode with broken + lines. + +* Bug 8359 fixed - An exception was thrown on Save As action. + +* Bug 8368 fixed - Incremental search did not correctly highlight the pattern + under Windows. + +* Bug 8381 fixed - It was not logical to add favorite dirs only in "Open file + in" action. + +Completion: +=========== + +* Add completion on fields of mlist, tlist, struct and graphic handles in console. + + +Compilation: +============ + +* Bug 7489 fixed - VPATH was failing on scicos_blocks generation headers. + Note that the VPATH build system is not fully available. + +* Bug 7606 fixed - Build option -Wold-style-cast removed for C++. + +* Bug 8013 fixed - In some cases, the build of the compiler of modelica failed. + +* Bug 8274 fixed - Improve detection of Java regarding Apple changes: + Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 3 and 10.5 Update 8 Release + Notes + +Dynamic link: +============= + +* Intel Fortran Composer XE 2011 (12) support on Windows x86 and x64 platform. + + +Bug Fixes: +========== + +* Bug 3175 fixed - There were no shortcuts in the console menus. + +* Bug 4738 fixed - The number of columns in the console was badly calculated. + +* Bug 4827 fixed - The test_run function did not properly work with modules + begining with a "n". + +* Bug 5486 fixed - It was not possible to precise the text of a link in + help_from_sci. + +* Bug 6942 fixed - Explicit dependency on the libX11 on scilab-cli was existing. + +* Bug 7242 fixed - API Scilab returned bad address for named variables + when name was provided by input arguments. + +* Bug 7364 fixed - The "Checked" property misworked for uimenus and they could + not have a callback. + +* Bug 7566 fixed - The handling of immediate_drawing had been broken in zgrid by + Bug 6395 fix in 5.3.0-beta-4 version + +* Bug 7768 fixed - For cdfgam, the Scale parameter was, in fact, the Rate. + +* Bug 7805 fixed - clear called inside an exec while in pause could + have unexpected results. + +* Bug 7970 fixed - The eager loading of openmp support library was crashing + on Linux with unsupported configuration for openmp. + +* Bug 7997 fixed - getfreememory function adapted for FreeBSD. Thanks to Rob + Farmer. + +* Bug 8016 fixed - An error in a german translation gave an error message. + +* Bug 8046 fixed - msprintf did not manage tabulation as format. + +* Bug 8067 fixed - Nyquist unitary test failed due to a change of the nyquist + function. The graph has been symetrized. + +* Bug 8068 fixed - Figures were not all closed at the end of a demonstration. + +* Bug 8077 fixed - browsevar, scinotes, xcos functions were not disabled in + scilab-cli / -nwni mode on Linux and MacOS X. + +* Bug 8079 fixed - When the max number of variable available has been reached, + it was not possible to leave Scilab. + +* Bug 8087 fixed - prettyprint did not handle %inf and %nan. + +* Bug 8107 fixed - sum(a,1), cumsum(a,1), .. made Scilab 5.0.3-beta-4 crash + in some particular context. + +* Bug 8108 fixed - ATOMS: Modules that start by the letter "n" were not well + managed by ATOMS. The cause of the issue is the behaviour of + the msprintf function, which considers "\n" in file paths as + a new line insertion. + +* Bug 8110 fixed - ATOMS: When removing a module, its main directory was not + deleted even if it was empty. + +* Bug 8115 fixed - DisableInteractiveMode() (call_scilab) did not work. + +* Bug 8122 fixed - help of write_csv said that it reads file and not that it + wrotes. + +* Bug 8124 fixed - Some translations were not up to date. + +* Bug 8126 fixed - Some demos from the GUI modules were hanging. + +* Bug 8128 fixed - A warning was displayed on 'Save' action in a graphic window. + +* Bug 8129 fixed - The error message was not cleared in tbx_builder_src if you + did not have a compiler. + +* Bug 8134 fixed - The font attributes (FontName, FontSize, FontWeight) were not + taken into account for "text" uicontrols. + +* Bug 8148 fixed - fscanfMat did not read matrix file with tabulation as + default separator. + +* Bug 8154 fixed - It was not possible to cancel a messagebox with ESC key. + +* Bug 8160 fixed - The derivative function did not check for input argument #1, + if it was a list. + +* Bug 8164 fixed - Typo in the fileparts help page. + +* Bug 8170 fixed - Loading HDF5 files in non-Scilab format caused crash + of application. + +* Bug 8174 fixed - ss2tf produced bad results if applied to a complex + state space system. + +* Bug 8177 fixed - Format mode was modified by some macros and not restored. + +* Bug 8181 fixed - uicontrol did not handle color where composants were outside + the range 0-255. + +* Bug 8202 fixed - Typo in the localization. + +* Bug 8206 fixed - isnum did not manage blanks. + +* Bug 8208 fixed - Error in creating the temporary directory in function + createScilabTMPDIR. + +* Bug 8218 fixed - File association with filename with accentued characters + did not work. + +* Bug 8232 fixed - Drag and drop of .scg files (on console) used "xload" + and not "load". + +* Bug 8240 fixed - Demo of polarplot improved (Thanks to Samuel Gougeon). + +* Bug 8257, 8258 fixed - fscanfMat did not read matrix file not formated by + fprintfMat. + +* Bug 8283 fixed - File graphics/help/en_US/datatips datatipLookfor.xml removed. + datatipLookfor is an internal function that has not be used + directly. + +* Bug 8294 fixed - A help page about "supported compilers" has been added. + +* Bug 8296 fixed - size( M,3) crashed scilab 5.3.0-beta-4. + +* Bug 8299 fixed - ilib_compile did not return enough feedback on Windows when + compilation failed. + +* Bug 8300 fixed - a(48400, 48400) = 0 crashed scilab. + +* Bug 8318 fixed - help window was not brought up to front when already opened. + +* Bug 8321 fixed - In some cases, configure_msvc failed and returned a wrong + error message. + +* Bug 8332 fixed - Some use of clipboard function crashed Scilab. + +* Bug 8413 fixed - fscanfMat crashed when file included text lines at the + beginning. + + Changes between versions 5.3.0-beta-3 and 5.3.0-beta-4 of Scilab + =============================================================== + +Due to a critical Bug from an underlying library of Scilab, a new beta release +of Scilab has been decided. This will allow further testing and avoid potential +side effects in the future stable release. + +Xcos: +===== + +* Include all the old-scicos palettes in the binary version. + +* Use a user-friendly error message on the palette management implementation. + +* Update to the latest jgraphx version. + +* Bug 6500 fixed - The ideal transformer block was unusable due to wrong port + positioning (update the Transfomer demo). + +* Bug 7219 fixed - The old gain demo did not work. + +* Bug 7445 fixed - The Kalman filter and the Cont-Plant-Hybrid-Observer demos + did not simulate. + +* Bug 7716 fixed - Block inter-functions were not loaded after using the + xcosPal API and then starting Xcos. + +* Bug 7770 fixed - It was not possible to compile a diagram with Modelica + blocks. + +* Bug 7822 fixed - Xcos menu bar was larger than the Scilab one. + +* Bug 7868 fixed - Resizing a super-block with a lot of inputs or outputs + sometimes changed the order of the ports. + +* Bug 7922 fixed - The Automotive Suspension demo did not work. + +* Bug 7923 fixed - The DSUPER block was not documented. + +* Bugs 7931, 7933, 7934 fixed - Some artifacts were visible on diagrams such as + wrong links and block names. + +* Bug 7942 fixed - The "Start" button was not disabled when the diagram was + empty. + +* Bug 7944 fixed - "Fit diagram to view" was disabled after opening a diagram. + +* Bug 7945 fixed - The diagram path was not displayed in the title bar. + +* Bug 7995 fixed - The "export diagram" actions did not work with file without + extension. + +* Bug 8014 fixed - The TEXT_f.png file was not present on the source tree. + +* Bug 8025 fixed - The simulation parameter dialog window was modal. + +* Bug 8052 fixed - The I/O block value was used for computational purpose. + +* Bug 8071 fixed - The PROD_f block in the Fibonacci demo was not well + rendered. + +* Bug 8073 fixed - The child context could not be used to specify masked + super-blocks parameters. + +* Bug 8097 fixed - Scilab crashed when plotting on a figure with "Units" + property set to "pixels". + + +Statistics: +=========== + +* Examples added in the "cdfnor" help page. + + +SciNotes: +========= + +* LaTeX formula in comments or in a string are now rendered when the mouse + cursor is over. + +* Block text (function, if, while...) are now easily selectable. See Bug #7546. + +* Bug 7524 fixed - Tabulation representation had a bad size in whitespace mode. + +* Bug 8008 fixed - The "Edition" menu had an incorrect name (renamed to "Edit"). + +* Bug 8024 fixed - No key Insert had no effect. + +* Bug 8027 fixed - In a splitted view, a frame was not informed of a change in + the other frame. + +* Bug 8056 fixed - Comments were badly colorized after a command without + parenthesis. + +* Bug 8061 fixed - An unwanted message box was displayed when an unsaved file + was executed. + +* Bug 8085 fixed - It was not possible to disable the horizontal line wrapping. + + +GUI creation: +============= + +* Now, it is possible to use LaTeX or MathML as label for uimenu or pushbutton +in uicontrol. See Bug #7366. + +* Bug 7082 fixed - Setting the "enable" property had no effect on "listbox" and + "text" uicontrols. + +* Bug 7365 fixed - "delete" applied to a "Checked" uimenu destroyed the handle + without updating the display. + +* Bug 7367 fixed - uimenu properties display was not consistent. + +* Bug 7368 fixed - Setting the "Visible" property to "off" had no effect. + +* Bug 7898 fixed - In a "popupmenu" style uicontrol, when the list in the + "String" parameter has several repeated values, the returned + selected value was always the first value in the list and not + the selected one. + + +Editvar: +======== + +Actions such as Copy, Cut, Paste, Undo and Redo have been added. + +The integer matrices are now handled. + +In a cell of editvar, expressions such as =2+2 are now accepted. See Bug #7319. + +A refresh button to synchronise the variable from Scilab has been added. +See Bug #7321 + +* Bug 7325 fixed - An error message did not respect the standard format. + +* Bug 7327 fixed - Memory problems could lead to a crash without warning. + +* Bug 7338 fixed - %nan and %inf were not correctly displayed. + +* Bug 7340 fixed - %t or %f were not correctly displayed. + +* Bug 7839 fixed - A global variable could be modified. + + +Graphics: +========= + +* The icons have been updated to the Tango Art libre icons and to the Inkscape + themable icons. + +* Bug 6395 fixed - evans display improved to take special care of the + root loci points where complex conjugates roots + collapsed in a pair of real roots. Datatips + customization added. Root locus grids "sgrid" and + "zgrid" superposition improved. + +* Bug 6686 fixed - The automatic sub-ticking gave wrong results. +Thanks to Paul Griffiths for the fix. + + +Call_Scilab: +============ + +* In StartScilab function, "int *Stacksize" argument changed to "int Stacksize" + + +Compilation: +============ + +* Fix a problem in the detection of some ARM cpus. + + +Bug Fixes: +========== + +* Bug 6514 fixed - "help %k" and "help %asn" pointed to the symbols help page. + +* Bug 6767 fixed - The "uicontrol" help page said the "Style" property of an + uicontrol could be set after creation but it did not. + +* Bug 7095 fixed - The margins unit_test failed. + +* Bug 7163 fixed - tree2code wrongly replaced every (:) occurence in a function + definition with (eye()). + +* Bug 7140 fixed - Modifying the stack with gstacksize() and stacksize() + is now forbidden in concurrent execution context. + +* Bug 7231 fixed - mtlb_num2str did not manage second input argument. + +* Bug 7569 fixed - The number of accurate digits during inversion of cdfbet, + cdfgam, cdfbin, cdfchi, cdfchin, cdff, cdffnc, cdfnbn, cdfpoi + was only 8. Changed to 13. + +* Bug 7640 fixed - xs2pdf, xs2eps, xs2emf crashed if filename prefix had less + of three characters. + +* Bug 7690 fixed - Long lines removed in the parallel_run help page. + +* Bug 7748 fixed - The help page of rcond was wrong: only one output + argument is provided. + +* Bug 7862 fixed - "savematfile" only saved the first string in the vector + (or matrix) when variable was a vector (or matrix) of strings. + +* Bug 7872 fixed - Riemann Surface demo returned an error if window was closed by + the cross button. + +* Bug 7897 fixed - configure failed under FreeBSD (bashim) + +* Bug 7907 fixed - ilib_build, ilib_for_link, ... did not check 'files' input + argument. + +* Bug 7908 fixed - The number of values modified by scicos_getvalues could not + by more than 20. This value has been updated to 30 + variables. + +* Bug 7924 fixed - pathconvert failed conversion to cygwin format. + +* Bug 7940 fixed - Typo fixed in the parallel_run documentation. + +* Bug 7941 fixed - The demonstration CACSD/PID did not work. + +* Bug 7943 fixed - On a GNU/Linux binary version, it was not possible to use + the fortran_block block. + +* Bug 7946 fixed - error(0, "bye") crashed Scilab. + +* Bug 7950 fixed - spec crashed on Windows. + +* Bug 7951 fixed - strcat crashed with the row concatenation option on + GNU/Linux. + +* Bug 7952 fixed - libraryinfo did not check size of the input argument. + +* Bug 7959 fixed - fscanf did not manage file descriptor as input argument. + +* Bug 7964 fixed - errclear(2) cleared all errors and not only error 2 as + written in help. + +* Bug 7974 fixed - Customized xerbla.f subroutine did not return enough + information. + +* Bug 7981 fixed - copyfile failed with localized filenames on GNU/Linux. + +* Bug 7988 fixed - Inverted pendulum demo failed with f2c version on Windows. + +* Bug 7994 fixed - xs2emf created empty files on Windows. + +* Bug 8006 fixed - mgetl produced a memory allocation error. + +* Bug 8032 fixed - cdfnor was able to fail silently. + +* Bug 8055 fixed - lines() was wrongly updated when the console had the focus + back. + + + Changes between versions 5.3.0-beta-2 and 5.3.0-beta-3 of Scilab + =============================================================== + +Scilab: +======= + +Some long-standing usability Bugs have been fixed in this release. +Contributions from the Scilab team have been done on the flexdock project +to fix these issues. + +* Bugs 1589, 3994 fixed - On Startup, Scilab console did not have the focus. + The user had to click in the main window to gain focus. + +* Bug 3614 fixed - Sub-applications could not have their own icons. This + problem was causing some issues with the "Alt-Tab" features + under some operating systems. + +* Bug 4247 fixed - The command xclick didn't work correctly. + +* Bug 4423 fixed - It was not possible to navigate in Scilab's menu with arrow + keys. + +* Bug 5708 fixed - A focus problem between the console and the editor + happened when SciNotes was started from the console. + +* Bug 7369 fixed - fun2string produced incorrect code for parenthesis + exponentiation expressions. + +* Bug 7625 fixed - Some selection issues were appearing from time to time when + Scilab was losing the focus. + +* 'whos' function updated, variables sorted by name (case insensitive). + If a variable is global, a * appears after his type name. + (Thanks to Samuel Gougeon). + +Graphics: +======== + +It's now possible to use LaTeX or MathML as label for uimenu or Pushbutton and +Text in uicontrols. + +SciNotes: +========= + +Anchors can be added in the source code and one can navigate between them with +the Code Navigator. + +* Bugs 7276, 7726 fixed - There was a highlighting problem with default font. + +* Bug 7554 fixed - Auto-completion on typing was too general. + +* Bug 7618 fixed - The color background change generated an exception. + +* Bug 7621 fixed - The font change generated an exception. + +* Bug 7623 fixed - "Evaluate Selection" evaluated the selection with one added char. + +* Bug 7673 fixed - The extension ".dem" was not available in Open or Save actions. + +* Bug 7676 fixed - The SaveAs action did not remove "readonly" mode. + +* Bug 7677 fixed - User could not open files in his favorite directories. + +* Bug 7678 fixed - Help action did not give help on selection. + +* Bug 7682 fixed - The knob of the vertical scrollbar moved badly on resize. + +* Bug 7718 fixed - There was a bad detection of a function when the list of args + was broken. + +* Bug 7719 fixed - It was not possible to open several files at the + same time through the file chooser. + +* Bug 7719 fixed - It was not possible to open several files at the + same time. + +* Bug 7722 fixed - Several FindReplace windows could be opened. + +* Bug 7731 fixed - In Find/Replace window, buttons were not updated when an + item was chosen in the combobox Find. + +* Bug 7746 fixed - File streams were not closed. This problem was causing some + issues under Windows. + +* Bug 7759 fixed - Several Code Navigator instances were possible. + +* Bug 7764 fixed - The CR in comments was removed when executing from SciNotes. + +* Bug 7774 fixed - The default tabulation was \t. + +* Bug 7801 fixed - The FindReplace window could not be cancelled with ESC. + +* Bug 7807 fixed - The SaveAs or Save actions emitted an error message when cancelled. + +* Bug 7808 fixed - The RestoreSession window could not be cancelled with ESC. + +* Bug 7830 fixed - There was a problem when opening a file at a line number. + +* Bug 7842 fixed - There was not the filepath in the title bar. + +Editvar/Browsevar: +================== + +* Bug 7324 fixed - editvar() did not work for string variables. + +* Bug 7610 fixed - browsevar(): The icons (left column) did not appear in the + binary version (Linux & MacOSX). + +* Bug 7617 fixed - editvar() window did not have any menu bar. + +* Bug 7627 fixed - When browsevar() window was docked, if browsevar() was called + again, an empty window poped up and could not be closed. + +* Bug 7629 fixed - browsevar(): Trying to edit a variable that no more exists + generated an error. + +Compilation: +============ + +* -fwritable-strings C argument removed for all architectures under Linux + (was causing some build issues under sparc, alpha and powerpc) + +* A problem on startup with GNU/Linux sparc has been fixed. + +* The Java "user.home" property has been set to SCIHOME. + +* Bug 7668 fixed - Scilab 5.3.0-beta-2 did not build with Visual Studio 2008 + Express. + +* Update Lapack to 3.2.2 on Windows (fix Bugs 7754, 7485, 6477). + +* Update JLaTeXMath to version 0.9.3 + +Documentation: +============== + +* Bug 7755 fixed - Some sparse help pages moved from elementary_functions to + the sparse chapter. + +Windows Installer: +================== + +* Add "Command Line - Minimal Installation (no gui)" Configuration. + Interpreter in command line without the graphic, java or Tcl/Tk capabilities. + Installation requires only 60 Mo on disk. + +Graphics: +========= + +Two additionnal Graphics demos about plotyy() and plotyyy() added. See Bug #7687 +Thanks to Samuel Gougeon. + +* Bug 6910 fixed - The font size in LaTeX labels was too big. + +* Bug 7137 fixed - In Text uicontrol, fontsize was rounded which was + problematic when fontUnits was 'normalized'. + +* Bug 7857 fixed - If an event_handler was previously assigned to a graphic + window the datatips toogle tool icon had to be clicked twice + to make it active. + + +Xcos: +===== + +* A new initialization UI for partial differential equations settings has been added. + +* Bug 7256 fixed - Saving a diagram with a non-ASCII filename created a + corrupted file on Windows. + +* Bug 7498 fixed - SPLIT_f were not always deleted when one of its connection + were. + +* Bug 7622 fixed - When opening an Xcos diagram done on 5.2.2, an exception + could be thrown. + +* Bug 7628 fixed - When importing Scicos diagram, type each port as "explicit" + when not typed. + +* Bug 7631 fixed - On Xcos, using xcosPalAdd modified the user palatte.xml file. + +* Bug 7635 fixed - Xcos diagram with nested SuperBlocks did not contains a + valid container reference. + +* Bug 7636 fixed - The SUPER_f internal diagram was not coherent with the block + external view. + +* Bug 7644 fixed - The last user palette could not be removed from the palette + tree. + +* Bug 7651 fixed - scicos_math.h was missing in binary package. + +* Bug 7715 fixed - Performances of xcosDiagramToHDF5 degraded after several + subsequent calls to this function. + +* Bug 7778 fixed - The disabled buttons were badly colorized. + +* Bug 7809 fixed - The AFFICH_m block settings did not update the block view. + +* Bug 7834 fixed - The last argument of xcosPalAddBlock about the block style + could not be changed by the user. + +* Bug 7845 fixed - Code generation was broken. + +call_scilab: +============ + +* in 'API' mode, history manager is disabled. + +* Bug 7601 fixed - call_scilab C functions did not check if engine was started. + +* Bug 7602 fixed - It was not possible to start/close a Scilab engine at any + time. + +Scilab/LabView Gateway: +======================= + +* Bug 7791 fixed - It was not possible to restart anymore. VI already started. + +Bug Fixes: +========== + +* Bug 4247 fixed - The command xclick did not work correctly. + +* Bug 5697 fixed - External hyperlinks were opened in Help Browser rather + than in Web Browser. + +* Bug 6477 fixed - in some case, schur returned wrong values on Windows. + +* Bug 6504 fixed - Due to a Bug in Java, the <br> tag was not copied as a CR + in a messagebox. + +* Bug 6938 fixed - frexp returned a wrong error message with a complex as + input argument. + +* Bug 7125 fixed - fscanfMat() did not read correctly %inf, -%inf and + %nan values respectively recorded by fprintfMat(). + +* Bug 7208 fixed - The help for atomsGetLoaded() gave the wrong shape + for the loaded matrix. + +* Bug 7348 fixed - ATOMS: A module was loaded twice if it was installed both in + the "user" and the "allusers" section. + +* Bug 7405 fixed - The toolbar was not updated when an undocking occurred. + +* Bug 7452 fixed - demos nmplot from Optimization and Simulation -> fminsearch + -> nmplot* did not work. + +* Bug 7453 fixed - newfun() was broken after clearfun(). + +* Bug 7485 fixed - Division of matrices of complex numbers crashed on Windows. + +* Bug 7519 fixed - Help page of getcallbackobject() did not describe input argument. + +* Bug 7525 fixed - Scilab failed to assign 2-d matrices into 3-d matrices, on + Windows. + +* Bug 7599 fixed - Intersci-n and intersci did not create code from a .desc file + if it was not ended by an empty line. + +* Bug 7603 fixed - Fortran code generated by intersci did not build with a fortran + or F2C compiler on Windows. + +* Bug 7611 fixed - The cross to close a subwindow and the little arrow to undock + were not visible even if the subwindow was docked. + +* Bug 7615 fixed - When opening a SuperBlock, a non-blocking exception could be + thrown. + +* Bug 7616 fixed - fullfile did not work with only one input argument. + +* Bug 7619 fixed - get_function_path did not return all available paths. + +* Bug 7620 fixed - The Optimization and Simulation/Optimisation/Plot demo did + not plot anything. + +* Bug 7661 fixed - Add some usage examples for the function 'warning'. + +* Bug 7681 fixed - help_from_sci failed to process tabulated .sci files. + +* Bug 7685 fixed - Demo Graphics => More surfaces => Sphere did not appear + as spherical. + +* Bug 7688 fixed - set("color_map", hsvcolormap(128)) produced + a EXCEPTION_STACK_OVERFLOW. + +* Bug 7693 fixed - With a corrupted palettes.xml file, the error message was not + coherent with the recovering action. + +* Bug 7703 fixed - 'coding_ga_identity' help contained false "See Also". + +* Bug 7704 fixed - 'init_ga_default' help did not inform the default values of + the optional parameters. + +* Bug 7706 fixed - example in the 'optim_ga' help page did not work. + +* Bug 7733 fixed - strstr crashed scilab if the second input argument was longer + than the first one. + +* Bug 7737 fixed - Part 1 - ATOMS: when installing a module, the archive was + automatically downloaded before checking if the archive + already existed in the archive directory. + +* Bug 7740 fixed - edit() with a Scilab macro redefined failed. + +* Bug 7747 fixed - xclick(): When the graphic window was docked, keyboard + events were not detected. + +* Bug 7751 fixed - justify() did not work correctly if the subject embedded + leading or trailing spaces. + +* Bug 7754 fixed - umfpack did not work with Scilab 5.3.0-beta-2 on Windows. + +* Bug 7756 fixed - sprand did not produce normal numbers. + +* Bug 7766 fixed - cdff, cdffnc functions did not display %inf in error messages + +* Bug 7775 fixed - ged action 6 (selection and move of a graphic entity) was + broken. + +* Bug 7802 fixed - the graduate function complained about obsolete maxi and mini + functions. + +* Bug 7803 fixed - edit edit failed. + +* Bug 7821 fixed - In a messagebox, an exception was thrown when clicking on a + mal-formed url. + +* Bug 7831 fixed - Some reference of the old editvar UI were present in the + source directory tree. + +* Bug 7840 fixed - big lines were splitted by mgetl. + + + Changes between versions 5.3.0-beta-1 and 5.3.0-beta-2 of Scilab + =============================================================== + +Obsolete Functions: +=================== + +* 'oldbesseli', 'oldbesselj', 'oldbesselk' and 'oldbessely' are obsolete. +Please use 'besseli', 'besselj', 'besselk' and 'bessely' instead. + + +History Manager: +================ + +* "// End Session" line removed from the history file. + +* Begin session line identified by "// -- " and finished by " -- //" + + +SciNotes: +========= + +* Add the possibility to restore the last session (thanks to Paul Griffiths). + +* Add a close-button on the tabs and the possibility to drag&drop them. + +* Bug 6496 fixed - Add hyperlinks on macros in SciNotes. + +* Bugs 7462, 7463 fixed - The editor did not manage files with extensions *.tst, + *.start,*.quit. + +* Bug 7477 fixed - Bad detection of a function declaration when the line + ended with a comment. + +* Bug 7491 fixed - Broken lines with a .. were not correctly handled and caused + a freeze of SciNotes. + +* Bug 7550 fixed - In SciNotes, the "case" keyword was misplaced in some cases. + +* Bug 7557 fixed - SciNotes: unselected line was tabified. + +* Bug 7558 fixed - SciNotes: global variables were reached before local ones. + +* Bug 7564 fixed - In SciNotes, no message was displayed when an unsuccessful + search occurred. + +* Bug 7586 fixed - ShortCut for 'Save' action was missing in SciNotes. + +* Bug 7590 fixed - In SciNotes, there was a bad organization of + "Split..." and "Line Numbering..." menus. + +* Bug 7595 fixed - In SciNotes, a string was broken if '..' was encountered. + + +File input/output: +================== + +* Rewrite 'mputl' as a built-in function for speed improvements. + + +Window Management: +================== + +* If a subwindow is not docked, it is not possible to close a subwindow with +its own "cross" anymore. + +* Bugs 7572, 5519 fixed - The cross in the dockbar was confusing when a window + was not docked. + +Editvar/Browsevar: +================== + +* Bug 7328 fixed - editvar() window title did not contain the name of the + edited variable. + +* Bug 7329 fixed - If editvar() window was docked, calling editvar another time + threw java exceptions and froze editvar(). + +* Bug 7330 fixed - browsevar() called editvar() even if the latter did not + handle the variable type. + +* Bug 7332 fixed - browsevar(): When checked booleans were hidden and unchecked + booleans were displayed, the "boolean" menu was reversed. + +* Bug 7333 fixed - browsevar(): The type of global variables had weird values. + +* Bug 7334 fixed - browsevar(): Some columns had wrong names. + +* Bug 7337 fixed - browsevar(): Some types could not be filtered + (Scilab intrinsic, Matlab sparse and implicit polynomial). + +* Bug 7343 fixed - editvar could not edit empty matrices. + + +Xcos: +===== + +* Bug 6968 fixed - Modelica Chaos Xcos demo was not simulating. + +* Bug 7372 fixed - No message was displayed in the Xcos info bar during the + first drag and drop of a block (it may take time). + +* Bug 7396 fixed - On I/O blocks used in SuperBlocks, empty index threw a + decoding exception. + +* Bug 7480 fixed - Xcos conditional compilation produced a too long script on + Scilab queue. + +* Bug 7483 fixed - A wrong id block could lead to unopenable files. + +* Bug 7520 fixed - The Xcos context was not translated from parent diagram to + child one. + +* Bug 7529 fixed - Using the Xcos block help from the palette froze Scilab. + +* Bug 7530 fixed - When connecting two links together in a superblock, the split + block was not correctly positioned. + +* Bug 7532 fixed - Old Scicos diagrams without diagram version numbers could not + be opened. + +* Bug 7533 fixed - On Xcos, it was possible to drop a block into another one. + +* Bug 7534 fixed - On a RegionToSuperBlock action, the exported block parent + field were not updated with the new parent diagram. + +* Bug 7540 fixed - Xcos did not well serialized ScilabInteger types. This + problem produced Bugs on the LOGIC and BITSET blocks. + +* Bug 7551 fixed - An Xcos block could not change the type of a port when it was + already present. + +* Bug 7571 fixed - The mirror state of a block was not saved on a diagram. + +* Bug 7574 fixed - The Xcos diagram configuration settings did not work with + exponential values. + +* Bug 7588 fixed - When Xcos palettes had been installed in Scilab, they were not + removed at the end of the session. + + + +Compilation: +============ + +* Fix "warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to 'char'" + message when compiling a toolbox using Scierror(...) and sciprint(...) + + +Bug Fixes: +========== +* Bug 3842 fixed - "native" and "double" evaluation modes added to the sum, + cumsum, prod and cumprod functions + For more information, see the SEP #46. + +* Bug 4370 fixed - Help page for alufunction and figure_properties were not + up-to-date and the help page for pixel_drawing_mode was + missing. + +* Bug 5185 fixed - It was not possible to edit the name of a super block. + +* Bug 5366 fixed - Help of modules_manager was not built. + +* Bug 6639 fixed - "hypermat" did not remove the higher dimensions equal to 1. + +* Bug 6741 fixed - Some source files were useless. + +* Bug 6849 fixed - add_profiling badly handled "else" which made plotprofile + function produced an incorrect report. + +* Bug 7121 fixed - Help file about saveafterncommands(0) updated. + +* Bug 7124 fixed - mputl returned a wrong error message if a file did not exist. + +* Bug 7158 fixed - Help chapter on texmacs was empty. + +* Bug 7182 fixed - Help file of link about the output argument updated. + +* Bug 7183 fixed - Help file of ulink about the input argument updated. + +* Bug 7228 fixed - Help file of strcat about the third input argument updated. + +* Bug 7282 fixed - eval failed on some functions without output arguments. + +* Bug 7286 fixed - On some platforms, eps export of NaN values was Buggy. + +* Bug 7371 fixed - Documentation about cell did not precise that the value + returned by A.dims could not be used as a subscript. + +* Bug 7374 fixed - If Scilab was launched via another Scilab, TMPDIR was badly + built. + +* Bug 7388 fixed - A java exception was thrown when we clicked on a menu created + using uimenu because this menu had no child. + +* Bug 7391 fixed - Links added between help files on evstr, eval, execstr. + +* Bug 7432 fixed - fscanfMat and fprintfMat accepted wrong format. + +* Bug 7437 fixed - If history file was invalid, history browser crashed. + +* Bug 7441 fixed - The history browser crashed if the language was changed. + +* Bug 7443 fixed - The number of arguments of the "title", "xlabel", "ylabel" + and "zlabel" macros were incorrectly checked. + +* Bug 7457 fixed - Under GNU/Linux and Mac OS, the datatip mode icon was + missing in the graphic windows toolbar. + +* Bug 7459 fixed - Character issues fixed on some Japanese systems. + +* Bug 7481 fixed - 6th input argument of ilib_for_link did not allow to set + library name on Windows. + +* Bug 7505 fixed - Last optional parameter of "legend" macros was not read. + +* Bug 7507 fixed - There were some issues in the pvm module error messages + which made translation difficult. + +* Bug 7481 fixed - 6th input argument of ilib_for_link did not allow to set + library name on Windows. + +* Bug 7508 fixed - There was a wrong error message in gmres function. + +* Bug 7514 fixed - Some demo files were broken due to changes in x_mdialog function. + +* Bug 7566 fixed - The cacsd module graphic functions (bode, black, nyquist,...) + did not preserve the immediate_drawing property value. + +* Bug 7568 fixed - In the completion window, an exception was thrown when an + item was selected. + +* Bug 7594 fixed - Undefined variable error was not properly handled since Bug 6781 fix. + + Changes between versions 5.2.X and 5.3.0-beta1 of Scilab + ======================================================= + + +Performance: +============ + +* Faster access to primitive table (internal). This change improves the overall + speed of Scilab. + +* Improved access to the list of functions increases the performances. + + +Parallel execution: +=================== + +* Function "parallel_run" has been introduced for all supported architectures. + This function allows parallel computations and leverages multicore + architectures and their capacities. + For more information, see the help page of parallel_run or SEP #43. + + +SciNotes (Text Editor): +======================= + +* The Scilab consortium would like to express their congratulations to Calixte + Denizet for his impressive work on the recent developments on SciNotes. + +* Distributed with a new name: SciNotes + +* Complete refactorization of the text editor. This change improves the speed, + the stability of the editor and also improves many aspects of SciNotes. + +* Add the possibility to complete on-the-fly typing. + Ex: type '[' gives '[]') or keywords (e.g. type 'if ' gives 'if <CR>end') + +* Add the possibility to have several instances of the editor and to dock + them (or not). + +* Add the possibility to remove trailing whitespaces. + +* Improve the "help on keyword" from the popup menu. + +* Bugs 4399, 4922 fixed - The line numbering could not be compatible with the + output of the whereami function. + +* Bug 4790 fixed - A broken string (with .. operator) was badly colorized. + +* Bug 4865 fixed - The buttons to undo and redo were not disabled when there + was nothing to undo or redo. + +* Bug 4872 fixed - A binary file was opened like a text file. + +* Bug 4907 fixed - The source code of a given macro could not be opened. + +* Bug 4916 fixed - Problem with 'See the code' in the demos. + +* Bug 4990 fixed - When the argument was a directory, an error was displayed. + +* Bug 4992 fixed - There was no possibility to split a window with the same + contents. + +* Bug 5087 fixed - Different keywords were not split in different categories. + +* Bug 5102 fixed - It was not possible to choose the font weight or the font + style for a keyword category. + +* Bug 5113 fixed - Bad refresh of the application title in some cases. + +* Bug 5124 fixed - Editor's title was not updated when a file was saved as... + +* Bugs 5126, 6519 fixed - Problems appeared after using undo a few times. + +* Bug 5175 fixed - Ghost text appeared in the view. + +* Bug 5178 fixed - The kind of tabulations (hard tabulations or spaces) + could not be specified. + +* Bug 5204 fixed - Weird display of 'else' keyword. + +* Bug 5261 fixed - Several instances of the editor could not be opened. + +* Bug 5269 fixed - Help could not be reached on a keyword with CTRL+F1. + +* Bug 5320 fixed - A correct name was not proposed on the 'Save as' action. + +* Bug 5321 fixed - There was no possibility to choose the length of a + tabulation. + +* Bug 5473 fixed - It was not possible to generate a function help template + using help_from_sci. + +* Bug 5534 fixed - Auto-completion was not available. + +* Bug 5632 fixed - A file in read-only mode could not be opened. + +* Bug 5644 fixed - The DragN'Drop text was copied rather than moved. + +* Bug 5645 fixed - Undo action deleted a line rather than making it visible. + +* Bugs 5646, 5658 fixed - The undo/redo strategy was failing in some cases. + +* Bug 5647 fixed - Bad line numbering when a file was just opened. + +* Bug 5648 fixed - The editor let you think that you can change a filename just + in changing the case. + +* Bug 5652 fixed - Bad line numbering when several files were opened. + +* Bug 5654 fixed - The editor did not save the user preferences. + +* Bug 5655 fixed - The selection was lost after an unsuccessful search. + +* Bug 5656 fixed - When a part of text was selected, the search was done on the full + document. + +* Bug 5657 fixed - Control+End did not move the cursor to the end of the file. + +* Bug 5681 fixed - The search window was not put in front of the editor's one. + +* Bug 5682 fixed - A problem occurred in some cases with the replace action. + +* Bug 6479 fixed - A problem occurred in some cases when a '{' was used in + comments. + +* Bug 6515 fixed - The DragN'Drop text was copied at the end of the file. + +* Bug 6658 fixed - The position and size of the editor were not saved. + +* Bug 6670 fixed - There was no shortcut for the "Evaluate Selection" action. + +* Bug 6748 fixed - There was a time problem between local computer and + remote file system. + +* Bug 6807 fixed - '.*' was not correctly highlighted. + +* Bug 6980 fixed - When a replaced text contained a '\', the backslash was + considered as a special character. + +* Bug 7032 fixed - There was a problem when a filename contained a ' or a ". + +* Bug 7088 fixed - The editor freezed when a user copied/pasted several times. + +* Bug 7112 fixed - Two transpositions gave a string (if a'==1 then a=b'). + +* Bug 7150 fixed - It was impossible to change the background color. + +* Bug 7237 fixed - Whites and tabs were not visible in strings and in comments. + +* Bug 7238 fixed - The dot/del key on the numeric pad added a 'suppr' and a dot. + +* Bug 7239 fixed - Font style was lost on a selected text. + +* Bug 7240 fixed - The menu "Open source file" was active even if nothing could + be opened. + +* Bug 7262 fixed - An exception was thrown when a text was dragged and dropped. + +* Bug 7272 fixed - No check on the lastModified property was performed when + a file was opened. + +* Bug 7277 fixed - The "recent files" list was badly ordered. + +* Bug 7281 fixed - The menu "Evaluate selection" did not change when nothing + was selected. + +* Bug 7299 fixed - There was a bad matching by the right for the expression + n=size(x,"*"); r=(x*x') + +* Bug 7352 fixed - No completion menu on the right click. + +* Bug 7421 fixed - The source file of a selected name with right + click could not be opened. + + +editvar (variable editor): +========================== + +* New variable editor + Note that this editor will be improved in the next beta releases. + + +browsevar (variable browser): +============================= + +* New variable browser + Note that this browser will be improved in the next beta releases. + + +Graphics: +========= + +* The set, get and uicontrol functions are now overloadable. + +* Datatips tools added. + For more information, see the help page of datatips or SEP #29. + +* The frequency response plots ("bode", "black", "nyquist", "gainplot",...) + support cutomized datatips. + +* Bug 2651 fixed - "plot2d" was not working when the x argument was not given + and some optional arguments were given. + +* Bug 3100 fixed - The "xselect" function has been made obsolete and replaced + by "show_window", in accordance with its help page. + +* Bug 3975 fixed - The "xload" function was not able to load the contents of a + previously saved graphic figure into a different one. + +* Bug 4531 fixed - "legend" macros were not displaying any error when no + 'Polyline' existed. + +* Bug 4658 fixed - When some graphic functions were called without any + arguments, the error was not explicit enough. + +* Bug 5284 fixed - In some cases, the function "legend" drew line segments in + its box in a reverse order. + +* Bug 5606 fixed - In certain cases, user-defined x-axis ticks were not + correctly aligned. + +* Bug 6098 fixed - It was not possible to get values by clicking on a point + of Bode diagram. + +* Bug 6394 fixed - The "black", "m_circle", "chart" functions has been + improved for a better rendering and datatips + customization. Two new functions created: "hallchart" + (superseed "m_circle") and "nicholschart" (superseed + "chart"). + +* Bug 6532 fixed - In some case text entity rendering order was wrong. + +* Bug 6676 fixed - When "twinkle(gca())" was executed, data related to the + current axes was not twinkling. + +* Bug 6786 fixed - The "polarplot" function did not correctly display the polar + coordinated grid when negative rho values were plotted. + +* Bug 6835 fixed - Performing an interactive rotation after having executed the + "plot3d" function caused Scilab to freeze on 64-bit Windows. + +* Bug 6848 fixed - The patterns of the lines were poorly exported. + +* Bug 6958 fixed - The "tics_labels" property from "axes" rejected column vector + of labels. + +* Bug 6959 fixed - axis.tics_labels did not accept $..$ LaTeX labels. + +* Bug 7024 fixed - Error messages from "twinkle" were not standard. + +* Bug 7028 fixed - When Scilab printed an "axis" graphic handle, string array + size for "tics_labels" was erroneous. + +* Bug 7065 fixed - "getColorIndex" used some global variables prohibiting + user's calls. + +* Bug 7067 fixed - The "isoview" macro created an unnecessary "plot" object. + +* Bug 7075 fixed - When the "links" property was set for a handle of type + "legend", the property type was not checked. + +* Bug 7079 fixed - The "mtlb_get" used a "h" global variable instead of the + given "H" argument. + +* Bug 7172 fixed - Executing the "scaling" function caused a function + redefinition warning due to its "factor" input argument. + +* Bug 7173 fixed - The equation in the "scaling" help page was incorrect. + +* Bug 7187 fixed - Plotting a curve, zooming, and then plotting an additional + curve caused Scilab to freeze, depending on the zoomed-in + area. + +* Bug 7188 fixed - Deleting a Label graphics entity caused Scilab to crash. + +* Bug 7353 fixed - Setting a Polyline's "interp_color_mode" property to "on" + without having previously set its "interp_color_vector" + property caused Scilab to crash. + + +Localization: +============= + +* Polish localization added. Thanks to Paweł Dąbrowski, Ernest Życiński, + Sebastian Sławski, Kamil Dąbrowsk, Kamil Strojek, Kamil Dąbrowski, + Michał Snoc, Piotr Seroka... + +* Bug 3069 fixed - In some cases, the function gettext was returning \" + +* Bug 7059 fixed - The tag X-Launchpad-Export-Date has been removed to avoid + huge and useless difference after a launchpad + synchronization. + +* Bug 7220 fixed - On Windows, when you started Scilab with "WScilex -l ru_RU", + some menus were disabled. + +Source reorganization: +====================== + +* 'tbx_builder_src', 'tbx_build_macros', 'tbx_builder_gateway', ... functions + has been moved in modules_manager module. + +API_Scilab: +=========== + +* Error(x) is now deprecated and will be removed in Scilab 5.4. + Please consider SciError(x). + +Call_Scilab: +============ + +* Function "sci_types getVariableType(char *varName)" added into call_scilab.h +This function provides an easy way to retrieve the type of a variable. + +Documentation: +============== + +* It is now possible to use LaTeX inlined in the documentation. Thanks to + Calixte Denizet for this feature. (See Bug #4329) + +* Bug 6630 fixed - JavaHelp did not update existing image files when + building help. + +* Bug 6852 fixed - JavaHelp did not center the LaTeX formulas containing an + attribute align="center" + +Xcos: +===== + +* Modelica compiler 1.12.1 + +* New set of icons added (the previous set of icons will be available as an + external module) + +* The default palettes can now be manipulated by the user. + +* LaTeX formulas can be used on any TextBlock using the Scilab tag based + description. + +* builnewblock.sci rewritten to use Scilab dynamic link module tools. + +* Introduction of the variable %MODELICA_USER_LIBS + Allows a user to set where are the Modelica files describing the user's + Modelica blocks. + +* Bug 4156 fixed - Xcos defined some temp. variables on stack without + removing them. + +* Bug 4705 fixed - Xcos used a non-existing file BEpsf + +* Bug 4898 fixed - The scifunction_block stored list() parameters on the ipar + field instead of the opar field. + +* Bug 4977 fixed - Some icons were duplicated between Gui and Xcos. + +* Bug 5022 fixed - When opening some demos, ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException + were thrown by some Swing components. + +* Bug 5161 fixed - The export to SVG did not work with images or html. + +* Bug 5596 fixed - It was not possible to change text block properties (font + and color) + +* Bug 5640 fixed - Toolbar and menubar were sometimes not visible at startup. + +* Bug 6440 fixed - Xcos demos did not work and returned "Unable to + open file" error. + +* Bug 6527 fixed - There was several instances of the same variable name + in the workspace when a data set was exported via a + "To Workspace" block. + +* Bug 6661 fixed - "Code Generation" menu failed. + +* Bug 6668 fixed - Xcos Modelica demos did not work with the new + Modelica compiler. + +* Bug 6672 fixed - "Code generation" failed if superblock had + some gain blocks. + +* Bug 6674 fixed - Modelica generic block did not work. + +* Bug 6814 fixed - Link point positions (link.xx and link.yy) were not exported + as column vectors. + +* Bug 6900 fixed - The block interfunction was not considered as Scilab + macros. + +* Bug 6903 fixed - modelicat called ocamlrun (wrong dependency on Windows). + +* Bug 6981 fixed - The Scilab 'exit' call was killing Xcos session without + prompting the user if modified diagrams must be saved before + exit. + +* Bug 7053 fixed - Rotated saved blocks were not loaded with the right rotation + value. + +* Bug 7089 fixed - Drawing links when creating superblock threw an encoding + exception. + +* Bug 7099 fixed - xml2modelica called ocamlrun (wrong dependency on Windows). + +* Bug 7129 fixed - Xcos hung at the opening of superblocks with context. + +* Bug 7143 fixed - Simulation values were not valid when the exponential sign + was an 'e'. + +* Bug 7175 fixed - Demo bridge rectifier did not build on Windows. + +* Bug 7214 fixed - Modelica demos did not generate a .mo file in TMPDIR/modelica + directory. + + +ATOMS: +====== + +* ATOMS client: Categories are now managed. + - atomsList(category) limits the list of modules to a category. + - atomsCategoryList() lists available categories. + +* ATOMS GUI: + - Ergonomics have been improved. + - Modules can be filtered by category (See request 5276). + - When a module is not up-to-date, a warning is displayed on the + corresponding sheet. + - Release date of a selected module can now be displayed. + +* Bug 5276 fixed - ATOMS GUI: It was not possible to filter modules by category. + +* Bug 6596 fixed - When the ATOMS GUI started, nothing was displayed. Now, the + list of already installed modules appears on the home page. + +* Bug 6842 fixed - The ATOMS GUI could tell that an installed version of a module + was the most recent one even if it was not the case. + +* Bug 6976 fixed - ATOMS GUI: Webpages URLs linked with a module were missing + from the presentation frame. + +* Bug 6977 fixed - ATOMS GUI: In the presentation frame, URLs and emails were + not hyperlinked. + +* Bug 7149 fixed - An error message of atomsDESCRIPTIONread() was badly formated. + + +Matlab to Scilab Conversion Tools: +================================== + +* Unitary tests added. + +* Matlab-Scilab equivalents dictionary added in documentation. + +* In 'mfile2sci', option only_double is now set to %T as default. + +* Conversion updated with new Scilab functions: + - 'filesep' now converted by 'filesep' instead of 'pathconvert'. + + +Dynamic Link: +============= + +* Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express and Professional support on + Windows x86 and x64 platform. + +* Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Express support on Windows x64 platform + It requires to install Windows SDK to add x64 component on Visual Studio. + +* lcc-win32 support moved as module in ATOMS. + It will be easier to maintain with new versions of lcc-win32. + +* Intel Fortran 12 (beta) support on Windows x86 and x64 platform. + +* 5th argument of 'ilib_compile', 'ilib_for_link', 'ilib_gen_cleaner', + 'ilib_gen_Make', 'ilib_mex_build', 'ilib_build' is deprecated. + default value of makefile name must be []. + +* Bug 4265 fixed - The execution of the dynamic link functions (ilib_*) + continued even if a compiler was not available. + +* Bug 5737 fixed - loader.sce generated by ilib_gen_loader did not detect + if it was a x86 dll or a x64 dll used with a scilab x64 or x86, + on Windows. + + +Optimization: +============= + +* Simulated annealing: Added documentation for accept_func_default and + accept_func_vfsa. + +* fminsearch: updated printing of neldermead, optimbase and optimsimplex objects. + +* fminsearch: added demo for dimensionality effect of the Nelder-Mead algorithm. + + +Incompatibilities: +================== + +* The Bug 4583 fix makes the default element value in string array assignment + be an empty string instead of " ". + + +FFTW: +===== + +* On Windows, Scilab can use FFTW3 wrapper of Intel Math Kernel Library. + Select "Download FFTW3 wrapper optimized by Intel Math Kernel Library" during + installation. + + +API_Scilab: +=========== + +* Error(x) is now deprecated and will be removed in Scilab 5.4. + Please use SciError(x) instead. + + +Source reorganization: +====================== + +* 'tbx_builder_src', 'tbx_build_macros', 'tbx_builder_gateway', ... functions + has been moved in modules_manager module. + + +Compilation: +============ + +* On Windows, Pentium III class (or equivalent) with SSE instructions is + required. + +* Scilab_f2c.sln can be exported to VS 2010 format. + +* Windows 2000 operating system is no more supported. + +* Scilab Mac OS X distribution only relies on Java 1.6 and is therefore now + only available under 64-bit OS (Most of 10.5 and all 10.6 Mac OS X versions) + +* Under Mac OS X, uses /usr/libexec/java_home instead of hardcoded paths to + retrieve JAVA_HOME + +* special_functions module is dynamically loaded by Scilab. + +* tclsci module is dynamically loaded by Scilab. + +* pvm module is dynamically loaded by Scilab. + +* Many warnings detected by Intel Fortran 11.1.051 and more on Windows fixed. + +* Better detection system of the dependencies version. + +* Add a check of the minimal installations of hdf5 (1.8.4), batik (1.7). + +* /usr/share/*/lib added to the Java search path for OpenSuse. + +* Option --enable-compilation-tests added to the configure. With this option, + if TestNG has been found, tests will be launched at compilation time. + +* Added /usr/lib to JNI search path. Gluegen-rt needed it on openSUSE. + +* Bug 4300 fixed - Moving Command Queue management to core. + +* Bug 6432 fixed - Checkstyle disabled on SWIG (Java/JNI) generated files. + +* Bug 6643 fixed - --without-gui failed to disable Ocaml build (A Xcos + dependency). + +* Bug 6857 fixed - make CXXFLAGS="-myflag" was removing some C++ arguments. + + +Help Tools: +========== + +* %helps_modules (global variable in Scilab) is only defined when + Scilab build help and no more at Scilab's startup. + + +Core: +===== + +* Under GNU/Linux, Unix and Mac OS X, for security purposes, temporary + directory name is now randomized and permissions are limited to the user + (See Bug #3493). + +* Under GNU/Linux, Unix and Mac OS X, if TMPDIR is set, Scilab will respect it + to store its temporary files (See Bug #3493). + +* Under non-Windows system, the name of the temporary directory has been changed + from SD_* to SCI_TMP_* to match the current Windows behavior. + +* Bug 6986 fixed - edit('toto.sce') created a file toto.sce.sci containing + a function named toto.sce + +Tests: +====== + +* Mechanism of unitary tests for Java code based on TestNG added and used. + +* test_run() now accepts ATOMS modules as input argument. + + +Text Rendering: +=============== + +* Antialiasing activated by default to render text + + +License: +======== + +* The demos files (modules/*/demos/**/*.dem.*) are now released in the public + domain. (See Bug #4902) + + +Obsolete Functions: +=================== + +* 'MSDOS' obsolete. Please use 'getos' instead (SEP #39). + +* 'with_lcc', 'VCtoLCCLib', 'chooselcccompiler', 'configure_lcc', + 'findlcccompiler' have been moved as modules in ATOMS + See http://atoms.scilab.org/toolboxes/LCC-windows or atomsInstall('lcc-windows') + from Scilab. + +* 'maxi' obsolete see 'max'. + +* 'maxi' obsolete. Please use 'max' instead. + +* 'mini' obsolete. Please use 'min' instead. + +* 'xselect' obsolete. Please use 'show_window' instead. + +Removed functions (previously declared as obsolete): +==================================================== + +* 'textprint', 'pol2tex' replaced by 'prettyprint'. + +* 'tk_savefile' replaced by 'uigetfile'. + +* 'tk_getdir' replaced by 'uigetdir'. + +* 'tk_choose' replaced by 'x_choose'. + +* 'sci2excel' replaced by 'write_csv'. + +* 'excel2sci' replaced by 'read_csv'. + +* 'x_message_modeless' replaced by 'messagebox'. + +* 'sethomedirectory' replaced by 'SCIHOME'. + +* 'getcwd' replaced by 'pwd'. + +* 'xbasc' replaced by 'clf'. + +* 'getf' replaced by 'exec'. + +* 'NumTokens' replaced by 'tokens'. + +* 'sort' replaced by 'gsort'. + +* 'scilab_demos' replaced by 'demo_gui'. + +* 'with_gtk' replaced by 'getversion'. + +* 'readc_' replaced by 'input'. + + +ATOMS: +====== + +* ATOMS client: Categories are now managed. + - atomsList(category) limits the list of modules to a category. + - atomsCategoryList() lists available categories. + +* The ATOMS GUI ergonomics has been improved. + +* ATOMS GUI: Modules can be filtered by category (See request 5276). + +* ATOMS GUI: When a module is not up-to-date, a warning is displayed on the + corresponding sheet. + +* ATOMS GUI: Display the release date of the watched module. + +* Bug 5276 fixed - ATOMS GUI: It was not possible to filter modules by category. + +* Bug 6596 fixed - When the ATOMS GUI started, nothing was displayed. Now, the + list of already installed modules appears on the home page. + +* Bug 6842 fixed - If the installed version of a module was not the most recent + one, the ATOMS GUI claimed that the newest version was + installed. + +* Bug 6976 fixed - ATOMS GUI: Webpages URLs linked with a module were missing + from the presentation frame. + +* Bug 6977 fixed - ATOMS GUI: In the presentation frame, URLs and emails were + not hyperlinked. + +* Bug 7149 fixed - An error message of atomsDESCRIPTIONread() was badly formated. + +Bug fixes: +========== + +* Bug 1041 fixed - An error inside a loop was reported as if it occurred on + the "end" line. + +* Bug 1304 fixed - macr2tree now works with a Scilab expression as input. + +* Bug 1371 fixed - The representation of floating numbers with and exponent + larger than 100 or smaller than -100 was incorrect. + +* Bug 2076 fixed - pspect did not use the last data window. + +* Bug 2613 fixed - Incorrect stack recovery for catched errors in some + specific contexts (for loops, ...). + +* Bug 2623 fixed - Non-regression test script fixed. + +* Bug 2654 partially fixed - exec returned a wrong error if a line had more + than 4096 characters. + +* Bug 2775 fixed - Multiplication of 0 times infinity did not work because of + ATLAS under Windows. + +* Bug 3281 fixed - Incorrect error message #72 fixed. + +* Bug 3311 fixed - Loop with a "for" over a vector of complex polynomials produced + wrong values. + +* Bug 3490 fixed - "resume" inside an exec crashed Scilab, "resume" restrictions + of use removed. + +* Bug 3688 fixed - The assignment using ":" subscript for a dimension that did not + exist, did not work for hypermatrices. + +* Bug 3780 fixed - The loadmatfile function did not ignore comments found in + ASCII files while loading them, resulting in an error message. + For Matlab compatibility, when this function is called with + one input argument load(filename), it now looks for a binary + file (if filename has no extension or .mat extension) or for an + ASCII file if filename has another extension. + +* Bug 3796 fixed - In some situation the "tf2ss()" function failed to + compute correctly the state space representation of + a transfer function. + +* Bug 3810 fixed - Insertion in string array and polynomial array may be very slow. + +* Bug 3811 fixed - Documention about "typeof" and overload prefixes was not + up-to-date (help overloading). + +* Bug 3937 fixed - Buttons size in "x_choices" window was related to the labels one. + +* Bug 4075 fixed - A basic uicontrol example crashed Scilab 5.0.3 + +* Bug 4117 fixed - Via the user interface, closing a graphics figure which had a + non-existing event handler attached did not destroy + its associated data structure. + +* Bug 4224 fixed - uigetfile masks were case insensitive on Windows. + +* Bug 4359 fixed - M(:,:)='anything' produced erroneous results. + +* Bug 4362 fixed - test_run("gui","checkbox") no more freezes Scilab. + +* Bug 4375 fixed - Interactive test SCI/modules/core/tests/unit_tests/breakpoints.tst + failed. + +* Bug 4493 fixed - 'rat' moved in elementary_functions module. + +* Bug 4505 fixed - A red vertical bar appeared for some continuous time systems. + +* Bug 4572 fixed - Scilab did a SIGSEGV after stacksize('max') + stacksize(). + +* Bug 4583 fixed - Default value for string array assignment was " " instead + of an empty string "". + +* Bug 4625 fixed - intersci-n was broken on Windows. + +* Bug 4640 fixed - plot2d() put CPU utilization at 100% on Windows. + +* Bug 4672 fixed - Internal function AddFunctionInTable renamed to + getFunctionByName to avoid confusions on the actual usage + of this function. Thanks to Yuvraj Tomar. + +* Bug 4699 fixed - xml2test.pl: Paths were badly displayed in some cases. + +* Bug 4783 fixed - Comparison between sparse complex matrix and a full one was + wrong when the sparse matrix contained a zero row. + +* Bug 4799 fixed - Sometimes the bode, nyquist , ... function reported a + "non convergence" error + +* Bug 4841 fixed - Functions created by 'getd' were unknown by Scilab. + +* Bug 4948 fixed - A simple Runge Kutta method for solving a second order + differential equation had a strange behavior. + +* Bug 4857 fixed - Help file of 'gsort' updated with sort of complex numbers + and overloading. + +* Bug 4985 fixed - mgetl did not use fgets (C function). + +* Bug 4996 fixed - mgetl() was not located in the right module. It has been + moved to "fileio" module. + +* Bug 5110 fixed - Incomplete mgetstr documentation. + +* Bug 5123 fixed - Help about '%helps' was wrong. + +* Bug 5136 fixed - Information about dependant platform display of + exponential form (%e) was missing in the prinft_conversion + documentation. + +* Bug 5149 fixed - test_run(): Calls to exec() were no more logged by diary(). + +* Bug 5216 fixed - URLs are now active in uicontrols of style "text". This + feature is used in ATOMS GUI (modules description). + +* Bug 5324 fixed - Under Windows, "File open" dialog box focused on parent + directory of current directory. + +* Bug 5432 fixed - A link to http://www.tcl.tk/doc/ added in help files about + Tcl/Tk. + +* Bug 5512 fixed - The display order of input arguments was not described in + the disp() documention. + +* Bug 5541 fixed - In the API documentation, the information that data must be + allocated before calling API functions was missing. + +* Bug 5575 fixed - Wrong German translation fixed (Standart => Standard). + +* Bug 5583 fixed - exec() did not manage correctly UTF-8 and ANSI/ASCII files + encoded. + +* Bug 5588 fixed - Assigning null() in a tlist or mlist field shifted all remaining + values with respect to field names. + +* Bug 5609 fixed - Documentation stated incorrectly that fieldnames were working + on cells. + +* Bug 5612 fixed - There was no way to delete a field in a struct. + It is now possible with null(). + +* Bug 5629 fixed - export_to_hdf5 to a file overwrote a directory + with the same name (now trigger an error). + +* Bug 5630 fixed - export_to_hdf5 to a file with a same directory + name altered the permission of the directory. + +* Bug 5724 fixed - erfinv and erf missed references to similar functions + +* Bug 6332 fixed - stacksize had problems on Mac OS X and 64-bit platforms. + +* Bug 6349 fixed - The callback of an 'edit' uicontrol was only executed when it lost focus. + +* Bug 6419 fixed - There was no way to retrieve minimum global stack size + from Scilab. + +* Bug 6428 fixed - fscanfMat did not manage format parameter as fprintfMat. + +* Bug 6435 fixed - error 4 returned a wrong message. + +* Bug 6447 fixed - unix_g() and dos() did not support properly neither UTF8 + nor ANSI encoded output. + +* Bug 6449 fixed - regexp returned a wrong value with a string returned by mgetl. + +* Bug 6451 fixed - length returned a wrong value with a string returned by mgetl. + +* Bug 6452 fixed - part returned a wrong value with a string returned by mgetl. + +* Bug 6484 fixed - file did not return filename of an opened Fortran file. + +* Bug 6504 fixed - Copy/paste of the contents of message boxes was not available. + +* Bug 6510 fixed - modules/helptools/help_en_US.xsl and + modules/helptools/help_fr_FR.xsl were useless but not removed. + +* Bug 6511 fixed - mseek and mtell did not manage files > 2 Gbytes on 64-bit + Windows. + +* Bug 6516 fixed - fullfile did not remove blanks and not create a valid path. + +* Bug 6535 fixed - The property 'ListboxTop' of the graphic user interface object + 'listbox' had no effect. + +* Bug 6543 fixed - neldermead issues for automatic restarts. + +* Bug 6549 fixed - genlib function had a behavior which was not consistent with + the load function. + +* Bug 6550 fixed - lib(".") returned a relative path in library variable + created. + +* Bug 6556 fixed - fprintf() returned an error if it was called twice (or more) + on the same file. + +* Bug 6635 fixed - Incorrectly drawn Bode plots (calfrq Bug). + +* Bug 6666 fixed - emptystr() gave a wrong result instead of complaining + about hypermatrix. + +* Bug 6682 fixed - mprintf, msprintf, mfprintf did not manage octal (%o) format. + +* Bug 6726 fixed - Variables whose name starts with a $ could be retrieved in + libraries. + +* Bug 6731 fixed - Information on the output argument was missing from the + lib() documentation. + +* Bug 6740 fixed - It was not possible to launch Scilab as Minimized + or Maximized Window. + +* Bug 6744 fixed - p_margin() returned an erroneous result. + +* Bug 6745 fixed - g_margin() returned an erroneous result. + +* Bug 6750 fixed - TMPDIR constant had no help page. + +* Bug 6751 fixed - Completion added unwanted characters when some + string sequences occurred several times. + +* Bug 6774 fixed - Calling get_param generated a "funcprot" warning when + the value of an option stored in a parameters list was + a function. + +* Bug 6781 fixed - Defined variables in a library were not recognized in + compiled macros. + +* Bug 6783 fixed - Solving a system of linear equation by backslash ("\") + caused a crash, when using complex numbers on Windows. + +* Bug 6784 fixed - It was not possible to move a Scilab installation without + breaking the (previously installed) ATOMS packages load. + +* Bug 6827 fixed - The error printed by spchol if the variable was complex + was wrong. + +* Bug 6830 fixed - C2F(scistring) in stack2.c was broken for macro names of + exactly two characters. + +* Bug 6831 fixed - in cli (=nwni) mode, tbx_build_help failed. + +* Bug 6861 fixed - yulewalk example failed on Windows. + +* Bug 6862 fixed - Help page for 'vectorfind' missed some explanations about + input arguments types. Moreover there were missing checks + about input arguments number and types in the function. + +* Bug 6864 fixed - Some error messages were wrong in data_structures module. + +* Bug 6867 fixed - Wrong error message when base2dec() was called with an invalid + base representation. + +* Bug 6889 fixed - 'fscanfMat' crashed with wrong formatted files. + +* Bug 6891 fixed - 'whos' did not display global variables. + +* Bug 6893 fixed - Some files +~JF****.tmp were created outside of Scilab + temporary directory. + +* Bug 6895 fixed - Completion crashed with -NW mode, on some Linux. + +* Bug 6901 fixed - This script with 'exec' produced a weird warning. + +* Bug 6923 fixed - Some localized messages were wrong in 'qmr'. + +* Bug 6924 fixed - Some error messages were wrong in 'gmres' and 'qmr'. + +* Bug 6932 fixed - Unitary test for function 'exit' failed in Linux binary + version. + +* Bug 6933 fixed - Some temporary files (dict_*.tmp) were created when using + search engine of the help browser. + +* Bug 6934 fixed - Denormalized floating point numbers were not present in + Scilab's master. + +* Bug 6940 fixed - An error message was wrong in 'pvm_send'. + +* Bug 6946 fixed - Information about optional input arguments 'column separator' + and 'decimal mark' were missing in the write_csv documentation. + +* Bug 6947 fixed - Some demos in "Optimization and Simulation" failed, + without write rights in SCI subdirectory. + +* Bug 6951 fixed - stacksize had a strange behavior. + +* Bug 6952 fixed - stacksize('max') did not return maximum value. + +* Bug 6962 fixed - bvode generated an error on Windows. + +* Bug 6964 fixed - Scilab could detect a wrong SCI path on Windows. + +* Bug 6971 fixed - After launching a module by loader.sce, variable v was + predefined. + +* Bug 6990 fixed - "and" and "or" did not work on hypermatrices. + +* Bug 7003 fixed - 'evstr' did not evaluate NaN and Inf as %nan and %inf. + +* Bug 7006 fixed - exec removed spaces at the end of filename when it returned + an error. + +* Bug 7014 fixed - ilib_verbose value was modified after toolbox_skeleton. + +* Bug 7019 fixed - resume() produced an incorrect error message. + +* Bug 7021 fixed - Scilab did not start and returned a system error (193) + on Windows. + +* Bug 7033 fixed - newfun was randomly crashing (mostly on 32-bit) writing to + unallocated memory. + +* Bug 7036 fixed - The plot2d document was incomplete (missing optional argument). + +* Bug 7042 fixed - Insertion of an empty matrix into a struct (to remove a row or column) + was Buggy when multiple index was used. + +* Bug 7044 fixed - calling sequence in help of 'strcat' was wrong. + +* Bug 7057 fixed - isdigit and isalphanum crashed with a matrix of string + as input argument. + +* Bug 7077 fixed - uigetfont crashed Scilab when the cancel button was clicked. + +* Bug 7078 fixed - A wrong error message was displayed when setting the "value" + property of an "edit" uicontrol. + +* Bug 7094 fixed - If badly called, ode made Scilab crashed. + +* Bug 7108 fixed - It was not possible to set the callback_type property via uicontrol. + +* Bug 7109 fixed - 'lu' function with some complex matrices crashed on Windows. + +* Bug 7123 fixed - No completion was possible if the name of a variable was + preceded by ~ or @ or < or > + +* Bug 7161 fixed - wavread failed to load some .wav files with error 44. + +* Bug 7163 fixed - Assignment index ":" were translated into "eye()". + +* Bug 7170 fixed - Scilab equivalent for Matlab "uigetdir" was "tk_getdir", + it has been replaced by "uigetdir". + +* Bug 7180 fixed - xs2pdf was unable to export a graphic. + +* Bug 7181 fixed - The display of a struct having no fields did not work. + +* Bug 7189 fixed - In some cases the usage of resume led to a crash of Scilab. + +* Bug 7223 fixed - 'unsetmenu' on a separator crashed Scilab. + +* Bug 7224 fixed - Export empty matrix in HDF5 did not unlock file. + +* Bug 7236 fixed - Due to Bug 1371 fix, sci2exp(-%inf) returned a wrong + value -nf and not -%inf. + +* Bug 7250 fixed - In the console, the first character of a filename was doubled + when completed. + +* Bug 7260 fixed - To read a malformed .csv file with fscanfMat crashed Scilab. + +* Bug 7285 fixed - Open/Save dialog box did not display filenames without + extension with filter "*.*" + +* Bug 7291 fixed - unix('') and dos('') returned a wrong messsage on Windows. + +* Bug 7278 fixed - strsplit did not work with some particular inputs. + +* Bug 7312 fixed - isnum() diplayed warnings when using some unusual parameters. |