Welcome to Scilab 6.0.1

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

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

• High-level new features,
• Changes in installation, compilation, and compatibility,
• Changes in the language,
• New and modified features, in each module,
• Changes in functions (removed/added/modified),
• Bug fixes.

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:

• New language parser and interpreter, ensuring:
  • Support for bigger data sets, thanks to dynamic memory usage. No need for stacksize anymore.
  • Better performance for some objects (cells and structs).
  • Clearer, less ambiguous, language syntax.
  • Executor reuse of specialization and custom engines.
  • Xcos also uses the new re-written Scilab engine.
• New code productivity features: full-featured debugger, profiler/coverage tool, and "lint"-like commands.
• Newsfeed, providing a continuous feed of news, tips, and general communication from the community and from Scilab Enterprises.
• 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.
• A tbx_make() function is added to build a toolbox following the toolbox directory structure convention
• 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:
  • tbx_builder_macros: compiles the .sci files present in macros/ directory into the toolbox library. If buildmacros.sce or builder.sce script in macros/ are present, executes them instead;
  • tbx_builder_help: compiles the help for each language (la_LA) directories in help/. If builder_help script is present in help, executes it instead;
  • tbx_build_loader: builds a default loader that mimics the skeleton .start files. If a .start file is found in etc/ builds a loader calling this script;
  • tbx_builder_src: scans the subdirectories under src for builder files and executes them
  • tbx_builder_gateway: scans the subdirectories under sci_gateway for builder files and executes them

Windows starting changes:

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:

• scilab starts WScilex.exe : Scilab with GUI and full functionnalities.
• scilab -nw starts WScilex-cli.exe: Scilab CLI with full functionnalities.
• scilab -nwni starts Scilex.exe: Scilab CLI without Java, Graphics, Xcos, etc.

Others flags are forwarded to binaries as before.

Installation

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

Compilation

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

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

Dependencies

• Apache xmlgraphics stack upgraded to the latest versions:
  • xmlgraphics-commons 2.0.1
  • Batik 1.8
  • FOP 2.0

Packaging & Supported Operating Systems

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

  • Windows:

    • Windows 8 (Desktop)
    • Windows 7
    • Windows Vista SP2
    • Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (64-bit)
    • Windows Server 2012 (64-bit)

  • Mac OS X:

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

  • Linux:

    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5+, 6.x (32-bit), 6.x (64-bit), 7.x (64-bit)
    • Oracle Linux 5.5+, 6.x (32-bit), 6.x (64-bit), 7.x (64-bit)
    • 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?

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

Language changes

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.

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

• The parser now fully supports names of variables and functions of any length or/and including some UTF-8 multilingual characters.
• Declaration of a number on two lines is no longer allowed: 1.. \n 2.
• Declaration of an unclosed string on two lines is no longer allowed: "abc..\ndef" now yields an error.
• Comment blocks on multiple lines /* ...\n ... \n ... */ are now possible.
• 1./M is now parsed as 1 ./ M instead of 1. / M.
• Declaring strings using non-homogenous delimiters ("string' or 'string") is no longer allowed.
• (a=b) executed as a == b is now deprecated and returns an error.
• Function definitions can finish with end instead of endfunction.
• {} and [] are now distinct operators. Matrices can no longer be defined using {} operators. These are reserved for cell definition.
• New && and || boolean AND and OR operators are introduced. They are shortcut in expressions even out of conditional tests, like A = [1 %pi] || det([1 2])
• Syntax %i:10 is now deprecated (only real scalars can be used).
• else is no longer supported in a while ... end control instruction.
• Transposed matrix can now use the extraction operator directly A'(1, 2).
• Function without output argument cannot be called in assignation expression anymore:

   function foo()
   	//...
   endfunction
  
   val = foo() // now returns an error
  

Feature changes and additions

• Addition or subtraction with an empty matrix now returns an empty matrix.
• scatter/scatter3 plot with different mark colors is now available.
• parulacolormap is now available.
• name2rgb can now handle a single string and a matrix of strings.
• isoview, isoview on, isoview off, isoview(idGraphics, "on"|"off") are now supported.
• twinkle and twinkle(n) are now supported: by default, the current element gce blinks.
• replot has been upgraded:
  • a bound set to %inf now gets the position of the most marginal object,
  • replot can now be used to reframe axes to all their contents,
  • option tigh_limits added,
  • Any handle having some Axes as direct children -- as uicontrol-frame -- is now supported.
• householder can now return the reflection matrix and has a demo.
• ndgrid can now work with any types of homogeneous data
• permute now supports arrays of rationals.
• bench_run can now return its results and/or record them in a file
• typeof(.., "overload") allows now to get the overloading type-code of an object
• sign can now handle a sparse matrix.
• sleep(..,'s') allows now to specify the duration in seconds.
• real, imag, conj and isreal now accept rational fractions.
• A call stack limit has been introduced. Default maximum depth is set up to 1000 and can be changed by recursionlimit or through the Preferences interface.
• The floating point exception mode ieee is now set to 2 by default: floating point exceptions now produce Inf or Nan, and do not cause any error. The previous behavior can be recalled by simply calling: ieee(0).
• Datatips:
  • The property z_component = 'on|off' is renamed to display_components = 'xyz'. It is now possible to choose which components to display, and in which order. The .z_component property will be ignored in former *.scg files.
  • A new detached_position property is available to display the datatip away from but linked to its anchor on the curve.
  • A new Polyline.datatip_display_mode property now allows to display each datatip of the curve only on mouseover its anchor or only on mouseclick.
• Valgrind error detection added to test_run (on Linux only).
• amell now:
  • checks if its parameters are real numbers,
  • throws an error if the second parameter is not a scalar.
• The use of I/O console is now allowed with the following functions: mget, mgetl, mgetstr, mput, mputl and mputstr.
• mclearerr now returns a flag indicating the file identifier validity.
• fileinfo can now take a row vector as input.
• msprintf does not return an error message anymore when there are too many input arguments (more values that format needs).
• deletefile can delete multiple files at once.
• exec of macro executes the body in the current scope, but the prototype must have zero input and output arguments.
• error: an error number in the input is deprecated.
• impl: Recall impl with the same parameters as in its previous stop is now available.
• ode: y0 is restricted to a column vector.
• pppdiv: Returns a scalar of type 'constant' when the rank is 0.
• pdiv: Returns a matrix of type 'constant' when all the rank is 0.
• assert_checkalmostequal can now work with polynomials.
• test_run can now take [] as argument to be used on console; for instance: test_run string [] no_check_ref.
• type(:) now returns 129 instead of 1.
• typeof(:) and typeof(n:$) now return "implicitlist" instead of respectively "constant" and "size implicit".
• linspace(a, b, n<=0) now returns [] instead of b.
• strange([]) now returns %nan instead of [], as all other functions for statistical dispersion.
• stdev(x, dir>ndims(x)) now yields an error instead of returning zeros(x).
• mean and stdev can now be overloaded.
• write: Writing string or string matrix in a file does not add blank space before each value.
• bitor, bitxor and bitand are upgraded:
  • positive signed encoded integers are now accepted.
  • inputs with new int64 or uint64 encodings are now accepted.
  • operands with mixed types or/and integer types are now accepted.
  • distributive input scalars as in bit###(scalar, array) or bit###(array, scalar) are now accepted.
  • results with decimal-encoded integers > 2^32 are now correct.
  • decimal-encoded integers > 2^52 are now supported up to the biggest 1.80D+308.
  • bitxor is now vectorized and fast.
• resize_matrix: Its conversion option is extended to the new int64 and uint64 integer types.
• Interactively setting a common zoom box on multiple neighboring or overlaying axes, and with bounds selected out of the axes areas is now restored, after the Scilab 5.4 regression.
• Scroll to zoom:
  • Scrolling over overlaying axes now zooms all of them together.
  • Pressing CTRL while scrolling now zooms all axes in the current figure.
• MPI_Create_comm creates a new communicator from MPI_COMM_WORLD using MPI world ranks.
• The grand non-free fsultra generator is no longer available.
• The original rpoly algorithm is removed in favor of a C++11 implementation
• When Axes.view=="2d", the rotation is now impossible.
• The zero-pole-gain (zpk) representation is now available for linear dynamical systems.
• On a figure, the contextual menu now proposes an entry Label -> Title to interactively set the title of any axes.
• getPreferencesValue can now read a tag having multiple occurrences, and accepts the path to a preference file instead of its XML handle.
• The function stripblanks now supports an option to remove trailing or leading spaces or both.
• atomsSetConfig does not update cache.
• lqi function added to compute "linear quadratic integral compensator".
• A new console File => Go to Favorite directory menu allows to go to a favorite directory selected in a dynamical list set from Scinotes favorite and most recent directories.
• The console File => Open a file menu allows now to open xcos, zcos, scg or lib files with the proper Scilab component, and other files with the proper OS application. All files were opened in Scinotes and could freeze it.
• size is now overloadable for tlist lists, as it already could for mlist lists.
• For arrays of cells or structures, length now returns their number of elements.
• gcd now accepts int64 and uint64 integers. The input can now be an array instead of a row vector.
• gcd and lcm of integers now always return a positive result.
• cat has been rewritten. It is now fast and can process heavy arrays at high dimensions.
• Warnings from fplot3d1 called without an option were removed.
• whereis has been upgraded:
  • It can now be used for built-in functions.
  • When the same function name is registered in several libraries, whereis now returns all of them instead of only the last loaded one.
  • For unregistered user-defined macros, "script" is now returned instead of [].
• mgetl speed has been improved for files with a lot of lines.
• ndgrid(x) now accepts only one input x, with by default y=x.
• banner() updated with ESI Group a 2017-2018 copyright.

Help pages:

• Support to id, width, height, align and style attributes added for the <imagedata> tag.
• Support to id attribute added for the <tr> tag.
• fixed / improved: members, part, ode, ode_optional_output, ode_root, plot2d, roots, printf, sprintf, iconvert, stdev, xlabel, and_op, or_op, permute, tree2code, %helps, scilab, flipdim, Matplot_properties, text_properties, meshgrid, ismatrix, xget, xset, ieee, evstr, uigetfont, uigetdir, uigetfile, uiputfile, cat, makecell, xstring, norm, barhomogenize, colordef, matrix, coffg, diag, speye, sparse
• rewritten: consolebox, double, isoview, pixel_drawing_mode, householder, or, |,||, and, &,&&, format, type, typeof, brackets, setlanguage, sleep, isinf, unique, bitor, bitxor, bitand, macr2tree, geomean, clf, getPreferencesValue, gcd, isglobal, whereis, mode, %onprompt, toeplitz, param3d, param3d1, argn
• reorganized:
  • else, elseif, end, try, sciargs, global, halt, empty, power, numderivative
  • pixel_drawing_mode, show_window, twinkle, uigetcolor, winsid, xdel, xgrid, xname, xnumb
  • repmat, sign, nthroot, lstsize, cell2mat, cellstr, ind2sub, sub2ind, and, or, unwrap, members
  • CACSD and Signal Processing help pages have been sorted out.
  • Signal processing: new Convolution - correlation subsection. wfir_gui, filt_sinc, hilb, fft2, fftshift, ifftshift, hilbert, cepstrum, conv, conv2, convol2d, xcor, corr, hank, mrfit, frfir sorted out in existing subsections.
  • Cells subsection created: cell, cell2mat, cellstr, iscell, iscellstr, makecell, num2cell gathered.
  • Colormaps and GUI/Menus subsections created
• translations added:
  • (fr): format, typeof, isoview, ndgrid, bench_run, consolebox, harmean, sleep, strtod, permute, geomean
  • (ru): homepage, strtod

Data Structures

• cells and structs are now native types, hence improving performances.
• cells:
  • insertion and extraction must be done via () or {}.
  • .dims and .entries fields have been removed, please use size and () instead.
  • length() of a cells array is now the number of its primary components (without recursive counting). It is equivalent to size( ,"*"). It was formerly always equal to 3. It is now consistent with the definition for all types of Scilab arrays.
• struct
  • the .dims field has been removed, please use size() instead.
  • length() of a structures array is now the number of its primary components (without recursive counting). It is equivalent to size( ,"*"). It was formerly equal to its number of fields + 2. It is now consistent with the definition for all types of Scilab arrays.
• hypermatrix:
  • hypermatrices are natively managed (without mlist overloading).
  • typeof now returns the actual data type like constant, string, ... instead of hypermat
  • type now returns the actual data type like 1, 10, ... instead of 17 (mlist).
  • .dims and .entries fields have been removed. Please use size and () instead.

Xcos

• Major rewrite of the data structures, huge models should load and save faster. The memory usage on diagram edition is also slightly reduced.
• ZCOS and XCOS file formats have evolved to reduce the duplicated information. Scilab 5.5.2 is able to open the newly saved files, but the ports have to be repositioned manually.
• Implicit fixed-size step ODE solver added: Crank-Nicolson 2(3). Added to the CVode package, it also benefits from the CVode root finding feature.
• Added a new link style (Optimal) for automatically finding the optimal route.
• Automatically reposition split blocks for better-looking layout.
• 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.
• Block modifications:
  • INVBLK: add a divide by zero parameter to ignore the error
  • PRODUCT: add a divide by zero parameter to ignore the error
• The palette browser has been improved. The following features were included:
  • search engine
  • history (go forward or backward)
  • drag and drop multiple blocks at once
  • navigate using the keyboard arrows
  • add blocks to the most recent diagram by using the ENTER key
  • dynamic palette with the last used blocks
  • zoom using CTRL(+), CTRL(-) and CTRL(mouse wheel)
  • load SVG icons
• Deleted obsolete WFILE_f block, please use WRITEC_f instead.

API modification

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

• maxfiles is now obsolete.
• isoview(xmin,xmax,ymin,ymax) is deprecated. Please use isoview("on"), replot(..) instead.
• eval3d will be removed from Scilab 6.1. Please use ndgrid instead.
• strcmpi is deprecated. Please use strcmp(..,"i")instead.
• square will be removed from Scilab 6.1. Please use gcf().axes_size and replot instead.
• nanmin is obsolete and will be removed in Scilab 6.1. Please use min instead.
• nanmax is obsolete and will be removed in Scilab 6.1. Please use max instead.
• xgetech is obsolete and will be removed in Scilab 6.1. Please use gca instead.
• lstsize is obsolete and will be removed in Scilab 6.1. Please use size instead.
• eval is obsolete and will be removed in Scilab 6.1. Please use evstr instead.
• dgettext is obsolete and will be removed in Scilab 6.1. Please use gettext(domain, text) instead.
• denom is obsolete and will be removed in Scilab 6.1. Please use the .den rational attribute instead.
• numer is obsolete and will be removed in Scilab 6.1. Please use the .num rational attribute instead.

Removed Functions

• intersci has been removed. Please use swig instead.
• numdiff has been removed. Please use numderivative instead.
• derivative has been removed. Please use numderivative instead.
• curblockc has been removed. Please use curblock instead.
• extract_help_examples has been removed.
• xpause has been removed. Please use sleep instead.
• xclear has been removed. Please use clf instead.
• fcontour2d has been removed. Please use contour2d instead.
• plot2d1 has been removed. Please use plot2d instead.
• lex_sort has been removed. Please use gsort(..,"lr") instead.
• gspec was obsolete already in Scilab 4 and is now removed. Please use spec instead.
• gschur was obsolete already in Scilab 4 and is now removed. Please use schur instead.
• havewindow has been removed. Please use getscilabmode()=="STD" instead
• rafiter was obsolete since Scilab 5.1 and is now removed.
• jconvMatrixMethod was obsolete and is now removed. Please use jautoTranspose instead.
• fcontour was obsolete since Scilab 4 and has been removed. Please use contour instead.
• m_circle was obsolete since Scilab 5.2.0. It is removed. Please use hallchart instead.
• Symbolic module functions have been removed: addf, cmb_lin, ldivf, mulf, rdivf, solve, subf, trianfml, trisolve and block2exp.
• 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).
• Former debugging functions have been removed: setbpt, delbpt, dispbpt. Please use debug instead.
• Former profiling functions have been removed: add_profiling, reset_profiling, remove_profiling, profile, showprofile, and plotprofile.
• comp and its associated type 11 have been removed. All functions will have type 13.
• readgateway has been removed.
• fort has been removed. Please use call instead.

Known issues

• 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.
• Toolboxes rebuild is in progress. Do not hesitate to submit patch or feature upgrade to the development mailing list for a particular toolbox.

Bugs fixed in 6.0.1:

• #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 ω 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.
• #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.
• #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.
• #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.
• #15420: insertion at negative index did not trigger an error.

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($+1,:) = some_row inserted it in row#2 after a parasitic row#1.
• #7649: isempty returned %F on struct(), {} or list(,) and was not shortcut
• #7696: The parallel_run help page was poorly formated
• #7794: The example in the findABCD help page failed.
• #7958: mrfitdid not allow a fourth parameter as shown in the help page.
• #8010: Permanent variables could be redefined through a syntax like %i(1,1)=1
• #8190: Fixed ICSE demos of Optimization module.
• #8356: sci2exp applied to lists, tlists or mlists having undefined fields yielded an error or a wrong result.
• #8493: Some trivial simplifications of p1./p2 with matrices of complex-encoded polynomials were not done.
• #8841: After s.a=list(4,7), s.a was not equal to s(1).a
• #8938: In a boolean sparse matrix sp, distributive insertions like sp(1,:)=%t, sp(1,1:$)=%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.
• #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.

Bugs fixed in 6.0.0 beta-2 and earlier 6.0.0 pre-releases:

• #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).
• #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 formated 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
• #14453: strcat([]) returned an empty string instead of [].
• #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.