From: Antoine ELIAS Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 17:03:48 +0000 (+0100) Subject: CHANGES review X-Git-Tag: 6.1.0~111 X-Git-Url: http://gitweb.scilab.org/?p=scilab.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=bfb6b9d36b991deef437938867cd2ae26f8fb3be CHANGES review Change-Id: I02fcf668c352f4bf8417b2d596793b560133b666 --- diff --git a/scilab/CHANGES.md b/scilab/CHANGES.md index 78a59a8..044d2d9 100644 --- a/scilab/CHANGES.md +++ b/scilab/CHANGES.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Welcome to Scilab 6.1.X ======================= This file details the changes between Scilab 6.1.X (this development branch), and the previous release 6.0.X. -For changelogs of earlier releases, please see [Scilab 6.0.0](https://help.scilab.org/docs/6.0.0/en_US/CHANGES.html). +For changelogs of earlier releases, please see [Scilab 6.0.0][1]. This file is intended for the specific needs of advanced users, and describes: - High-level new features, @@ -13,25 +13,30 @@ This file is intended for the specific needs of advanced users, and describes: - Bug fixes. This is an in-development version which might be unstable. -Please report any thing we could have missed, on the [mailing lists][1] or on the [bug tracker][2]. +Please report anything we could have missed, on the [mailing lists][2] or the [bug tracker][3]. -[1]: http://mailinglists.scilab.org -[2]: http://bugzilla.scilab.org +[1]: https://help.scilab.org/docs/6.0.0/en_US/CHANGES.html +[2]: http://mailinglists.scilab.org +[3]: https://bugzilla.scilab.org Main new features ----------------- -For a high-level description of the main new features of this release, please consult the [embedded help](modules/helptools/data/pages/homepage-en_US.html). It is also available as the "What's new" page of the help, by simply typing `help` in Scilab console. +For a high-level description of the main new features of this release, please consult the [embedded help][4]. It is also available as the "What's new" page of the help, by simply typing `help` in Scilab console. + +[4]: modules/helptools/data/pages/homepage-en_US.html In summary, the main new features are: * Webtools utilities added for HTTP protocol, JSON data usage * Profiled values are available as Scilab values * Values have a cleaner display: - - they are displayed in order on assignement + - they are displayed in order on assignment - strings are quoted - complex numbers are aligned for matrices - numbers (IEEE 754 double) are not rounded + - polynomials and rationals display is more compact + - In structures, nested lists or structures are now displayed recursively compactly and more explicitly. * importgui function has been added to easily interface csvRead * function calls with zero output arguments can be detected with `argn` @@ -48,7 +53,7 @@ Compilation - autoconf 2.69 - libtool 2.4.6 (patched for macOS) -* Linux/macOS configures check if `-std=c++11` is available and use it by default. Toolboxes might increment the standard C++ version by specifying the C++ version as a `CFLAGS`. +* Linux and macOS builds require a C++17 compiler. Toolboxes might also want to use this standard by specifying `-std=c++17` as a `CFLAGS` * Migration to Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 and Intel Composer 2018 @@ -77,16 +82,17 @@ Packaging & Supported Operating Systems - Ubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS, 13.x - Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2+, 11.x - For more information, please consult: [What are the system requirements for Java?](http://java.com/en/download/help/sysreq.xml) + For more information, please consult: [What are the system requirements for Java?][5] -* [SSE2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE2), Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 support is now mandatory to run Scilab on Linux i686. +* [SSE2][6], Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 support is now mandatory to run Scilab on Linux i686. +[5]: http://java.com/en/download/help/sysreq.xml +[6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE2 Feature changes and additions ----------------------------- -* `airy()` is added: Evaluation of Airy functions of the first and second kind, and their first derivative, possibly scaled. -* Empty strings are used as the default values on String allocation +* `airy` has been added: Evaluation of Airy functions of the first and second kind, and their first derivative, possibly scaled. * HTTP get, post, put, upload, patch, delete functions added * JSON encoding / decoding for Scilab datatypes added * Memory invalid accesses have been greatly reduced thanks to : @@ -96,7 +102,7 @@ Feature changes and additions - It now accepts positive Signed encoded integers. - It now supports the new uint64 and int64 types of encoded integers. - For decimal numbers: bits with indices > 52 can now be retrieved (up to `log2(number_properties("huge"))` = 1024). - - For decimal numbers `x > 2^52`, querried bits below `%eps` (indices < log2(x)-52) now return `Nan` instead of 0. + - For decimal numbers `x > 2^52`, queried bits below `%eps` (indices < log2(x)-52) now return `Nan` instead of 0. - Several bits can now be retrieved from each component of an input array. * `bitstring` function added. * `edit` now accepts a line number as text (like "23"). @@ -104,7 +110,7 @@ Feature changes and additions * `prettyprint` is upgraded: - Integer and Text input are now actually supported. - Default input arguments can be skipped instead of still having to be provided. - - The result string is better formatted to be easily wrappable and indentable. + - The result string is better formatted to be easily wrappable and indented. * `mesh2d` has been introduced to compute a 2d mesh from vectors (x,y) of points. * `loadmatfile` is upgraded: - Octave native text data files can now be read. @@ -115,42 +121,42 @@ Feature changes and additions * `assert_checkequal` is upgraded: - support added for Nan and void in lists, Nan in sparses, implicit lists, graphic handles, macros, libraries, and built-in. - For arrays of matching typeof and sizes, and for lists of matching lengths, the failure message now indicates the index and values of the first mismatching elements. -* `diophant` is improved: Now, +* `diophant` is improved: - Encoded integers are accepted, in addition to decimal numbers. Only integer solutions are then searched. - - When there is no solution, [] is returned. + - When there is no solution, `[]` is returned. - When there is an infinite number of solutions, the err flag has a specific value. - - The output size gets the input's one. + - The output size gets the input's size. * `csvRead` and `csvTextScan` are now implemented without extra copies. -* `editvar()` GUI support copy-paste of strings removing quotes. -* calendar() can now display formated calendars. -* `xmlSetValues()` clones `setPreferencesValue` that is now obsolete. -* `unique()` is upgraded to: - - return the number of occurences of distinct entities found in the input array. +* `editvar` GUI support copy-paste of strings removing quotes. +* `calendar` can now display formatted calendars. +* `xmlSetValues` clones `setPreferencesValue` that is now obsolete. +* `unique` is upgraded to: + - return the number of occurrences of distinct entities found in the input array. - return distinct entities in their initial order (rather than sorted), with the `"keepOrder"` option. - consider all `Nan` values as the same one, with the `"uniqueNan"` option. -* `ellipj()` function introduced, to compute the `sn`, `cn`, `dn`, `ns`, `nc` and `nd` Jacobi elliptic functions. -* `riccati()` is upgraded: +* `ellipj` function introduced, to compute the `sn`, `cn`, `dn`, `ns`, `nc` and `nd` Jacobi elliptic functions. +* `riccati` is upgraded: - `riccati(H)` and `riccati(H,E)` syntaxes added, to describe the Riccati equation through its Hamiltonian H or (E,H) pencil. - - The residual is returned as new 3rd output argument. + - The residual is returned as a new 3rd output argument. - When no solution is found, `X=[]` | `X1=[]` is returned instead of yielding an error. -* `hallchart()` is upgraded: +* `hallchart` is upgraded: - The default set of modules is set automatically, according to data bounds. - - Handles of the grids and labels are returned. Post-processing them become easy. - - Named colors accepted ; better default colors. + - Handles of the grids and labels are returned. Post-processing them becomes easy. + - Named colors accepted; better default colors. - Improved placement of labels. -* `playsnd()` is upgraded: +* `playsnd` is upgraded: - the name of a wav file can now be specified (instead of the sound data). - the input sound can now be repeated a given number of times. - the modal/non-modal processing is improved. * `nicholschart` is improved: more neutral default frame color; improved labels positionning; colors can now be specified by their predefined name or "#RRGGBB" hexa code; a structure of handles is now returned to easily postprocess both subframes and the set of labels. -* `sciargs()` returns a column instead of formerly a row. +* `sciargs` returns a column instead of formerly a row. * Booleans and encoded integers can now be concatenated together, as in `[%f int8(-5)]`. -* `gsort` can now perform multilevel sorting. This noticeably allows to sort completely complex numbers. -* `factorial(n)` can be used now from n=171 up to n=10^14. -* `intersect()` now supports complex numbers. -* `setdiff()` now supports complex numbers. +* `gsort` can now perform multilevel sorting. This noticeably allows sorting completely complex numbers. +* `factorial` can be used now from n=171 up to n=10^14. +* `intersect` now supports complex numbers. +* `setdiff` now supports complex numbers. * `twinkle` can now blink together several hierarchically independent objects, like a curve and its labels, etc. -* `repmat()` has been rewritten. It is 7 times faster now. +* `repmat` has been rewritten. It is 7 times faster now. @@ -164,10 +170,10 @@ Help pages: User Interface improvements: ---------------------------- -* The `ans` variable is editable as any other variable -* Commands history is saved before executing a command to have the correct history on crash. +* The `ans` variable is editable as any other variable in Editvar. +* Commands history is saved before executing a command to have the correct history on a crash. * Used memory per variable is displayed by BrowserVar to give the user numbers on memory usage repartition and let the user `clear` the big ones first. -* Autoscroll of console in GUI mode is disabled when the user scroll up until he scrolls to bottom. +* Autoscroll of console in GUI mode is disabled when the user scrolls up until he scrolls to the bottom. Xcos ---- @@ -188,13 +194,13 @@ API/ABI modification Obsolete functions or features ------------------------------ * `frexp` becomes an internal. Please use `[m,e]=log2(x)` instead. -* `champ1()` is obsolete. Please use `champ.colored` instead. -* `setPreferencesValue` will be removed from Scilab 6.1.x. Please use `xmlSetValues` instead. -* `%sn()` is obsolete. Please use `ellipj()` instead. -* `sysdiag()` is obsolete. Please use `blockdiag()` instead. +* `champ1` is obsolete. Please use `champ.colored` instead. +* `setPreferencesValue` is obsolete. Please use `xmlSetValues` instead. +* `%sn` is obsolete. Please use `ellipj` instead. +* `sysdiag` is obsolete. Please use `blockdiag` instead. * `ric_desc` is obsolete and will be removed from Scilab 6.1.x. Please use `riccati` instead. -* `noisegen` will be removed from Scilab 6.1.x. Please use `grand()` instead. -* `get_figure_handle(n)` will be removed in Scilab 6.1.x. `findobj('figure_id',n)` replaces it. +* `noisegen` will be removed from Scilab 6.1.x. Please use `grand` instead. +* `get_figure_handle(n)` is obsolete. Please use `findobj('figure_id',n)` instead. Removed Functions ----------------- @@ -222,194 +228,195 @@ Bug Fixes --------- ### Bugs fixed in 6.1.0: -* [#2694](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2694): `bitget` did not accept positive integers of types int8, int16 or int32. -* [#6070](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6070): Making multiscaled plots was not documented. -* [#7562](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7562): `factorial` could use a huge memory amount even for a scalar argument. -* [#7657](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7657): `lstsize` was a duplicate of `size` and should be removed. -* [#7724](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7724): When a figure is created in .auto_resize="on" mode, its .axes_size sets its .figure_size accordingly, not the reverse. But this was not documented. -* [#7765](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7765): `champ1()` is useless. `champ().colored` is available for a long time. -* [#7948](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7948): `gsort()` could not perform multilevel sorting. -* [#7967](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7967): The tricky size `[ny,nx]` of `meshgrid(x,y)` results and usages with graphics was not enough documented. -* [#8307](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8307): `list2vec()` and `vec2list()` were located in the [optimization] module instead of in [data_structures], and were missing in the `See also` section of `list()`. -* [#8418](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8418): `unique()` was not able to return the number of occurences of returned dictinct entities. -* [#8784](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8784): Automatic self-adjusting blocks `SCALE_CSCOPE` & `SCALE_CMSCOPE` in Xcos. -* [#5512](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5512): `disp` puzzlingly displayed arguments in reverse order. -* [#9007](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9007): On Linux, `sciargs()` included twice `-nw` when `-nw` is used. -* [#9529](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9529): `assert_checkequal(list(1,,3), list(1,,3))` yielded an error. -* [#9673](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9673): Priority of colon `:` operator was too low -* [#10078](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10078): `isinf()` was not reliable for polynomials. -* [#10353](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10353): Documentation: The referential for the uicontrol.position property was not provided. Moreover, gca().axes_bounds refered to fig.figure_size instead of fig.axes_size. -* [#10553](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10553): After calling `colorbar()`, retrieving the handle of the new color bar was not trivial. -* [#10723](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10723): `subplot`'s action was unclearly described in its help page. Page improved. -* [#11852](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11852): File browser didn't update after file creation or remove. -* [#11363](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11363): show_window() did not raise the current graphics window. -* [#13738](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13738): `get_figure_handle` was a specific duplicate of the more powerful `findobj('figure_id',n)` feature. It is now obsolete. -* [#12520](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12520): Vriable browser did not display the size of the variables. -* [#12534](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12534): Variable browser did not display the size of the variables. -* [#12837](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12837): `strcmpi` was an obsolete duplicate of `strcmp(,'i')`. It is removed. -* [#13683](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13683): unsetmenu for a dockable="off" figure crashed Scilab. -* [#13766](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13766): Minimal values for `.figure_size` were not documented. -* [#14015](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14015): Nan terms added to a polynomial were ignored. -* [#14422](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14422): `clc(0)` did nothing, now clears last console entry. Remove leading blank after a `clc()`. -* [#14498](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14498): `size([],3)` returned 1 instead of 0. -* [#14501](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14501): `strsubst` crashed on consecutive occurrences. -* [#14557](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14557): `csim` failed when the system has no state. -* [#14498](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14498): `size([],3)` returned 1 instead of 0. -* [#14502](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14502): `Demo > GUI > Uicontrols 2` could not be exported to a file. -* [#14604](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14604): `emptystr()` is 40x slower with 6.0.0 wrt 5.5.2 -* [#14605](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14605): fixed - `bench_run` was too strict about the specification of tests names. -* [#14606](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14606): Memory used by variables returned by `[names,mem]=who()` was always zero. -* [#14610](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14610): `x = ric_desc(H,E)` always yielded an error. [x1,x2,residual] = ric_desc(..) returned a wrong `residual` value. -* [#14642](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14642): No more "\r" carriage return with printf. -* [#14735](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14735): The `genetic_algorithms` module was out of the `optimization` one. -* [#14741](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14741): The syntax `[m,e]=log2(x)` was not documented. As public function `frexp` was in duplicate with `[m,e]=log2(x)`. -* [#14742](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14742): `mprintf`, `msprintf` a non finite number displayed nothing. -* [#14746](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14746): Tiny numbers were sometimes displayed as 0. -* [#14791](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14791): `sleep 1` crashed Scilab. -* [#14812](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14812): Minor typos in messages. -* [#14836](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14836): calling `exportUI()` on a non dockable figure crashed scilab. -* [#14863](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14863): In Xcos, the default ending time was unhandily high (100000), reduced it to 30. -* [#14982](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14982): `msprintf` segmentation fault was caught due to wrong size -* [#14985](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14985): scilab crashed if a .bin file was not found. -* [#15068](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15068): `size(sum(ones(2,3,4,5),4))` was [4 2 3] instead of [2 3 4]. -* [#15087](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15087): Deleting rows or columns from a matrix is slow (regression) -* [#15248](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15248): `lsq`was leaking memory. -* [#15269](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15269): `xgetech` was poor and stiff compared to any combination of `gca()` properties `.axes_bounds`, `.data_bounds`, `.log_flags`, and `.margins`. It is removed. -* [#15271](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15271): `bitget` needed to be upgraded. -* [#15309](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15309): `eval()` was a weak duplicate of `evstr()`. It should be removed. -* [#15321](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15321): `lu()` was leaking memory. -* [#15350](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15350): `ric_desc()` should be merged into `riccati()`. -* [#15359](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15359): `twinkle` was not able to blink several independent objects. -* [#15360](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15360): `numer()` and `denom()` were poor and duplicates of the `.num` and `.den` fields of rationals. They are removed. -* [#15368](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15368): `freson()` silently returned frequencies not corresponding to a maximum, or returned [] instead of some still computable maxima frequencies. -* [#15392](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15392): `comet` and `comet3d` did not allow specifying colors with colors names. -* [#15393](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15393): In a new figure, `nicholschart` plotted nothing. The default frame color was a flashy cyan. The position of gain labels could be puzzling. It was not possible to specify colors by their names. Postprocessing the frames and the set of labels was not easy. -* [#15425](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15425): The Kronecker product `a.*.b` failed when `a` or `b` or both are hypermatrices, with one or both being polynomials or rationals. -* [#15428](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15428): `repmat()` was slow. Its code did not use `kron()` and was complex. -* [#15431](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15431): The empty matrix `[]` and its non-convertibility were poorly documented. -* [#15451](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15451): The code was not adapted to use `lucene 4.10` in Debian. -* [#15514](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15514): The `set()` documentation page needed to be overhauled. -* [#15517](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15517): `factorial(n)` could be actually used up to only n=170. -* [#15522](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15522): `unique()` was not able to consider all Nan values as the same value. A `uniqueNan` option now allows it. -* [#15523](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15523): `%ODEOPTIONS(1)=2` didn't work with solvers 'rk' and 'rkf' -* [#15534](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15534): Booleans and encoded integers could not be concatenated together. -* [#15577](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15577): `edit` did not accept a line number as text, as with `edit linspace 21`. -* [#15580](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15580): `det(sparse([],[]))` yielded an error. -* [#15737](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15737): `setdiff` was wrong with complex numbers. -* [#15981](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15981): `wavread()` kept the wav file open and locked when returning on errors. It weakly managed the input file name. It claimed for invalid data formats instead of unsupported ones, with poor information about the current format vs the supported ones. Several error messages refered to a wrong function. -* [#15595](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15595): `unique()` was not able to return distinct values in their original order, without sorting them. A `keepOrder` option now allows it. -* [#15668](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15668): `save(filename)` saved all predefined Scilab constants %e %pi etc.. (regression) -* [#15715](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15715): `%nan` indices crashed Scilab. -* [#15734](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15734): `intersect()` did not support complex numbers. -* [#15742](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15742): The `compatibility_functions` module should be merged in the `m2sci` one. -* [#15581](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15581): display of complex matrix was ugly. -* [#15628](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15628): `with_tk` was a duplicate of `with_module('tclsci')`. It is removed. -* [#15680](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15680): `loadmatfile` could not return variables in a structure instead of into the calling environment. -* [#15701](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15701): `A\B` was not faster when `A` is square and triangular. -* [#15734](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15734): Trivial infinite loop could not be interrupted. -* [#15744](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15744): `sylm(a,b)` yielded an error when degree(a)==0 or degree(b)==0. -* [#15745](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15745): `diophant(0,0,m)`, `diophant([p 0],q)`, `diophant([0 p],q)` with m<>0 and p>q were wrong. There was no flag for cases with an infinite number of solutions. When there is no solution, some values were returned anyway, instead of []. In this case, the documented definition of the err value was dubious. Decimal numbers and integers were accepted, but not encoded integers. Inf and NaN input coefficients were not rejected. -* [#15812](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15812): On assigning variables the source variable may become become corrupted -* [#15821](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15821): `fac3d()` and fac3d1()` were still in Scilab 6.0 despite they were tagged obsolete 14 years ago in Scilab 4.1 -* [#15825](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15825): `gsort()` could not sort completely dense matrices of complex numbers. -* [#15840](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15840): `grand(1,"prm",m)` yielded an unsqueezed size([size(m) 1]) hypermatrix -* [#15934](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15934): The `^ hat` page wrongly indicated that `^` applied to a rectangular matrix not being a vector is done element-wise. -* [#15948](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15948): `xlabel`, `ylabel`, `zlabel` and `title` needed to be upgraded. -* [#15964](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15954): A complex empty sparse matrix could be obtained after insertion. -* [#15967](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15967): `setdiff(1,[])` was [] instead of `1`. `setdiff(a,[],..)` was not enough tested. -* [#15969](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15969): Fix spelling -* [#15974](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15974): `msprintf("%d", %nan)` did not return Nan -* [#15977](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15977): The documentation for `wavread(..,'info')` had a mistake. The `wavread` page deserved some improvements. -* [#15978](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15978): The `writewav()` page in english said that input data are one column per channel, instead of one row per channel. In addition, in case of writing error, `savewave()` kept the output file open and locked. -* [#15983](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15983): `group` regressed in 5.5.2 due to a too intrusive fix. -* [#15984](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15984): display scale was wrong with Retina dispplays on OSX.. -* [#15995](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15995): patch was missing in surface plot (regression) -* [#15998](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15998): `mfile2sci()` yielded an unsuitable warning when converting `atan()`. -* [#16000](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16000): `mfile2sci()` converted `acoth()` using `atanh()` and yielding a wrong warning message. -* [#16003](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16003): Zoom with mouse scroll wheel was broken on simple surfaces. -* [#16005](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16005): The `intdec` example was biased and not robust when changing sampling frequencies. -* [#16007](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16007): Non-integer index in sparse makes Scilab crash. -* [#16008](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16008): Uimenu .callback_type, .children, .handle_visible, .user_data properties, and using HTML styling in .label were not documented. -* [#16011](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16011): `colorbar(umin, umax)` did not work after `plot3d2`. -* [#16012](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16012): `[struct() struct()]` crashed Scilab. -* [#16013](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16013): Load previously saved environment with "File/Load environment" menu failed. -* [#16014](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16014): after `x.a=1; x(:)=[]` x.a was an empty list. -* [#16015](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16015): `intg(a,b,f)` called f(x) with x outside [a,b]. -* [#16019](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16019): `polarplot(x,Z)` yielded an error when x is a vector and Z a matrix. -* [#16021](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16021): `tand([-90 90])` answered [Nan Nan] instead of [-Inf, Inf]. `cotd([-90 90])` answered [Nan Nan] instead of [0 0]. `1 ./cosd([-90 90])` answered [Inf -Inf] instead of [Inf Inf]. -* [#16026](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16026): For `atanh`, neither the documentation pages nor the `m2sci` converter were up to date. -* [#16046](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16046): After `w=ssrand(2,3,4)`, `[]+w`, `[]-w`, `w+[]` and `w-[]` yielded an "operation +/- []" warning. -* [#16051](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16051): undefined list elements could be of 2 distinct typeof "void" or "listundefined" according to the way they are created. -* [#16053](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16053): `plot(,"color",c)` no longer supported standard abbreviated color names c like "k" for black. -* [#16067](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16067): The display of matrices of signed integers was misaligned (regression of 6.0.0 vs 5.5.2) -* [#16071](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16071): `prettyprint(complex(1,%nan))` omitted the "+" in `1 + Nani`. It printed positive exponents with a useless "+". For any input nul polynomial, the string result never included the name of the variable. Default input arguments could not be skipped. ExportFormat was uselessly case-sensitive. For tex|latex: for text input, $ \ % & { } ~ and ^ special characters were not protected ; spaces were not protected, all words were concatenated ; for polynomials and rationals, the result string could be extremely long and not easily wrappable. For MathML: "<" was not protected ; were missing for text input ; , , , , , and tags were not wrapped and could not be indented. Delimiters: "" was not documented as possible value ; ")" was wrongly documented. Dynamical linear systems were not documented as possible input. -* [#16072](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16072): `prettyprint` did not actually support input encoded integers. -* [#16075](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16075): `prettyprint` was broken for cells. -* [#16079](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16079): `part("",$)` and `part("",$-1:$+2)` yielded an error instead of returning "" and " ". -* [#16085](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16085): insertion in an empty struct was broken. -* [#16087](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16087): Insertion of struct in a non-empty struct crashed Scilab. -* [#16089](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16089): x=1:1e10 freezed Scilab. -* [#16095](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16095): For a matrix of graphic handles of same types, it was no longer possible to clear a property by assigning []. -* [#16097](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16097): `coth()` was more than twice slower than `1./tanh()`. `tanh` and `coth` did not accept sparse-encoded input. -* [#16102](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16102): `lstcat` could not concatenate input lists with mixed objects of types>10 like 1:$, sin, sind, struct, cells, tlists or mlists. In addition, it was slow for very long inputs lists. -* [#16104](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16104): `assert_checkequal` did not support properly or at all Nan and void in lists, Nan in sparse, implicit lists, macros, libraries, built-in functions, graphical handles. For input arrays or lists of matching typeof and sizes, the failure message did not display neither the index nor the values of the first mismatching elements. -* [#16111](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16111): `isglobal` was not supporting non-scalar array of strings as input. -* [#16118](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16118): `%s <> (1+%s)` returned %F. -* [#16135](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16135): base2dec did not detect invalid numbers. -* [#16137](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16137): After running `playsnd(..)` on Windows for a long sound, it was not possible to stop it. -* [#16138](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16138): `playsnd(..)` could not be run in a non-modal (asynchronous) way on Linux and MacOS. -* [#16139](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16139): `auread()` and `auwrite()` kept the sound file open and locked when returning on errors. They poorly handled the default .au sound file extension. -* [#16140](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16140): `playsnd(..)` could not directly accept an audio file and could not repeat the input sound. -* [#16143](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16143): `clc(n)` cleared n+1 lines instead of n>0. Thus, it was not possible to clear only one line. -* [#16144](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16144): Addition of sparse matrices gave incorrect results. -* [#16148](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16148): `setPreferencesValue` is a general usage function and deserved to be renamed `xmlSetValues`. -* [#16149](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16149): `fullpath` did not support symbolic links in paths -* [#16152](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16152): For sparse or boolean sparse matrix `s`, `s([])` returned `[]` instead of `sparse([])`. -* [#16155](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16155): `flipdim(hypermat,dim,sb)` yielded wrong results for dim<3 and sb>1, and yielded an error for dim>2. -* [#16158](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16158): When a multicolumn array of rationals was displayed wide column per column, columns #2:$ were replaced with its column #2. -* [#16160](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16160): `ppol` changed values of third input variable. -* [#16164](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16164): Help pages in elementary_functions/signal_processing were mislocated. -* [#16166](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16166): `noisegen()` is crooky, even threatening, and very poor. It is tagged as obsolete and will be removed from Scilab 6.1.x. -* [#16168](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16168): On some Linux installations, `test_run()` always failed. -* [#16174](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16174): `libraryinfo` yielded 0x0 matrix of strings for libs without macro -* [#16177](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16177): In the uicontrol help page, the first example was bugged. -* [#16178](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16178): `sci2exp` yielded an error for any input macro without output argument. -* [#16181](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16181): `mfile2sci` yielded an error on `a(end)` standing for `a($)` (Scilab 6 regression). -* [#16190](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16190): console width was fixed at 75 in nw and nwni mode regardless of terminal width. -* [#16197](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16197): result of extraction was not decomplexified when applicable. -* [#16199](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16199): In the documentation, `zpk2tf` and `zpk2ss` examples yielded an error. -* [#16200](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16200): Concatenation of transposed cells crashed Scilab. -* [#16208](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16208): Using 3D string matrix with old C-api gateways may crash Scilab. -* [#16209](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16209): `grand` causes a freeze after several consecutive calls when using default base generator. -* [#16210](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16210): The uicontrol.units = "normalized" property was not described. -* [#16215](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16215): `mfile2sci` badly converted the colon `:` into `mtlb(:)` -* [#16227](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16227): `WSCI` was not defined as environment variable and could not be used as `%WSCI%` in commands sent with `host()` or `unix_*()`. -* [#16229](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16229): Some outdated parts of the `help scilab` page were misleading. -* [#16230](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16230): `MSWin>scilab --help` missed displaying some options like `-args..`, `-noatomsautoload`, etc. -* [#16232](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16232): `colorbar()` did not support `$` in `colminmax`, standing for the number of colors in the current color map. -* [#16234](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16234): Airy functions were not available. -* [#16242](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16242): `loadmatfile()` could not read Octave native text data files. -* [#16245](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16245): `gsort` could not sort booleans. -* [#16246](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16246): `isvector` was broken for sparse matrices. -* [#16257](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16257): `blockdiag()` implemented to replace `sysdiag()`, improved and extended to strings. -* [#16259](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16259): `*` and `.*` multiplications involving a sparse boolean and a double, or involving 2 booleans, were not implemented. -* [#16260](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16260): overloading `nnz` was not possible (regression). -* [#16263](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16263): Polynomial insertion was broken for complex case. -* [#16264](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16264): After empty for loop iterator was left uninitialized. -* [#16265](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16265): The translated pages of the `warning` documentation were not up-to-date. -* [#16269](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16269): Scalar structures were poorly displayed. -* [#16271](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16271): `loadmatfile()` was never able to automatically detect the input data format. -* [#16272](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16272): `spzeros(0,n)` and `spzeros(n,0)` were different from `sparse(0,0)`. -* [#16273](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16273): `calendar` had no formated display mode. -* [#16275](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16275): `fsolve(x0, fun, tol)` no longer took `tol` into account. -* [#16290](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16290): The `cn`, `dn`, `ns`, `nc` and `nd` Jacobi elliptic functions were not available. -* [#16292](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16292): `hallchart()` had bugs and a poor rendering. -* [#16293](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16293): Some demos run in step-by-step console mode(4) did not focus user's attention to the console to proceed. -* [#16299](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16299): After `graypolarplot`, `colorbar` displayed an empty ungraduated color bar. -* [#16300](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16300): Short description in while help page has been updated. -* [#16303](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16303): log10(x) had wrong dimensions when x is an hypermatrix. -* [#16307](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16307): `dockable="off"` and `closerequestfcn` on figures crached Scilab. -* [#16320](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16320): There were unsupported UTF-8 characters in some gettext id messages. -* [#16321](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16321): There were typo errors in the documentation. -* [#16323](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16323): `conj(sparse(x))` was complex when x is real. -* [#16325](http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16325): `mgetl` could not read single line data which is greater than ~260,000 characters. +* [#2694](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/2694): `bitget` did not accept positive integers of types int8, int16 or int32. +* [#6070](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/6070): How to make multiscaled plots was not documented. +* [#7562](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/7562): `factorial` could use a huge memory amount even for a scalar argument. +* [#7657](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/7657): `lstsize` was a duplicate of `size` and should be removed. +* [#7724](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/7724): When a figure is created in .auto_resize="on" mode, its .axes_size sets its .figure_size accordingly, not the reverse. But this was not documented. +* [#7765](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/7765): `champ1` is useless. `champ().colored` is available for a long time. +* [#7948](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/7948): `gsort` could not perform multilevel sorting, and could not sort complex numbers completely. +* [#7967](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/7967): The tricky size `[ny,nx]` of `meshgrid(x,y)` results and usages with graphics was not enough documented. +* [#8301](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/8301): `definedfields` wrongly considered as defined void elements in lists, tlists and mlists. +* [#8307](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/8307): `list2vec` and `vec2list` were located in the optimization module instead of in data_structures, and were missing in the `See also` section of `list`. +* [#8393](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/8393): `isdef` and `definedfields` had mismatching answers for void elements in lists, mlists or tlists. +* [#8418](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/8418): `unique` was not able to return the number of occurences of returned dictinct entities. +* [#8784](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/8784): Automatic self-adjusting blocks `SCALE_CSCOPE` & `SCALE_CMSCOPE` in Xcos. +* [#5512](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/5512): `disp` puzzlingly displayed arguments in reverse order. +* [#9007](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/9007): On Linux, `sciargs()` included twice `-nw` when `-nw` is used. +* [#9529](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/9529): `assert_checkequal(list(1,,3), list(1,,3))` yielded an error. +* [#9673](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/9673): Priority of colon `:` operator was too low +* [#10078](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/10078): `isinf` was not reliable for polynomials. +* [#10353](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/10353): Documentation: The referential for the uicontrol.position property was not provided. Moreover, `gca().axes_bounds` refered to `fig.figure_size` instead of `fig.axes_size`. +* [#10553](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/10553): After calling `colorbar`, retrieving the handle of the new color bar was not trivial. +* [#10723](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/10723): `subplot`'s action was unclearly described in its help page. Page improved. +* [#11852](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/11852): File browser didn't update after file creation or removal. +* [#11363](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/11363): `show_window()` did not raise the current graphics window. +* [#13738](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/13738): `get_figure_handle` was a specific duplicate of the more powerful `findobj('figure_id',n)` feature. It is now obsolete. +* [#12520](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/12520): Variable browser did not display the size of the variables. +* [#12534](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/12534): Variable browser did not display the size of the variables. +* [#12837](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/12837): `strcmpi` was an obsolete duplicate of `strcmp(,'i')`. It is removed. +* [#13683](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/13683): unsetmenu for a dockable="off" figure crashed Scilab. +* [#13766](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/13766): Minimal values for `.figure_size` were not documented. +* [#14015](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/14015): Nan terms added to a polynomial were ignored. +* [#14422](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/14422): `clc(0)` did nothing, now clears last console entry. Remove leading blank after a `clc()`. +* [#14498](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/14498): `size([],3)` returned 1 instead of 0. +* [#14501](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/14501): `strsubst` crashed on consecutive occurrences. +* [#14557](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/14557): `csim` failed when the system has no state. +* [#14498](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/14498): `size([],3)` returned 1 instead of 0. +* [#14502](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/14502): `Demo > GUI > Uicontrols 2` could not be exported to a file. +* [#14604](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/14604): `emptystr` is 40x slower with 6.0.0 wrt 5.5.2 +* [#14605](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/14605): fixed - `bench_run` was too strict about the specification of tests names. +* [#14606](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/14606): Memory used by variables returned by `[names,mem]=who()` was always zero. +* [#14610](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/14610): `x = ric_desc(H,E)` always yielded an error. [x1,x2,residual] = ric_desc(..) returned a wrong `residual` value. +* [#14642](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/14642): No more "\r" carriage return with printf. +* [#14735](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/14735): The `genetic_algorithms` module was out of the `optimization` one. +* [#14741](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/14741): The syntax `[m,e]=log2(x)` was not documented. As public function `frexp` was in duplicate with `[m,e]=log2(x)`. +* [#14742](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/14742): `mprintf`, `msprintf` a non finite number displayed nothing. +* [#14746](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/14746): Tiny numbers were sometimes displayed as 0. +* [#14791](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/14791): `sleep 1` crashed Scilab. +* [#14812](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/14812): Minor typos in messages. +* [#14836](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/14836): Calling `exportUI` on a non dockable figure crashed scilab. +* [#14863](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/14863): In Xcos, the default ending time was unhandily high (100000), reduced it to 30. +* [#14982](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/14982): `msprintf` segmentation fault was caught due to wrong size +* [#14985](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/14985): Scilab crashed if a .bin file was not found. +* [#15068](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15068): `size(sum(ones(2,3,4,5),4))` was [4 2 3] instead of [2 3 4]. +* [#15087](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15087): Deleting rows or columns from a matrix is slow (regression) +* [#15248](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15248): `lsq`was leaking memory. +* [#15269](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15269): `xgetech` was poor and stiff compared to any combination of `gca()` properties `.axes_bounds`, `.data_bounds`, `.log_flags`, and `.margins`. It is removed. +* [#15271](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15271): `bitget` needed to be upgraded. +* [#15309](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15309): `eval` was a weak duplicate of `evstr`. It should be removed. +* [#15321](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15321): `lu` was leaking memory. +* [#15350](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15350): `ric_desc` should be merged into `riccati`. +* [#15359](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15359): `twinkle` was not able to blink several independent objects. +* [#15360](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15360): `numer` and `denom` were poor and duplicates of the `.num` and `.den` fields of rationals. They are removed. +* [#15368](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15368): `freson` silently returned frequencies not corresponding to a maximum, or returned [] instead of some still computable maxima frequencies. +* [#15392](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15392): `comet` and `comet3d` did not allow specifying colors with colors names. +* [#15393](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15393): In a new figure, `nicholschart` plotted nothing. The default frame color was a flashy cyan. The position of gain labels could be puzzling. It was not possible to specify colors by their names. Postprocessing the frames and the set of labels was not easy. +* [#15425](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15425): The Kronecker product `a .*. b` failed when `a` or `b` or both are hypermatrices, with one or both being polynomials or rationals. +* [#15428](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15428): `repmat` was slow. Its code did not use `kron` and was complex. +* [#15431](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15431): The empty matrix `[]` and its non-convertibility were poorly documented. +* [#15451](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15451): The code was not adapted to use `lucene 4.10` in Debian. +* [#15514](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15514): The `set` documentation page needed to be overhauled. +* [#15517](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15517): `factorial` could be actually used up to only n=170. +* [#15522](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15522): `unique` was not able to consider all Nan values as the same value. A `uniqueNan` option now allows it. +* [#15523](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15523): `%ODEOPTIONS(1)=2` didn't work with solvers 'rk' and 'rkf' +* [#15534](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15534): Booleans and encoded integers could not be concatenated together. +* [#15577](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15577): `edit` did not accept a line number as text, as with `edit linspace 21`. +* [#15580](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15580): `det(sparse([],[]))` yielded an error. +* [#15737](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15737): `setdiff` was wrong with complex numbers. +* [#15981](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15981): `wavread` kept the wav file open and locked when returning on errors. It weakly managed the input file name. It claimed for invalid data formats instead of unsupported ones, with poor information about the current format vs the supported ones. Several error messages refered to a wrong function. +* [#15595](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15595): `unique` was not able to return distinct values in their original order, without sorting them. A `keepOrder` option now allows it. +* [#15668](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15668): `save(filename)` saved all predefined Scilab constants %e %pi etc.. (regression) +* [#15715](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15715): `%nan` indices crashed Scilab. +* [#15734](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15734): `intersect` did not support complex numbers. +* [#15742](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15742): The `compatibility_functions` module should be merged in the `m2sci` one. +* [#15581](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15581): display of complex matrix was ugly. +* [#15628](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15628): `with_tk` was a duplicate of `with_module('tclsci')`. It is removed. +* [#15680](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15680): `loadmatfile` could not return variables in a structure instead of into the calling environment. +* [#15701](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15701): `A\B` was not faster when `A` is square and triangular. +* [#15734](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15734): Trivial infinite loop could not be interrupted. +* [#15744](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15744): `sylm(a,b)` yielded an error when degree(a)==0 or degree(b)==0. +* [#15745](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15745): `diophant(0,0,m)`, `diophant([p 0],q)`, `diophant([0 p],q)` with m<>0 and p>q were wrong. There was no flag for cases with an infinite number of solutions. When there is no solution, some values were returned anyway, instead of []. In this case, the documented definition of the err value was dubious. Decimal numbers and integers were accepted, but not encoded integers. Inf and NaN input coefficients were not rejected. +* [#15812](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15812): On assigning variables the source variable may become become corrupted +* [#15821](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15821): `fac3d` and `fac3d1` were still in Scilab 6.0 despite they were tagged obsolete 14 years ago in Scilab 4.1 +* [#15825](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15825): `gsort` could not sort completely dense matrices of complex numbers. +* [#15840](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15840): `grand(1,"prm",m)` yielded an unsqueezed size([size(m) 1]) hypermatrix +* [#15934](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15934): The `^ hat` page wrongly indicated that `^` applied to a rectangular matrix not being a vector is done element-wise. +* [#15948](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15948): `xlabel`, `ylabel`, `zlabel` and `title` needed to be upgraded. +* [#15964](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15954): A complex empty sparse matrix could be obtained after insertion. +* [#15967](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15967): `setdiff(1,[])` was [] instead of `1`. `setdiff(a,[],..)` was not enough tested. +* [#15969](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15969): Fix spelling +* [#15974](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15974): `msprintf("%d", %nan)` did not return Nan +* [#15977](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15977): The documentation for `wavread(..,'info')` had a mistake. The `wavread` page deserved some improvements. +* [#15978](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15978): The `writewav` page in english said that input data are one column per channel, instead of one row per channel. In addition, in case of writing error, `savewave` kept the output file open and locked. +* [#15983](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15983): `group` regressed in 5.5.2 due to a too intrusive fix. +* [#15984](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15984): display scale was wrong with Retina dispplays on OSX.. +* [#15995](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15995): patch was missing in surface plot (regression) +* [#15998](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/15998): `mfile2sci` yielded an unsuitable warning when converting `atan`. +* [#16000](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16000): `mfile2sci` converted `acoth` using `atanh` and yielding a wrong warning message. +* [#16003](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16003): Zoom with mouse scroll wheel was broken on simple surfaces. +* [#16005](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16005): The `intdec` example was biased and not robust when changing sampling frequencies. +* [#16007](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16007): Non-integer index in sparse makes Scilab crash. +* [#16008](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16008): Uimenu .callback_type, .children, .handle_visible, .user_data properties, and using HTML styling in .label were not documented. +* [#16011](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16011): `colorbar(umin, umax)` did not work after `plot3d2`. +* [#16012](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16012): `[struct() struct()]` crashed Scilab. +* [#16013](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16013): Load previously saved environment with "File/Load environment" menu failed. +* [#16014](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16014): after `x.a=1; x(:)=[]` x.a was an empty list. +* [#16015](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16015): `intg(a,b,f)` called f(x) with x outside [a,b]. +* [#16019](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16019): `polarplot(x,Z)` yielded an error when x is a vector and Z a matrix. +* [#16021](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16021): `tand([-90 90])` answered [Nan Nan] instead of [-Inf, Inf]. `cotd([-90 90])` answered [Nan Nan] instead of [0 0]. `1 ./cosd([-90 90])` answered [Inf -Inf] instead of [Inf Inf]. +* [#16026](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16026): For `atanh`, neither the documentation pages nor the `m2sci` converter were up to date. +* [#16046](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16046): After `w=ssrand(2,3,4)`, `[]+w`, `[]-w`, `w+[]` and `w-[]` yielded an "operation +/- []" warning. +* [#16051](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16051): undefined list elements could be of 2 distinct typeof "void" or "listundefined" according to the way they are created. +* [#16053](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16053): `plot(,"color",c)` no longer supported standard abbreviated color names c like "k" for black. +* [#16067](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16067): The display of matrices of signed integers was misaligned (regression of 6.0.0 vs 5.5.2) +* [#16071](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16071): `prettyprint(complex(1,%nan))` omitted the "+" in `1 + Nani`. It printed positive exponents with a useless "+". For any input nul polynomial, the string result never included the name of the variable. Default input arguments could not be skipped. ExportFormat was uselessly case-sensitive. For tex|latex: for text input, $ \ % & { } ~ and ^ special characters were not protected ; spaces were not protected, all words were concatenated ; for polynomials and rationals, the result string could be extremely long and not easily wrappable. For MathML: "<" was not protected ; were missing for text input ; , , , , , and tags were not wrapped and could not be indented. Delimiters: "" was not documented as possible value ; ")" was wrongly documented. Dynamical linear systems were not documented as possible input. +* [#16072](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16072): `prettyprint` did not actually support input encoded integers. +* [#16075](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16075): `prettyprint` was broken for cells. +* [#16079](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16079): `part("",$)` and `part("",$-1:$+2)` yielded an error instead of returning "" and " ". +* [#16085](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16085): insertion in an empty struct was broken. +* [#16087](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16087): Insertion of struct in a non-empty struct crashed Scilab. +* [#16089](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16089): x=1:1e10 freezed Scilab. +* [#16095](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16095): For a matrix of graphic handles of same types, it was no longer possible to clear a property by assigning []. +* [#16097](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16097): `coth` was more than twice slower than `1./tanh()`. `tanh` and `coth` did not accept sparse-encoded input. +* [#16102](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16102): `lstcat` could not concatenate input lists with mixed objects of types>10 like 1:$, sin, sind, struct, cells, tlists or mlists. In addition, it was slow for very long inputs lists. +* [#16104](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16104): `assert_checkequal` did not support properly or at all Nan and void in lists, Nan in sparse, implicit lists, macros, libraries, built-in functions, graphical handles. For input arrays or lists of matching typeof and sizes, the failure message did not display neither the index nor the values of the first mismatching elements. +* [#16111](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16111): `isglobal` was not supporting non-scalar array of strings as input. +* [#16118](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16118): `%s <> (1+%s)` returned %F. +* [#16135](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16135): base2dec did not detect invalid numbers. +* [#16137](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16137): After running `playsnd` on Windows for a long sound, it was not possible to stop it. +* [#16138](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16138): `playsnd` could not be run in a non-modal (asynchronous) way on Linux and MacOS. +* [#16139](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16139): `auread` and `auwrite` kept the sound file open and locked when returning on errors. They poorly handled the default .au sound file extension. +* [#16140](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16140): `playsnd` could not directly accept an audio file and could not repeat the input sound. +* [#16143](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16143): `clc(n)` cleared n+1 lines instead of n>0. Thus, it was not possible to clear only one line. +* [#16144](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16144): Addition of sparse matrices gave incorrect results. +* [#16148](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16148): `setPreferencesValue` is a general usage function and deserved to be renamed `xmlSetValues`. +* [#16149](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16149): `fullpath` did not support symbolic links in paths +* [#16152](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16152): For sparse or boolean sparse matrix `s`, `s([])` returned `[]` instead of `sparse([])`. +* [#16155](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16155): `flipdim(hypermat,dim,sb)` yielded wrong results for dim<3 and sb>1, and yielded an error for dim>2. +* [#16158](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16158): When a multicolumn array of rationals was displayed wide column per column, columns #2:$ were replaced with its column #2. +* [#16160](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16160): `ppol` changed values of third input variable. +* [#16164](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16164): Help pages in elementary_functions/signal_processing were mislocated. +* [#16166](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16166): `noisegen` is crooky, even threatening, and very poor. It is tagged as obsolete and will be removed from Scilab 6.1.x. +* [#16168](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16168): On some Linux installations, `test_run` always failed. +* [#16174](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16174): `libraryinfo` yielded 0x0 matrix of strings for libs without macro +* [#16177](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16177): In the uicontrol help page, the first example was bugged. +* [#16178](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16178): `sci2exp` yielded an error for any input macro without output argument. +* [#16181](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16181): `mfile2sci` yielded an error on `a(end)` standing for `a($)` (Scilab 6 regression). +* [#16190](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16190): console width was fixed at 75 in nw and nwni mode regardless of terminal width. +* [#16197](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16197): result of extraction was not decomplexified when applicable. +* [#16199](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16199): In the documentation, `zpk2tf` and `zpk2ss` examples yielded an error. +* [#16200](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16200): Concatenation of transposed cells crashed Scilab. +* [#16208](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16208): Using 3D string matrix with old C-api gateways may crash Scilab. +* [#16209](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16209): `grand` causes a freeze after several consecutive calls when using default base generator. +* [#16210](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16210): The uicontrol.units = "normalized" property was not described. +* [#16215](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16215): `mfile2sci` badly converted the colon `:` into `mtlb(:)` +* [#16227](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16227): `WSCI` was not defined as environment variable and could not be used as `%WSCI%` in commands sent with `host` or `unix_*`. +* [#16229](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16229): Some outdated parts of the `help scilab` page were misleading. +* [#16230](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16230): `MSWin>scilab --help` missed displaying some options like `-args..`, `-noatomsautoload`, etc. +* [#16232](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16232): `colorbar` did not support `$` in `colminmax`, standing for the number of colors in the current color map. +* [#16234](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16234): Airy functions were not available. +* [#16242](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16242): `loadmatfile` could not read Octave native text data files. +* [#16245](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16245): `gsort` could not sort booleans. +* [#16246](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16246): `isvector` was broken for sparse matrices. +* [#16257](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16257): `blockdiag` implemented to replace `sysdiag`, improved and extended to strings. +* [#16259](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16259): `*` and `.*` multiplications involving a sparse boolean and a double, or involving 2 booleans, were not implemented. +* [#16260](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16260): overloading `nnz` was not possible (regression). +* [#16263](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16263): Polynomial insertion was broken for complex case. +* [#16264](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16264): After empty for loop iterator was left uninitialized. +* [#16265](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16265): The translated pages of the `warning` documentation were not up-to-date. +* [#16269](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16269): Scalar structures were poorly displayed. +* [#16271](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16271): `loadmatfile` was never able to automatically detect the input data format. +* [#16272](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16272): `spzeros(0,n)` and `spzeros(n,0)` were different from `sparse(0,0)`. +* [#16273](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16273): `calendar` had no formated display mode. +* [#16275](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16275): `fsolve(x0, fun, tol)` no longer took `tol` into account. +* [#16290](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16290): The `cn`, `dn`, `ns`, `nc` and `nd` Jacobi elliptic functions were not available. +* [#16292](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16292): `hallchart` had bugs and a poor rendering. +* [#16293](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16293): Some demos run in step-by-step console mode(4) did not focus user's attention to the console to proceed. +* [#16299](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16299): After `graypolarplot`, `colorbar` displayed an empty ungraduated color bar. +* [#16303](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16303): log10(x) had wrong dimensions when x is an hypermatrix. +* [#16307](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16307): `dockable="off"` and `closerequestfcn` on figures crached Scilab. +* [#16320](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16320): There were unsupported UTF-8 characters in some gettext id messages. +* [#16321](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16321): There were typo errors in the documentation. +* [#16323](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16323): `conj(sparse(x))` was complex when x is real. +* [#16325](https://bugzilla.scilab.org/16325): `mgetl` could not read single line data which is greater than ~260,000 characters. diff --git a/scilab/modules/helptools/data/pages/CHANGES.html b/scilab/modules/helptools/data/pages/CHANGES.html index b251bb8..73cb4f7 100644 --- a/scilab/modules/helptools/data/pages/CHANGES.html +++ b/scilab/modules/helptools/data/pages/CHANGES.html @@ -27,9 +27,9 @@
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Welcome to Scilab 6.0.2

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This file details the changes between Scilab 6.0.2 (this release) and the old stable release 5.5.2 (including information from 6.0.1 and 6.0.0). -For changelogs of earlier releases, please see Scilab 5.5.2.

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Welcome to Scilab 6.1.X

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This file details the changes between Scilab 6.1.X (this development branch), and the previous release 6.0.X. +For changelogs of earlier releases, please see Scilab 6.0.0.

This file is intended for the specific needs of advanced users, and describes:

  • High-level new features,
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    Main new features

    For a high-level description of the main new features of this release, please consult the embedded help. It is also available as the "What's new" page of the help, by simply typing help in Scilab console.

    In summary, the main new features are:

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    • New language parser and interpreter, ensuring: +
    • Webtools utilities added for HTTP protocol, JSON data usage
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    • Profiled values are available as Scilab values
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      • Clearer, less ambiguous, language syntax.
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      • Xcos also uses the new re-written Scilab engine.
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      • they are displayed in order on assignment
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      • strings are quoted
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      • complex numbers are aligned for matrices
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      • numbers (IEEE 754 double) are not rounded
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      • polynomials and rationals display is more compact
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      • In structures, nested lists or structures are now displayed recursively compactly and more explicitly.
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    • New code productivity features: full-featured debugger, profiler/coverage tool, and "lint"-like commands.
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    • Newsfeed, providing a continuous feed of news, tips, and general communication from the community and from Scilab Enterprises.
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    • Licensing change: Scilab is now released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) v2.0 -It is still also available under the terms of the CeCILL v2.1.
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    • A tbx_make() function is added to build a toolbox following the toolbox directory structure convention
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    • ATOMS builder functions are now less dependent on the script files in the macros, help, etc, src and sci_gateway directories. These functions will do nothing (but warn the user) if they find no target to build: -
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    Windows starting changes:

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    The options -nw and -nwni are no longer supported by binaries (WScilex.exe, WScilex-cli.exe and Scilex.exe). Each binary already matches an execution mode and batch file Scilab.bat has been added to select the right binary depending on the option flag:

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    • scilab -nwni starts Scilex.exe: Scilab CLI without Java, Graphics, Xcos, etc.
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    • importgui function has been added to easily interface csvRead
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    • function calls with zero output arguments can be detected with argn
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    Others flags are forwarded to binaries as before.

    Installation

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    • Under Windows, MKL packages are now included in Scilab installer and are not more downloaded anymore while installing Scilab.
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    Compilation

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    To build Scilab from sources, or to build extensions code (Toolboxes):

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    • A C++11 compliant compiler is now needed.
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    • Java 8 is now required to build Java code (version switch to 1.8).
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    • Ant minimal version switched to 1.9.0 (for Java 8 compatibility).
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    • ecj minimal version switched to 4.4.0 (for Java 8 compatibility).
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    • --without-xcos now only disable Xcos compilation. Xcos graphical interface is disabled using --without-gui.
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    Dependencies

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    • Apache xmlgraphics stack upgraded to the latest versions: +
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      GNU autotools have been updated to :

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      • automake 1.15
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      • libtool 2.4.6 (patched for macOS)
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      Linux and macOS builds require a C++17 compiler. Toolboxes might also want to use this standard by specifying -std=c++17 as a CFLAGS

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      Migration to Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 and Intel Composer 2018

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    Dependencies

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    • Lucene has been updated to 8.4.0; API compatibility is preserved down to 5.2.1.

    Packaging & Supported Operating Systems

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      Scilab embedded JVM has been upgraded to Java 1.8. To run or compile Scilab you need at least:

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      Scilab embedded JVM is Java 8. To run or compile Scilab you need at least:

      • Windows:

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        • Mac OS X:

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          • Intel-based Mac running Mac OS X 10.8.3+, 10.9+

        • Linux:

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          • Oracle Linux 5.5+, 6.x (32-bit), 6.x (64-bit), 7.x (64-bit)
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          For more information, please consult: What are the system requirements for Java?

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          SSE2, Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 support is now mandatory to run Scilab on Linux i686.

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        Language changes

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        Some small changes have been done to the language syntax, aiming at more clarity and less ambiguity. Some changes are not compatible with 5.5; code written for Scilab 5.x has to be modified in order to work in Scilab 6.0.

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        See the wiki page on porting code from 5.5 to 6.0 for details and examples.

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        • EXPBLK_m (a^u) and POWBLK_f (u^a) icons now show the value of the a parameter. The AUTOMAT icon now shows Nmodes and Nstates values. The SineVoltage icon now shows the frequency value. In the Electrical palette, the Resistor, Inductor, Capacitor, and ConstantVoltage icons now show the actual value of the parameter.
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        • Block modifications: -
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          • INVBLK: add a divide by zero parameter to ignore the error
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          • PRODUCT: add a divide by zero parameter to ignore the error
            • +
          • on APIv5 C CheckOutputArgument(ctx, min, max) the min argument should be set to 0 if needed.
            • +
          • on APIv5 C getNbOutputArgument(ctx) the return value could be 0
            • +
          • on APIv6 C++ the _iRetCount argument value could be 0.
          -
          • -
        • The palette browser has been improved. The following features were included:
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          • search engine
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          • history (go forward or backward)
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          • drag and drop multiple blocks at once
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          • zoom using CTRL(+), CTRL(-) and CTRL(mouse wheel)
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          • load SVG icons
            • +
          • On APIv6 C++, a virtual method has been added on internal types which break the ABI. Toolboxes need to be recompiled.
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          • -
        • For many blocks, the value of the main parameter is now displayed on the block's icon: Resistor, Inductor, Capacitor, ConstanteVoltage, CONVERT, Automaton, EXPBLK_m, POWBLK_f, MAXMIN, TrigFun. Improved display of the EXPRESSION.
          • -
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        • Deleted obsolete WFILE_f block, please use WRITEC_f instead.
          • -
        -

        API modification

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        A new set of C APIs to write C or C++ extensions (toolboxes) to Scilab. -It allows defining native functions (commonly called "gateways"), getting input parameters for such functions, setting return parameters, accessing local variables, using common helper functions for accessing environment information (such as warning level), generate errors... -It also includes ways to overload existing Scilab functions to support additional parameter types (see help scilab_overload). Finally, you can call back Scilab functions (macros and built-in functions) from your gateway (see help scilab_call). -User-defined functions written in C or C++ (gateways) must now use a void* pvApiCtx name as a second parameter instead of any unsigned long l. This is now required for some macros, such as Rhs, to work. -For example: use int sci_Levkov(char *fname, void* pvApiCtx) instead of int sci_Levkov(char *fname) or int sci_Levkov(char *fname, unsigned long l).

        Obsolete functions or features

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        • datatipToggle is obsolete and will be removed in Scilab 6.1. Please use the datatipManagerMode instead.
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        • denom is obsolete and will be removed in Scilab 6.1. Please use the .den rational attribute instead.
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        • dgettext is obsolete and will be removed in Scilab 6.1. Please use gettext(domain, text) instead.
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        • dirname is obsolete and will be removed in Scilab 6.1. Please use fileparts instead.
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        • eval is obsolete and will be removed in Scilab 6.1. Please use evstr instead.
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        • eval3d will be removed from Scilab 6.1. Please use ndgrid instead.
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        • getPreferencesValue is obsolete and will be removed in Scilab 6.1. Please use xmlGetValues instead.
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        • isoview(xmin,xmax,ymin,ymax) is deprecated. Please use isoview("on"), replot(..) instead.
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        • lstsize is obsolete and will be removed in Scilab 6.1. Please use size instead.
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        • maxfiles is now obsolete.
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        • nanmin is obsolete and will be removed in Scilab 6.1. Please use min instead.
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        • nanmax is obsolete and will be removed in Scilab 6.1. Please use max instead.
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        • numer is obsolete and will be removed in Scilab 6.1. Please use the .num rational attribute instead.
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        • square will be removed from Scilab 6.1. Please use gcf().axes_size and replot instead.
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        • strcmpi is deprecated. Please use strcmp(..,"i") instead.
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        • with_tk is obsolete and will be removed in Scilab 6.1. Please use the with_module instead.
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        • xgetech is obsolete and will be removed in Scilab 6.1. Please use gca instead.
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        • xinfo is obsolete and will be removed in Scilab 6.1. Please use gcf().info_message instead.
          • +
        • frexp becomes an internal. Please use [m,e]=log2(x) instead.
          • +
        • champ1 is obsolete. Please use champ.colored instead.
          • +
        • setPreferencesValue is obsolete. Please use xmlSetValues instead.
          • +
        • %sn is obsolete. Please use ellipj instead.
          • +
        • sysdiag is obsolete. Please use blockdiag instead.
          • +
        • ric_desc is obsolete and will be removed from Scilab 6.1.x. Please use riccati instead.
          • +
        • noisegen will be removed from Scilab 6.1.x. Please use grand instead.
          • +
        • get_figure_handle(n) is obsolete. Please use findobj('figure_id',n) instead.

        Removed Functions

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        • comp and its associated type 11 have been removed. All functions will have type 13.
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        • curblockc has been removed. Please use curblock instead.
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        • derivative has been removed. Please use numderivative instead.
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        • fcontour was obsolete since Scilab 4 and has been removed. Please use contour instead.
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        • fcontour2d has been removed. Please use contour2d instead.
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        • fort has been removed. Please use call instead.
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        • gschur was obsolete already in Scilab 4 and is now removed. Please use schur instead.
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        • gspec was obsolete already in Scilab 4 and is now removed. Please use spec instead.
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        • havewindow has been removed. Please use getscilabmode()=="STD" instead
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        • intersci has been removed. Please use swig instead.
          • -
        • jconvMatrixMethod was obsolete and is now removed. Please use jautoTranspose instead.
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        • lex_sort has been removed. Please use gsort(..,"lr") instead.
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        • m_circle was obsolete since Scilab 5.2.0. It is removed. Please use hallchart instead.
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        • mtlb_mode has been removed. Please use oldEmptyBehavior instead.
          • -
        • numdiff has been removed. Please use numderivative instead.
          • -
        • perl was obsolete since Scilab 5.5.0. It is removed.
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        • plot2d1 has been removed. Please use plot2d instead.
          • -
        • rafiter was obsolete since Scilab 5.1 and is now removed.
          • -
        • readgateway has been removed.
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        • xclear has been removed. Please use clf instead.
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        • xpause has been removed. Please use sleep instead.
          • -
        • Symbolic module functions have been removed: addf, cmb_lin, ldivf, mulf, rdivf, solve, subf, trianfml, trisolve and bloc2exp.
          • -
        • Functionnalities based on former Scilab stack have been removed: -
            -
          • comp, errcatch, iserror, fun2string, getvariablesonstack, gstacksize, macr2lst, stacksize, code2str and str2code.
            • -
          • -mem launching option (used to set stacksize at startup).
            • -
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          • -
        • Former debugging functions have been removed: setbpt, delbpt, dispbpt. Please use debug instead.
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        • Former profiling functions have been removed: add_profiling, reset_profiling, remove_profiling, profile, showprofile, and plotprofile.
          • +
        • getPreferencesValue was obsolete and has been removed. Please use xmlGetValues instead.
          • +
        • eval was obsolete and has been removed. Please use evstr instead.
          • +
        • hypermat was obsolete and has been removed. Please use matrix instead.
          • +
        • lstsize was obsolete and has been removed. Please use size instead.
          • +
        • denom was obsolete and has been removed. Please use the .den rational field instead.
          • +
        • numer was obsolete and has been removed. Please use the .num rational field instead.
          • +
        • square was obsolete and has been removed.
          • +
        • strcmpi was obsolete and has been removed. Please use strcmp(,'i') instead.
          • +
        • xgetech was obsolete and has been removed. Please use gca instead.
          • +
        • fac3d was obsolete since Scilab 4 and has been removed. Please use plot3d instead.
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        • fac3d1 was obsolete since Scilab 4 and has been removed. Please use plot3d1 instead.
          • +
        • xinfo was obsolete and has been removed. Please use gcf().info_message instead.
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        • with_tk was obsolete and has been removed. Please use with_module('tclsci') instead.

        Known issues

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          -
        • This is one of the first releases of a completely rewritten interpreter engine. If you discover strange behaviors or unexpected results do not hesitate to report them.
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        • Toolboxes rebuild is in progress. Do not hesitate to submit patch or feature upgrade to the development mailing list for a particular toolbox.
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        Bugs fixed in 6.0.2:

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          -
        • #2247: The axes_properties page did not show how to yield vertical x-tick labels. .grid_style, .grid_thickness, and .axes_bounds inside a uicontrol frame were not documented.
          • -
        • #2464: null() was poorly documented.
          • -
        • #4050: ged() did not support graphical texts with a font size > 5.
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        • #4808: The colorbar page was misleading about when the color bar must be created wrt the related axes.
          • -
        • #4953: The clean function did not work when the matrix contains %inf.
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        • #5430: clf could erase the ATOMS GUI or the m2sci one.
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        • #5521: surf(X,Y,fun) and surf(X,Y,list(fun,params)) were not supported.
          • -
        • #5557: locate() allowed to click out of the current axes and then returned meaningless coordinates.
          • -
        • #5558: locate() drawn crosses at unexpected positions in the current axes and may dramatically resize it when clicking in an axes or figure not being current ones.
          • -
        • #5559: locate() inconsistently asked for left or right mouse clicks to select points, according to the given or unknown expected number of points.
          • -
        • #6434: Calls like libname.Macro(..) worked only with one input argument.
          • -
        • #6548: gamma did not accept an hypermatrix and could not be overloaded for complex numbers.
          • -
        • #6729: The compatibility functions mtlb_int8, mtlb_int16, mtlb_int32, mtlb_uint8, mtlb_uint16 and mtlb_uint32 were not actually Matlab-like. Their documentation was neither correct nor up-to-date. mtlb_int64 and mtlb_int64 were missing.
          • -
        • #6737: mouse events were not correctly reported to an event handler function.
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        • #6777: gcf().anti_aliasing was poorly documented and was not illustrated.
          • -
        • #6939: nearfloat("succ",rand(2,2,2)) returned a (2,2) matrix with no error.
          • -
        • #6990: or(hm,"r"), or(hm,"c"), and(hm,"r") and and(hm,"c") generated an error for any hypermatrix hm of booleans, encoded integers, or doubles.
          • -
        • #7107: The graphics_entities page missed listing the console_properties, root_properties, uicontrol_properties, and uimenu_properties. References to getsystemmetrics and to setlookandfeel were missing in the See also section.
          • -
        • #7151: plot(x, fun) could not be used to plot a function with input parameters.
          • -
        • #7215: Some Matlab-Scilab equivalences were missing/outdated (A,B,C chapters).
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        • #7221: modulo was not indicated as the equivalent of Matlab's rem().
          • -
        • #7277: SciNotes File>Open recent menu was not updated after 5 items were added.
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        • #7305: issparse returned 0 or 1 instead of %F or %T.
          • -
        • #7362: There were 10 unused macros in the scicos_blocks hydraulic directory.
          • -
        • #7641: uint8(1):uint16(4) produced an error instead of being parsed as uint8(1):1:uint16(4), that passes.
          • -
        • #7659: The error page was not up-to-date for Scilab 6.
          • -
        • #7675: sparse() got a wrong result, when creation with many values in same position.
          • -
        • #8000: get(gcf(), "%s %s %s..") crashed Scilab.
          • -
        • #8017: atomsInstall yielded an error when a version without packaging subversion is specified.
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        • #8127: When using ode(), some internal errors messages were in french.
          • -
        • #8143: Checking of mtlb_qr input and output arguments was incorrect.
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        • #8767: %F & ~%F | %T & ~%F was %F.
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        • #8779: gsort(x,'lr') did not preserve order of equal items in index output.
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        • #8810: Insertions with an hypermatrix of indices failed.
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        • #8995: Problem with row insertion in empty matrix.
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        • #9063: pt was the alias of pt_PT instead of pt_BR.
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        • #9231: fsolve() produced wrong info for certain initial values
          • -
        • #9539: For a big 1600x1600 input map, contour2di crashed Scilab.
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        • #9958: mprintf("%d\r", 12345) printed " 345"
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        • #10171: loadmatfile() did not load files containing a matlab cell structure.
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        • #10190: Xcos blocks and labels positioning were not aligned to the grid on creation.
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        • #10197: creating implicit vector of integers could fail.
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        • #10411: Pivoting blocks drew out of bounds icons.
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        • #10639: The page of intersect poorly described the arguments. Examples were not illustrated.
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        • #10668: Some words in the bloc2ss page were inaccurate or misleading.
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        • #10918: After a=5, a([%t ; %f]) returned [5 ; 2.1e-314] instead of 5.
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        • #11240: A=[]; clear B; [A($+1),B]=1; crashed Scilab.
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        • #11435: The demo Simulation => Flow => Blackhole reliability had to be checked. Its displayed speed value was truncated.
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        • #11583: When in Scinotes preferences the default header is erased, the available variables were no longer documented.
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        • #11605: save(filename, ["a","b","c"..] was not allowed.
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        • #11765: eigs was not documented among Matlab-Scilab equivalences.
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        • #11916: Loading a graphic file containing several figures restored them by superimposing them in the same window.
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        • #11933: For polynomials in s or z, sci2exp did not use %s and %z to generate a valid expression. For other polynomials, no how-to was documented.
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        • #12109: execstr(.,"errcatch") calling a macro returning before setting the argout crashed Scilab.
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        • #12147: mfile2sci() produced an error when 1) the {function} block is closed with {end}; 2) the macro's name matches a variable existing in the environment.
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        • #12198: Scilab control and block keywords break case ... try while and clear() could be overloaded as regular assignable variables.
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        • #12275: msprintf("%s",ascii(97*ones(1,4097))) produced "An error occurred: Buffer too small."
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        • #12345: tree_show is a list-specific function. Its page was expected in the data_structures chapter rather than in the general GUI chapter. It is moved.
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        • #12402: The menu Applications => Scinotes could launch the external editor instead of Scinotes.
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        • #12477: Any atomsRemove error in scilab.start made any forthcoming session unusable.
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        • #12520: Variable browser did not display the size of the variables.
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        • #12529: The listvarinfile help page needed to be updated.
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        • #12534: Variable browser did not display the size of the variables.
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        • #12566: disp() of a T-list with a single field set to an encoded integer value generated an error.
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        • #12618: mfile2sci() failed converting a=1i // ab into a=1*%i // ab.
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        • #12659: modulo() used for big inputs crashed Scilab.
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        • #12711: Zoom with mouseWheel was always centered at the center of viewing box and was not using cursor position.
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        • #12810: support added to build RTL help pages.
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        • #12835: Calling without LHS a function returning varargout set to list() yielded an error.
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        • #12926: ~%f==1 was parsed as ~(%f==1) instead of (~%f)==1.
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        • #13306: Evaluating a function set as a structure field could fail.
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        • #13197: The documentation of lib() needed to be updated for Scilab 6.
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        • #13231: [X,D]=spec(rand(2000,2000)) yielded a segmentation fault.
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        • #13374: When setting an erroneous Xcos context, the error message printed in console could easily be missed.
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        • #13039: In Scinotes, the "File => Save file in" action opened the parent of the targeted directory.
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        • #13466: Since Scilab 5.5.0, it was no longer possible to dock the demo GUI.
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        • #13480: The default k value of eigs was wrong and made eigs failing forsmall full matrices.
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        • #13490: histc normalization was wrong. In the help, its description was rong and inconsistent.
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        • #13522: savematfile failed saving numerical hypermatrices.
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        • #13612: Xcos "Selection to superblock" did not assing I/O blocks correctly.
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        • #13632: The syntax savematfile(filename, varnames) was not documented. Other information was missing in the page.
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        • #13697: Calling chfact caused Scilab crash under Mac OS X
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        • #13778: The size of repmat([], [1 1 3]) was [0 0 3] instead of [0 0].
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        • #13785: gettext was poorly documented.
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        • #13798: Datatips did not update when moving curve or changing data
          • -
        • #13852: Calling bvode caused Scilab crash under Mac OS X
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        • #13857: splin3d crashed Scilab under Mac OS X
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        • #13915: On Windows, reinstalling an ATOMS toolbox with an already present archive failed.
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        • #13936: The exponentiation of a matrix was much slower than its multiple products.
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        • #14010: Browsevar was not displaying dimensions > 2 of hypermatrix
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        • #14122: Some SCI/.atoms/tmp_<unix_timestamp> could be created instead of in TMPDIR, and remained in case of installation error.
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        • #14218: Karmarkar post-process fails on some problems.
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        • #14282: listvarinfile(fn) and load(fn) yielded some memory leak.
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        • #14296: Xcos labels moving after creating blocks using scripts crashed Scilab.
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        • #14318: There was a memory leak when writing a HDF5 file.
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        • #14355: powershell was poorly documented.
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        • #14373: the xcosAddToolMenu callback did not work without selecting a block.
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        • #14386: string(macro) commented some end (missing \n).
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        • #14388: Feeding a cell component or clearing a cell array often crashed Scilab.
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        • #14460: sparse boolean indices were not supported.
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        • #14489: clicking the scinotes icon did not bring its window in the foreground.
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        • #14506: An atomsInstallList error message had a wrong number of input arguments.
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        • #14510: The example in the atomsLoad page could not run properly.
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        • #14521: For the CONVERT Xcos block, types codes 2, 6, 7, and 8 were not documented.
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        • #14522: or(%nan) was %F.
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        • #14536: xpoly crashed Scilab when it is used in logarithmic mode for points with negative or null coordinates.
          • -
        • #14539: It was not possible to build Scilab with hdf5 1.10.0.
          • -
        • #14606: Memory used by variables returned by [names,mem]=who() was always zero.
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        • #14670: Superblocks could be opened more than once.
          • -
        • #14701: poly(c,v,"coeff") did not ignore null high order coefficients.
          • -
        • #14704: In Scinotes, URL for the https://, ftp://, ftps://, and file:// protocols were no longer hyperlinked.
          • -
        • #14708: polynomial operators + - / ./ * .* no longer simplified null high orders coefficients from result
          • -
        • #14840: load() is unable to load old data files saved with Scilab < 5.4.0 out of the SOD format.
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        • #14854: The error_table page needed to be updated.
          • -
        • #14897: xinfo is poor and useless. It is declared obsolete.
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        • #14902: array(k) = [] dit not work for handles (Regression)
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        • #14906: The histplot normalization was broken.
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        • #14915: ascii(10) makes mprintf() stop printing (REGRESSION).
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        • #14946: slint() expected the predefined variables %s, %z and home to be initialized..
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        • #14988: The example of Xcos diagram on the DERIV help page was distorted.
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        • #14989: The example of Xcos diagram on the INTEGRAL_m help page was distorted.
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        • #14990: The example of Xcos diagram on the NEGTOPOS_f help page was distorted.
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        • #14995: savematfile crashes Scilab
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        • #15017: lcm did not support int64 and uint64 input integers. Input integers had to be in a row instead of any matrix. For input decimal integers, results were int32 encoded.
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        • #15024: A=10; A{1}=2 corrupted A and silently failed
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        • #15033: fileinfo gave negative size if filesize bigger than 2^31
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        • #15050: Xcos "Selection to superblock" did not relink the diagram after sub-system modification.
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        • #15091: translatepaths() was KO.
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        • #15092: Scalar variable was resized as a column vector instead of row.
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        • #15095: The Matlab=>Scilab translator failed when working with non-ASCII paths.
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        • #15115: Tabs order in SciNotes was incorrect when opening file and restoring session.
          • -
        • #15122: Xcos "Selection to superblock" modified the rendering and labeling of blocks.
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        • #15157: min/max on tlist or mlist did not call the right overload.
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        • #15158: macr2tree() used on a function including some recursive extraction statements could crash.
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        • #15182: The result of a.*.b with mixed integer/decimal operands introduced in Scilab 6 returned some doubles instead of integers, inconsistently wrt the * and .* products.
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        • #15187: Super block diagram title (on the window bar) was not set.
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        • #15259: LaTeX images did not have alt='..' attribute providing the LaTeX formula as text.
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        • #15263: Assignments in an array of structures often overwrote some untargeted elements.
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        • #15279: unique could not be used on sets of complex numbers.
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        • #15284: Port names are not set to the corresponding I/O block labels.
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        • #15310: isdef considered void arguments as defined (regression)
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        • #15346: In an array of rationals, there was no way to address components with their linearized indices.
          • -
        • #15403: bar(..,"stacked") could start from y<>0. Input arguments and possible syntaxes were poorly tested.
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        • #15404: surf() and mesh() did not allow to specify foreground, facecolor, markforeground and markbackground global properties colors as a predefined named color out of a list of the 9 main color names. Colors specifications as "#RRGGBB" hexa code or Colors indices in the color map were nor allowed.
          • -
        • #15422: strsubst("ab", "", "cd") crashed Scilab.
          • -
        • #15423: tbx_make(myModule,sections) executed the existing builder (if any), instead of targeting only selected module sections. Otherwise, tbx_make(myModule, "help"|"macros") yielded an error, and tbx_make(myModule,"localization") never built it.
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        • #15430: 47 Scierror() errors messages had mismatching input data.
          • -
        • #15433: getPreferencesValue is a general xml utility function and should be renamed and moved to the XML module.
          • -
        • #15434: Xcos "Selection to superblock" failed the simulation.
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        • #15440: Scilab debug help page linked to Xcos debug.
          • -
        • #15441: mprintf("%%") crashed Scilab
          • -
        • #15442: printf could not handle uint64 integers greater than 2^32-1.
          • -
        • #15447: The scilab.appdata.xml file deserved some refreshment.
          • -
        • #15448: The Linux desktop files needed to be refreshed.
          • -
        • #15449: Some small changes were required to ease the compilation with gcc >= 7.
          • -
        • #15450: Scilab's compilation did not support the ppc64le architecture.
          • -
        • #15453: Scilab's compilation needed HOME to be writable.
          • -
        • #15454: Hundreds of typos fixed all over the code: occured => occured, formated => formatted, an other => another, setted => set, retrived => retrieved ..
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        • #15455: OCaml build sometimes failed with Linenum being an unbound module.
          • -
        • #15457: The icon of the "Trigo functions" and "CONVERT" Xcos blocks was not updated according to actual input parameters.
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        • #15458: hist3d rendering was wrong.
          • -
        • #15464: Xcos C-blocks could not link dlls on Windows.
          • -
        • #15468: Xcos saved file used non UTF-8 characters which lead to invalid file loading later.
          • -
        • #15472: mdelete("test") worked like mdelete("test.*") under Windows
          • -
        • #15476: In the Electrical palette, the Resistor, Inductor, Capacitor, and ConstantVoltage icons did not show the parameter's value.
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        • #15484: On Windows, isdir("w:"), isdir("w:/"), and isdir("w:\") returned %T whenever the W: drive does not exist.
          • -
        • #15489: Help pages of covStart, covStop, covWrite and covMerge were not built for the fr, ja, pt and ru languages, and were unreachable from a session in non en_US language.
          • -
        • #15490: Error message of grand function was incoherent
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        • #15495: SampleCLK simple demo failed to simulate.
          • -
        • #15496: Scinotes File > Open recent menu was not updated when it should.
          • -
        • #15497: After s.a=list(1), type(s("a")) was 1.
          • -
        • #15499: Scinotes menus were inactive after session restore under OSX.
          • -
        • #15501: listvarinfile() crashes Scilab when listing a cell array (regression).
          • -
        • #15502: listvarinfile() misses listing arrays of struct, and then locks the file.
          • -
        • #15508: int8..uint64 and iconvert help pages had errors and were not up to date.
          • -
        • #15510: 'Initialization problem' error did not provide extra information.
          • -
        • #15511: Keyboard ctrl-left ctrl-right shortcuts could not be used for slider under OSX.
          • -
        • #15512: After aborting a running script or macro (with abort or other), console print was not working
          • -
        • #15524: Fix grand() symbol resolutionon Linux.
          • -
        • #15525: Memory allocation crashed with a simple Scilab script.
          • -
        • #15526: fscanfMat could fail with large text files.
          • -
        • #15527: ode gave incorrect results with %ODEOPTIONS(1)=2.
          • -
        • #15528: savewave wrote null signal if 24 bits resolution and more than 2 channels
          • -
        • #15529: In the iir page, the descriptions of z and p were inverted.
          • -
        • #15531: [x,k]=gsort(%nan+ones(1000,1)) crashed Scilab
          • -
        • #15535: sign(int8(0)) returned 1 instead of 0, as well with any other input encoded integer type.
          • -
        • #15539: zero step in integer implicit list crashed Scilab.
          • -
        • #15542: whereis('my_user_defined_fun') returned [] and expected a function handle
          • -
        • #15548: [%t %t]./[%f %f] crashed Scilab.
          • -
        • #15549: unary minus incorrectly acted as the negation operator on %t.
          • -
        • #15550: Help pages of unix*, host, dos and consolebox were poor and needed some improvements.
          • -
        • #15551: arithmetic operators gave wrong results with booleans.
          • -
        • #15553: TOWS_c block failed with 0 simulation time.
          • -
        • #15557: mtlb_std(1:10) yielded an error.
          • -
        • #15563: poly(A,v) was broken when A is a matrix.
          • -
        • #15566: matrix insertion checked overall size but not individual dimensions.
          • -
        • #15578: mfile2sci no longer processed correctly a comment appended to the function prototype, nor any m2scideclare() statement.
          • -
        • #15579: cond([]) returned 1 instead of 0 as cond([],2).
          • -
        • #15582: The default mfile2sci's only-double option set to %T was misleading and too restrictive.
          • -
        • #15583: color(["red" "blue"]) yielded a puzzling error message asking for String type instead of a scalar.
          • -
        • #15586: tree2code() added some leading , in the argins and argout lists.
          • -
        • #15589: inv() could fail on some matrices of polynomials with complex coefficients.
          • -
        • #15590: pdiv, modulo and pmodulo did not work with hypermatrices of polynomials. There were some mistakes in modulo help page. The code of modulo() and pmodulo could be simplified since hypermatrices are no longer mlist() in Scilab 6.
          • -
        • #15593: The grand page was alone in a main chapter instead of being in the rand section.
          • -
        • #15594: The bool2s page was alone in a main chapter instead of being with the boolean page.
          • -
        • #15598: string(handle) returned "" instead of calling %h_string()
          • -
        • #15599: degree of zero polynomial was 0 instead of -Inf.
          • -
        • #15600: savematfile(File) was fragile and had many pitfalls.
          • -
        • #15601: tbx_generate_pofile failed when the absolute toolbox path includes some spaces, or when the toolbox has no XML files.
          • -
        • #15605: CLR and DLR Xcos blocks did not accept expressions including "%" like "%i"
          • -
        • #15609: (1:1):2 crashed Scilab.
          • -
        • #15615: datatipToggle() was a duplicate of datatipManagerMode().
          • -
        • #15617: evstr(list(..)) did not check the number and types of list components. When an input component can't be evaluated, the error messages were not clear enough.
          • -
        • #15621: polynomial exponentiation silently truncated exponent (regression).
          • -
        • #15624: parser allowed fun(,) or fun(x,) for built-in functions.
          • -
        • #15625: delip(1,1)=0 instead of Inf
          • -
        • #15626: clicking on its icon did not give focus to a docked Scinotes.
          • -
        • #15627: changing font in SciNotes window with ctrl-mouse wheel in splitted view messed other view.
          • -
        • #15628: with_tk was useless and should be tagged obsolete to be removed.
          • -
        • #15629: int(1e20) returned -9.223D+18 (regression)
          • -
        • #15630: x(0:2)=1 did not raise an error and x=1;x(0:1,1) crashed Scilab.
          • -
        • #15632: x=[];x()=1 crashed Scilab.
          • -
        • #15635: dellip(1,4) terminated with neither output nor error (regression)
          • -
        • #15636: Clicking on its icon did not always give focus to Help browser
          • -
        • #15638: colorbar(): Both colors on the bar tips spanned an interval twice smaller than for other colors. This made almost impossible to choose a convenient number of colors to share the whole values interval in a simple way.
          • -
        • #15642:A(:) gave incorrect display when A is sparse boolean (regression)
          • -
        • #15645: deff('y=f(x)','z=x^2'),fsolve(1,f) crashed scilab
          • -
        • #15647: spzeros(-1,-1) yielded a corrupted result
          • -
        • #15648: sparse([1 1],1,[-1 -1]) crashed scilab
          • -
        • #15652: An appended comment // after a comma in an multiline literal array now generates an error (regression).
          • -
        • #15653: sparse - complex substraction was corrupted
          • -
        • #15655: clear a; a(1:4,:,1) = (1:4) raised an error (regression).
          • -
        • #15658: tbx_builder_src required a C|C++|fortran compiler to compile only Java sources.
          • -
        • #15659: plot(x,fun) could be very slow and crash Scilab.
          • -
        • #15660: atomsInstall and atomsRemove displayed concatenated notifications instead of stacked ones.
          • -
        • #15670: set(H, prop1,val1, prop2,val2, ..): Setting multiple properties for a vector of handles yielded an error.
          • -
        • #15675: format("e") broke dimensions and size display of whos()
          • -
        • #15685: The page of file() needed to be updated about error numbers, and improved.
          • -
        • #15692: listvarinfile() crashes when listing a boolean sparse matrix (regression)
          • -
        • #15693: listvarinfile() misses displaying the size of polynomial variables (regression)
          • -
        • #15698: intg raised a roundoff error with a trivial integral
          • -
        • #15710: The Xcos EXPRESSION block did not accept expressions including some & or ~ characters.
          • -
        • #15718: bitand, bitxor and bitor might miswork with some uint64 inputs.
          • -
        • #15721: An error while using save(File, "-append", ..) deleted the existing file.
          • -
        • #15724: []^3 displayed error messages about xerbla lapack library (regression)
          • -
        • #15728: evstr(s) returns bad results (and errors) for s being "k" "tmp" "lhs" "rhs" "comm" "vars" "vals"..
          • -
        • #15733: Some fixes after deg(0*%s) => -%inf.
          • -
        • #15735: interp1 yielded some []+n warnings.
          • -
        • #15736: unique failed with complex numbers.
          • -
        • #15740: now (%s == %z) == %f and (%s ~= %z) == %t
          • -
        • #15741: Operations between 2 polynomials with distinct variables no longer called the corresponding overloads (Regression)
          • -
        • #15746: 1/[1 2 3] and [1 2 3]'\1 did not raise an error
          • -
        • #15747: no output in overloaded operator crashed Scilab
          • -
        • #15748: min(Sparse,"r"|"c") and max(Sparse,"r"|"c") always returned vectors of zeros. In addition, with sparse inputs, min and max did not compute indices as second output.
          • -
        • #15751: min(sparse([],[])) returned 0 instead of []. max() as well.
          • -
        • #15752: min and max did not ignore Nan values in sparse inputs.
          • -
        • #15753: issparse() returned 0 instead of 1 for sparse booleans.
          • -
        • #15755: min(A1,A2,..) and max(A1,A2,..) did not allow mixing sparse with scalar inputs.
          • -
        • #15757: The public function xcosPalAddBlock did not load scicos_scicoslib when needed, and then yielded an error. When the block is specified as a .sod file and the file does not exist, the error message was obscur.
          • -
        • #15758: sparse([0 0],1) crashes scilab (regression)
          • -
        • #15762: error() refused multiline error messages.
          • -
        • #15770: zp2ss and zp2tf unitary tests were failing
          • -
        • #15774: clean() failed on sparse complex matrix.
          • -
        • #15776: assert_checktrue and assert_checkfalse did not accept a sparse boolean input. When failing, their error message did not indicate the index of the failing entry. The failing message of assert_checkfalse was wrong.
          • -
        • #15778: Deleting some rows or columns of a boolean sparse array with = [] crashed Scilab
          • -
        • #15779: test_run did not accept the wildcard * in tests names.
          • -
        • #15796: Display after mprintf("") crashed Scilab (regression)
          • -
        • #15799: ifftshift() could not invert fftshift(x, along) directional actions.
          • -
        • #15800: Distributive assignments of a property values in a vector of handles were not supported.
          • -
        • #15805: colorbar() ticking was poor and most often irrelevant or puzzling, set to not simple values, with useless unreadable minor ticks.
          • -
        • #15806: colorbar(..) missed some simple syntaxes with default umin, umax and colminmax values, such as colorbar().
          • -
        • #15808: [5i] was parsed as [5,i]
          • -
        • #15809: HDF5 load/save was super slow for nested lists.
          • -
        • #15811: comparison of containers embedding cells failed.
          • -
        • #15813: In polarplot mode, datatips displayed irrelevant cartesian coordinates instead of polar ones.
          • -
        • #15814: Selecting graphic children with booleans yielded an error.
          • -
        • #15815: After polarplot(), reversing axes or switching gca().rotation_angles shifted all angular and radial labels.
          • -
        • #15816: polarplot(), pie(), mesh() and contourf() ignored / canceled any upstream drawlater.
          • -
        • #15817: ascii(c) with c>=128 crashed on OSX.
          • -
        • #15818: polarplot() example could not be subplotted. polarplot's demo did not display 'View code' and too often prompted the user.
          • -
        • #15827: After bode(..'rad'), abscissae were titled 'Fréquence' instead of 'Pulsation' in french, and datatips still shew 'Hz' instead of 'rad/s'.
          • -
        • #15830: linspace was not reliable for series of encoded integers.
          • -
        • #15847: Scilab crashed at startup.
          • -
        • #15850: Adding a space after a string increases its size.
          • -
        • #15853: mlist("cblock") displayed endlessly "operation +: Warning adding..."
          • -
        • #15854: horner(1:$,4) yielded an error. Extractions from cblock tables were impacted.
          • -
        • #15858: size(cblock,'r'|'c'|'*'|1|2) did not take the option into account. size() of an empty cblock table yielded an error.
          • -
        • #15859: isempty could not be overloaded for custom mlist or tlist typeof.
          • -
        • #15860: Horizontal concatenations with cblock tables had troubles.
          • -
        • #15866: Unlike all other set functions, setdiff did not accept any "r" or "c" option.
          • -
        • #15867: For input encoded integers, setdiff returned selected elements in decreasing order.
          • -
        • #15873: In average, sprand(100, 100, 0.8) yielded ~8800 non-zero values instead of ~8000.
          • -
        • #15878: sgrid and evans were broken.
          • -
        • #15880: sgrid needed some improvements: Labeling was sometimes ambiguous ; large circles were not labeled ; data_bounds did not always take the input wn into account ; named and #RRGGBB colors specifications could not be used. evans needed some improvements: the block of legends hid data ; asymptotes were too visible.
          • -
        • #15881: Demos about stems, bars and histograms were spread in several subsections.
          • -
        • #15884: bode frequencies ticking and grid style were poor. With legends, the phase plot was vertically shrunk and some graphical space was lost below it.
          • -
        • #15886: Display of polynomials was broken.
          • -
        • #15890: evstr sometimes yielded some +[] warnings.
          • -
        • #15891: Help pages of matrix-wise trigonometrical functions deserved a dedicated subsection.
          • -
        • #15898: edit failed 1) for any user-defined macro 2) for a native macro recompiled from Scinotes 3) for a native macro addressed through an alias (as sine=sind)
          • -
        • #15899: tree2code(tree, prettyprint=%t) ignored the indentation width declared in Scinotes preferences.
          • -
        • #15907: filter was corrupting its input state array
          • -
        • #15920: genlib() did not regenerate a missing .bin if the .sci was unchanged (Scilab 6 regression)
          • -
        • #15922: rcond([]) returned [] instead of Inf consistently with cond([])==0.
          • -
        • #15924: sparse inequality to 0 yielded a wrong result.
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        -

        Bugs fixed in 6.0.1:

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          -
        • #2441: %onprompt() could be defined only at the top execution level.
          • -
        • #3256: The cursor of slider uicontrol is not displayed if the slider step is not an integer value.
          • -
        • #4276: strsubst replaced the first occurence in regex mode.
          • -
        • #5248: The graphical entity picker was out of work.
          • -
        • #5278: obsolete xset() was still used in scripts, macros, tests and help pages.
          • -
        • #5381: For UTF-8 inputs, msprintf, mprintf and mfprintf shortened the output.
          • -
        • #5567: bar(.., colors) used with grouped or stacked subsets, only a unique common meaningless color could be specified. Only a restricted list of 10 colors names could be used. Some arguments checking were wrong.
          • -
        • #5602: Assigning a component of a list in a cells array replaced the whole list.
          • -
        • #5611: It was not possible to delete the row or column of a cells array.
          • -
        • #6155: Pages of param3d() and param3d1() deserved being fixed, improved and merged in a single page.
          • -
        • #6607: clear S; S(1:2,1:3).a = 1 yielded an error.
          • -
        • #6608: Field and data insertion in an array of structures might fail.
          • -
        • #6813: makecell used to create a N>2-D hyperarray yielded an error.
          • -
        • #6911: help_from_sci did not accept numerical HTML entities like &#969; in heading comments.
          • -
        • #6973: It was impossible to view figures of several demos in a stable docked panel.
          • -
        • #7652: Inserting list("") in a cells array could be erroneous.
          • -
        • #8140: Editing parameters of the EXPRESSION Xcos block changed Scilab's IEEE mode.
          • -
        • #8297: cat slowness was exponential, crippling, and made it useless.
          • -
        • #8629: On the help page of the Xcos Sinks palette, blocks screenshots were stacked and not hyperlinked to their page.
          • -
        • #8669: After A=rand(3,3), some legal insertions in A(*,*,:) failed. Non regression tests added.
          • -
        • #8842: Assigning the pointer of a builtin function to a new structure failed.
          • -
        • #9297: Assigning a mlist to a structure's field failed.
          • -
        • #9519: The console menu File -> Open a file opened any file in Scinotes. Binary files like .zcos blocked Scinotes.
          • -
        • #9617: Xcos run-time version check was too conservative.
          • -
        • #9838: evstr poorly supported simple comments in input expressions.
          • -
        • #10270: execstr(["%val=[int16(1)";"]"]) needed entering twice to be actually performed.
          • -
        • #10407: The macro acf() of the CACSD module was used nowhere and not documented. It is removed.
          • -
        • #10467: execstr inside a try/end with a catch killed the stack.
          • -
        • #11196: Some recursive extractions from a mlist failed.
          • -
        • #11228: Some recursive extraction from a mlist was not done in the right order and yielded a stack problem.
          • -
        • #11251: execstr could kill the variables stack.
          • -
        • #11483: The Graphics => Misc demo had a hole, 2 duplicates, and other bugs.
          • -
        • #11530: Raise (help, scinotes, ...) windows when iconified ( recall or startup )
          • -
        • #11693: uicontrol edit fields needed after the input to actually record it.
          • -
        • #11756: In the categories of the ATOMS GUI, actually available modules might be not listed.
          • -
        • #11767: execstr("A. 1","errcatch") failed to catch the error.
          • -
        • #12195: generateBlockImage sometimes changed the current graphic driver.
          • -
        • #12356: colordef did not allow to reset colors to the default default ones.
          • -
        • #12372: The mode function was poorly documented.
          • -
        • #12586: An example showing how to get XML comments was missing in the xmlXPath help page.
          • -
        • #12771: xcosPalGenerateAllIcons help example was broken.
          • -
        • #12792: save(filename, "undefinedVariable") created an empty useless file.
          • -
        • #12862: intsplin no longer integrated the imaginary part of given ordinates.
          • -
        • #13014: optim_ga: update the Efficiency inner variable.
          • -
        • #13277: execstr("clear") did not clear any variables in the current scope.
          • -
        • #13581: The example of inistate() help page did not work on Windows 64bit.
          • -
        • #13592: In an axes in a uicontrol frame, setting a legend interactively might not follow the mouse accurately.
          • -
        • #13796: tbx_generate_pofile missed registering _() and gettext() references. In en_US.po, commented paths were absolute. Literal '' were copied in msgid without simplification.
          • -
        • #13900: nanmin and nanmax were useless duplicates of min and max
          • -
        • #13962: Preselecting a groupnamed radiobutton was impossible after having created it already once.
          • -
        • #13979: A variable whose name is longer than 24 characters could not be cleared.
          • -
        • #13984: For a set of curves, plot(.., "color", colors..) was not vectorized for colors specifications. Moreover, only 10 basic named colors were accepted, instead of the full list of predefined colors names.
          • -
        • #14221: msprintf and mprintf ignored row-wise processing with %%.
          • -
        • #14254: When installing an ATOMS module that is not locally registered and available, the error message was unclear.
          • -
        • #14305: unused %i_d_i was still distributed.
          • -
        • #14371: Scilab crashed when a block is edited.
          • -
        • #14376: input() was broken: \n was introduced before prompting; multiple prompts occurred; the output value could be missing; "%" "\n" "\t" were no longer supported in messages...
          • -
        • #14399: whereami: wrong information (line numbers).
          • -
        • #14424: There were some troubles with input.
          • -
        • #14490: plot2d crashed when leg parameter was a vector.
          • -
        • #14531: It was not possible to specify SCIHOME as a start-up option.
          • -
        • #14532: test_run failed for toolboxes that are not autoloaded.
          • -
        • #14544: scatter and scatter3 canceled any upstream drawlater instruction.
          • -
        • #14551: In the icon of the Xcos CLR and DLR blocks, multichar exponents were badly rendered.
          • -
        • #14573: varargout misworked when it was used in addition to fixed output arguments.
          • -
        • #14588: Some cross usages of launching options -nw and -nwni with Wscilex.exe and Scilex.exe binaries were inconsistent.
          • -
        • #14584: The example of demo_choose help page was broken because of a wrong file path.
          • -
        • #14598: fort wasn't properly removed.
          • -
        • #14603: The icon of the PROD_f Xcos block was puzzled
          • -
        • #14623: Bad lhs in MList extraction overload.
          • -
        • #14629: In the Xcos EXPRESSION block, < could truncate the rendering of the expression in the icon.
          • -
        • #14636: Xcos model with modelica electrical blocks (created in 5.5.2) crashed Scilab 6.
          • -
        • #14637: Some Scilab 5.5.2 diagrams did not simulate properly in Xcos.
          • -
        • #14656: The matrix page missed a synopsis for hypermatrix and deserved some improvements.
          • -
        • #14680: The < char in expression was not rendered in the icon of Xcos EXPRESSION block.
          • -
        • #14703: clear linspace, type(linspace) returned 11 instead of 13.
          • -
        • #14749: The icon of the Xcos POWBLK_f and EXPBLK_m blocks displayed "u^a" and "a^u" instead of the actual a value.
          • -
        • #14883: whereis did not support builtin functions.
          • -
        • #14886: Matplot save/load failed.
          • -
        • #14896: Using set with multiple properties, only the first one was set.
          • -
        • #14901: WScilex.exe was stopped immediately when launched from Java.
          • -
        • #14903: plot2d crashed if a current figure has no axes.
          • -
        • #14910: The plot() example was displayed in overlay to the existing graphics.
          • -
        • #14922: The %onprompt() special function was not documented.
          • -
        • #14925: jdeff: invoke_lu() deleted/corrupted the called java method after an error occured.
          • -
        • #14981: Some vertical concatenations of cells and further cells extractions crash Scilab.
          • -
        • #14984: In palettes pages, blocks screenshots were not aligned nor hyperlinked.
          • -
        • #15006: ode help page still contained 'root' which has been replaced by 'roots'.
          • -
        • #15008: scilab crashed when using operator AND (&, &&) or OR (| ||) with a string.
          • -
        • #15010: Coselica did not simulate on Scilab 6.
          • -
        • #15015: Xcos blocks using the ascii didn't work
          • -
        • #15017: On numbers, gcd result was always of int32 type instead of matching the input type.
          • -
        • #15018: mfprintf'\n' not working.
          • -
        • #15019: Add 'csci6' in the calling of ilib_build in 'Getting started with API_Scilab' help page.
          • -
        • #15020: Examples of ilib_build help page updated.
          • -
        • #15023: clf() wrongly reset figure_id.
          • -
        • #15024: Xcos labels were not preserved at diagram compilation.
          • -
        • #15028: assert_checkalmostequal could not work with polynomials.
          • -
        • #15034: It was no longer possible to create a structure through a mlist.
          • -
        • #15037: the residu function might crash Scilab.
          • -
        • #15039: New Xcos graphical features needed some demos.
          • -
        • #15046: call couldn't mix inputs and outputs.
          • -
        • #15052: getpid was no longer available.
          • -
        • #15053: _str2code was removed with no proper equivalence and made mfile2sci failing.
          • -
        • #15054: The callbacks of wfir_gui() were not prioritary.
          • -
        • #15057: Matplot .data assignation did not take care of >2 dimension
          • -
        • #15058: With integers, gcd and lcm could return a negative result, depending on the order of negative components.
          • -
        • #15060: fplot3d did not draw because of an addition with an empty matrix which now returns an empty matrix.
          • -
        • #15063: fort wasn't properly removed.
          • -
        • #15066: Undo did not update ports positions
          • -
        • #15070: bitset failed when the bit position is specified as encoded integer.
          • -
        • #15072: The context was stored as a root diagram attribute instead of being stored on each Superblock layer.
          • -
        • #15079: When all children of a graphic handle have not the same number of sub-children, any vectorized extraction or insertion in subchildren failed.
          • -
        • #15089: The getcolor GUI cleared and used the current figure.
          • -
        • #15106: Operation without operand crashed Scilab.
          • -
        • #15107: Scilab failed to build with ocaml 4.04.0.
          • -
        • #15111: Summation block symbol displayed minus sign instead of plus sign.
          • -
        • #15117: Imbricated calls to optim / leastsq / lsqrsolve / fsolve either crashed or returned errors.
          • -
        • #15119: Inequality comparisons between complex-encoded real numbers failed.
          • -
        • #15121: getOptionals fails to recognize some options.
          • -
        • #15137: ilib_build could not build a library with more than 999 function entries in Scilab 6
          • -
        • #15138: Scilab crashed at startup on Windows.
          • -
        • #15139: Fix return in try / catch expression
          • -
        • #15142: mopen() wrong err value
          • -
        • #15144: mean and stdev could not be overloaded.
          • -
        • #15146: lasterror crashed Scilab when last error message is empty.
          • -
        • #15148: link did not return any error for a wrong flag argument value.
          • -
        • #15149: Files saved as ZCOS were corrupted.
          • -
        • #15170: getd created and returned a variable k that could overwrite a loaded one.
          • -
        • #15183: ndgrid(x) with by default y=x was not accepted.
          • -
        • #15184: (1+%i) < 2 crashed Scilab.
          • -
        • #15185: "Region to Superblock" did not restore broken links.
          • -
        • #15188: sci_hdf5_is_file was wrongly named in the hdf5 DLL.
          • -
        • #15199: Scilab crashed when using fsolve for functions containing other functions.
          • -
        • #15205: get_scicos_version returned the previous version.
          • -
        • #15206: Windows default mopen read/write mode was text instead of binary.
          • -
        • #15207: xcos(scs_m) did not work for sub-systems.
          • -
        • #15215: strcat did not work correctly with empty strings.
          • -
        • #15223: call crashed in some cases.
          • -
        • #15228: get error message fixed.
          • -
        • #15236: The isglobal help page was inaccurate. Examples were erroneous.
          • -
        • #15239: The console properties .tag and .userdata were not displayed nor documented.
          • -
        • #15243: grand(nr, nc, "uin", vmin) crashed Scilab.
          • -
        • #15246: chsolve called a blkslv missing function.
          • -
        • #15249: findobj("toto") yielded an error instead of returning [].
          • -
        • #15260: sci2exp was broken for cells, structures, and all types of hypermatrix.
          • -
        • #15261: Insertion in struct felt with wrong default value.
          • -
        • #15266: Wrong default out_mode in linear_interpn.
          • -
        • #15273: The documented order of eval_cshep2d second derivatives was wrong.
          • -
        • #15278: Moving Xcos blocks reverted rotation and flip/mirror properties
          • -
        • #15282: help_from_sci could set an xml:id starting with the forbidden % character.
          • -
        • #15285: resize_matrix did not manage conversion into int64 and uint64.
          • -
        • #15300: Distributive assignments like a=(1,2) crashed Scilab.
          • -
        • #15301: Sequence constructor : failed when a bound was an outputless funtion call.
          • -
        • #15302: load crashed when inputs arguments are not strings.
          • -
        • #15303: Some properties written in capital letter in set function crashed Scilab.
          • -
        • #15306: After the behavior of || was changed, its help page was not up to date.
          • -
        • #15308: Unlike evstr(["1 2";"3 4"]), evstr(["1;2" "3;4"]) was not accepted.
          • -
        • #15328: OpenJDK 9 was not supported for custom builds.
          • -
        • #15337: There was a mistake in the definition of the l_p norm of a vector in the norm page.
          • -
        • #15339: uigetfont() returned garbage on user cancellation.
          • -
        • #15340: Scilab did not build against lucene 6.1.0.
          • -
        • #15342: replot() and Reframe to contents failed on graphics with xstring objects.
          • -
        • #15347: toeplitz failed with rationals.
          • -
        • #15354: invr(%s^2) returned 0 instead of 1/%s^2. For any scalar number, polynomial or rational a, coffg(a) returned 0 instead of 1. coffg([]) yielded an error. invr and coffg had no unitary tests. The coffg help page was inaccurate and unclear.
          • -
        • #15360: numer() and denom() were almost useless, unused, and with more handy replacements. They are declared obsolete to be removed in Scilab 6.1.0.
          • -
        • #15363: h2norm() could no longer be applied to undefined time domain systems, and made the residu() right example failing.
          • -
        • #15368: freson() wrongly returned [] (no peak frequency detected) for some continuous time linear systems.
          • -
        • #15370: bezout() mishandled its output arguments.
          • -
        • #15375: A .zcos file opened as a palette was greyed out.
          • -
        • #15379: zeros(A) was not documented as equivalent to mtlb_zeros(size(A)).
          • -
        • #15380: argn() documentation was somewhat unclear and uncomplete.
          • -
        • #15388: Dynamic link did not work on MACOSX 10,12.
          • -
        • #15389: Wscilex -nw failed and created a ghost process.
          • -
        • #15390: In online help pages, tooltips showing the code on images were no longer displayed.
          • -
        • #15395: ones(2,3,2) / %z yielded an error..
          • -
        • #15396: [m,n,p] = size(hr) yielded an error with an hypermatrix hr of rationals.
          • -
        • #15402: The range() page was not fixed against the bug 1904 for the french and portuguese versions.
          • -
        • #15405: Accessing int64 hdf5 values crashed scilab.
          • -
        • #15413: Deleting some ranges (rows, columns, pages, ..) in a structures array failed.
          • -
        • #15418: With colordef('black') and colordef('none'), black title and labels were invisible on the black background.
          • -
        • #15419: tbx_build_localization did nothing and silently returned when no ~/locales directory was detected. tbx_generate_pofile() was not run, and the user was not warned and guided.
          • -
        • #15420: insertion at negative index did not trigger an error.
          • -
        • #15456: Xcos 5.5.x files did not load properly.
          • -
        • #15459: Generating code from an Xcos superblock generated warnings.
          • -
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        Bugs fixed in 6.0.0:

        -
          -
        • #592: linspace(a, b, n<=0) returned b instead of []
          • -
        • #2835: On negative "initial event", EVTDLY_c took no notice of the input.
          • -
        • #2919: The fchamp example and demo were unclear and badly rendered
          • -
        • #4327: Overloading did not support custom types names longer than 8 characters
          • -
        • #5278: Most of the references to xset and xget in scripts, macros, help pages and tests were obsolete.
          • -
        • #5723: Cross-references were missing between axis_properties and axes_properties help pages
          • -
        • #6307: There were no easy versions of lqr, lqe, and lqg
          • -
        • #7192: From S=[], S($+1,:) = some_row inserted it in row#2 after a parasitic row#1.
          • -
        • #7649: isempty returned %F on struct(), {} or list(,) and was not shortcut
          • -
        • #7696: The parallel_run help page was poorly formatted
          • -
        • #7794: The example in the findABCD help page failed.
          • -
        • #7958: mrfitdid not allow a fourth parameter as shown in the help page.
          • -
        • #8010: Permanent variables could be redefined through a syntax like %i(1,1)=1
          • -
        • #8190: Fixed ICSE demos of Optimization module.
          • -
        • #8356: sci2exp applied to lists, tlists or mlists having undefined fields yielded an error or a wrong result.
          • -
        • #8493: Some trivial simplifications of p1./p2 with matrices of complex-encoded polynomials were not done.
          • -
        • #8841: After s.a=list(4,7), s.a was not equal to s(1).a
          • -
        • #8938: In a boolean sparse matrix sp, distributive insertions like sp(1,:)=%t, sp(1,1:$)=%t or sp(:,:)=%t yielded an error.
          • -
        • #9008: test_run applied the create_ref option even for tests having the <-- NO CHECK REF --> flag.
          • -
        • #9153: The isqualbitwise help page was inaccurate and badly located
          • -
        • #9161: Multiple insertions at a repeated index in a sparse matrice wrongly updated it.
          • -
        • #9288: No palette dynamically built with the most used blocks was available
          • -
        • #9451: test_run output did not clearly distinguish heading lines of modules and tests lines
          • -
        • #9825: assert_computedigits returns too much digits
          • -
        • #9865: When making a plot with point(no line), no symbol was shown in the legend.
          • -
        • #9876: Creating a complex structure with multiple hierarchy level and size failed.
          • -
        • #9912: In case of missing translated help page, its default en_US version was sometimes ignored
          • -
        • #10116: for h = H, .., end could not be used when H is a vector of graphic handles
          • -
        • #10195: execstr interpreted ascii(0) to ascii(31) characters as the power ^ operator.
          • -
        • #10326: The palette browser didn't have any search engine.
          • -
        • #10981: It was possible to rotate a 2D axes, and hard to get it back to a 2D view.
          • -
        • #11375: When a localized help subdirectory has only a CHAPTER file specifying the section title, this one was ignored.
          • -
        • #11476: clf("reset") used on a docked figure resized and moved the whole docked block like the Scilab desktop.
          • -
        • #11692: The summary of a help section built from both default en_US and localized files was never sorted overall.
          • -
        • #11959: Selecting a zoom area starting on some axes borders was hard and tricky.
          • -
        • #12017: The on-screen rendering according to figure.pixel_drawing_mode was out of work since Scilab 5.4
          • -
        • #12110: Zooming multiple side-by-side or overlaying axes at once was out of work since Scilab 5.4
          • -
        • #12417: Set "All supported formats" as default selected on Xcos open.
          • -
        • #12431: The page describing the %helps variable needed clarification.
          • -
        • #12453: In the Xcos palette browser, enabling or disabling some category resized the left panel.
          • -
        • #12623: When %onprompt() is defined, variables defined in any callback of a console's menu were not accessible in the console.
          • -
        • #12897: Renamed optim's imp argument to "iprint".
          • -
        • #13217: augment was wrong when flag2 was "i"
          • -
        • #13166: l and b endian flags used with mget and mgeti were sticky
          • -
        • #13375: For a uicontrol listbox, .Max - .Min==1 prevented any multiple selection. The default value documented for uicontrol.relief was wrong.
          • -
        • #13401: Scilab became a ghost process when it was closed while an input or a halt instruction was being performed in a callback of an undockable figure.
          • -
        • #13583: getd loading a script including a clear instruction yielded an error.
          • -
        • #13597: help format claimed setting a number of digits instead of a number of characters.
          • -
        • #13613: isdef(name, 'l') produced wrong output.
          • -
        • #13620: dos called with a vector of OS instructions crashed Scilab.
          • -
        • #13651: It was not possible to copy an axes into an uicontrol frame.
          • -
        • #13757: The Toolboxes menu dit not load properly not autoloaded ATOMS modules.
          • -
        • #13759: At startup, sometimes autoloadable Atoms modules were not loaded, randomly.
          • -
        • #13794: It was not possible to toggle the display of a datatip just by clicking on its anchor or by overflying its anchor with the mouse pointer.
          • -
        • #13856: messagebox crashed under Windows in 5.5 Scilab version and updated in version 6.
          • -
        • #13877: In help pages, < characters included in <screen> areas were not rendered in the help browser.
          • -
        • #13878: tokens([]) yielded an error instead of returning [].
          • -
        • #13895: After p.a.h = 1; p.b.h = 3;, p(:).h crashed Scilab.
          • -
        • #13906: Arrows keys did not allow to navigate through the Palette browser.
          • -
        • #13990: warning with localization enabled some memory corruption.
          • -
        • #14171: Scinotes Favorite and most recently used directories could no be targeted through the console File menu.
          • -
        • #14192: g_margin error-ed for double integrator.
          • -
        • #14278: ltitr returned an incorrect xf output value.
          • -
        • #14306: > and >= operators could not be used to compare encoded integers of mismatching inttypes.
          • -
        • #14330: luget was really slow.
          • -
        • #14367: edit_curv failed opening due to a []+1 operation.
          • -
        • #14379: Problem with lists of functions having 2 arguments.
          • -
        • #14395: dir displayed a []+".." warning when no subdirectory exists.
          • -
        • #14405: xcosPalAdd did not work on Windows.
          • -
        • #14411: abort used in a whileloop crashed Scilab.
          • -
        • #14437: Changing the field of a struct embedded in a list sometimes misworked.
          • -
        • #14448: havewindow is removed but was still documented.
          • -
        • #14461: Calling grand(n, "markov", P, x0) did not return all outputs.
          • -
        • #14470: geomean often overflowed for easily computable entries, and did not check input arguments.
          • -
        • #14483: The figure.figure_name property had no figure.name alias
          • -
        • #14513: isqual comparing two built-in functions yielded an error.
          • -
        • #14527: Calling pathconvert function without parameters crashed Scilab.
          • -
        • #14553: find(a=b) crashed Scilab.
          • -
        • #14557: csim failed when the system has no state.
          • -
        • #14558: square was poor, clumsy and too specific. It is tagged as obsolete.
          • -
        • #14564: fieldnames failed for empty structs, tlists & mlists
          • -
        • #14571: The types of input arguments of figure() were not checked.
          • -
        • #14578: LaTeX string used for text uicontrol was not updated.
          • -
        • #14582: gettext or it alias _() were sometimes applied to broken literal strings
          • -
        • #14586: The Stop button of Xcos simulation did not work.
          • -
        • #14587: Datatip textbox wrong clipping when loaded from *.scg file.
          • -
        • #14590: Many help pages in pt_BR version had a wrong xml:lang="en" tag.
          • -
        • #14591: <= and >= elementwise operators comparing 2 hypermatrices of decimal numbers or encoded integers were inverted.
          • -
        • #14593: Signs were no longer drawn in BIGSOM and PRODUCT components.
          • -
        • #14602: WRITEC_f block didn't work for x86 machines.
          • -
        • #14604: emptystr() was 40x slower than Scilab 5
          • -
        • #14609: "msscanf" crashes Scilab when 'niter' parameter is out of range.
          • -
        • #14632: Zooming moved offscreen any drawn axis
          • -
        • #14640: median(int8([10 60 80 100])) returned -58 instead of 70 due to overflow when interpolating (60+80)>128
          • -
        • #14645: Xcos Demos -> Control Systems -> Lorenz Butterfly didn't end at the expected time (30)
          • -
        • #14648: isinf returned %F for complex numbers with both real and imag infinite parts.
          • -
        • #14649: isnan(complex(%inf, %inf)) returned %F while the phase is NaN.
          • -
        • #14654: bitor, bitxor and bitand did not accept positive inputs of type int8, int16, int32, int64 or uint64
          • -
        • #14659: number of I/O ports of the superblock was not updated when adding or deleting I/O blocks inside a superblock.
          • -
        • #14662: Matrix of strings concatenation with single quote led to a parser error.
          • -
        • #14664: Deleted obsolete WFILE_f block. Regenerated some Xcos demos to work with Scilab 6.
          • -
        • #14667: Multi line string without final quote generated a non terminal parser state.
          • -
        • #14681: Short-circuited AND operation was not possible with double matrices in if and while clauses
          • -
        • #14689: resize_matrix(rand(2,3),[0 2]) did not return []. Usage of new sizes <0 to keep them unchanged was not documented.
          • -
        • #14690: The user startup files set in the working directory were not executed. When SCIHOME is not the working directory, SCIHOME\scilab.ini was executed twice.
          • -
        • #14692: isequal always returned %T for builtin functions
          • -
        • #14694: The list of named colors was misaligned and poorly rendered in help color_list
          • -
        • #14710: fullpath(TMPDIR+...) was bugged on MacOS
          • -
        • #14711: When current axes is an uicontrol frame, colorbar did not display anything.
          • -
        • #14714: Deleting a datatip made Scilab leaking or crashed.
          • -
        • #14731: The demos Graphics => Complex functions opened an empty figure#0. Rotation of Im+Re parts were not synchronized
          • -
        • #14743: test_run(.., "show_error") did not document "failed: Slave Scilab exited with error code #" errors.
          • -
        • #14758: xstringb opened a default figure.
          • -
        • #14761: || misworked when LHS is %f or zeros. && misworked when LHS is %t or non-zeros
          • -
        • #14779: xsegs used in logarithmic scale with coordinates <= 0 crashed Scilab.
          • -
        • #14784: Setting field of graphics handle using children($) failed.
          • -
        • #14796: ind2sub([4,2], []) returned [4 0] instead of [].
          • -
        • #14775: Loading an empty (0 bytes) .sod file crashed scilab
          • -
        • #14801: The horizontal concatenation of cells arrays wrongly puzzled components.
          • -
        • #14808: After E=['A' 'B' 'C' 'D' 'E'], E(0:0) crashed Scilab
          • -
        • #14821: getio function was missing. An error on the diary file opened has been corrected.
          • -
        • #14824: mfprintf(fd, "%d", []) yielded an incorrect error message.
          • -
        • #14835: AFFICH_m block was not rendered correctly.
          • -
        • #14839: plot2d2 crashed Scilab.
          • -
        • #14885: The tag property was not documented in the Matplot_properties help page.
          • -
        • #14887: For many types of graphic handles, the display of the .tag value missed ".." delimiters
          • -
        • #14909: On Windows, getlongpathname and getshortpathname did not force the file separator to "\"
          • -
        • #14911: The entry "Label => Title" was missing in the graphic context menu on a figure.
          • -
        • #14941: find did not accept encoded integers
          • -
        • #14942: Keep the Tkscale block label if block already has label.
          • -
        • #14956: clf("reset") forgot resetting the immediate_drawing, resize, resizefcn, closerequestfcn, toolbar_visible, menubar_visible, infobar_visible, default_axes, and icon figure properties.
          • -
        • #14965: getPreferencesValue could not read a tag having multiple occurrences and did not accept the path to the preferences file.
          • -
        • #14976: asciimat(colNum) concatenated rows when colNum has a single column of ascii codes. With UTF-8 chars, asciimat(asciimat("àéïôù")) yielded an error.
          • -
        • #14978: input(message) interpreted an entered x as a literal string, and exited with the new prompt on the same line.
          • -
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        Bugs fixed in 6.0.0 beta-2 and earlier 6.0.0 pre-releases:

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          -
        • #2104: iw(1:9) and w(1:10) ode output parameters were not documented
          • -
        • #2517: "position" property format was not accepted by figure despite what was said in help
          • -
        • #6057: trailing space after minus sign has been removed from the display of values
          • -
        • #6064: scatter did not exist in Scilab.
          • -
        • #6314: The identical code of %p_m_r and %r_m_p was not factorized
          • -
        • #7378: quart used with only NaNs yielded an error instead of returning NaN.
          • -
        • #7646: Extractions A'(1,2) and A.'(1,2) from a transposed matrix were not possible
          • -
        • #7884: typeof help page was poor, puzzled, and not up-to-date to Scilab 6: -
            -
          • new typeof uint64, int64, void, deletelist, implicitlist were missing
            • -
          • former hypermat and size implicit typeof weren't removed
            • -
          • typeof names longer than 8-char were not documented.
            • -
          -
          • -
        • #8210: UMFPACK demos were not well packaged and not numerous enough.
          • -
        • #8310: Non-convex plane or unplane polygons could be wrongly triangulated and badly rendered with extra facets.
          • -
        • #8990: Reframe to contents feature was missing on the graphics toolbar and Tools menu.
          • -
        • #9456: bench_run did not work on a path or in a toolbox
          • -
        • #9560: 1./M was parsed as 1. / M instead of 1 ./ M
          • -
        • #9621: A tlist with undefined fields can now be saved.
          • -
        • #10082: string(complex) with real(complex)>0 did not remove the leading space replacing "+"
          • -
        • #11511: error did not accept string matrix (non regression test added).
          • -
        • #11625: Uicontrol table did not update .string when values were modified interactively in the table.
          • -
        • #12044: Adding or substracting the empty matrix now return an empty matrix.
          • -
        • #12202: Mixing int8 and doubles with colon operator led to wrong results.
          • -
        • #12419: objects were cleared before the scilab.quit was called
          • -
        • #12559: FFTW had some memory leaks
          • -
        • #12872: Help pages of else, elseif, end, try, sciargs, global, halt, empty and power were in wrong help sections
          • -
        • #12928: intXX functions with %nan and %inf return wrong values.
          • -
        • #13154: In shellmode, completion now separates Files from Directories.
          • -
        • #13289: Using non-integer indexes for mlists made Scilab crash.
          • -
        • #13298: Static analysis bugs detected by PVS-Studio fixed.
          • -
        • #13308: Xcos had no Crank-Nicolson solver.
          • -
        • #13465: The display of polyline .display_function and .display_function properties was not conventional
          • -
        • #13468: Scilab hanged when incorrect format was used for file reading using mfscanf.
          • -
        • #13490: histc help page fixed to match the macro (by default, normalize the result).
          • -
        • #13517: isdef crashed Scilab when called with a vector of strings as input in a function and after a declaration of variable.
          • -
        • #13709: unique sometimes returned wrong index values.
          • -
        • #13725: Sometimes xfpoly polygon filling failed.
          • -
        • #13748: printf, sprintf (en,ja): short descriptions and obsolete flags were missing.
          • -
        • #13750: Calling ss2ss with flag = 2 returned an error.
          • -
        • #13751: lqg2stan returned wrong (inverted) values.
          • -
        • #13769: t = "abc..//ghi" was parsed as a continued + comment
          • -
        • #13780: size with two input and output arguments did not return an error.
          • -
        • #13795: grep with regexp option did not match the empty string properly
          • -
        • #13807: Invalid margins were computed when figure was not visible.
          • -
        • #13810: householder(v, k*v) returned column of Nan. Input parameters were not checked. The Householder matrix could not be returned. Help pages were inaccurate and without examples. There was no householder demo.
          • -
        • #13816: show_margins caused a scilab crash
          • -
        • #13829: mean and sum returned wrong results for hypermatrices.
          • -
        • #13831: ss2ss did not update the initial state
          • -
        • #13834: Drawing a high number of strings in a figure generated a Java exception.
          • -
        • #13838: Sparse and complex substraction made Scilab crash.
          • -
        • #13839: sign could not be used with sparse matrices
          • -
        • #13843: Scilab crashed when polarplot and plot2d were called with wrong strf value.
          • -
        • #13853: plzr returned wrong results for discrete-time systems with a numeric time step.
          • -
        • #13854: Under some operating systems, SciNotes did not initialize a new document at startup.
          • -
        • #13862: There was no lazy evaluation of or operands in if tests.
          • -
        • #13864: %l_isequal was useless in Scilab 6.
          • -
        • #13866: There were some issues with FFTW3 library.
          • -
        • #13869: bench_run with option nb_run=10 did not override the NB RUN tags
          • -
        • #13872: Non regression test added for unique (the indices returned were wrong)
          • -
        • #13873: %hm_stdev(H,idim>2) returned zeros(H)
          • -
        • #13881: datatipRemoveAll did not work.
          • -
        • #13890: getd did not return loaded symbols in previous scope.
          • -
        • #13893: simp did not set a rational denominator at 1 when numerator was equal to zero.
          • -
        • #13894: Default working directory of the previous session did not work.
          • -
        • #13897: Concatenating structures with same fields in mismatching orders failed
          • -
        • #13899: Syntax coloring was off in scinotes
          • -
        • #13903: get_function_path returned a path with a missing file separator.
          • -
        • #13907: Avoids the gray background on the right panel of the palette Browser.
          • -
        • #13908: part(text, n:$) was very slow.
          • -
        • #13918: Unmanaged operations on hypermatrix did not call overload functions.
          • -
        • #13919: Scilab parsed hidden as a reserved keyword but it is not used.
          • -
        • #13920: getscilabkeywords help page should be in the "Scilab keywords" section.
          • -
        • #13923: Changes of typeof(:) and typeof(n:$) were not documented.
          • -
        • #13924: rationals r1==r2 and r1~=r2 might sometimes be wrong.
          • -
        • #13925: SciNotes used the wrong paired bracket highlight style.
          • -
        • #13931: handle aarch64 processor for some Linux distribution.
          • -
        • #13939: In HTML help pages, itemizedlist <ul> were rendered as numbered ones
          • -
        • #13941: Internal timestamps of HDF5 files prevented having a fixed hash for an unvarying set of saved objects.
          • -
        • #13942: the palette browser tree was always resized when expanded/collapsed.
          • -
        • #13944: The menu "Toolboxes" was missing.
          • -
        • #13965: The rendering of histograms with histplot was poor
          • -
        • #13966: twinkle and twinkle(n) were not supported
          • -
        • #13971: A space has been added between Scilab prompt and cursor.
          • -
        • #13972: Wildcard * was not managed in printf expressions.
          • -
        • #13974: isoview(xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax) was unhandy.
          • -
        • #13983: who_user returned wrong values.
          • -
        • #13986: setdefaultlanguage did not set value correctly in Windows registry.
          • -
        • #13990: gettext did not manage the added _W macro.
          • -
        • #13999: editor was modal. It locked the console using an external editor.
          • -
        • #14012: Function stripblanks did not allow to remove only leading spaces of a set of strings, or only trailing one. An option to do so was added.
          • -
        • #14020: Incorrect carriage return ascii code.
          • -
        • #14022: getscilabkeywords was KO (+gateway what() added).
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        • #14023: It was not possible to concatenate cells.
          • -
        • #14024: Print of macrofile display a debug message instead of macro prototype.
          • -
        • #14025: head_comments did not take into account compiled functions.
          • -
        • #14028: force flag of genlib did not rebuild bin file.
          • -
        • #14030: Linear algebra demo crashed due to a bad delete in schur implementation.
          • -
        • #14035: ndgrid did not manage all homogeneous data type (booleans, integers, polynomials, rationals, strings, [])
          • -
        • #14036: .tag and .user_data properties were not displayed and not documented for light entity.
          • -
        • #14038: Encoded integers were no longer accepted for list extraction.
          • -
        • #14040: graphic property setting fails when using array of handles
          • -
        • #14041: genlib crashed when the file is locked by another program.
          • -
        • #14043: Examples of API Scilab help pages had to be updated (pvApiCtx in gateway prototypes).
          • -
        • #14044: MALLOC.h is now renamed to sci_malloc.h.
          • -
        • #14047: wrong behaviour of break ( continue ) in if and outside of loop fixed.
          • -
        • #14049: genlib hang if an unexpected endfunction occurs.
          • -
        • #14055: overload on matrix concatenation was not called with [].
          • -
        • #14057: grand(m,n) returned a wrong error and grand(m,n,p) called an overloading function instead of returning an error.
          • -
        • #14058: Scilab crashed with file("close", file()) instruction
          • -
        • #14059: Lack of performance on deletion of matrix elements.
          • -
        • #14065: Change "java size" in points in graphics font help page.
          • -
        • #14067: 3rd argument of fsolve became mandatory
          • -
        • #14082: m=1; m()=1; made Scilab crash.
          • -
        • #14093: atanh returns NaN for values with an absolute value greater than 1
          • -
        • #14095: Scilab crashed when a .fig file was loaded with loadmatfile function.
          • -
        • #14096: Issue with mscanf.
          • -
        • #14097: genlib no more adds a separator at the end of the lib path if it is not given in the directory path.
          • -
        • #14099: sci2exp macro was fixed to avoid "a+[] Warning". string(polynomials|rationals) had badly formatted outputs and was not vectorized
          • -
        • #14105: New block comments /*...*/ feature was not documented.
          • -
        • #14107: lstcat of a string and a list did not produce consistent results.
          • -
        • #14109: lsq crashed Scilab when Scilab version depended on MKL library.
          • -
        • #14111: In Scilab 6, lib loading a Scilab 5 library did not give a proper error message.
          • -
        • #14113: Scilab 6 did not detect infinite loop.
          • -
        • #14115: In Scinotes, the switch and otherwise keywords were no longer colorized.
          • -
        • #14116: Invalid exponent in case of complex exponents especially 0*%i.
          • -
        • #14118: real, imag, conj, isreal did not accept rationals
          • -
        • #14135: crash when running "Graphics -> Matplot -> Java Image" demonstration.
          • -
        • #14141: gcf().attribute=value lead to "Wrong insertion: function or macro are not expected".
          • -
        • #14144: Scilab crashed with int64(2^63).
          • -
        • #14149: HDF5 could not restore hypermatrix with good dimensions.
          • -
        • #14150: The Windows SDK was not found on Windows 8.1.
          • -
        • #14156: mfscanf returned an empty matrix when datafile contained a header.
          • -
        • #14157: Insert of big set in sparse was very slow.
          • -
        • #14159: Matplot crashed Scilab on boolean input.
          • -
        • #14178: Tcl/Tk unavailability on MacOS is now documented.
          • -
        • #14181: intg (or integrate) in a function that is being integrated failed.
          • -
        • #14187: fscanfMat failed to read format %d, %i and %f.
          • -
        • #14199: sqrt returned wrong dimension results on matrix with more than dimensions.
          • -
        • #14203: Improve some error messages, some help pages and some comments.
          • -
        • #14204: dec2bin ( dec2base ) must show a better error message for too large values.
          • -
        • #14205: Console crash when assigning uint32 numbers to double matrix.
          • -
        • #14209: 1:245 created infinite loop.
          • -
        • #14212: Scilab 6 did not load array of struct from Scilab 5.5 files correctly
          • -
        • #14219: As bug #14203, improve some error messages, some help pages and some comments.
          • -
        • #14223: det returned an error when it is used with a singular matrix.
          • -
        • #14225: command-line option "-quit" should set the processs exit status
          • -
        • #14228: Setting .rotation_angles property to a matrix of any size did not return error message.
          • -
        • #14232: Typos fixed in Xcos.
          • -
        • #14245: Problem in recursive extraction using list with struct.
          • -
        • #14247: sqrt did not work on hypermatrices (non regression test added).
          • -
        • #14249: Ctrl-C can be used to stop writing control expression.
          • -
        • #14251: spec leaked some memory.
          • -
        • #14253: Insertion in a struct contained in a list fixed.
          • -
        • #14255: fftw without MKL leaked.
          • -
        • #14271: conjgrad displayed an incorrect error message about number of arguments.
          • -
        • #14297: cumsum's output was badly documented.
          • -
        • #14300: Crash when playing with structures.
          • -
        • #14303: matrix display for large number was not correctly aligned
          • -
        • #14304: find(x, nmax) returned [] (non regression test added).
          • -
        • #14313: Parser did not create a column separator after spaces and ... at the end of lines
          • -
        • #14316: Operation scalar^matrix was identical to scalar.^matrix instead of being expm( log(scalar) * matrix )
          • -
        • #14326: It was no longer possible to delete any part of a structure array with [].
          • -
        • #14331: The third argument of lsq crashed Scilab.
          • -
        • #14347: plot2d crashed with multiple entries (non regression test added).
          • -
        • #14348: Scilab did not open sce/sci file from Windows explorer.
          • -
        • #14359: Black Hole demo updated. Stop and Clear buttons did not have priority tag set. Callback_type property has been added and set to 10.
          • -
        • #14361: Parser did not manage -linebreak + blockcomment ... /* a comment */
          • -
        • #14362: The ode Lotka demo had typo errors
          • -
        • #14366: typeof(var,"overload") was not documented
          • -
        • #14374: The parser did not manage comments properly in shellmode
          • -
        • #14375: Calling input with a argument of 64 characters or more crashed Scilab.
          • -
        • #14389: The new int64 and uint64 were not documented, and other help pages were not updated for them.
          • -
        • #14390: double help page had irrelevant syntaxes and was poor
          • -
        • #14396: Real number display was not proper for very wide decimal parts
          • -
        • #14398: Matrix extraction was mistakenly considered a function call in calling sequence
          • -
        • #14405: GetScilabVariableJNI symbol was not resolved on xcosPalAdd()
          • -
        • #14415: Some spelling errors were detected in ~20 help pages
          • -
        • #14416: The file extension filter in Scinotes "Save as" window did not re-used the active file's extension when applicable.
          • -
        • #14418: saxon9he.jar made scilab throw an XPathFactoryConfigurationException.
          • -
        • #14419: Scinotes's highlighting of the new || and && operators was wrong.
          • -
        • #14423: bench_run did not have a return value, export file was not configurable
          • -
        • #14425: xpause was a duplicate of sleep. sleep did not propose "s" time unit.
          • -
        • #14429: Rationals r+(-r) and r-r did not simplify the denominator to 1 in simp_mode(%t)
          • -
        • #14432: Using an implicit list as scoped assignation to a variable in function call caused scilab to crash
          • -
        • #14433: acoth (which call atanh) crashed scilab
          • -
        • #14434: PlotSparse did not work anymore.
          • -
        • #14446: An error message generated by save(..) pointed a bad argument index.
          • -
        • #14450: builder_help.sce of a toolbox ignored some existing language directories
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        • #14453: strcat([]) returned an empty string instead of [].
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        • #14455: macr2tree crashed when passing a FieldExp.
          • -
        • #14468: Scinotes was unable to export to HTML.
          • -
        • #14471: strange([]) returned [] instead of Nan as all other functions for statistical dispersion
          • -
        • #14476: Operation .* between polynomials and imaginary numbers was always returning 0
          • -
        • #14493: and and or help pages were poor and inaccurate.
          • -
        • #14495: consolebox help page shew wrong syntaxes and was poor.
          • -
        • #14499: getd did not update already defined functions
          • -
        • #14500: Operator .^ was broken for sparse matrices.
          • -
        • #14517: The second argument of part function accepted an index of 0 without exiting in error.
          • -
        • #14524: Numeric locales were not set to standard "C" by default at scilab startup
          • -
        • #14540: Datatips did not clip outside axes bounds
          • -
        • #14685: datavec produced an invalid index error.
          • -
        • #14980: The datatip display of the root locus arcs is broken.
          • -
        • #14992: readgateway has been removed, use whereis instead.
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          Bug Fixes

          +

          Bugs fixed in 6.1.0:

          +
            +
          • #2694: bitget did not accept positive integers of types int8, int16 or int32.
            • +
          • #6070: How to make multiscaled plots was not documented.
            • +
          • #7562: factorial could use a huge memory amount even for a scalar argument.
            • +
          • #7657: lstsize was a duplicate of size and should be removed.
            • +
          • #7724: When a figure is created in .auto_resize="on" mode, its .axes_size sets its .figure_size accordingly, not the reverse. But this was not documented.
            • +
          • #7765: champ1 is useless. champ().colored is available for a long time.
            • +
          • #7948: gsort could not perform multilevel sorting, and could not sort complex numbers completely.
            • +
          • #7967: The tricky size [ny,nx] of meshgrid(x,y) results and usages with graphics was not enough documented.
            • +
          • #8301: definedfields wrongly considered as defined void elements in lists, tlists and mlists.
            • +
          • #8307: list2vec and vec2list were located in the optimization module instead of in data_structures, and were missing in the See also section of list.
            • +
          • #8393: isdef and definedfields had mismatching answers for void elements in lists, mlists or tlists.
            • +
          • #8418: unique was not able to return the number of occurences of returned dictinct entities.
            • +
          • #8784: Automatic self-adjusting blocks SCALE_CSCOPE & SCALE_CMSCOPE in Xcos.
            • +
          • #5512: disp puzzlingly displayed arguments in reverse order.
            • +
          • #9007: On Linux, sciargs() included twice -nw when -nw is used.
            • +
          • #9529: assert_checkequal(list(1,,3), list(1,,3)) yielded an error.
            • +
          • #9673: Priority of colon : operator was too low
            • +
          • #10078: isinf was not reliable for polynomials.
            • +
          • #10353: Documentation: The referential for the uicontrol.position property was not provided. Moreover, gca().axes_bounds refered to fig.figure_size instead of fig.axes_size.
            • +
          • #10553: After calling colorbar, retrieving the handle of the new color bar was not trivial.
            • +
          • #10723: subplot's action was unclearly described in its help page. Page improved.
            • +
          • #11852: File browser didn't update after file creation or removal.
            • +
          • #11363: show_window() did not raise the current graphics window.
            • +
          • #13738: get_figure_handle was a specific duplicate of the more powerful findobj('figure_id',n) feature. It is now obsolete.
            • +
          • #12520: Variable browser did not display the size of the variables.
            • +
          • #12534: Variable browser did not display the size of the variables.
            • +
          • #12837: strcmpi was an obsolete duplicate of strcmp(,'i'). It is removed.
            • +
          • #13683: unsetmenu for a dockable="off" figure crashed Scilab.
            • +
          • #13766: Minimal values for .figure_size were not documented.
            • +
          • #14015: Nan terms added to a polynomial were ignored.
            • +
          • #14422: clc(0) did nothing, now clears last console entry. Remove leading blank after a clc().
            • +
          • #14498: size([],3) returned 1 instead of 0.
            • +
          • #14501: strsubst crashed on consecutive occurrences.
            • +
          • #14557: csim failed when the system has no state.
            • +
          • #14498: size([],3) returned 1 instead of 0.
            • +
          • #14502: Demo > GUI > Uicontrols 2 could not be exported to a file.
            • +
          • #14604: emptystr is 40x slower with 6.0.0 wrt 5.5.2
            • +
          • #14605: fixed - bench_run was too strict about the specification of tests names.
            • +
          • #14606: Memory used by variables returned by [names,mem]=who() was always zero.
            • +
          • #14610: x = ric_desc(H,E) always yielded an error. [x1,x2,residual] = ric_desc(..) returned a wrong residual value.
            • +
          • #14642: No more "\r" carriage return with printf.
            • +
          • #14735: The genetic_algorithms module was out of the optimization one.
            • +
          • #14741: The syntax [m,e]=log2(x) was not documented. As public function frexp was in duplicate with [m,e]=log2(x).
            • +
          • #14742: mprintf, msprintf a non finite number displayed nothing.
            • +
          • #14746: Tiny numbers were sometimes displayed as 0.
            • +
          • #14791: sleep 1 crashed Scilab.
            • +
          • #14812: Minor typos in messages.
            • +
          • #14836: Calling exportUI on a non dockable figure crashed scilab.
            • +
          • #14863: In Xcos, the default ending time was unhandily high (100000), reduced it to 30.
            • +
          • #14982: msprintf segmentation fault was caught due to wrong size
            • +
          • #14985: Scilab crashed if a .bin file was not found.
            • +
          • #15068: size(sum(ones(2,3,4,5),4)) was [4 2 3] instead of [2 3 4].
            • +
          • #15087: Deleting rows or columns from a matrix is slow (regression)
            • +
          • #15248: lsqwas leaking memory.
            • +
          • #15269: xgetech was poor and stiff compared to any combination of gca() properties .axes_bounds, .data_bounds, .log_flags, and .margins. It is removed.
            • +
          • #15271: bitget needed to be upgraded.
            • +
          • #15309: eval was a weak duplicate of evstr. It should be removed.
            • +
          • #15321: lu was leaking memory.
            • +
          • #15350: ric_desc should be merged into riccati.
            • +
          • #15359: twinkle was not able to blink several independent objects.
            • +
          • #15360: numer and denom were poor and duplicates of the .num and .den fields of rationals. They are removed.
            • +
          • #15368: freson silently returned frequencies not corresponding to a maximum, or returned [] instead of some still computable maxima frequencies.
            • +
          • #15392: comet and comet3d did not allow specifying colors with colors names.
            • +
          • #15393: In a new figure, nicholschart plotted nothing. The default frame color was a flashy cyan. The position of gain labels could be puzzling. It was not possible to specify colors by their names. Postprocessing the frames and the set of labels was not easy.
            • +
          • #15425: The Kronecker product a .*. b failed when a or b or both are hypermatrices, with one or both being polynomials or rationals.
            • +
          • #15428: repmat was slow. Its code did not use kron and was complex.
            • +
          • #15431: The empty matrix [] and its non-convertibility were poorly documented.
            • +
          • #15451: The code was not adapted to use lucene 4.10 in Debian.
            • +
          • #15514: The set documentation page needed to be overhauled.
            • +
          • #15517: factorial could be actually used up to only n=170.
            • +
          • #15522: unique was not able to consider all Nan values as the same value. A uniqueNan option now allows it.
            • +
          • #15523: %ODEOPTIONS(1)=2 didn't work with solvers 'rk' and 'rkf'
            • +
          • #15534: Booleans and encoded integers could not be concatenated together.
            • +
          • #15577: edit did not accept a line number as text, as with edit linspace 21.
            • +
          • #15580: det(sparse([],[])) yielded an error.
            • +
          • #15737: setdiff was wrong with complex numbers.
            • +
          • #15981: wavread kept the wav file open and locked when returning on errors. It weakly managed the input file name. It claimed for invalid data formats instead of unsupported ones, with poor information about the current format vs the supported ones. Several error messages refered to a wrong function.
            • +
          • #15595: unique was not able to return distinct values in their original order, without sorting them. A keepOrder option now allows it.
            • +
          • #15668: save(filename) saved all predefined Scilab constants %e %pi etc.. (regression)
            • +
          • #15715: %nan indices crashed Scilab.
            • +
          • #15734: intersect did not support complex numbers.
            • +
          • #15742: The compatibility_functions module should be merged in the m2sci one.
            • +
          • #15581: display of complex matrix was ugly.
            • +
          • #15628: with_tk was a duplicate of with_module('tclsci'). It is removed.
            • +
          • #15680: loadmatfile could not return variables in a structure instead of into the calling environment.
            • +
          • #15701: A\B was not faster when A is square and triangular.
            • +
          • #15734: Trivial infinite loop could not be interrupted.
            • +
          • #15744: sylm(a,b) yielded an error when degree(a)==0 or degree(b)==0.
            • +
          • #15745: diophant(0,0,m), diophant([p 0],q), diophant([0 p],q) with m<>0 and p>q were wrong. There was no flag for cases with an infinite number of solutions. When there is no solution, some values were returned anyway, instead of []. In this case, the documented definition of the err value was dubious. Decimal numbers and integers were accepted, but not encoded integers. Inf and NaN input coefficients were not rejected.
            • +
          • #15812: On assigning variables the source variable may become become corrupted
            • +
          • #15821: fac3d and fac3d1 were still in Scilab 6.0 despite they were tagged obsolete 14 years ago in Scilab 4.1
            • +
          • #15825: gsort could not sort completely dense matrices of complex numbers.
            • +
          • #15840: grand(1,"prm",m) yielded an unsqueezed size([size(m) 1]) hypermatrix
            • +
          • #15934: The ^ hat page wrongly indicated that ^ applied to a rectangular matrix not being a vector is done element-wise.
            • +
          • #15948: xlabel, ylabel, zlabel and title needed to be upgraded.
            • +
          • #15964: A complex empty sparse matrix could be obtained after insertion.
            • +
          • #15967: setdiff(1,[]) was [] instead of 1. setdiff(a,[],..) was not enough tested.
            • +
          • #15969: Fix spelling
            • +
          • #15974: msprintf("%d", %nan) did not return Nan
            • +
          • #15977: The documentation for wavread(..,'info') had a mistake. The wavread page deserved some improvements.
            • +
          • #15978: The writewav page in english said that input data are one column per channel, instead of one row per channel. In addition, in case of writing error, savewave kept the output file open and locked.
            • +
          • #15983: group regressed in 5.5.2 due to a too intrusive fix.
            • +
          • #15984: display scale was wrong with Retina dispplays on OSX..
            • +
          • #15995: patch was missing in surface plot (regression)
            • +
          • #15998: mfile2sci yielded an unsuitable warning when converting atan.
            • +
          • #16000: mfile2sci converted acoth using atanh and yielding a wrong warning message.
            • +
          • #16003: Zoom with mouse scroll wheel was broken on simple surfaces.
            • +
          • #16005: The intdec example was biased and not robust when changing sampling frequencies.
            • +
          • #16007: Non-integer index in sparse makes Scilab crash.
            • +
          • #16008: Uimenu .callback_type, .children, .handle_visible, .user_data properties, and using HTML styling in .label were not documented.
            • +
          • #16011: colorbar(umin, umax) did not work after plot3d2.
            • +
          • #16012: [struct() struct()] crashed Scilab.
            • +
          • #16013: Load previously saved environment with "File/Load environment" menu failed.
            • +
          • #16014: after x.a=1; x(:)=[] x.a was an empty list.
            • +
          • #16015: intg(a,b,f) called f(x) with x outside [a,b].
            • +
          • #16019: polarplot(x,Z) yielded an error when x is a vector and Z a matrix.
            • +
          • #16021: tand([-90 90]) answered [Nan Nan] instead of [-Inf, Inf]. cotd([-90 90]) answered [Nan Nan] instead of [0 0]. 1 ./cosd([-90 90]) answered [Inf -Inf] instead of [Inf Inf].
            • +
          • #16026: For atanh, neither the documentation pages nor the m2sci converter were up to date.
            • +
          • #16046: After w=ssrand(2,3,4), []+w, []-w, w+[] and w-[] yielded an "operation +/- []" warning.
            • +
          • #16051: undefined list elements could be of 2 distinct typeof "void" or "listundefined" according to the way they are created.
            • +
          • #16053: plot(,"color",c) no longer supported standard abbreviated color names c like "k" for black.
            • +
          • #16067: The display of matrices of signed integers was misaligned (regression of 6.0.0 vs 5.5.2)
            • +
          • #16071: prettyprint(complex(1,%nan)) omitted the "+" in 1 + Nani. It printed positive exponents with a useless "+". For any input nul polynomial, the string result never included the name of the variable. Default input arguments could not be skipped. ExportFormat was uselessly case-sensitive. For tex|latex: for text input, $ \ % & { } ~ and ^ special characters were not protected ; spaces were not protected, all words were concatenated ; for polynomials and rationals, the result string could be extremely long and not easily wrappable. For MathML: "<" was not protected ; were missing for text input ; , , , , , and tags were not wrapped and could not be indented. Delimiters: "" was not documented as possible value ; ")" was wrongly documented. Dynamical linear systems were not documented as possible input.
            • +
          • #16072: prettyprint did not actually support input encoded integers.
            • +
          • #16075: prettyprint was broken for cells.
            • +
          • #16079: part("",$) and part("",$-1:$+2) yielded an error instead of returning "" and " ".
            • +
          • #16085: insertion in an empty struct was broken.
            • +
          • #16087: Insertion of struct in a non-empty struct crashed Scilab.
            • +
          • #16089: x=1:1e10 freezed Scilab.
            • +
          • #16095: For a matrix of graphic handles of same types, it was no longer possible to clear a property by assigning [].
            • +
          • #16097: coth was more than twice slower than 1./tanh(). tanh and coth did not accept sparse-encoded input.
            • +
          • #16102: lstcat could not concatenate input lists with mixed objects of types>10 like 1:$, sin, sind, struct, cells, tlists or mlists. In addition, it was slow for very long inputs lists.
            • +
          • #16104: assert_checkequal did not support properly or at all Nan and void in lists, Nan in sparse, implicit lists, macros, libraries, built-in functions, graphical handles. For input arrays or lists of matching typeof and sizes, the failure message did not display neither the index nor the values of the first mismatching elements.
            • +
          • #16111: isglobal was not supporting non-scalar array of strings as input.
            • +
          • #16118: %s <> (1+%s) returned %F.
            • +
          • #16135: base2dec did not detect invalid numbers.
            • +
          • #16137: After running playsnd on Windows for a long sound, it was not possible to stop it.
            • +
          • #16138: playsnd could not be run in a non-modal (asynchronous) way on Linux and MacOS.
            • +
          • #16139: auread and auwrite kept the sound file open and locked when returning on errors. They poorly handled the default .au sound file extension.
            • +
          • #16140: playsnd could not directly accept an audio file and could not repeat the input sound.
            • +
          • #16143: clc(n) cleared n+1 lines instead of n>0. Thus, it was not possible to clear only one line.
            • +
          • #16144: Addition of sparse matrices gave incorrect results.
            • +
          • #16148: setPreferencesValue is a general usage function and deserved to be renamed xmlSetValues.
            • +
          • #16149: fullpath did not support symbolic links in paths
            • +
          • #16152: For sparse or boolean sparse matrix s, s([]) returned [] instead of sparse([]).
            • +
          • #16155: flipdim(hypermat,dim,sb) yielded wrong results for dim<3 and sb>1, and yielded an error for dim>2.
            • +
          • #16158: When a multicolumn array of rationals was displayed wide column per column, columns #2:$ were replaced with its column #2.
            • +
          • #16160: ppol changed values of third input variable.
            • +
          • #16164: Help pages in elementary_functions/signal_processing were mislocated.
            • +
          • #16166: noisegen is crooky, even threatening, and very poor. It is tagged as obsolete and will be removed from Scilab 6.1.x.
            • +
          • #16168: On some Linux installations, test_run always failed.
            • +
          • #16174: libraryinfo yielded 0x0 matrix of strings for libs without macro
            • +
          • #16177: In the uicontrol help page, the first example was bugged.
            • +
          • #16178: sci2exp yielded an error for any input macro without output argument.
            • +
          • #16181: mfile2sci yielded an error on a(end) standing for a($) (Scilab 6 regression).
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          • #16190: console width was fixed at 75 in nw and nwni mode regardless of terminal width.
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          • #16197: result of extraction was not decomplexified when applicable.
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          • #16199: In the documentation, zpk2tf and zpk2ss examples yielded an error.
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          • #16200: Concatenation of transposed cells crashed Scilab.
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          • #16208: Using 3D string matrix with old C-api gateways may crash Scilab.
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          • #16209: grand causes a freeze after several consecutive calls when using default base generator.
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          • #16210: The uicontrol.units = "normalized" property was not described.
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          • #16215: mfile2sci badly converted the colon : into mtlb(:)
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          • #16227: WSCI was not defined as environment variable and could not be used as %WSCI% in commands sent with host or unix_*.
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          • #16229: Some outdated parts of the help scilab page were misleading.
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          • #16230: MSWin>scilab --help missed displaying some options like -args.., -noatomsautoload, etc.
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          • #16232: colorbar did not support $ in colminmax, standing for the number of colors in the current color map.
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          • #16234: Airy functions were not available.
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          • #16242: loadmatfile could not read Octave native text data files.
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          • #16245: gsort could not sort booleans.
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          • #16246: isvector was broken for sparse matrices.
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          • #16257: blockdiag implemented to replace sysdiag, improved and extended to strings.
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          • #16259: * and .* multiplications involving a sparse boolean and a double, or involving 2 booleans, were not implemented.
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          • #16260: overloading nnz was not possible (regression).
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          • #16263: Polynomial insertion was broken for complex case.
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          • #16264: After empty for loop iterator was left uninitialized.
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          • #16265: The translated pages of the warning documentation were not up-to-date.
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          • #16269: Scalar structures were poorly displayed.
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          • #16271: loadmatfile was never able to automatically detect the input data format.
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          • #16272: spzeros(0,n) and spzeros(n,0) were different from sparse(0,0).
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          • #16273: calendar had no formated display mode.
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          • #16275: fsolve(x0, fun, tol) no longer took tol into account.
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          • #16290: The cn, dn, ns, nc and nd Jacobi elliptic functions were not available.
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          • #16292: hallchart had bugs and a poor rendering.
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          • #16293: Some demos run in step-by-step console mode(4) did not focus user's attention to the console to proceed.
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          • #16299: After graypolarplot, colorbar displayed an empty ungraduated color bar.
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          • #16303: log10(x) had wrong dimensions when x is an hypermatrix.
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          • #16307: dockable="off" and closerequestfcn on figures crached Scilab.
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          • #16320: There were unsupported UTF-8 characters in some gettext id messages.
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          • #16321: There were typo errors in the documentation.
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          • #16323: conj(sparse(x)) was complex when x is real.
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          • #16325: mgetl could not read single line data which is greater than ~260,000 characters.