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            Changes between version 5.4.0-alpha-1 and 5.4.0-beta-1 of Scilab
            ================================================================


Graphic capabilities
====================

* Entire refactoring of Scilab graphic capabilities.

* Based on SciRenderer (rendering library based on JoGL), Scilab graphics have
  been rewritten hence providing new graphics with:
  - better performances,
  - better stability,
  - 2-D zoom using the mouse wheel,
  - new 3-D zoom capabilities,
  - rotation available through the mouse right-click.
  SciRenderer is a free and open-source library developed by Scilab Enterprises
  for 2-D and 3-D rendering of scientific data.

* Improved graphic exports:
  - Off-screen export (Scilab will not open a window to export with driver).
  - Support of new bitmap formats: PNG, JPEG and BMP in the driver function.
  - Support of new vectorial formats: PDF and SVG in the driver function.
  - Fix many portability issues.


* Bug #4289 fixed - Graphic exports were not working when the drawlater or the
                    pixmap modes were activated.

* Bug #4339 fixed - listvarinfile did not manage graphic handles.

* Bug #4818 fixed - Scilab could not export graphics with a lot of information.

* Bug #8241 fixed - Graphical properties were not always inherit.

* Bug #8250, #10567, #10614 fixed - Drop artefacts on the
                                    vectorial (EPS/PDF/SVG) exports.

* Bug #8705 fixed - Could not save some specific graphics.

* Bug #9721 fixed - Improve the documentation on tight_limits. Thanks to Samuel
                    Gougeon.

* Bug #10206 fixed - SVG with a french localization was, in some cases, using
                     , instead of . for numerical separator.

* Bug #10360 fixed - Default format for export is now PNG instead of BMP.

* Bug #10637 fixed - xs2svg crashed when first input argument was not a figure handle.
                     Now it returns an error message.


GUI
===

* A 'Console' handle has been created and can be obtained by calling get(0):
  - uimenus now appear as 'Children' of this handle when they are added to the
    console
  - its 'ShowHiddenHandles' property enables the user to make some hidden
    graphic objects visible

* Scilab Console and graphic figure menus are now uimenus. They are hidden by
  default, use set(get(0), "ShowHiddenHandles", "on") to see them in the
  children list.

* New uicontrols added:
  - 'image' style uicontrol: display, transformation and various other
    operations on images.
  - 'table' style uicontrol: display data in a table form (read-only in Scilab
    5.4.0-BETA-1 version).

* The 'Value' property can now contain non integer values and allow to take full
  advantage of 'slider' style uicontrols (See bug #7380).

* Figure resizing can now be managed by the user (uicontrol position setting, ...)
  through the 'resizefcn' property.


Scilab
======

* save/load functions can export/import Scilab data to SOD format:
 - Scilab data are saved and loaded using a standard, HDF5-based, documented,
   and fully tested: Scilab Open Data format (SOD).
 - Graphic handles can be saved with the SOD format.
 - 'save' writes data to HDF5 format when using new calling sequence
   save(filename.sod, "a", "b", "c"). This format is Scilab 6 compatible.
 - 'save' displays a message when using old calling sequence
   save(filename, a, b, c) and writes data in old Scilab binary format.
   The previous format will not be supported by Scilab 6.
 - The 'matfile2sci' function now converts MAT-files to SOD files.

* Calling load with a file descriptor as first input argumlent is now obsolete.
  Please replace the file descriptor by the corresponding file name.
  This feature will be removed in Scilab 6.0.0

* Update the default size of the Scilab stack to 100 M elements (instead of 50M).
  See stacksize for more information.

* Scilab Desktop provide a button in dockbar to get the help about the component.

* External modules are managed out of the box by test_run function. See bug #9834.
Example: test_run('SCI/contrib/toolbox_skeleton')


XML
===

* Rename xmlClose in xmlDelete and xmlGetOpenStreams in xmlGetOpenDocs.

* Bug #10185 fixed - Add xmlDelete("all") in xml.quit.

* Bug #10594 fixed - size could not be used with two arguments on XMLList.

* Bug #10630 fixed - Fix a typo in one of the error message.

* Bug #10670 fixed - Avoid a crash when xmlRead had an arg with a bad size.


Documentation
=============

* Management of Docbook tags <note>, <caution>, <warning>, <important> and
 <tip>. See bug #10505.

* Function help_skeleton extended to propose the <revhistory>, <latex>, <note>,
  <caution>, <warning>, <important> and <tip> tags in examples.

* The Russian documentation is now available. Many thanks to Stanislav Kroter.

* Many errors have been fixed in Scilab documentation:
  - Wrong calling sequences
  - Errors in examples
  - Bad formating
  - Typos

* Bug #3811 fixed - The overloading charcode was wrong for libraries.

* Bug #4813 fixed - Description of type 0 added in type help page.

* Bug #7167 fixed - Fix a typo in pdiv.

* Bug #7859 fixed - Improvements of the "exists" help page.

* Bug #8685 fixed - Lack of consistency in the keyword documentation.

* Bug #9255 fixed - Correct bad calling sequence in list_double_writing api page.

* Bug #9502 fixed - 'toolbox' was badly used in assert help pages (replaced by 'module').

* Bug #9520 fixed - add missing named functions in API Scilab pages.

* Bug #9654 fixed - an example of 'optim' help was poorly implemented.

* Bug #9700 fixed - optim help page had a mistake about bounds management.

* Bug #9734 fixed - intsplin help pages moved from interpolation to
                    elementary functions chapter.

* Bug #9954 fixed - Add an example in gmres documentation.

* Bug #9953 fixed - Add documentation to the fre input argument of stdevf.

* Bug #10272 fixed - Add examples in squeeze documentation.

* Bug #10520 fixed - The fact that ceil, floor, round or fix could manage complex
                     matrices was not clearly stated in the documentation.

* Bug #10523 fixed - The fact that flipdim could manage complex matrices was
                     not clearly stated in the documentation.

* Bug #10543 fixed - %eps, %pi, %i, %nan, %inf were not documented.

* Bug #10457 fixed - Reference in the fftw help page pointed to wrong version.

* Bug #10465 fixed - Fix typo in isreal help page ('has' rather than 'as').

* Bug #10473 fixed - Error in factorial function help page bibliograhy fixed.

* Bug #10475 fixed - Error in perms function help page fixed.

* Bug #10518 fixed - odeoptions help page was inaccurate.

* Bug #10526 fixed - A string was in French in the English help page of cumprod.

* Bug #10536 fixed - A string was in French in the English help page of cumsum.

* Bug #10538 fixed - Fix typos in the help page of prod and cumprod.

* Bug #10579 fixed - Wrong reference to and function in the help page of prod
                     and cumprod fixed.

* Bug #10628 fixed - Change reference to sci_types enum and add see also section.

* Bug #10634 fixed - dsearch help page referenced an invalid input argument
                     name.

* Bug #10656 fixed - Exception when an empty help browser was closed.

* Bug #10658 fixed - Typos fixed in the bloc2exp help page.

* Bug #10673 fixed - Typos fixed in the help page of ssrand.

* Bug #10685 fixed - inttrap help page moved to differential calculus module.

* Bug #10716 fixed - The help page of acos badly talked about vectors instead of matrices.

* Bug #10717 fixed - Typos fixed in the help page of acosd.

* Bug #10720 fixed - Typos fixed in the help page of acosh.

* Bug #10724 fixed - Missing links in the help page of acot added.

* Bug #10725 fixed - Typos fixed in the help page of acot.

* Bug #10726 fixed - Missing links in the help page of acsc added.

* Bug #10727 fixed - Missing links in the help page of asech added.

* Bug #10728 fixed - Wrong link in the help page of asind fixed.

* Bug #10729 fixed - Missing links in the help page of asinh added.

* Bug #10730 fixed - Missing links in the help page of asinhm added.

* Bug #10731 fixed - Typos fixed in the help page of atan.

* Bug #10732 fixed - Wrong link in the help page of atand fixed.

* Bug #10733 fixed - Missing link in the help page of atanm added.

* Bug #10734 fixed - Missing link in the help page of cos added.

* Bug #10735 fixed - Missing information about input argument in the help page of cotd added.

* Bug #10736 fixed - Missing "Arguments" section in the help page of coth added.

* Bug #10737 fixed - Missing "Arguments" section in the help page of cothm added.

* Bug #10738 fixed - Typos fixed in the help page of cscd.

* Bug #10739 fixed - Typos fixed in the help page of csgn.

* Bug #10740 fixed - Typos fixed in the help page of sec.

* Bug #10741 fixed - Typos fixed in the help page of secd.

* Bug #10742 fixed - Missing link in the help page of sin added.

* Bug #10743 fixed - Wrong link in the help page of sind fixed.

* Bug #10744 fixed - Typos fixed in the help page of sinh.

* Bug #10745 fixed - Typos fixed in the help page of tand.

* Bug #10809, #10810 fixed - error_table help page was not up-to-date.

* Bug #10828 fixed - Developer arguments were not displayed in the help of
                     Scilab scripts.

* Bug #10845 fixed - $ was not documented.

* Bug #10879 fixed - Typo in the dec2base help page.

* Bug #10881 fixed - Typo in ftest and ftuneq fixed.

* Bug #10928 fixed - Examples of save was updated to fix trouble on windows.

* Bug #11010 fixed - Examples of preconditioning added in gmres documentation.

* Bug #11029 fixed - Fix execution path to TMPDIR in example of dae help page.

* Bug #11090 fixed - Fix a typo in the documentation of event_handler_function.

* Bug #11175 fixed - xstringl example did not work.


Xcos
====

* Major performance improvements on the simulation startup. On big schemas,
  the gain is very important (minutes to milliseconds). See bug #8188.

* Performance improvements on the diagram saving/loading.

* A compressed file format is now available (ZCOS) and can be used as the
  Xcos standard one. This new format will allow us more flexibility on data
  format.

* New examples are provided in the documentation for the blocks:
  - ABS_VALUE - Absolute value
  - EVTDLY_c - Event delay
  - AFFICH_m - Display value
  - CLSS - Continuous state-space system
  - SELECT_m - Selector block
  - NEGTOPOS_f - Threshold negative to positive

* External modules should be updated to use the new Scilab Open Data format
  instead of the previous HDF5 format.

* Bug #6201 fixed - Block help menu had no shortcut.

* Bug #6733 fixed - Each call to xcos created an empty diagram.

* Bug #7539 fixed - Some blocks were slow to interact with.

* Bug #7863 fixed - Default path for code generation was SCI.

* Bug #8188 fixed - Xcos to Scilab export took too much time.

* Bug #8295 fixed - Save compressed Xcos file as default.

* Bug #8600 fixed - Closing Xcos did not end the simulation.

* Bug #8744 fixed - Solving the initialization problem more than once crash
                    Scilab.

* Bug #10081 fixed - Palette configuration saving could produce an invalid
                     file.

* Bug #10107 fixed - Default value of the Integrator Absolute Tolerance was
                     too large. It has been reduced to 1e-6.

* Bug #10246 fixed - PROD_f block was broken.

* Bug #10333 fixed - Labeling I/O blocks on a Super block produced wrong port
                     labeling when ports had not the same types.

* Bug #10340 fixed - Exception occured while moving the palette split pane to
                     hide the block list and while using a palette diagram.

* Bug #10393 fixed - Block style was not updated on palette loading.

* Bug #10419 fixed - Exception occured while refusing to create a new empty
                     file.

* Bug #10422 fixed - Exception occured when exporting with an unspecified
                     format.

* Bug #10461 fixed - Canceling a Quit operation did not work.

* Bug #10486 fixed - importXcosDiagram opened a tab.

* Bug #10496 fixed - Fix a wrong error message in xcosValidateBlockSet.

* Bug #10510 fixed - Unused variables were generated by Xcos on startup.

* Bug #10533 fixed - Some action shortcuts were not disabled when editing a text
                     block.

* Bug #10657 fixed - CONSTRAINT_c had no icons on a graph.

* Bug #10679 fixed - blocks_link.tst failed.

* Bug #10697 fixed - post_xcos_simulate function did not work if a TOWS_c block
                     were present.

* Bug #10800 fixed - xcosPalAddBlock help example did not work.

* Bug #10812 fixed - cos and cosf files loading did not used a direct handler.

* Bug #10848 fixed - The first block Drag'n Drop produced an exception.

* Bug #11094 fixed - Image creation of blocks did not use xinit / xend.


Compilation
===========

* Scilab now uses the ARPACK-ng package maintained by Scilab Enterprises.

* An option --without-arpack-ng has been added to disable the Arnoldi features.

* HDF5 is now a mandatory dependency of Scilab (even in a minimal build)

* Bug #11060 fixed - ccache use can be disabled with --disable-ccache .


Elementary functions
====================

* New functions:
  - dec2base function added (See SEP #75)
  - nthroot function added (See SEP #78)

* linspace and logspace deprecate the usage of non integer values as third input argument.

* The toeplitz macro is now vectorized.


Sparse
======

* qmr function updated and modified.
   Calling qmr(F, Fp, x) where F is a function returning A*x
   and Fp a function returning A'*x is deprecated.
   Use qmr(F, x) instead where F prototype is
   function y = F(x, t)
   [...]
   endfunction
   where t is used to make F return A*x or A'*x.
   Same behaviour has been implemented for qmr( ..., M1, M1p, M2, M2p).
   See qmr documentation for examples and details.


CLI console (GNU/Linux and Mac OS X only)
=========================================

* Support wide characters.

* Support multiline command.

* Improve command line display.

* List of shortcuts in NW/NWNI mode:
  - CTRL+W: Remove the previous word.
  - CTRL+U: Remove everything from the current position to the beginning of
            the line.
  - UP or Ctrl+P: recall previous line.
  - DOWN or Ctrl+N: recall next line.
  - TAB: completion : Scilab displays a list of all names that start with some
characters.
  - Ctrl + A or HOME: move to beginning of current line.
  - Ctrl + B or LEFT: moves the cursor one character to the left.
  - Ctrl + D or DELETE: deletes the current character.
  - Ctrl + E or END: moves the cursor to the end of command line.
  - Ctrl + F or RIGHT: moves the cursor one character to the right.
  - Ctrl + H or BACKSPACE: deletes the previous character.
  - Ctrl + K: kills command line from cursor to the end.
  - Alt+B or Ctrl+LEFT: move left one word.
  - Alt+F or Ctrl+RIGHT: move right one word.

* Bug #3108 fixed - Some specific chars in the terminal were not correctly
                    removed by the backspace.

* Bug #3400 fixed - Long lines in the history broke the display.

* Bug #6804 fixed - Prompt was removed in cli mode when playing with arrow keys.


Scinotes
========

* Add shortcuts META+(UP|DOWN) to navigate between paragraphs

* Bug #10442 fixed - Sometimes a crash occured at startup when Scinotes was
                     restoring.

* Bug #10647 fixed - An error message did not repect Scilab localization standard.

* Bug #10889 fixed - Exception about block highlighters was thrown by Scinotes.


Performances
============

* 'hank' function performances improved.

* Using api_scilab, construction of any type of lists is now way faster (300x in some cases).


Javasci
=======

* New datatypes are now supported:
  - sparse and boolean sparse
  - tlists, mlists and lists
  - polynomial

* If Scilab fails to start because of a memory issues (stacksize), triggers an
  InitializationException Java exception.

* Bug #10784 fixed - Scilab built on an Ubuntu 11.10, javasci was failing to
                     load with an undefined symbol


CACSD & Signal Processing
=========================

* New functions:
  - conv - discrete 1-D convolution.
  - conv2 - discrete 2-D convolution.
  - convol2d - discrete 2-D convolution, using fft.
  - phaseplot - frequency phase plot.
  - xcorr - auto and cross correlation of signals (superseeds corr).
  - xcov - auto and cross correlationvariance of signals (superseeds corr).
  - arma2ss - conversion of an arma data structure into a state space one.

* 'mtlb_conv' compatibility function is now obsolete. Please use 'conv' instead.

* Bug #10562 fixed - The "CACSD/Robust Control" demo failed.


ATOMS
=======

* 'atomsQuit' function added to allow to call .quit of modules loaded by ATOMS
  when user closes Scilab session. See SEP #77.

* tbx_build_loader generates also a unloader.sce to allow to call .quit file of
   an ATOMS module.

* ATOMS option 'offLine' has been renamed to 'offline'.

* Bug #9078 fixed - atomsGui took time to start gui.

* Bug #9798 fixed - .quit script of atoms modules were not evaluated when
                    leaving Scilab.

* Bug #10494 fixed - atomsInstall and atomsLoad were not clearly distinguished
                     in the documentation.

* Bug #10500 fixed - ATOMS module without DESCRIPTION file returned a wrong
                     error message.

* Bug #10707 fixed - atomsInstall failed to use the path shortcut.

* Bug #10846 fixed - atomsSystemUpdate failed.
                     documentation about 'downloadTimeout' added.

* Bug #10864 fixed - atomsRemove required a network connection to remove a package.

* Bug #10933 fixed - atomsGetConfig did not check value of input argument.

* Bug #10957 fixed - atomsInstall required a network connection to install
                     a local package.

Call_Scilab
===========

* CallScilab.h removed (was deprecated since Scilab 5.2.0). Replaced by call_scilab.h

* Function 'int getLastErrorValue(void)' added. Returns the last error code generated by Scilab

* Function 'const char* getLastErrorMessageSingle();' added. Returns the last error message generated by Scilab

* Remove deprecated functions in call_scilab.h: C2F(readmat), C2F(creadmat), C2F(creadbmat), C2F(creadcmat), C2F(readchain), C2F(creadchain),  C2F(creadchains),
  GetLengthStringMatrixByName, C2F(matptr), C2F(cmatptr), C2F(cmatcptr),  C2F(cmatsptr), C2F(cmatbptr), getlengthchain


Bug fixes
=========

* Bug #2479 fixed - Graphic editor could not be used when format was not format("v",18).

* Bug #2853 fixed - sd2sci.sci removed from sources.

* Bug #4806 fixed - If A is a sparse matrix, A^0 returned A and not the identity
                    matrix as expected.

* Bug #4978 fixed - Icons did not follow the Tango norm.

* Bug #6009 fixed - conv, conv2 and convol2d and conv functions were missing.

* Bug #7380 fixed - 'Value' property for uicontrol was rounded.

* Bug #7490 fixed - %inf had not always same display.

* Bug #7289 fixed - The menu handle was still valid after calling delmenu(console_menu_handle).

* Bug #7728 fixed - rubberbox(): Instantaneous pointer's coordinates are now displayed in the status bar.

* Bug #7779 fixed - genlib did not check input arguments and did not use current
                    path as default.

* Bug #8050 fixed - A weird error message was displayed in some cases.

* Bug #8339 fixed - Default path for the Mac OS X version is now HOME instead
                    of "/".

* Bug #8592 fixed - Add a explicit error message if macros are not available.

* Bug #8608 fixed - dec2hex, hex2dec, dec2oct, oct2dec, base2dec code have been
                    simplified and optimized.

* Bug #8651 fixed - The error message of write_csv was wrong.

* Bug #8682 fixed - funcprot did not return the previous value when called with
                    an argument.

* Bug #8724 fixed - Sometimes, there was a critical error with uiget(file|dir).

* Bug #8859 fixed - Some comparison operators between hypermatrices and 2-D arrays
                    were missing.

* Bug #9002 fixed - bsplin3val, cshep2d, eval_cshep2d,interp, interp2d, interp3d,
                    linear_interp, splin, splin2d, splin3d functions ignored imaginary
                    part of input arguments implicitly.

* Bug #9197 fixed - Unitary test examples in toolbox_skeleton
                    and xcos_toolbox_skeleton did not use assert functions.

* Bug #9295 fixed - 'base2dec' ignored the fractional part of 'base' input argument.

* Bug #9328 fixed - Scilab randomly crached at startup under Mac OS X when calling
                    functions returning no value (lines, modes, banner, ...).

* Bug #9424 fixed - gettext("") did not return "".

* Bug #9549 fixed - Add nthroot function.

* Bug #9572 fixed - assert_checkerror did not check multi lines errors.

* Bug #9643 fixed - genetic algorithms demo was not vectorized.

* Bug #9735 fixed - Remove some old stack api examples.

* Bug #9811 fixed - Output message of fminsearch was wrongly set.

* Bug #9992 fixed - gcbo was not initialized in callbacks for uimenus in console.

* Bug #10017 fixed - The unitary test for bdiag used a "strange" comparison
                     operator.

* Bug #10044 fixed - wfir_gui function rewritten based on uicontrol and documented.

* Bug #10061 fixed - datatipCreate drew the tip in the current axes instead of curve
                     parent axes.

* Bug #10139 fixed - 'atomsTest' function did not manage specific test name.

* Bug #10236 fixed - exit(-1) prompted for exiting Scilab.

* Bug #10241 fixed - A .scg file could not be opened when a non-ascii character was in the legend.

* Bug #10244 fixed - The install of call_scilab could fail in some cases under
                     GNU/Linux.

* Bug #10250 fixed - Bug in the detection of the Java path under GNU/Linux fixed.

* Bug #10267 fixed - The help browser did not use the default language on restoration.

* Bug #10281 fixed - In some cases, the function lyap was crashing.

* Bug #10303 fixed - test_run ignored "enable_lt" option.

* Bug #10304 fixed - test_run did not return an error when using an invalid option.

* Bug #10306 fixed - 'isempty' could fail with empty elements in a list.

* Bug #10330 fixed - 'error' did not manage vector of strings as input argument, but
                     but 'lasterror' returned vector of strings.

* Bug #10341 fixed - font in help was bold when the font of a text uicontrol
                     was set to bold.

* Bug #10342 fixed - assert_checkerror help file had a wrong format.

* Bug #10345 fixed - uicontrols were not always drawn at the right place.

* Bug #10372 fixed - remove dependencies of MALLOC.h on Windows.h and machine.h
                     on Windows.

* Bug #10379 fixed - lines did not manage a 1x2 vector [nc, nl] as input argument.

* Bug #10384 fixed - On exit, "Close Console" was proposed rather than "Close
                     Scilab".

* Bug #10396 fixed - Display of a structure with large matrix took a long time.

* Bug #10402 fixed - FileBrowser threw an exception when a filter was set
                     and the tree was expanded.

* Bug #10408 fixed - In the history browser, the contents was scrolled even if the
                     knob was not at the bottom.

* Bug #10416 fixed - xmltoformat did not return at the root directory in case of error.

* Bug #10418 fixed - Playsound was failing under Mac OS X. Thanks to
                     Pierre-Henri Jondot for the patch.

* Bug #10423 fixed - The function browsehistory() to open history browser was missing.

* Bug #10431 fixed - The user could not navigate in history using CTRL+P or CTRL+N.

* Bug #10439 fixed - stacksize('max') crashed on Windows 64 bit.

* Bug #10440 fixed - 'wfir_gui' generated errors if the view checkbox was selected
                     and an erronous value was entered.

* Bug #10444 fixed - fullfile did not manage string matrix as last input argumen
t.

* Bug #10449 fixed - On restoration, empty tabs could appear if the previous
                     session was not cleanly exited.

* Bug #10450 fixed - Overloading for gamma, dlgamma and gammaln functions for list,
                     tlist, mlist and hypermatrices types was not allowed.

* Bug #10466 fixed - mgetl detected an error but it did not return an error
                     message in Scilab.

* Bug #10471 fixed - %helps_modules was not ignored by default by browsevar.

* Bug #10474 fixed - Sometimes an exception was thrown at history browser
                     restoration.

* Bug #10477 fixed - In ilib_for_link, the display of the error message generated
                     at configure time made mprintf fail.

* Bug #10482 fixed - Wrong error message in format function fixed.

* Bug #10499 fixed - lincos example in help file returned warning and error.

* Bug #10503 fixed - error(999.666) did trunc error code without an error.

* Bug #10506 fixed - ssprint did not check input arguments.

* Bug #10519 fixed - spec returned a wrong error message when a input argument
                     was not square.

* Bug #10521 fixed - frexp returned an wrong error message.

* Bug #10532 fixed - In some rare cases, browsevar crashed with some rare
                     Scilab types.

* Bug #10544 fixed - debug did not return the previous value when called with
                     an argument.

* Bug #10551 fixed - Fix some issues in the Russian localization.

* Bug #10558 fixed - Tcl/Tk demonstrations did not start.

* Bug #10560 fixed - genetic algorithms demos failed.

* Bug #10564 fixed - atan graphic demo was failing due to a too strong test
                     in the linspace function.

* Bug #10565 fixed - demo simulation --> bicycle simulation --> unstable
                     trajectory failed.

* Bug #10574 fixed - Runge-Kutta-Method failed for vector [x, 1] with x > 9.

* Bug #10576 fixed - getdate (on Windows) did not manage dates after January 19, 2038

* Bug #10577 fixed - getdate did not check input argument.

* Bug #10626 fixed - taucs_chdel(), umf_ludel() returned an error.

* Bug #10631 fixed - The # sign was missing in some error cases.

* Bug #10632 fixed - Navigation buttons in the file browser did not change the
                     current Scilab working directory.

* Bug #10641 fixed - string(:) gave wrong results.

* Bug #10643 fixed - Bad result when using isreal function with a polynomial
                     input.

* Bug #10652 fixed - getdebuginfo() did not display TMPDIR value.

* Bug #10654 fixed - dgettext with "scilab" domain did not return same result
                     than gettext.

* Bug #10662 fixed - xload did not support tlist for user_data property.

* Bug #10710 fixed - Wrong error message fixed in xml module.

* Bug #10769 fixed - Remove some dead code from bsplin3val.

* Bug #10775 fixed - Scilab icons in filebrowser had the wrong size.

* Bug #10782 fixed - 'iconvert' did not check input arguments.

* Bug #10797 fixed - contour, contour2d, contourf did not check input arguments.

* Bug #10807 fixed - It was not possible to overload fft and fftw for list,
                     tlist, mlist type.

* Bug #10820 fixed - datatipscurve generator was freezing Scilab.

* Bug #10831 fixed - set("auto_clear", "on") and set("auto_clear", "off") returned an error.

* Bug #10835 fixed - Typo that made the 'atanm' function unusable fixed.

* Bug #10836 fixed - resize_matrix with boolean failed.

* Bug #10839 fixed - dec2hex function was limited to 32 bits.

* Bug #10841 fixed - sliderStep property could not be set with "big" default value.

* Bug #10847 fixed - dec2base returned a wrong error message with a complex
                     number as input argument.

* Bug #10861 fixed - debug([]) returned a wrong error message.

* Bug #10867 fixed - Loading a .scg file failed when the legend contained accentuated characters.

* Bug #10880 fixed - Default startup directory moved to "My Documents folder"
                     on Windows for icon shorcut.

* Bug #10904 fixed - error messages of and() and or() builtin were not standard.

* Bug #10913 fixed - The "View code" button was missing in GUI demos.

* Bug #10966 fixed - linspace was producing some numerical errors on the last
                     element.

* Bug #10982 fixed - completion failed when space are used before the command.

* Bug #11055 fixed - 'string' function did not manage implicit size type as
                     input argument.

* Bug #11076 fixed -  mlist('r'), tlist('r') returned a wrong error message.

* Bug #11077 fixed - rlist() returned an error.

* Bug #11081 fixed -  movefile, copyfile did not support '~', 'TMPDIR',
                      shortcuts in filenames.

* Bug #11093 fixed - isNamedVarExist() didn't search in builtin functions names.

* Bug #11105 fixed - Crash with color_flag 3 fixed.

* Bug #11114 fixed - Using load(file_descriptor, ...) is now obsolete.

* Bug #11115 fixed - A graphic window was opened on with two xend().

* Bug #11126 fixed - Improve some error messages.

* Bug #11129 fixed - lapackscilab.sce could not be run outside its location.

* Bug #11138 fixed - a = list() crashed on Windows x64.

* Bug #11154 fixed - Grid color made it too visible in demonstration Graphics/2D & 3D plots/plot2d.

* Bug #11166 fixed - datatipRemove example did not work.

* Bug #11167 fixed - datatipRemoveAll example did not work.

* Bug #11186 fixed - 'typeof' of a type 130 returned an error.

* Bug #11205 fixed - A rare exception at Scilab startup could occur.

* Bug #11223 fixed - Deletion of datatips.


            Changes between version 5.3.3 and 5.4.0-alpha-1 of Scilab
            =========================================================

Scilab Desktop
===============

* Thanks to this new feature, Scilab confirms its usability and its strong
user-oriented approach. Scilab desktop is the new concept behind Scilab
windows management taking advantage of our docking system (advanced Flexdock features).
Out of the box, Scilab is now able to save all windows layouts including the
help browser, the variable browser, the command history, SciNotes and Xcos.
Through this major improvement, position and size of all windows will
be saved from a session to another.

In this context, a file browser component has been developed and fully
integrated into Scilab desktop and all other components have been improved
to provide the best user experience for Scilab users.

Editvar has had important refreshment. It allows plot and subplot, manages
almost all Scilab variable types and is much more faster.

Scilab desktop provides various predefined layouts:
 - Simple      The standard Scilab console
               => Scilab 5.3.3 (and previous versions) defaults.
 - Integrated  The variable browser, the history browser and the file browser
               are opened by default and combined around Scilab
               console to provide an ergonomic workspace
               => Scilab 5.4.0 defaults


XML Features
=============

* Version 5.4.0 introduces XML management features. It allows easy access to
XML files, validation and writing.

 - XMLObjects - Describe the properties of the different XML objects
 - xmlAddNs - Add a namespace to a XML Element
 - xmlClose - Close a XML document
 - xmlDTD - Create a XML DTD object
 - xmlDocument - Create a new XML document
 - xmlDump - Dump a XML object
 - xmlElement - Create a new XML element
 - xmlFormat - Format a Scilab variable into XML
 - xmlGetNsByHref - Get a namespace by its href
 - xmlGetNsByPrefix - Get a namespace by prefix
 - xmlGetOpenStreams - Get all open XML documents or all open XML Validation files.
 - xmlNs - Create a new XML Namespace
 - xmlRead - Read a XML stream from a local or distant file
 - xmlReadStr - Read a XML tree from a string
 - xmlRelaxNG - Create a XML Relax NG object
 - xmlSchema - Create a XML Schema object
 - xmlValidate - Validate a document in using a DTD, a Relax NG or a Schema.
 - xmlWrite - Write a XML document in a file
 - xmlXPath - Make an XPath query on a XML document
 - xmlIsValidObject - Test the existence of a XML object

Those features have been developed in the context of the OASIS R&D project.


SciNotes
=========

* Marks added in the vertical scrollbar to see the positions of matching words
  when an incremental search is done (via F3 or in selecting text).

* In the find/grep tools, possibility added to use ~ as an alias for user home
  dir. and SCI for Scilab data base dir.

* 'Save and Execute all files' action added.

* A tab can be closed in using the middle mouse button.

* Bug #9334 fixed - Extra lines were added when code was exported into PDF under
                   Windows.

* Bug #9358 fixed - A simple quoted string was not always correctly converted
                   into double quoted ones.

* Bug #9476 fixed - In find/grep tools, the abbreviation 'sec' is now used instead of
                   'seconds'.

* Bug #9480 fixed - Words after selection were badly highlighted under Windows.

* Bug #9484 fixed - An empty file was not removed when an existing file was
                   opened.

* Bug #9488 fixed - There was no popup menu on the tab to copy the file path.

* Bug #9505 fixed - A LaTeX string in a comment was not considered as a comment.

* Bug #9597 fixed - It was not possible to navigate across the tabs with
                   <CTRL>+(PAGE_UP | PAGE_DOWN).

* Bug #9740 fixed - There was no way to have \n in replacement string.

* Bug #9854 fixed - There was a  wrong colorization with strings containing several
                   dots: 'abc..'.

* Bug #9878 fixed - Shortcut "Correct indentation" added in right click menu.

* Bug #9897 fixed - With Mac OS X, eol was not replaced by \n when code was copied
                   from Word to SciNotes.

* Bug #10157 fixed - Scilab froze when docking SciNotes after a flexdock bug in a
                    previous session.

* Bug #10252 fixed - The font could not changed when SciNotes was docked with the
                    console.

* Bug #10354 fixed - Bad caret position after a selection action.


Graphical User Interface
=========================

* The variable browser now automatically refreshes (See Bug #9446).


Call_Scilab
============

* Bug #10006 fixed - Unrelevant C-comment in the example of ScilabHaveAGraph
                    removed.

Xcos
=====

* xcos_toolbox_skeleton will not be loaded if Xcos is not installed.

* scilab -f file.xcos opens Xcos diagram in Xcos.

* Error reporting has been improved to print warnings on blocks into Xcos.

* The style of a block can be changed in the interface function.

* BARXY Block added to help 2-D Mechanics system visualization.

* Bug #7985 fixed - dmmul.c did not use dgemm routine optimized by BLAS.

* Bug #8421 fixed - CLKFROM and CLKGOTO were not part of the "Signal Routing"
                   palette.

* Bug #8538 fixed - Counter block label was not reflecting parameters.

* Bug #8742 fixed - On the Modelica initialization GUI, the error reporting did
                   not work.

* Bug #8743 fixed - On the Modelica initialization GUI, it was impossible to
                   re-fix the states after a derivative fix.

* Bug #9037 fixed - When connecting blocks, the green port blinked on a small mouse move.

* Bug #9301 fixed - Exception when one tried to paste a column to replace a
                   column selection.

* Bug #9336 fixed - SuperBlock with non-connected ports produced an invalid
                   index error.

* Bug #9390 fixed - FROMWSB_c block did not reset to the default values on
                   reinitialization execution.

* Bug #9478 fixed - Block structure was not checked while adding them to a new
                   palette.

* Bug #9501 fixed - With a localized TMPDIR, block edition could throw an HDF5
                   exception.

* Bug #9506 fixed - Some libraries dependencies were not loaded at
                   xcos_toolbox_skeleton startup.

* Bug #9532 fixed - User-defined blocks had no icons when saved.

* Bug #9547 fixed - The about box was not localized due to a multi-line string.

* Bug #9579 fixed - Duplicate content in scicos_math.h removed and replaced by
                   a cleaner call to math.h instead.

* Bug #9590 fixed - Xcos examples were not embedded into Windows binary version.

* Bug #9732 fixed - Code generation failed at compilation under Windows with
                   "unresolved external symbol dset_".

* Bug #9750 fixed - Minor error in the help page of scicos_debug fixed.

* Bug #9810 fixed - Errors dealing with MATINV wrong simulation values have been improved.

* Bug #9927 fixed - Xcos crashed at 'XcosPalAdd' command execution.

* Bug #9947 fixed - VARIABLE_DELAY block could not be dragged to a diagram.

* Bug #9972 fixed - Error reporting with a wrong context produced an endless
                   loop.

* Bug #9988 fixed - CLKSOMV_f had a wrong interface function after loading from
                   a file.

* Bug #10003 fixed - The MAXMIN block did not update its display according to

* Bug #10048 fixed - Blocks which use superblocks now loop over their children
to find the parameters dialog to open.

* Bug #10069 fixed - AFFICH_m block did not update its display at
                    reinitialization.

* Bug #10096 fixed - Set [1;-1;] on a product block thrown an exception.

* Bug #10302 fixed - LaTeX labels were not rendered.



Localization
=============

* Czech localization by ZbynÄ\9bk Schwarz


* Bug #10032 fixed - Force the unset of the environment variable LANGUAGE to
                    tackle some issues. Mac OS X locale detection did not take into account
                    the LANG variable.


File input/output
==================

* mgetl, exec, fscanfMat functions manage files encoded as UTF-8 with BOM.

* tempname function added (SEP #68).

* fullpath did not manage matrix of string as input argument. (SEP #72)

* Bug #9253 fixed - fscanfMat failed to read a file with some lines
                   of text at the end (backward compatibility).

* Bug #9570 fixed - fprintfMat did not use the good format argument with nan and
                   inf in a matrix.

* Bug #9869 fixed - fscanf did not check the number of input arguments.

* Bug #9917 fixed - mputl function crashed with a wrong second parameter.

* Bug #10055 fixed - findfiles had a wrong default filter under GNU/Linux
                    & Mac OS X.

* Bug #10300 fixed - fscanfMat did not free some memory.

* Bug #10355 fixed - Error messages in fullfile function were not localized.


New Functions
=============

* The assert module provides a set of assertion functions.
  The goal of this module is to provide functions to check the
  behavior of some other functions, for example in unitary tests.
  We emphasize the use of consistent tools for testing numerical
  issues, with the goal of testing numerical algorithms more easily.
  In particular, we provide a comparison function for two floating
  point numbers, which allows to check that two numbers are
  "numerically almost equal", i.e. that the relative error is small.
  This automatically fixes Bug #4381.

* The damp function in CACSD module computes the natural pulsation
  and damping factor of linear dynamical systems.


Optimization
=============

* neldermead: Added a demonstration - search for largest / smallest polygon.

* Improved clarity of examples in the help pages of
  optimization module.
  Avoid unnecessary calls to "deff".
  Avoid the "all statements in whole line" style.

* readmps - Created unit test.
            Fixed bug in error messages management.
            Fixed bug in a test file reading.
            Defined a printing system by overloading for MPS structure.
            Updated the help page.

* genetic_algorithms - performances improved (2 to 4 times faster).

* Bug #7093 fixed - The data structure generated by neldermead_new could not
                   be saved and reloaded.

* Bug #7889 fixed - The tolerance on x for neldermead was too small.
                   Updated -tolxrelative default value from %eps to sqrt(%eps).

* Bug #7891 fixed - The neldermead component had too many options.
  Tagged -costfargument option of optimbase as obsolete: will be
  maintained for backward compatibility until 5.4.1.
  The -fun option can now be a list, where the element #1 is a
  function, and the elements #2 to the end are automatically appended to
  the calling sequence.
  Tagged -outputcommandarg option of optimbase as obsolete: will be
  maintained for backward compatibility until 5.4.1.
  The -outputcommand option can now be a list, where the element #1 is
  a function, and the elements #2 to the end are automatically appended
  to the calling sequence.
  Tagged "outputfun(x,optimValues,state)" calling sequence of fminsearch
  as obsolete: will be maintained for backward compatibility until
  5.4.1.
  The new calling sequence is "stop=outputfun(x,optimValues,state)"
  Tagged "myoutputfun(state,data)" calling sequence of neldermead
  as obsolete: will be maintained for backward compatibility until
  5.4.1.
  The new calling sequence is "stop=myoutputfun(state,data)"
  Tagged "-myterminateflag" and "-myterminate" options as obsolete:
  will be maintained for backward compatibility until 5.4.1.
  See the help page of neldermead for details to update your
  code, if required.

* Bug #7892 fixed - The neldermead component did not provide a default
                   output function.
                   The new function neldermead_defaultoutput was created
                   to print a simple one line output message by iteration.

* Bug #8542 fixed - In neldermead, there were undocumented default options.
                   Same changes applied to the help of optimbase.

* Bug #8543 fixed - In neldermead, the help page presented a wrong order
                   for the options.

* Bug #8545 fixed - In neldermead, the printing system displayed too long
                   messages.

* Bug #8546 fixed - The neldermead functions might have called f outside
                   the bounds.

* Bug #8547 fixed - The neldermead function called f outside the constraints.

* Bug #8549 fixed - The neldermead function did not help to debug
                   the cost function.

* Bug #8552 fixed - Improved fminsearch to provide Extra Parameters.
                   Help page updated with new section "The cost function" and new
                   example "Passing extra parameters".

* Bug #8676 fixed - The pack/unpack functions had no help pages.

* Bug #8777 fixed - The neldermead function failed to restart with bounds.
                   Added examples of restarts with/without bounds in the
                   neldermead help page.

* Bug #8805 fixed - The neldermead function, algorithm box, wrongly used
                   the output function.

* Bug #9323 fixed - The messages in optimbase_checkbounds were not localized.
                   Same changes applied to optimbase_checkx0.

* Bug #9472 fixed - The ind argument of optim was inconsistently documented.

* Bug #9566 fixed - The tolvarianceflag, tolabsolutevariance,
  tolrelativevariance options of neldermead are now obsolete.
  See the help page of neldermead for details to update your
  code, if required.

* Bug #9567 fixed - The neldermead overview had a TODO section.

* Bug #9576 fixed - The neldermead component did not check the bounds
                   of some input parameters.

* Bug #9578 fixed - The optimbase_configure function did not check the
                   values of input arguments.

* Bug #9607 fixed - The optimsimplex_new function poorly managed the
                   variable number of arguments.

* Bug #9612 fixed - The quapro help page has been removed.

* Bug #9698 fixed - The optim/"gc" algorithm did not support imp=-1.

* Bug #9822 fixed - The value ind=1 of optim was not supported by
                   all algorithms.


Statistics
==========

* Bug #9357 fixed - stdevf returned zero for row vector arguments.

* Bug #9846 fixed - stdevf() gave zero result when a single row matrix was evaluated.

* Bug #7387 fixed - The help pages for rand and grand functions gave wrong advice.


Linear Algebra
==============

* Bug #9749 fixed - expm reported non convergence problem.


Sparse Matrices
===============

* ordmmd help page and unit test created.

* Organized help pages into sub-sections.

* Bug #10126 fixed - Wrong (or failing) insertion in a sparse matrix.


Documentation
=============

* A new system to keep track of the translations of the main documentation
  has been developed. See http://help.scilab.org/status/fr_FR/,
  help.scilab.org/status/pt_BR/ and http://help.scilab.org/status/ja_JP/
  See Bug #5119.

* <ALT>+<LEFT ARROW> / <ALT>+<RIGHT ARROW> allows browsing the history
  (See Bug #9474).

* The space key behave like the page down key (See Bug #9491).

* Management of the revhistory / revision tag to provide information about
  the history of the function.

* Bug #3431 fixed - Some help tools functions were obsolete and not removed.

* Bug #9105 fixed - err output parameter of mopen function was not documented.

* Bug #9299 fixed - Fix a typo in the cspect, pspect and window help pages
                   (Hanning changed to Hann).

* Bug #9320 fixed - analpf help page gave wrong frequency units of omega (Hz instead of rd/s).

* Bug #9417 fixed - In English, api_scilab polynom help pages updated to the word
                   polynomial.

* Bug #7133 fixed - help_from_sci function did not return the function template.

* Bug #7134 fixed - help_from_sci produced an invalid .xml file.

* Bug #9790 fixed - windows_tools help were not available for all platforms.

* Bug #9983 fixed - The xclick help page did not clearly specify the axes used for
                   coordinates.


Obsolete Functions
===================

* 'oemtochar' and 'chartooem' functions (windows_tools) are obsolete and will be
   removed in Scilab 5.4.1.

* 'showalluimenushandles' function (graphics) was undocumented. This function is
  obsolete and will be removed on 5.4.
  Use set(get(0), "ShowHiddenHandles", "on"); instead.

* 'code2str' and 'str2code' are obsolete and will be removed on 5.4.1, please use
  'ascii' instead.


Removed Functions (previously declared as obsolete)
====================================================

* ilib_for_link, ilib_build no more accept files with ".o" or ".obj" extensions
  for source files.

* 'with_atlas' removed. Please use 'getdebuginfo' instead.

* C API function Error(x) removed. Please use SciError instead.

* 'MSDOS' removed. Please use 'getos' instead.


Performance
============

* Under GNU/Linux and Mac OS X, Scilab startup speed of scilab-cli and
  scilab-adv-cli has been improved by 15 to 20 % (see Compilation for more
  information).

* SSE is now enabled by default under GNU/Linux with 32-bit CPU (it is already
  the case under 64-bit CPU).
  Pentium III class (or equivalent) with SSE instructions is required.

* Improved performances of function pareto_filter (Genetic algorithms).

* Bug #8608 fixed - dec2hex, hex2dec, dec2oct, oct2dec, base2dec code have been
                   simplified and optimized.


Compilation
============

* Under Windows, Scilab uses VS 2010 Pro and Express solution.

* Under GNU/Linux and Mac OS X, engine libraries have been merged into a single
  library named libscilab-cli.so. This greatly improves the startup
  performances.
  Note that the --enable-maintainer-mode enables the previous behavior (simply
  the development process).

* Under GNU/Linux and Mac OS X, all modules build as standalone their algorithms
  as a static library (only available in the source tree).
  This will avoid an important dependency tree for unitary testing.

* Under GNU/Linux and Mac OS X, for each module, the list of
  explicit dependencies on the other libraries is no more needed.
  Use libscilab-cli.so or libscilab.so to link against Scilab.

* Enforce a minimal version of JRosetta (1.0.4).

* Enforce a minimal version of flexdock (1.0).

* Enforce a minimal version of GIWS (1.3.0).

* Force the Java class version target to version 6 (or 1.6).

* Add Java 7 in the Debian & Ubuntu search path under GNU/Linux.

* Under GNU/Linux and Mac OS X, if ccache is installed, use it to build Scilab.

* Bug #9409 fixed - Warning "remark #8291" removed with Intel Fortran 2011 compiler.

* Bug #9500 fixed - Explicit the GUI module manifest class-path to facilitate Debian
                   checking tool process.

* Bug #9782 fixed - configure with --without-gui was failing.

* Bug #9793 fixed - --without-gui now also disables Xcos.

* Bug #9883 fixed - Build with --disable-build-help was failing.

* Bug #9991 fixed - ./configure --without-xcos failed to build.

* Bug #10158 fixed - Configure used g77 even if gfortran was available.


Dynamic Link
=============

* Bug #9432 fixed - Link a 64-bit dynamic library on a 32-bit platform returned
                   a wrong error message under Windows.

* Bug #9761 fixed - NDEBUG was not defined for dynamic link (by default) in
                   release mode under Windows.

* Bug #9930 fixed - ilib_build did not display all filenames used.

* Bug #10320 fixed - libname argument of ilib_for_link did not work.

* Bug #10344 fixed - Windows SDK 7.1 was not detected with VS Express 2010
                    under 64-bit platform.


Variable Browser
=================

* Shows the dimension of the variable by default.

* Automatically resize the variable browser table when docked.

* A tooltip has been added on the type column to display the name of the type.

* A tooltip has been added on the size column to display the size in bytes
  (like in previous versions of Scilab).


History
========

* Default text in history for a starting session has been changed for:
"Begin Session: Tue Jun 21 14:35:45 2011" to "21/06/2011 14:35:45"


Graphics
=========

* Obsolete value for line_style property:
  0 and 1 are equivalent values for SOLID rendering.
  A warning message will be displayed if the user tries to set this property to 0.
  Setting this property to 0 will no more be supported in Scilab 5.4.1.

* getcallbackobject: Input argument must be an UID (String) and no more an index (Constant).

* datatips tool improved on several aspects:
  - It is now possible to manage directional arrows as well as
    square mark markers.
  - The automatic label placement has been improved to avoid the
    overlapping with the curve.
  - It is now possible to have painted box or box free labels.
  - Markers can now be selected and moved using the arrow keys
    or deleted with the "Del" key.

* Bug #2043 fixed - The graphic function copy() did not manage axes. Thanks to
                   Samuel Gougeon for the fix.

* Bug #7412 fixed - Better management of datatips activation/deactivation.

* Bug #7419 fixed - datatips(): customization is now available through a GUI.

* Bug #8239 fixed - Activation of datatips overwrote and destroyed any event_handler
                   formerly defined.

* Bug #8965 fixed - copy function did not work for handles.

* Bug #9269 fixed - Specified graphic entities for legend were drawn in reverse order.

* Bug #9330 fixed - delete() called overloading instead of deleting the current
                   graphic entity.

* Bug #9455 fixed - The contourf and contourf 2 demonstrations displayed unwanted dots.

* Bug #10121 fixed - polyline.interp_color_vector where not saved or recoverable
                    by xsave/xload. Thanks to Samuel Gougeon for the fix.

* Bug #10298 fixed - Example of datatipSetDisplay generated an error.

* Bug #10331 fixed - datatipCreate produced a warning and an error instead of
                    a warning if the curve user_data was not a struct.

ATOMS
======

* Bug #5380 fixed - atomsShow() output was broken (separators were not aligned).

* Bug #8648 fixed - The tarball was not deleted when a module was removed (SEP #71).

* Bug #8664 fixed - Message error updated for non-supported OS.

* Bug #8763 fixed - ATOMS installation path was shared on Windows 64 with 32-bit.

* Bug #8942, #9805 fixed - atomsSystemUpdate() failed under some Windows.

* Bug #9127 fixed - "Home" item renamed to "Installed Modules".

* Bug #9679 fixed - atomsSystemUpdate checks that Scilab is not in offLine mode, or writes a warning message if so.

* Bug #9805, #8942 fixed - atomsSystemUpdate() failed under some Windows.

* Bug #9967 fixed - Windows UAC was causing trouble with atomsRepositorySetOfl (internal function).

* Bug #10025 fixed - Wrong url in some help files examples.

* Bug #10031 fixed - atomsDisp did not work with "\n" in messages text.


Javasci
========

* Java mapping of Scilab data has now a new method called getType() which
returns the value of the ScilabTypeEnum enum.

* New methods added:
  - Scilab.execException(String)
    Same as Scilab.exec(String) but returns an exception when a Scilab error occurs
  - Scilab.execException(String[])
    Same as Scilab.exec(String[]) but returns an exception when a Scilab error occurs
  - Scilab.execException(File)
    Same as Scilab.exec(File) but returns an exception when a Scilab error occurs

* Bug #9149 fixed - Calling a graphic function without activating the appropriate
                   mode did not triggered an exception.

* Bug #9467 fixed - Unnecessary declarations in MAKE.BAT of Javasci examples.

* Bug #9544 fixed - Calling graphic with Javasci from a SWING application from
                   EDT was crashing the execution of a Java program.


API Scilab
==========

* Add functions to identify list datatypes:
  isListType, isNamedListType, isTListType, isNamedTListType, isMListType,
  isNamedMListType
  See bug #11106


CACSD and Signal Processing
===========================

* Bug #1635 fixed - iir filter frequency response might have been wrong.
                  "pole zero gain" representation added as possible iir function
                  returned value.

* Bug #7895 fixed - fft2() was broken under Windows with MKL wrapper.

* Bug #7901 fixed - besselh.tst failed under Windows.

* Bug #8684 fixed - wfir function produced an error message when used interactively.

* Bug #9098 fixed - CACSD demonstrations --> Robust control failed on 64-bit Windows.

* Bug #9214 fixed - abaque replaced by nicholschart in the black.sci comments.

* Bug #9266 fixed - fftw crashed under Windows when using MKL wrapper.

* Bug #9321 fixed - Missing tests and help info for some CACSD functions.

* Bug #9647 fixed - At Scilab startup, the variable fft was declared by default
                   while it should not have been.

* Bug #9675 fixed - iir generated bad results.

* Bug #9716 fixed - amell.tst execution froze under Windows with reference lapack library.

* Bug #9719 fixed - delip.tst execution froze under Windows.

* Bug #9725 fixed - syredi.tst execution froze under Windows.

* Bug #10008 fixed - Wrong unit in the datatip for bode function.

* Bug #10169 fixed - Bad clipping option in evans.

* Bug #11092 fixed - Incorrect argument check in h_inf


Misc
=====

* The linspace function accepts column vectors as input argument for the two
  first input arguments. Thanks to Guillaume AZEMA for the implementation.

* The logspace function accepts column vectors as input argument for the two
  first input arguments.

* Change the buffering display mode.

* SEP #67: lines(0) by default at startup.

* Options -disable-exception-catching added under GNU/Linux & Mac OS X.
  Disables the Scilab exception catching system.

* texmacs module moved as an ATOMS module.
  atomsInstall('texmacs')

* PVM module moved as an ATOMS module.
  atomsInstall('PVM')

* maple2scilab module moved as an ATOMS module.
  atomsInstall('maple2scilab')

* SEP #69: predef('names') returns names of protected variables by predef.

* printf moved as alias on mprintf function.

* sprintf moved as alias on msprintf function.


Bug Fixes
==========

* Bug #1604 fixed - List extraction failed.

* Bug #3291 fixed - SCI/modules/tclsci/tcl/BWidget-1.8.0/ moved as prerequirements.

* Bug #4240 fixed - Some unexpected blank lines were displayed with the dir function.

* Bug #4576 fixed - An example of ilib_build with "cflags" argument was missing.

* Bug #4833 fixed - msprintf() interpreted "\n" as a carriage return even if "\n"
                   was supplied by the 2nd input argument.

* Bug #4847 fixed - In uigetfile, there was no way to select files with a given
                   pattern.

* Bug #5491 fixed - Clearly states that haveacompiler() only works under Windows.

* Bug #5696 fixed - When SE Linux is enabled, error messages for
                   Scilab in the Scilab binary distribution disabled.

* Bug #6408 fixed - prompt() removed trailing whites.

* Bug #6819 fixed - prompt() interpreted '<...>' as html.

* Bug #6875 fixed - test_run() could not run at once on the +3000 tests of
                   Scilab.

* Bug #7061 fixed - changelog.txt, readme.txt, version.xml removed from modules.

* Bug #7249 fixed - 'string' function did not work as documented
        with a macro as input argument.

* Bug #7333 fixed - In BrowseVar, variables could have a weird type number.

* Bug #7358 fixed - Help pages of type and typeof have now links to the actual
                   description pages.

* Bug #7409 fixed - Some corrupted matrices could be created from api_scilab.

* Bug #7700 fixed - Bad proposition in the console history when a char was added.

* Bug #7745 fixed - add_demo moved in demo_tools module.

* Bug #7815 fixed - tohome() function erased previous and future commands in Scilab console.

* Bug #8086 fixed - Some functions displayed a wrong error message when called
                   without input argument.

* Bug #8243 fixed - xgeom demonstration renamed to geom3d.

* Bug #8245 fixed - gsort() did not allow overloading with not managed types.

* Bug #8296 fixed - Asking for extra array dimension value with size crashed Scilab.

* Bug #8420 fixed - lines crashed Scilab in some cases.

* Bug #8688 fixed - fillMatrixOfString did not check available memory on stack.

* Bug #8753 fixed - Help file of c_link did not describe input argument num.

* Bug #8768 fixed - GetRhsVar(..., STRING_DATATYPE, ...) did not check size of input argument.

* Bug #8797 fixed - Update of the help pages of getdate('s') to detail that
                   the returned value contains the leap seconds.

* Bug #8874 fixed - Display of complex numbers with Inf or Nan for real or imaginary
                   parts was broken.

* Bug #8963 fixed - mtlb_mode test failed under Windows.

* Bug #9045 fixed - plot2d did not support overloading.

* Bug #9056 fixed - A uicontrol could not be closed with <META>+W.

* Bug #9104 fixed - 'warning' used in a diary Scilab session added timestamp
                   twice in the diary.

* Bug #9129 fixed - Completion on field did not propose graphics handle fields
                   by default.

* Bug #9156 fixed - mgetl.c compilation failed under some Windows.

* Bug #9164 fixed - The unit tests now use the new assert functions.

* Bug #9268 fixed - Scilab was overriding a predefined variable JAVA_HOME.

* Bug #9277 fixed - Escape character "\" did not work with msprintf.

* Bug #9339 fixed - tbx_build_help function did not manage languages correctly.

* Bug #9354 fixed - 'avematfile could not save imbricate structures.

* Bug #9414 fixed - 'SCI' and 'SCIHOME' variables were not documented.

* Bug #9452 fixed - It was impossible to download Intel MKL through a proxy.

* Bug #9461 fixed - The assert_checkalmostequal function did not manage
                   sparse matrices and hypermatrices.

* Bug #9479 fixed - Typo fixed (intput => input).

* Bug #9498 fixed - A long history caused Scilab startup to be very long.

* Bug #9510 fixed - export_to_hdf5 did not return %f when trying to export
                   unmanaged types (function, macro, ...).

* Bug #9531 fixed - assert_checkequal failed with mlist.

* Bug #9540 fixed - MKL Pentium 4 target was not downloaded by installer under Windows.

* Bug #9542 fixed - During export operation, the file could be locked by another
                   process (Windows Bug).

* Bug #9543 fixed - Scilab did not use the default DocumentBuilderFactory
                   to parse XML configuration files.

* Bug #9555 fixed - Typo error in the deff help page.

* Bug #9571 fixed - "error(144)" returned a wrong variable name.

* Bug #9573 fixed - getdebuginfo did not report multiple video cards under Windows.

* Bug #9581 fixed - cleaner.sce in toolbox_skeleton did not remove all generated files.

* Bug #9599 fixed - Error message "at line ... of function ... called by" was
                   printed directly on the same line.

* Bug #9635 fixed - Some temp. variables were not removed when test_run was used.

* Bug #9647 fixed - At Scilab startup, the variable fft was declared by default
                   while it should not have been.

* Bug #9659 fixed - "error(246)" returned a bad message for overloading.

* Bug #9682 fixed \D0 3-D assignment into a 2-D array of integers issued an error.

* Bug #9696 fixed - An error in an if expression inside a try make Scilab froze.

* Bug #9699 fixed - A single $ as text in a text ui led to a segfault.

* Bug #9707 fixed - createNamedXXX did not check variable name.

* Bug #9708 fixed - createNamedXXX did not check length of variable name.

* Bug #9712 fixed - Help of StartScilab had a error about Stacksize argument type.

* Bug #9716 fixed - amell.tst execution froze under Windows with reference lapack library.

* Bug #9717 fixed - dllinfo.tst failed under Windows binary versions.

* Bug #9728 fixed - SCI/modules/special_functions/src/fortran/special_functions_f.def
                   was not ignored (generated file).

* Bug #9730 fixed - lines() returned an int32 and not a double value.

* Bug #9755 fixed - Completion on paths was not case insensitive under Windows.

* Bug #9756 fixed - polelm.tst unitary test failed under 64-bit Windows.

* Bug #9763 fixed - comet3d did not check input argument presence.

* Bug #9765 fixed - Remove ref to scicos_pal in sci_f_clear.f.

* Bug #9766 fixed - Scilab under Mac OS X 10.7 did not start.

* Bug #9791 fixed - toolbar visible state change crashed Scilab in NW mode.

* Bug #9799 fixed - pol2str did not manage matrix of polynomials and input argument
                   type was not checked.

* Bug #9804 fixed - Starting Scilab with an external module emptied the
                   demonstrations list menu.

* Bug #9825 fixed - The assert_computedigits function gave too large correct digits.

* Bug #9833 fixed - percent was badly formatted by Scierror function.

* Bug #9836 fixed - repfreq failed due to singular problem.

* Bug #9838 fixed - evstr froze on some specific strings.

* Bug #9843 fixed - Colormaps with 2 colors could not be created.

* Bug #9858 fixed - length() could not be overloaded with mlist.

* Bug #9879 fixed - Fix some minor issues in the isdir help pages.

* Bug #9880 fixed - Fix a page referencing itself in the help page.

* Bug #9881 fixed - Fix a mistake in call help page.

* Bug #9885 fixed - User initialization scripts (scilab.ini, .scilab) did not work.

* Bug #9899 fixed - string(10*log10(1/10)) gave -0, instead of -10.

* Bug #9900 fixed - There was a memory leak in getAllocatedMatrixOfString,
                   getAllocatedMatrixOfWideString, getAllocatedNamedMatrixOfString,
                   and getAllocatedNamedMatrixOfWideString.

* Bug #9920 fixed - winqueryreg did not manage HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG.

* Bug #9929 fixed - Improve integration with Gnome shell and Unity.

* Bug #9950 fixed - It was possible to select several texts in the console.

* Bug #9957 fixed - msprintf("%d\r", 2) returned '2r'.

* Bug #9963 fixed - The assert_computedigits function was not vectorized.

* Bug #9966 fixed - The default value of comptype in assert_checkalmostequal
                   was wrongly chosen.

* Bug #9971 fixed - GLoad macro not used and not documented has been removed.

* Bug #9979 fixed - The who_user() function printed a wrong message.

* Bug #9980 fixed - Frozen console when one tried to complete an empty string.

* Bug #10001 fixed - %inf:%inf crashed Scilab.

* Bug #10016 fixed - The damp function unit test failed under Windows.

* Bug #10019 fixed - 'exec' crashed with error 113 for too long lines.

* Bug #10037 fixed - checkalmostequal.tst unitary test failed under Linux x64.

* Bug #10073 fixed - Use the new Scilab icon for GNU/Linux installations.
                    Icons renamed from XPM to PNG.

* Bug #10105 fixed - Focus was not given to the prompt when outputview had it.

* Bug #10119 fixed - assert_checkequal did not support sparse complex doubles

* Bug #10124 fixed - strsplit crashed with wrong input arguments.

* Bug #10151 fixed - Wrong error message about polynomials was displayed.

* Bug #10179 fixed - Weird behavior with evstr.

* Bug #10282 fixed - repmat did not work for scalar input on dims greater than 2
                    neither for N-D arrays.

* Bug #10283 fixed - w and iw output arguments of ode function
                    are now directly read from work table used in sub-functions.

* Bug #10289 fixed - xload returns a more explicit error message when a file does
                    not exist.

* Bug #10292 fixed - Improved description of modulo help page.

* Bug #10293 fixed - Improved description of bvode help page.

* Bug #10324 fixed - format(m) where m is a vector did not work but the
                    documentation stated it could be used.

* Bug #10366 fixed - A warning about fun2string redefinition was displayed
                    when we used "Edit label generator" and click "Ok".



Known Issues
============
* Random crash under Mac OS X at startup.
  Some random crash can occur at first Scilab startup. Try to restart Scilab.

* Some issues at startup under Mac OS X 10.6.7 (and previous 10.6 versions)
  have been reported.
  If you have "Audio Hijack" installed on your Mac OS X, it prevents some
  applications to work including Scilab. See Bug #7012.
  Uninstall / disable Audio Hijack should fix this problem.
  Airfoil, also developed by Rogue Amoeba, has been reported as also breaking
  Scilab.