MATLAB 7.9

• Expanded M-Lint code-checker messages, providing more detailed explanations of warnings and errors within the MATLAB Editor

• Significant enhancements to computational geometry functionality, providing improved robustness and memory efficiency for Delaunay triangulation and scattered-data interpolation

• Ability to call .NET classes from MATLAB, providing direct access to a wide variety of software components
• Expanded mmreader multimedia reader support for Linux® platforms

• Function browser that enables finding appropriate functions while typing in the Editor and Command Window
• Function hints that provide reminders of arguments while typing
• Updated Current Directory browser, providing enhanced navigation, filtering, and file previews

• New containers.Map data structure, enabling implementation of look-up tables and similar constructs, such as a fast string-to-value index
• Enhanced doc command, providing automatic display of formatted documentation for user-written classdef files

• Enhanced random-number generation, including new algorithms and the ability to create multiple independent streams
• Enhanced mathematical libraries to use Intel® MKL v10.0.3

• Major enhancements to object-oriented programming capabilities allowing easier development and maintenance of large applications and data structures. Many new features, including:
  • New classdef keyword enabling you to define properties, methods, and events in a class definition file
  • New handle class with reference behavior, aiding the creation of data structures such as linked lists
  • Events and listeners allowing the monitoring of object property changes and actions
  • JIT/Accelerator support providing significantly improved object performance over previous releases
  • Several enhancements to the development environment to support developing and using classes including improved support for objects in the variable editor and M-lint warnings specific to classes

See the Release Notes for details.

• Ability to manage namespace by placing classes and functions in packages
• New clearvars function for clearing or keeping specified variables
• New onCleanup function to specify any cleanup tasks that need to be performed by MATLAB when a function completes

• Ability to customize and rearrange the MATLAB Desktop and Editor toolbars
• Expanded code-folding support in the Editor, providing the ability to collapse cells and language constructs (including for, if, switch, and more)
• Enhanced inspection of structures and objects with the Variable Editor, previously known as the Array Editor
• File comparison tool expanded to allow comparison of directories, MAT-files and binary files
• Several enhancements to automatic M-file publishing, including support for functions and the ability to define configurations on a per-file basis
• M-Lint code checker support for Embedded MATLAB™ features

• Ability to link plots to workspace variables, synchronizing displays of changing data
• Support for "brushing" (interactively selecting) data in plots for analysis and manipulation
• Brushed variables in one plot also will highlight in other plots linked to the same workspace data
• New control uitable, accessible from GUIDE, enabling the display and editing of tabular information in graphical user interfaces

• MATLAB arrays no longer limited to 2³¹ (~2 x10⁹) elements, allowing many numeric and low-level file I/O functions to support real double arrays greater than 16 GB on 64-bit platforms
• New function maxNumCompThreads enabling use of get and set for the maximum number of computational threads
• Upgraded Linear Algebra Package library (LAPACK 3.1) on all platforms, plus upgraded optimized Basic Linear Algebra Subprogram libraries (BLAS) on AMD processors (AMCL 3.6)

• Code folding in the Editor, allowing easier viewing and navigation of large MATLAB files with many functions
• Ability to run functions directly from the Editor by configuring a set of arguments for an M-file
• Quick access to function help from the command line or in the Editor

• New MException class and new try-catch syntax, allowing more robust catching and handling of errors

• Sparse matrix support added to the ldl function and backslash operator (\), allowing factorization and solving of real symmetric sparse matrices
• New quadgk function, allowing numerical integration using Gauss-Kronrod quadrature and supporting integration over infinite limits
• New bvp5c function for solving boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations, more efficient for small error tolerances

• New mmreader multimedia reader object on Windows platforms supporting formats such as AVI, MPEG, and WMV, and additional codecs

• Toolbar editor in GUIDE to interactively design toolbars for graphical user interfaces