Octave full changelog

This major release improves compatibility with Matlab and contains many new and improved functions. A list of important user-visible changes is available by selecting the Release Notes item in the News menu of the GUI or by typing "news" at the Octave command prompt.

ESA approved two students to work for Octave under the SOCIS mentorship programme! Congratulations to Wendy Liu and Andrius Sutas who will be working on finishing the Agora website and low-level I/O respectively.

Version 3.4.3 has been released and is now available for ftp. Octave 3.4.3 is a bug fixing release.

Binary compatibility for all 3.4.x releases was originally planned,
but this is impossible for the 3.4.1 release due to a bug in the way
shared libraries were built in Octave 3.4.0. Because of this bug,
.oct files built for Octave 3.4.0 must be recompiled before they
will work with Octave 3.4.1.

Given that there would be binary incompatibilities with shared
libraries going from Octave 3.4.0 to 3.4.1, the following
incompatible changes were also made in this release:

* The Perl Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library is now
required to build Octave.

* Octave's libraries and .oct files are now installed in
subdirectories of $libdir instead of $libexecdir.

Any future Octave 3.4.x release versions should remain binary
compatible with Octave 3.4.1 as proper library versioning is now
being used as recommended by the libtool manual.