Desktop Tools and Development Environment

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

• terminal Function Removed

• license Function Results Modified Slightly

• Tab Completion Graphical Interface Added; Removed Preference to Limit Completions

• Parentheses Matching Support Removed

• Documentation Now Automatically Installed; Not Accessible from CD-ROMs and docroot Not Supported

• web Function Now Opens MATLAB^® Web Browser By Default

• HTML Documentation Not Viewable with -nojvm Startup Option

• Built-In Functions Now Treated Like Other M-Files on Search Path

• savepath Function Added to Replace path2rc

• Create Block Comments Using %{ and %}

• dbstack Function Supports Nested Functions

• dbstatus Function Supports Conditional Breakpoints

• Rapid Code Iteration Using Cells

• Profiler for Measuring Performance

• Source Control Changes

Mathematics

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

• Obsolete Functions

• Integer Data Type Functions Now Round Instead of Truncate

• Changes to Behavior of Concatenation

• New Class Inputs for sum

• max and min Now Have Restrictions on Inputs of Different Data Types

• Matrix, Trigonometric, and Other Math Functions No Longer Accept Inputs of Type char

• New Names for Demos expm1, expm2, and expm3

Programming

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

• MATLAB Stores Character Data As Unicode; Making Release 14 MAT-files Readable in Earlier Versions

• MAT-Files Generated By Release 14 Beta2 Must Be Reformatted

• Additional Bytes Reserved in MAT-File Header; Do Not Write To Reserved Space

• Case-Sensitivity in Function and Directory Names; Can Affect Which Function MATLAB Selects

• Differences Between Built-Ins and M-Functions Removed; Can Affect Which Function MATLAB Selects

• Change to How evalin Evaluates Dispatch Context

• New Calling Syntax for Function Handles; Replace eval With New Syntax

• Arrays of Function Handles

• Regular Expressions Accept String Vector; No Longer Support Character Matrix Input

• Colon Operator on char Now Returns a char

• Reading Date Values with xlsread; Conversion No Longer Necessary

• Changes to Error Message Format

3-D Graphics and Visualization

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

• Plotting Tools Not Working on Macintosh^® Platform

• Using -nojvm Option Prevents Plotting Tools Use

• MATLAB^® 6 Version Property Editor

• Cannot Dock Figures on Macintosh^® Platform

• Not All Macintosh^® System Fonts Are Available

Creating GUIs

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

• New Container Components

• New Syntax for uigetfile and uiputfile

• Frames Not Available in GUIDE Layout Editor

External Interfaces

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

• Saving Character Data with Unicode Encoding

• Display of Interface Handles

• Recompile MEX-Files on GLNX86 and Apple^® Macintosh^®

• Shared Libraries Now In /bin/$ARCH