Octave Version 6.4.0 has been released and is now available for download. An official Windows binary installer is also available. For macOS see the installation instructions in the wiki.

This version is a bug fixing release:

Improvements and fixes

  • Reduce memory usage in BISTs for copyobj, hgsave (bug #57591).
  • hgsave.m, copyobj.m: Use 'qt' graphics toolkit in BISTs.
  • main.cc: Use getopt to parse command line arguments (bug #60886).
  • main.cc: Remove invalid case (bug #60886).
  • Disable getopt error reporting in wrapper program (bug #60886).
  • interp1.m: Don’t interpret later numeric input as xi (bug #60967).
  • pkg: Improve similar package name suggestion (bug #61067).
  • Store parent name in function object when caching parents in scope (bug #61105).
  • Avoid internal error and segfault with eval and scripts (bug #61191).
  • rmpath: Prevent removing the current directory from the load path (bug #61216).

GUI

  • Fix missing interpreter event in octave-scintilla.
  • Fix opening a file in a custom editor (bug #60990).

Documentation

  • Improve docstring for disable_diagonal_matrix, disable_diagonal_matrix, and disable_range (patch #10089).
  • cbrt: Clarify that function errors for non-real input.
  • dsearchn.m: Added optional distance output description (bug #61156).
  • Add Hungarian translation for project description files.
  • Document fsolve output “info” -2 (bug #61310).

Build system

  • Correct error message for incompatible CXSparse (bug #61385).