Desktop Tools and Development Environment

See the Compatibility Considerations subheading for each of these new features or changes:

• Windows Platforms Startup Changes

• Changes to Look of Buttons in Desktop and Other Tools

• Demos and Help Browser Contents Now Include New Category for Links and Targets

• Help on Selection Enhanced in Command Window and Editor

• Run/Continue Button Changes

• Line Endings Removed in Files Provided with MATLAB Software for Windows Platforms; Impacts Viewing in Notepad Application

• Stand-Alone Editor Will Not Be Included in Next Version

Math

See the Compatibility Considerations subheading for each of these new features or changes:

• finite Function Deprecated

• Library for LAPACK and BLAS Symbols Separated

• Colon Operations on Characters Return Character Type Data

• Matrix Generating Functions No Longer Accept Complex Inputs

Data Analysis

None

Programming

See the Compatibility Considerations subheading for each of these new features or changes:

• New Internal Format for P-code

• Change to Error Message from Anonymous Function

• New Message In Response to Ctrl+C

• hdfread Errors Instead of Warns on I/O Failures

• Results From tempname Are More Unique

• MATLAB Includes New Input Argument Validation Functions

• Windows Current Working Directory Corrected

• Compressed AVI Video Files in Windows Vista and Windows XP x64

• mmfileinfo Reads Files on MATLAB Path

• Removal of freeserial Function

Graphics and 3-D Visualization

See the Compatibility Considerations subheading for each of these new features or changes:

• Datatips Are Now Saved to FIG-Files

• The "v6" Option for Creating Plot Objects is Obsolete

Creating GUIs

See the Compatibility Considerations subheading for each of these new features or changes:

• Functions Being Removed

External Interfaces

See the Compatibility Considerations subheading for each of these new features or changes:

• Support for 64-bit mxArrays

• Fortran MEX-Files Will Require mwSize and mwIndex

• Rebuild MEX-Files Created with MATLAB Versions Earlier Than V7 (R14)

• Discontinued Compiler Support

• Changes to Applications Built with Borland 5.5 or 5.6 C Compilers

• Changes to Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) Documentation

• Documentation for Obsolete Functions To Be Phased Out