MATLAB R2025b highlights and experiences
Walter Roberson
on 17 Sep 2025
Latest activity Reply by Royi Avital
on 22 Sep 2025
I just noticed that MATLAB R2025b is available. I am a bit surprised, as I never got notification of the beta test for it.
This topic is for highlights and experiences with R2025b.
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Wow, that release kinda snuck in there.
R2025b is completely focused on improving quality and stability. It introduces no new features, which is why there was no prerelease.
If you are using R2025a I encourage you to consider adopting R2025b. It's got all of the great new stuff from R2025a with quality and stability improvements.
Currently, all of the online release notes are empty!
@Walter Roberson, if you saw them completely empty it was likely just a transition issue as we pushed out the new release. They don't appear empty now.
I think the 2025b release has no new features. Only bug fixing.
I guess you may view it as an Update / Service Pack of 2025a.
That seems very strange, as Mathworks started publishing updates a few years ago to fix bugs in existing releases.
I personally expect new features to be added to the release notes somewhere in the next 24 hours.
But I don't work for Mathworks, so I might be wrong.
I think it makes sense.
2025a changed things fundamentally. I guess most deveopment resources were invested in stabilizing and working on users feedback.
We'll probably know better once we see some blog posts on 2025b.
That seems reasonable (and when I read between the lines, Michelle confirmed your intuition).
With the previous fundamental change (HG2, R2014b) the change was implemented and tested in pre-releases several years before it was rolled out to the main release in order to iron out the main kinks. I was a very novice Matlab user at the time, but that is how I interpret the discussions from the time I have later read on Answers.
I guess the sacle of users of the "Beta" and the actual released product is different.
Which caused a lot of refinement work.
From my experiecne I can say MathWorks is user feedback driven.
I guess there was a lot of feedback to work on.
I'd also guess that R2026a will be a relatively big release as I assume many features have accumulated and will be ready for release. Just a guess...
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