GNU Octave 4.2.0 Released

[John W. Eaton]

The Octave developers are pleased to announce a major new release of GNU 
Octave, version 4.2.0.

Octave 4.2 is a major new release with many new features, better 
compatibility with Matlab, and many new and improved functions.

A list of important user-visible changes is available at 
http://octave.org/NEWS-4.2.html, by selecting the Release Notes item in 
the News menu of the GUI, or by typing "news" at the Octave command prompt.

We hope you find Octave to be useful.  We could also use your help to 
make Octave even better for the future, and further improve the user 
experience for both novices and experts alike.

  * If you are a skilled software developer, you can help by 
contributing your time with Octave's development.  See 
http://octave.org/get-involved for more information.

  * If Octave does not work properly, you are encouraged to report the 
problems you find.  Bug reporting guidelines are available at 
http://octave.org/bugs

  * Your financial support also helps to make Octave better.  Please 
see https://my.fsf.org/donate/working-together/octave

Commercial support options are also available.  Please see 
http://octave.org/support for details.


The source code for Octave 4.2.0 is available for download at:

  http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave

Please see http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html for mirror sites around the 
world.  Or you may use http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/octave, which will 
redirect automatically to a nearby mirror.

An official Windows binary installer is also available from 
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/windows

Links to binary (executable) versions for other systems will be listed 
at http://octave.org/download as they become available.

As always, many people contributed to this Octave release.  A complete 
list of contributors may be found in the Octave manual.


About Octave:

GNU Octave is a high-level interpreted language, primarily intended for 
numerical computations.  It provides capabilities for the numerical 
solution of linear and nonlinear problems and for performing other 
numerical experiments.  It also provides extensive graphics capabilities 
for data visualization and manipulation.  Octave is normally used 
through its interactive command line interface, but it can also be used 
to write non-interactive programs.  The Octave language is quite similar 
to Matlab so that most programs are easily portable.  A full description 
of Octave capabilities is available at http://octave.org/doc/interpreter