Octave Version 8.4.0 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

  • mkoctfile: Skip parsing for less flags (bug #64590).
  • Fix getting number of non-zero elements in SuiteSparse matrices.
  • delaunayn: Avoid erroneous simplex removal for integer inputs (bug #64658).
  • delaunayn: Add precision loss warning for large int inputs (bug #64658).
  • delaunayn: Also warn for negative integers with large magnitude (bug #64658).
  • Correctly load all-zero sparse matrices from text files (bug #64696).
  • Allocate correct storage for interleaved complex mxArray objects (bug #64687).
  • mkoctfile: Prefer parsing over passing on argument after unknown argument (bug #64725).
  • fft: Avoid segmentation fault with ND-arrays (bug #64729).
  • fft: Avoid overwriting input for inplace operations (bug #64733).
  • intersect.m: Correct third output with "stable" flag (bug #60347).
  • Avoid use-after-free issue in parser (bug #60882).
  • betainc.m: Improve integer input logic and validation (bug #64726).
  • webread: Apply timeout also for initial connection (bug #64826).

Build system / Tests

  • mkpp.m: Remove stray text causing error with demo code.
  • Ensure that new test for saving sparse matrices writes a text file.
  • Search for tests in and install octave-value template sources (bug #64696).

Documentation

  • Correct variable name typo in documentation of slice().
  • Expand documentation for gcd() and lcm().
  • datevec: Clarify that heuristics are used to detect the format of a date string (bug #64563).
  • datenum: Add help text that inputs can be arrays, add examples (bug #54679).
  • datevec: Add help text that inputs can be arrays (bug #54679).
  • Describe various pitfalls with floating point ranges (bug #64692).
  • Add range example and some copyedits.