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     <span class="path"><a href="index.html">Scilab help</a> &gt;&gt; Homepage</span>
     <br/><br/><div class="refsection">
-      <h3 class="title">What's new in Scilab 5.5.0?</h3>
+      <h3 class="title">What's new in Scilab 5.5.0-beta-1?</h3>
       <p class="para">
-        <a href="http://www.scilab.org/products/scilab/download/5.5.0/release_notes">See all changes in Scilab 5.5.0</a>
+      This beta release includes new sets of functions:
+      <ul>
+        <li>HDF5 module allowing to <a href="h5objects.html">read/write HDF5</a> files and datasets.</li>
+        <li>Java external objects interface to interact directly with Java objects from Scilab. For more information, see <a href="jims-getting-started.html">the tutorial</a>.</li>
+        <li>Function <a href="getURL.html">getURL</a> to retrieve/read remote files through ftp:// or http:// protocols.</li>
+        <li>Possibility to <a href="addlocalizationdomain.html">translate Scilab external modules</a>.</li>
+        <li>MPI capabilities available in Scilab source tree (not activated by default).</li>
+        <li>New <a href="erfi.html">erfi</a> and <a href="dawson.html">dawson</a> special functions.</li>
+        <li>New <a href="daskr.html">daskr</a> solver in Scilab and Xcos.</li>
+      </ul>
+      </p>
+      <p class="para">
+      New graphics features aiming at improving Scilab usability and capabilities have been integrated:
+      <ul>
+        <li>Improvements of <a href="Matplot.html">Matplot</a> function capabilities in order to display images in true colors.</li>
+        <li>Management of <a href="lighting.html">lighting on 3-D graphics</a>.</li>
+        <li>New interactions on graphics enabling to edit graphics handles directly on figures using the mouse.</li>
+        <li><a href="datatips.html">Datatips features</a> rewritten as native Java code.</li>
+      </ul>
+      </p>
+      <p class="para">Scilab switched to the version 2.1 of CeCILL license.
+      </p>
+      <p class="para">
+      Many bug fixes and documentation improvements are also available in this release.
+      </p>
+      <p class="para">
+      <a href="http://www.scilab.org/community/news/20131001/release_notes">See Scilab 5.5.0-beta-1 release notes.</a>
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