Octave 3.8.2-rc2 release candidate available for ftp

[John W. Eaton]

The second release candidate of Octave 3.8.2 is now available from
alpha.gnu.org in the directory /gnu/octave:

  9268ae5649133926569d80634c29d453  octave-3.8.2-rc2.tar.gz  (md5sum)

  -rw-r--r-- 1 3003 3002 20741471 Jul 01 09:31 octave-3.8.2-rc2.tar.gz

Please help make the 3.8.2 release a success by building from this
release candidate and reporting any problems.

I'll be making this the default build for mxe-octave soon.

Bugs that have been fixed since the last release (info extracted from
the commit message summary lines):

Better guess if rem or mod could be zero (bug #42627)

Improve accuracy of range/scalar arithmetic (bug #42589)

strread.m: Process string escapes on single quoted format (bug #42609)

strread.m: drop valid delimiters from format specifier list (bug #42609)

Check for name and type keyword to return as an octave ascii data file 
(bug #42586)

Use gnulib log2 modules (bug #42583)

Return error code from sparse chol factorization (bug #42587)

Use button value 1 for mouse button keypress 1063 (bug #42489)

Correctly return 0 for empty matrices (bug #42563)

Allow loading mat5 files generated from R and Python (bug #42562)

Fix xticklabel with minor grid (bug #38139, bug #40256)

Only show directories in search directory dialog activated from files 
browser

Fix typo in graphics.in.h (bug #42535).

Fix incorrect sparse matrix example code in oct-file chapter (bug #41799)

Fix binmap for sparse-scalar or scalar-sparse operations (bug #40813)

Fix infinite loop and segfault for atan2, fmod, hypot (bug #40813)

eigs: selection columns of V, not rows (bug #41795)

Fix regression in hist with multiple columns and normalization (bug #42394)

Fix regression in width of bars for hist() (bug #42401)

Fix segfault with sparse inputs to complex() (bug #42290)

don't crash on empty script files (bug #42064)

Fix assert() segfaults with profiler (bug #39587, bug #39586)

Fix blank line appearing in profiler output (bug #39524)

isaxes.m: Fix bug where some inputs do not show up in outputs (bug #42362)

Correctly follow legend interpreter property for gnuplot (bug #40064)

Fix extra backslash escape for gnuplot when interpreter=none (bug #36744)

Fix segfault if subsasgn in @class returns no output (bug #41945)

__gnuplot_get_var__.m: Fix accidental use of gcf causing figure popus in 
waitbar
(bug #41446)

spy.m: Use nnz, not numel, to avoid overflowing octave_idx_type (bug #42116)

Fix inverted colors when printing uint8/uint16 images (bug #42107)

force integer font metric in gui terminal (partial fix of bug #37187)

Correctly validate arguments to dot function (bug #42061)

interp1.m: fix function for inputs w/multiple discontinuities (bug #41980)

don't truncate when casting char to uintN values (bug #42054)

libqterminal: Initialize m_cursorBlinking value (bug #41814)

Set only 'axis tight' for image functions and Matlab compatibility (bug 
#42043,
bug #41886)

fminunc.m: Fix typo in header documentation (bug #42011)

Fix segmentation fault for interp2 and pchip method (bug #41838)

__makeinfo__: Process Texinfo docstrings without type conversion (bug 
#41965)

provide better default for Mac keyboard layouts (bug #41337)

listdlg.m: return Octave value rather than Java int object (bug #41931)

textscan.m: Fix undefined whitespace error with empty format input (bug 
#41824)

waitbar.m: Fix regression of plots openin in waitbar window (bug #41914)

Fix dead assignment in oct-rand.cc do_float_scalar (bug #41827)

info on experimental gui is displayed with vertical scroll bar (bug #41840)

imagesc.m: Fix regression causing imagesc to display with 'axis equal' (bug
#41886)

r1mach.f: Fix cut and paste errors (bug #32120)

Force non-native menu bar for the editor on mac (bug #41823)


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