Desktop Tools and Development Environment

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

• Installation Directory Structure on Windows Platforms

• Preferences Reorganized and New Keyboard Pane Added to Support Command Window and Editor/Debugger

• Tab Completion — Tab Now Completes Function and Variable Names

• Go Menu Added; Bookmark and Go To Items Moved from Edit Menu to Go Menu

• Cell Mode On by Default — Shows Cell Toolbar and Possibly Horizontal Lines and Yellow Highlighting; Cell Information Bar and Button Added

• M-Lint and mlint Enhancements and Changes

• Visual Directory View Removed from Current Directory Browser

• PVCS Source Control System Name Change

Mathematics

None

Data Analysis

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

• Linux 64 Platform Fully Enabled for Time Series Tools

Programming

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

• Using avifile and movie2avi on Windows XP 64

• Regular Expressions

• MATLAB Warns on Invalid Input to str2func

• Changes to Character Encoding in File I/O

Graphics and 3-D Visualization

• Pasting Cut or Copied Graphic Objects Can Create an Axes

Creating GUIs

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

• Treatment of & in Menu Label Is Changed

External Interfaces

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

• MEX-Files Built with gcc on Linux Must Be Rebuilt

• MEX-Files in MATLAB for Microsoft Windows x64

• Compaq Visual Fortran Engine and MAT Options File Renamed

• Options Files Removed for Unsupported Compilers

• Obsolete Functions No Longer Documented