1 Changes between version 5.2.X and 5.3.0 of Scilab
2 =================================================
8 * Faster access to primitive table (internal). This change improves the overall
11 * Improved access to the list of functions increases the performances.
16 * On Windows, Scilab can use FFTW3 wrapper of Intel Math Kernel Library.
17 Select "Download FFTW3 wrapper optimized by Intel Math Kernel Library" during
23 * the set, get and uicontrol functions are now overloadable.
25 * Datatips tools added, the frequency response plots ("bode", "black", "nyquist",
26 "gainplot",...) supports cutomized datatips.
28 * bug 2651 fixed - "plot2d" was not working when the x argument was not given
29 and some optional arguments were given.
31 * bug 3100 fixed - The "xselect" function has been made obsolete, in accordance
34 * bug 3975 fixed - The "xload" function was not able to load the contents of a previously
35 saved graphics figure into a different one.
37 * bug 4658 fixed - When some graphic functions were called without any arguments,
38 the error was not explicit enough.
40 * bug 5284 fixed - In some case function "legend" drew line segments in its box
43 * bug 6532 fixed - In some case text entity rendering order was wrong.
45 * bug 6676 fixed - When we executed "twinkle(gca())", data related to the
46 current axes were not twinkling.
48 * bug 6786 fixed - The "polarplot" function did not correctly display the polar
49 coordinates grid when negative rho values were plotted.
51 * bug 6835 fixed - Performing an interactive rotation after having executed the
52 "plot3d" function caused Scilab to freeze on 64-bit Windows.
54 * bug 6958 fixed - The "tics_labels" property from "axes" rejected column vector of labels.
56 * bug 6959 fixed - axis.tics_labels did not accept $..$ LaTeXed labels
58 * bug 7024 fixed - Error messages from "twinkle" were not standard.
60 * bug 7028 fixed - When scilab printed an "axis" graphic handle, string array
61 size for "tics_labels" was erroneous.
63 * bug 7065 fixed - "getColorIndex" used some global variables prohibiting
66 * bug 7067 fixed - The "isoview" macro created an unnecessary "plot" object.
68 * bug 7079 fixed - The "mtlb_get" used a "h" global variable instead of the
74 * Polish localization added. Thanks to Paweł Dąbrowski, Ernest Życiński,
75 Sebastian Sławski, Kamil Dąbrowsk, Kamil Strojek, Kamil Dąbrowski,
76 Michał Snoc, Piotr Seroka...
78 * bug 7059 fixed - Remove the tag X-Launchpad-Export-Date to avoid huge and
79 useless diff after a launchpad synchronization
84 * Error(x) is now deprecated and will be removed in Scilab 5.4.
85 Please consider SciError(x).
90 * It is now possible to use LaTeX inline in the documentation. Thanks to
91 Calixte Denizet for this feature. (See bug #4329)
93 * bug 6630 fixed - JavaHelp does not update existing image files when
96 * bug 6852 fixed - JavaHelp did not center the LaTeX formulas containing an
97 attribute align="center"
102 * Simulated annealing: Added documentation for accept_func_default and
108 * modelica compiler 1.12.1
110 * The default palettes can now be manipulated by the user.
112 * LaTeX formulas can be used on any TextBlock using the Scilab tag based
115 * builnewblock.sci rewritten to use scilab dynamic link module tools.
117 * bug 4156 fixed - scicos defines some temp. variables on stack without remove.
119 * bug 4705 fixed - scicos used a non existing file BEpsf
121 * bug 4898 fixed - The scifunction_block stored list() parameters on the ipar
122 field instead of the opar field.
124 * bug 4977 fixed - Some icons were duplicated between Gui and Xcos.
126 * bug 5161 fixed - The export to SVG did not work with images or html.
128 * bug 5596 fixed - It was not possible to change text block properties (font
131 * bug 6440 fixed - xcos demos did not work and returned an error "Unable to
134 * bug 6527 fixed - There was several instances of the same variable name
135 in the workspace when a data set was exported via a
136 "To Workspace" block.
138 * bug 6661 fixed - "Code Generation" menu failed.
140 * bug 6672 fixed - "Code generation" failed if superblock had
143 * bug 6674 fixed - modelica generic block did not work.
145 * bug 6668 fixed - Xcos modelica demos did not work with the new
148 * bug 6814 fixed - Link point positions (link.xx and link.yy) were not exported
151 * bug 6900 fixed - The block interfunction was escaped when calling scilab
154 * bug 6903 fixed - modelicat called ocamlrun (wrong dependency on Windows).
156 * bug 6981 fixed - the Scilab 'exit' call was killing Xcos session without
157 prompting the user if modified diagrams must be saved before
160 * bug 7099 fixed - xml2modelica called ocamlrun (wrong dependency on Windows).
165 * bug 4265 fixed - In the dynamic link functions (ilib_*), when a compiler was
166 not available, the execution continued.
171 * On Windows, Pentium III class (or equivalent) with SSE instructions is
174 * Windows 2000 is no more supported as operating system.
176 * Scilab Mac OS X distribution relies only on Java 1.6 and is therefor now
177 only available under 64 bits OS (Most of 10.5 and all 10.6 Mac OS X versions)
179 * Under Mac OS X, uses /usr/libexec/java_home instead of hardcoded paths to
182 * tclsci module is dynamically loaded by Scilab.
184 * pvm module is dynamically loaded by Scilab.
186 * fix many warnings detected by Intel Fortran 11.1.051 and more on Windows.
188 * Better detection system of the version of the dependencies
190 * Add a check of the minimal installations of hdf5 (1.8.4), batik (1.7)
192 * /usr/share/*/lib added to the Java search path for OpenSuse
194 * bug 4300 fixed - Moving Command Queue management to core.
196 * bug 6432 fixed - Checkstyle disabled on SWIG (Java/JNI) generated files
198 * bug 6643 fixed - --without-gui failed to disable Ocaml build (A xcos
201 * bug 6857 fixed - make CXXFLAGS="-myflag" was removing some C++ arguments.
206 * %helps_modules (global variable in scilab) is defined only when
207 scilab build help and no more at scilab's startup.
209 Matlab to Scilab conversion tools:
210 ==================================
212 * Unitary tests added.
214 * Matlab-Scilab equivalents dictionnary added in documentation.
216 * In 'mfile2sci', option only_double is now set to %T as default.
218 * Conversion updated with new Scilab functions:
219 - 'filesep' now converted by 'filesep' instead of 'pathconvert'.
224 * Under GNU/Linux, Unix and Mac OS X, for security purposes, temporary
225 directory name are now randomized and permissions are limited to the user.
228 * Under GNU/Linux, Unix and Mac OS X, if TMPDIR is set, Scilab will honor it
229 to store its temporary files (See bug #3493)
231 * Under non-Windows system, the name of the temporary directory has been changed
232 from SD_* to SCI_TMP_* to match the current Windows behavior.
237 * Mechanism of unitary tests for Java code based on TestNG added and used.
242 * Antialiasing activated by default to render text
247 * The demos files (modules/*/demos/**/*.dem.*) are now released in the public
248 domain. (See bug #4902)
253 * 'MSDOS' obsolete see 'getos' (SEP #39).
255 Removed functions (previously declared as obsolete):
256 ====================================================
258 * 'textprint', 'pol2tex' replaced by 'prettyprint'.
260 * 'tk_savefile' replaced by 'uigetfile'.
262 * 'tk_getdir' replaced by 'uigetdir'.
264 * 'tk_choose' replaced by 'x_choose'.
266 * 'sci2excel' replaced by 'write_csv'.
268 * 'excel2sci' replaced by 'read_csv'.
270 * 'x_message_modeless' replaced by 'messagebox'.
272 * 'sethomedirectory' replaced by 'SCIHOME'.
274 * 'getcwd' replaced by 'pwd'.
276 * 'xbasc' replaced by 'clf'.
278 * 'getf' replaced by 'exec'.
280 * 'NumTokens' replaced by 'tokens'.
282 * 'sort' replaced by 'gsort'.
284 * 'scilab_demos' replaced by 'demo_gui'.
286 * 'with_gtk' replaced by 'getversion'.
288 * 'readc_' replaced by 'input'.
294 * The ATOMS GUI ergonomics has been improved.
296 * ATOMS GUI: When a module is not up-to-date, a warning is displayed on the
299 * bug 6596 fixed - When the ATOMS GUI started, nothing was displayed. Now, the
300 list of already installed modules appears on the home page.
302 * bug 6842 fixed - If the installed version of a module was not the most recent
303 one, the ATOMS GUI claimed that the newest version was
309 * bug 1304 fixed - macr2tree now works with a Scilab expression as input.
311 * bug 2076 fixed - pspect did not use the last data window.
313 * bug 2654 partially fixed - exec returned a wrong error if line had more
314 than 4096 characters.
316 * bug 2775 fixed - Multiplication of 0 times infinity did not work because of
319 * bug 3780 fixed - The function loadmatfile did not ignore comments found in
320 ASCII files while loading them, resulting in an error message.
321 For Matlab compatibility, when this function is called with
322 one input argument load(filename), it now looks for a binary
323 file (if filename as no extension or .mat extension) or for an
324 ASCII file if filename has an other extension.
326 * bug 3796 fixed - In some situation the "tf2ss()" function failed to
327 compute correctly the state space representation of
330 * bug 3811 fixed - Documention about "typeof" and overload prefixes was not
331 up-to-date (help overloading).
333 * bug 4075 fixed - a basic uicontrol example crashed scilab 5.0.3
335 * bug 4117 fixed - Closing via the user interface a graphics figure which had a
336 non-existing event handler attached did not destroy
337 its associated data structure.
339 * bug 4359 fixed - M(:,:)='anything' produced erroneous result.
341 * bug 4572 fixed - scilab did a SIGSEGV after stacksize('max') + stacksize().
343 * bug 4625 fixed - intersci-n was broken on Windows.
345 * bug 4640 fixed - plot2d() put CPU utilization at 100% on Windows.
347 * bug 4672 fixed - Internal function AddFunctionInTable renamed to
348 getFunctionByName to avoid confusions on the actual usage
349 of this function. Thanks to Yuvraj Tomar.
351 * bug 4699 fixed - xml2test.pl: Paths were badly displayed in some cases.
353 * bug 4783 fixed - comparison between sparse complex matrix and a full one was
354 wrong when the sparse matrix contains a zero row.
356 * bug 4799 fixed - Sometime the bode, nyquist , ... function reported a
357 "non convergence" error
359 * bug 4841 fixed - functions created by 'getd' were unknown to scilab.
361 * bug 4948 fixed - a simple Runge Kutta method for solving a second order
362 differential equation had a strange behaviour.
364 * bug 4857 fixed - help file of 'gsort' updated about sort of complex numbers
367 * bug 4985 fixed - mgetl did not use fgets (C function).
369 * bug 4996 fixed - mgetl() was not located in the right module. It has been
370 moved to "fileio" module
372 * bug 5110 fixed - incomplete mgetstr documentation.
374 * bug 5123 fixed - help about '%helps' was wrong.
376 * bug 5136 fixed - information about dependant platform display of
377 exponential form (%e) was missing in the prinft_conversion
380 * bug 5149 fixed - test_run(): Calls to exec() were no more logged by diary().
382 * bug 5432 fixed - a link to http://www.tcl.tk/doc/ added in help files about
385 * bug 5512 fixed - The display order of input arguments was not described in
386 the disp() documention.
388 * bug 5541 fixed - In the API documentation, the information that data must be
389 allocated before calling API functions was missing.
391 * bug 5575 fixed - Wrong german translation fixed (Standart => Standard)
393 * bug 5583 fixed - exec() did not manage correctly UTF-8 and ANSI/ASCII files
396 * bug 5588 fixed - Assigning null() in a tlist or mlist field shifted all remaining
397 values with respect to field names.
399 * bug 5609 fixed - documentation stated incorrectly fieldnames works on cells
401 * bug 5629 fixed - export_to_hdf5 to a file overwrote a directory
402 with the same name (now trigger an error).
404 * bug 5630 fixed - export_to_hdf5 to a file with a directory named
405 the same altered the permission of the directory.
407 * bug 5724 fixed - erfinv and erf missed references to similar functions
409 * bug 6332 fixed - stacksize had problems on Mac OS X and 64 bit platforms.
411 * bug 6419 fixed - gstacksize() There was no way to retrieve minimum
414 * bug 6428 fixed - fscanfMat did not manage format parameter as fprintfMat.
416 * bug 6435 fixed - error 4 returned a wrong message.
418 * bug 6447 fixed - unix_g() and dos() did not support properly neither UTF8
419 nor ANSI encoded output.
421 * bug 6449 fixed - regexp returned a wrong value with a string returned by mgetl.
423 * bug 6451 fixed - length returned a wrong value with a string returned by mgetl.
425 * bug 6452 fixed - part returned a wrong value with a string returned by mgetl.
427 * bug 6484 fixed - file did not return filename of a opened fortran file.
429 * bug 6504 fixed - Copy/paste the contents of message boxes was not available.
431 * bug 6510 fixed - modules/helptools/help_en_US.xsl and
432 modules/helptools/help_fr_FR.xsl were useless but not removed.
434 * bug 6511 fixed - mseek and mtell did not manage files > 2 Gbytes on 64 bits
437 * bug 6516 fixed - fullfile did not remove blanks and not create a valid path.
439 * bug 6535 fixed - The property 'ListboxTop' of the graphic user interface object
440 'listbox' had no effect.
442 * bug 6543 fixed - neldermead issues for automatic restarts.
444 * bug 6549 fixed - genlib function had a behavior which was not consistent with
447 * bug 6550 fixed - lib(".") returned a relative path in library variable
450 * bug 6556 fixed - fprintf() returned an error if it's called 2 times (or more)
453 * bug 6635 fixed - Incorrectly drawn Bode plots (calfrq bug).
455 * bug 6666 fixed - emptystr() gave a wrong result instead of complaining
458 * bug 6682 fixed - mprintf, msprintf, mfprintf did not manage octal (%o) format.
460 * bug 6731 fixed - Information on the output argument was missing from the
463 * bug 6740 fixed - It was not possible to launch Scilab as Minimized
466 * bug 6744 fixed - p_margin() returned an erroneous result.
468 * bug 6745 fixed - g_margin() returned an erroneous result.
470 * bug 6750 fixed - TMPDIR constant had no help page.
472 * bug 6774 fixed - Calling get_param generated a "funcprot" warning when
473 the value of an option which was a function.
475 * bug 6783 fixed - Solving a system of linear equation by backslash ("\")
476 caused a crash, when using complex numbers on Windows.
478 * bug 6784 fixed - It was not possible to move a Scilab installation without
479 breaking the (previously installed) ATOMS packages load.
481 * bug 6827 fixed - The error printed by spchol if the variable was complex
484 * bug 6830 fixed - C2F(scistring) in stack2.c was broken for macro names of
485 exactly 2 characters.
487 * bug 6831 fixed - in cli (=nwni) mode, tbx_build_help failed.
489 * bug 6861 fixed - yulewalk example failed on Windows.
491 * bug 6862 fixed - Help page for 'vectorfind' missed some explanations about
492 input arguments types. Moreover there were missing checks
493 about input arguments number and types in the function.
495 * bug 6864 fixed - Some error messages were wrong in data_structures module.
497 * bug 6867 fixed - The error message when base2dec() was called with an invalid
498 base representation was wrong.
500 * bug 6889 fixed - 'fscanfMat' crashed with wrong formatted files.
502 * bug 6891 fixed - 'whos' did not display global variables.
504 * bug 6893 fixed - Some files +~JF****.tmp where created outside of the Scilab
507 * bug 6901 fixed - This script with 'exec' produced a weird warning.
509 * bug 6923 fixed - Some localized messages were wrong in 'qmr'.
511 * bug 6924 fixed - Some error messages were wrong in 'gmres' and 'qmr'.
513 * bug 6932 fixed - Unitary test for function 'exit' failed in Linux binary
516 * bug 6933 fixed - Some temporary files (dict_*.tmp) were created when using
517 search engine of the help browser.
519 * bug 6940 fixed - An error message was wrong in 'pvm_send'.
521 * bug 6946 fixed - information about optional input arguments 'column separator'
522 and 'decimal mark' were missing in the write_csv documentation.
524 * bug 6947 fixed - Some demos in "Optimization and Simulation" failed,
525 without write rights in SCI subdirectory.
527 * bug 6951 fixed - stacksize had a strange behaviour.
529 * bug 6952 fixed - stacksize('max') did not return maximum value.
531 * bug 6962 fixed - bvode generated an error on Windows.
533 * bug 6964 fixed - Scilab could detect a wrong SCI path on Windows.
535 * bug 6971 fixed - after launching a toolbox by loader.sce, variable v was
538 * bug 6990 fixed - "and" and "or" did not work on hypermatrices.
540 * bug 7006 fixed - exec removed spaces at the end of filename when it returned
543 * bug 7014 fixed - ilib_verbose value was modified after toolbox_skeleton.
545 * bug 7019 fixed - resume() produced an incorrect error message.
547 * bug 7021 fixed - Scilab did not start and returned a system error (193)
550 * bug 7033 fixed - newfun was randomly crashing (mostly on 32 bits) writing to
553 * bug 7036 fixed - the plot2d document was incomplete (missing optional argument).
555 * bug 7042 fixed - Insertion of an empty matrix into a struct (to remove a row or column)
556 was buggy when multiple index is used.
558 * bug 7057 fixed - isdigit and isalphanum crashed with a matrix of string
561 * bug 7077 fixed - uigetfont crashed Scilab when the cancel button was clicked.
563 * bug 7094 fixed - If badly called, ode made Scilab crash.
565 * bug 7109 fixed - 'lu' function with some complex matrices crashed on Windows.
567 * bug 7123 fixed - No completion was possible if the name of a variable is
568 preceded by ~ or @ or < or >