Desktop

• Live Editor: Edit a figure interactively including title, labels, legend, and other annotations
• Live Editor: Get suggestions for mistyped commands and variables
• Live Editor: Copy live script outputs to other applications
• Live Editor: Hover over variables to see their current value
• Add-On Explorer: Discover and install File Exchange submissions hosted on GitHub in Add-On Explorer
• MATLAB Online: Access MATLAB through your web browser

Language and Programming

• string Arrays: Create string arrays using double quotes
• missing Function: Assign missing values in core data types, including double, datetime, and string arrays
• issortedrows Function: Determine if matrix and table rows are sorted
• sort and sortrows Functions: Specify options for sorting complex numbers and placing missing elements
• issorted Function: Query sort order with monotonic, strictly monotonic, strictly ascending, and strictly descending options

Graphics

• heatmap Function: Visualize table or matrix data as a heatmap
• legend Function: Create legends that update when data is added to or removed from the axes
• Categorical Plotting: Use categorical data in common plotting functions and customize axes with categorical rulers
• histogram Function: Plot histograms of datetime and duration data

Data Import and Export

• datastore and tabularTextDatastore Functions: Automatically detect and return date and time data in text files​
• Import Tool: Import strings and categorical arrays interactively
• detectImportOptions Function: Control import properties of fixed-width text files
• RESTful web services: Support for PUT and DELETE HTTP methods in webread, webwrite, and websave​​​

Data Analysis

• tall Arrays: Operate on tall arrays with more functions, including ismember, sort, conv, and moving statistics functions
• isoutlier and filloutliers Functions: Detect and replace outliers in an array or table
• smoothdata Function: Smooth noisy data in an array or table with filtering or local regression
• summary Function: Calculate summary statistics and variable information in tables and timetables
• movmad and movprod Functions: Compute moving median absolute deviation and moving product of an array
• bounds Function: Simultaneously determine the smallest and largest elements of an array
• fillmissing Function: Replace missing data in an array or table using moving mean or moving median option

App Building

• App Designer: Learn to build apps using an interactive tutorial
• App Designer: Zoom and pan plots
• App Designer: Configure columns of a table to automatically fill the entire width of the table
• App Designer: Manage common design-time settings using the Preferences dialog box

Performance

• Execution Engine: Improved performance for setting MATLAB object properties
• save Function: Save MAT v7.3 files without compression for improved performance on some storage devices
• memoize Function: Cache results of a function to avoid rerunning when called with the same inputs
• Scripts: Improved performance of scripts with lower script overhead
• try, catch Block: Improved performance of try blocks with lower execution overhead

Hardware Support

• Arduino: Read from quadrature encoders
• Arduino: Wirelessly connect to Arduino MKR1000 board over WiFi
• iPhone and Android Sensors: Log sensor data locally on Android or iOS devices for later analysis​​​​​

Advanced Software Development

• Object Properties: Validate object property values by their type, size, shape, or other parameters​​
• Mocking Framework: Isolate a portion of a system to test by imitating behavior of dependent components
• Unit Testing Framework: Capture screenshots and figures generated during tests using TestReportPlugin​
• Unit Testing Framework: Control runtests function with debug, strict, and verbosity options​
• Performance Testing Framework: View statistics from test measurements with the sampleSummary method

See the Release Notes for details.

Desktop

• ​Live Editor: Pan, zoom, and rotate axes in output figures​
• Live Editor: Create and edit equations interactively using the equation editor​
• Live Editor: Create new sections and format text quickly using autoformatting​
• Command Window: View updated display for arrays, including headers indicating class, size, and shape
• Product Trials: Download trials for MathWorks products using Add-On Explorer​
• Toolbox Packaging: Include live script examples, generate info.xml and helptoc.xml templates for custom documentation, and modify Java class path on installation

Language and Programming

• Functions in Scripts: Define local functions in scripts for improved code reuse and readability
• string Array: Manipulate, compare, and store text data efficiently (watch video – 4:00)​
• timetable Data Container: Manage time-stamped tabular data with time-based indexing and synchronization (watch video – 3:49)​​​
• timerange Function: Access all data in a specified date and time range in a timetable
• vartype Function: Access all variables of a specified datatype in a table
• table Data Container: Reference all variables in a table with compatible types using the Variables property
• dir Function: Search for folders and subfolders recursively

Mathematics

• Implicit Expansion: Apply element-wise operations and functions to arrays with automatic expansion of dimensions of length 1
• graph and digraph Objects: Compute graph isomorphism, biconnected components, cut vertices, and node condensation
• graph and digraph Objects: Visualize graphs and networks in 3-D
• digraph Object: Reverse edge directions in a directed graph using the flipedge function

Graphics

• Date and Time Plotting: Use datetime or duration data in common plotting functions, and customize plots with datetime and duration rulers
• polarscatter and polarhistogram Functions: Create scatter and histogram plots in polar coordinates
• fimplicit and fimplicit3 Functions: Plot implicit functions of the form f(x,y) = 0 and f(x,y,z) = 0
• Tick Formatting Functions: Customize text, position, rotation, and format for axis tick labels
• errorbar Function: Create vertical and horizontal error bars and control hat width
• plot Function: Control location and frequency of markers with the MarkerIndices property

Data Import and Export

• readtable Function: Autom​atically detect and return date and time data in text and spreadsheet files
• dete​ctImportOptions Function: Detect layout of text and Excel files and customize import options to readtable​
• VideoReader Object: Read video frames more quickly from MP4 and MOV files on Windows systems
• imageDa​tastore Function: Read batches of images for faster processing in machine learning and computer vision applications
• TallDatastore Object: Efficiently retrieve preprocessed and cleaned-up data saved using the write function of the MATLAB tall arrays
• jsondecode, jsonencode Functions: Encode and decode structured data in JSON-formatted text

Data Analysis

• tall Arrays: Manipulate and analyze data that is too big to fit in memory (watch video – 5:25)
• Missing Data Functions: Find, fill, and remove missing data from arrays or tables with ismissing, standardizeMissing, fillmissing, and rmmissing
• Cumulative Functions: Ignore NaNs using 'omitnan' in cumsum, cummin, and cummax
• discretize Function: Discretize datetime and duration arrays to separate time-stamped data into regular time intervals
• Constrained Pan and Zoom: Pan or zoom in a single dimension for 2-D and 3-D plots

App Building

• App Designer: Include common 2-D plots in apps, such as area, bar, contour, histogram, yyaxis, and function plots
• App Designer: Create legends for 2-D plots in apps
• App Designer: Embed tabular displays using uitable in apps
• App Designer: Create callback functions that can be shared across multiple components
• App Designer: Add, position, and resize labeled components, and create components with names derived from labels

Performance

• Graphics Display: Render plots with large numbers of markers faster using less memory
• Execution Engine: Execute tight loops with scalar math faster​​
• Execution Engine: Construct objects faster​​​

Hardware Support

• ​iPhone and Android Sensors: Log data from mobile sensors on the MathWorks Cloud over a Wi-Fi or cellular network​
• Arduino: Write to shift registers
• Raspberry Pi: Generate PWM signals and control servo motors from GPIO pins on Raspberry Pi
• Raspberry Pi: Support for Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
• Raspberry Pi: Read​ from sensors and write to the LED matrix on a Raspberry Pi Sense HAT​

Advanced Software Development

• matlab.net.http Object: Access HTTP services with low-level protocol control
• MATLAB Engine API for Java: Run MATLAB code from Java programs
• matlab.mixin.SetGet: Allow inexact property names by default in calls to set and get
• Unit Testing Framework: Generate Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF reports of a test run
• Unit and Performance Testing Frameworks: Improve code reuse and readability by using local functions in script-based tests

See the Release Notes for details.

Desktop

• Live Editor: Create and run live scripts with embedded output; add equations and images to enhance the interactive narrative (watch video – 4:35)
• Toolboxes: Programmatically package and install custom MATLAB toolboxes with matlab.addons.toolbox package
• Tab Completion: Complete parameter names and options in select MATLAB function calls
• Pause Button: Pause the execution of a program from the Editor and enter debug mode

Language and Programming

• datetime Object: Set the default locale and format of datetime objects through the Preference panel
• zeros, ones, and eye Functions: Create logical arrays

Mathematics

• Moving Statistics Functions: Calculate moving statistics using the movmean, movsum, movmedian, movmax, movmin, movvar, and movstd functions
• datetime and duration Arrays: Compute standard deviations with std
• datetime and duration Arrays: Ignore NaNs and NaTs using 'omitnan' or 'omitnat' in the functions mean, median, std, and sum
• graph and digraph Classes: Analyze graphs and networks using centrality and nearest nodes functions
• svds Function: Compute singular values with improved performance and convergence behavior with a wide variety of matrices
• median Function: Compute medians with improved performance
• cummin, cummax, cumprod, and cumsum Functions: Compute cumulative minimum, maximum, product, and sum with improved performance

Graphics

• polarplot Function: Plot data in polar coordinates and modify properties of polar axes
• yyaxis Function: Create charts with two y-axes and customize each y-axis individually
• Legend Object: Add legend title and create callbacks to highlight plots when clicking legend items
• histogram2 Function: Enable data linking and brushing for bivariate histograms
• Function Plots: Visualize mathematical expressions as parametric line, surface, and contour plots
• Graphics Display: Render plots with large numbers of markers faster
• 3-D Pan and Zoom: Explore data with improved pan and zoom behavior for axes in a 3-D view

App Building

• App Designer: Build MATLAB apps with line and scatter plots using an enhanced design environment and an expanded UI component set (watch video – 5:06)

Data Import and Export

• writetable Function: Write to text files significantly faster, especially for large files
• readtable Function: Read from Excel files with faster performance
• writetable Function: Write to Excel files on Mac and Linux platforms
• spreadsheetDatastore Function: Import and process data from a collection of Excel files
• datastore Function: Import a TabularTextDatastore object with improved file format detection
• ImageDatastore Object: Specify image labels using the Labels property and process with splitEachLabel, countEachLabel, and shuffle functions
• fileDatastore Function: Create a custom datastore for a file collection too large to fit in memory
• readtable Function: Read text files with automatic detection of delimiters, header lines, and variable names
• tabularTextDatastore and imageDatastore Functions: Create objects to import large text and image data collections

Performance

• Performance Testing Framework: Measure MATLAB code performance using the unit testing framework
• Graphics Display: Render plots with large numbers of markers faster
• writetable Function: Write to text files significantly faster, especially for large files
• readtable Function: Read from Excel files with faster performance
• median Function: Compute medians with improved performance
• cummin, cummax, cumprod, and cumsum Functions: Compute cumulative minimum, maximum, product, and sum with improved performance

Hardware Support

• Raspberry Pi: Acquire images from USB webcams
• Arduino: Build custom add-ons to interface with additional hardware and software libraries

Advanced Software Development

• Performance Testing Framework: Measure MATLAB code performance using the unit testing framework

See the Release Notes for details.

Version 8.5.1, part of Release 2015aSP1, includes bug fixes.

See the Release Notes for details.

Desktop

• Add-On Explorer: Add capabilities to MATLAB, including community-authored and MathWorks toolboxes, apps, functions, models, and hardware support
• Documentation: Find information faster with redesigned Help navigation and browser-style keyboard shortcuts
• Tab Completion: Complete commands with corrected capitalization
• Command Suggestions: Get suggested corrections for mistyped function names when calling help command

Language and Programming

• findgroups and splitapply Functions: Split data into groups and apply functions to each group of data
• NaT Function: Create array of Not-a-Time values
• timezones Function: Display list of time zone names
• help Command: Specify a variable as input to the help command instead of specifying the variable class name

Advanced Software Development

• MATLAB Interface to Python: Clear Python class definitions with clear classes command, useful when reloading revised Python classes
• MATLAB Interface to Python: Pass a handle to a Python function to other Python functions called from MATLAB
• MATLAB Engine for Python: Call MATLAB functions and objects from Python by connecting to a running session of MATLAB
• MEX Compiler Support: Compile MEX files with freely available MinGW-w64 compiler on 64-bit Windows
• Unit Testing Framework: Improve continuous integration workflows with diagnostics from the TAP plugin and a JUnit-style XML plugin
• Unit Testing Framework: Customize the test runner with plugins that immediately report finalized results and perform system-wide qualifications
• Unit Testing Framework: Run tests in parallel when available using the runtests function with the UseParallel option
• Unit Testing Framework: Detect and prevent warnings issued by tests using the new FailOnWarningsPlugin

Mathematics

• graph and digraph Classes: Create, analyze, and visualize graphs and networks
• histcounts2 Function: Bin bivariate data
• deg2rad and rad2deg Functions: Convert between radians and degrees
• datetime Arrays: Interpolate dates and times using interp1 function
• duration Arrays: Perform computations on durations using interp1, eps, cummax, cummin, cumsum, mod, and rem functions

Data Import and Export

• Excel Spreadsheets: Read and write to the same spreadsheet repeatedly with improved performance of xlsread, xlswrite, readtable, and writetable functions
• datastore Function: Import data from image collections that are too large to fit in memory as an ImageDatastore
• datastore Function: Import data from text files with support for additional character encoding schemes with TabularTextDatastore
• VideoReader Object: Read streams of data more quickly from video files on Mac

Graphics

• Graphics Display: Leverage DPI-aware MATLAB graphics for Apple Retina displays and high-resolution displays on Windows
• Axes Object: Set the location of each axis in a plot to cross at the origin
• Numeric Ruler Object: Customize tick format, exponent, and text style to control the appearance of an individual axis in a plot
• histogram2 Function: Plot bivariate histograms with control over bins, normalization, and display
• MATLAB Charts: Use transparency in bar, scatter, and area charts

GUI Building

• UI Display: Create DPI-aware UIs for Apple Retina displays and high-resolution displays on Windows

Performance

• MATLAB Execution Engine: Run programs faster with redesigned architecture
• table Data Type: Access data with improved performance when using dot-parentheses
• Categorical Arrays: Create a larger number of categories, with improved memory efficiency and performance

Hardware Support

• Raspberry Pi 2 Model B: Acquire sensor and image data from Raspberry Pi 2 boards using the MATLAB Support Package for Raspberry Pi Hardware
• BeagleBone Black: Acquire sensor and image data from BeagleBone Black boards using the MATLAB Support Package for BeagleBone Black Hardware
• iOS Sensors: Acquire sensor data from Apple iOS mobile devices using the MATLAB Support Package for Apple iOS Sensors

See the Release Notes for details.

Desktop

• Documentation: Integrate documentation for custom toolboxes into the MATLAB Help Browser
• Array Size Limit: Limit maximum array size to prevent unintended creation of very large matrices
• Tab Completion: Complete class properties and methods while editing class definition files

Language and Programming

• repelem Function: Repeat copies of array elements to create a larger array

Mathematics

• discretize Function: Group numeric data into bins or categories
• Descriptive Statistics: Omit NaN values in basic statistical calculations, including max, min, mean, median, sum, var, std, and cov
• ismembertol and uniquetol Functions: Perform set comparisons using a tolerance
• Random Numbers: Generate random numbers using the double-precision, SIMD-oriented Fast Mersenne Twister (dSFMT) algorithm

Data Import and Export

• Datastore: Read one complete file with 'file' option for ReadSize property
• Datastore: Read data in parallel from a datastore with partition function using Parallel Computing Toolbox
• webwrite Function: Send data to RESTful Web services using HTTP POST method
• webread and websave Functions: Request data from RESTful Web services using HTTP POST method

Performance

• MapReduce: Run mapreduce algorithms on any computer cluster that supports parallel pools using MATLAB Distributed Computing Server
• Interpolation Functions: Execute faster with multithreaded calculations

Hardware Support

• IP camera: Acquire video directly from Internet Protocol cameras
• Arduino Hardware: Access to Arduino Leonardo and other boards with the MATLAB Support Package for Arduino Hardware

See the Release Notes for details.

Desktop

• Git and Subversion source control system integration through Current Folder browser, including syncing from Web-hosted repositories such as those on GitHub
• Packaging of custom MATLAB toolboxes into a single, installable file
• Dialog box for managing custom MATLAB toolboxes
• Preference for controlling the initial working folder, with the option to start in the folder from your previous MATLAB session
• Self-paced eLearning available from within MATLAB

Language and Programming

• datetime, duration, and calendarDuration arrays for efficient computation, comparison, and formatted display of dates and times
• Suggested corrections for syntax errors in the Command Window
• py package for using Python functions and objects in MATLAB, and an engine interface for calling MATLAB from Python
• matlab.wsdl.createWSDLClient function for accessing SOAP-based Web services
• Workflow improvements when editing classdef files, including immediate impact on existing and new workspace variables

Mathematics

• histcounts function for binning numeric data
• triangulation functions nearestNeighbor and pointLocation for identifying the closest vertex and enclosing triangle or tetrahedron for specified point
• Option for interpolating to 'next' and 'previous' neighbors with the interp1 function and griddedInterpolant class
• Option for rounding numbers to a specified number of decimal or significant digits using the round function
• boundary function and alphaShape class for creating a conforming boundary around a discrete set of points
• cummin and cummax functions for computing cumulative minimum and maximum of an array
• Reverse accumulation option for the cumsum, cummin, cummax, and cumprod functions
• Median and mode calculations of categorical data

Data Import and Export

• Faster data import from text files using Import Tool, and readtable and textscan functions
• Import of data as categorical and datetime arrays using the readtable and textscan functions
• Data import from text files and collections of text files that do not fit into memory with datastore
• VideoReader performance improvements and ability to start reading from a specified time in the video
• tcpclient function for reading and writing data from network connected devices and servers using socket-based connections
• webread function for importing online data including JSON, CSV, and image data

Graphics

• New look of MATLAB graphics with improved clarity and aesthetics
• Improved infrastructure based on MATLAB objects
• Rotatable axis tick labels
• Automatic update of datetime and duration tick labels with plot function
• histogram function for plotting histograms
• animatedline function for creating line animations
• Display of multilingual text and symbols

GUI Building

• uitab and uitabgroup components for creating user interfaces with tabbed panels

Performance and Big Data

• Big data analysis on your desktop that can scale to Hadoop with mapreduce
• Improved performance for sorting categorical data with sort

See the Release Notes for details.

Desktop

• Pop-up Command History for recalling, viewing, filtering, and searching recently used commands in the Command Window
• Merge option in MATLAB Comparison Tool for resolving differences between text files
• Saving workspace variables and their values to a MATLAB script

Language and Programming

• Suggested corrections for mistyped, user-defined functions in the Command Window
• Streamlined MEX compiler setup and improved troubleshooting
• Multidimensional array support for flipud, fliplr, and rot90 functions
• Option for circshift to operate on a specified dimension

Mathematics

• isdiag, isbanded, issymmetric, ishermitian, istril, istriu, and bandwidth functions for testing matrix structure
• sylvester function for solving the Sylvester equation
• Option for eig function for computing left eigenvectors
• Option for rand, randi, and randn functions for creating arrays of random numbers that match data type of an existing variable

Data Import and Export

• Webcam support for previewing and acquiring live images and video
• Raspberry Pi hardware support for controlling devices such as motors and actuators, and for capturing live data from sensors and cameras directly from MATLAB

Performance

• conv2 function performance improvements with three inputs
• filter function performance improvements for FIR and IIR

See the Release Notes for details.

Language and Programming

• table data container for managing, sorting, and filtering mixed-type tabular data
• categorical array for ordered and unordered categorical data
• timeit function for robust time estimates of function execution
• localfunctions function for getting handles to all local functions in a file
• Functions for writing, executing, and verifying tests using the matlab.unittest testing framework without creating custom classes
• matlab.mixin.CustomDisplay utility class to write custom display methods
• flip function, a faster and more memory efficient alternative to flipdim for flipping arrays and vectors

Desktop

• Improved viewing and editing of one-dimensional structure arrays in the Variables editor
• Improved management of a large number of open files, figures, and documentation pages
• Expand all option for opening collapsed sections in documentation pages for printing and in-page searching
• Java integration updated to version 7, providing access to new Java features and bug fixes
• Bundling of Java on Mac, removing dependency on Apple supplied Java runtime

Graphics

• Mac support for copying figures in vector formats to other applications

GUI Building

• Custom icons for MATLAB apps you create

Performance

• repmat with numeric, char, and logical types
• Linear algebra functions on computers with new AMD processors

See the Release Notes for details.

Desktop

• Option to add separators between controls in the quick access toolbar
• Additional icon choices, auto-scaled thumbnails, and text-formatting options for customizing descriptions of MATLAB apps
• Left-aligned table of contents for navigating in the Help browser and online Documentation Center

Language and Programming

• matlab.unittest package, an xUnit-style testing framework for the MATLAB language that allows writing and running unit tests and analyzing test results
• strsplit and strjoin functions for splitting and joining strings

Mathematics

• scatteredInterpolant and griddedInterpolant support for extrapolation
• Syntax for ones, zeros, and other functions for creating arrays that match attributes of an existing variable
• Integer type support for prod, cumsum, cumprod, median, mode, and other number theory functions

Data Import and Export

• Reading and writing indexed and grayscale AVI files with VideoReader and VideoWriter objects
• Writing MPEG-4 H.264 files on Mac with VideoWriter object
• Tiff object improvements for reading and writing RGB-class TIFF images

Performance

• fft function performance improvements on computers with new Intel and AMD processors
• permute function performance Improvements for 3-D and higher dimensional arrays

See the Release Notes for details.

Desktop

• Single-file application packaging (2:58) as a MATLAB App Installer file for inclusion in the apps gallery
• Suggested corrections for mistyped functions and variables (2:11) Suggested corrections for mistyped functions and variables in the Command Window
• Toolstrip that replaces menus and toolbars in MATLAB Desktop
• Apps gallery that presents apps from the MATLAB product family
• Single-file application packaging as a MATLAB App Installer file for inclusion in the apps gallery
• Redesigned Help with improved browsing, searching, and filtering
• Viewing of multiple documentation pages simultaneously with tabbed browsing
• Suggested corrections for mistyped functions and variables in the Command Window
• Full-screen view mode on Mac operating systems

Language and Programming

• Abstract attribute for declaring MATLAB classes as abstract
• Diagnostic message improvements when attempting to create an instance of an abstract class

Mathematics

• Performance improvements and multithreading for airy, psi, and Bessel functions
• ddensd function that solves delay differential equations of neutral type with state-dependent delays

Data Import and Export

• Data import from delimited and fixed-width text files using Import Tool
• Single-step import of numbers, text, and dates as column vectors from a spreadsheet with Import Tool
• audioread and audioinfo functions for reading MP3, MPEG-4 AAC, WAVE, and other audio files
• audiowrite function for writing MPEG-4 AAC, WAVE, and other audio files
• Reading and writing of BigTIFF image files larger than 4 GB
• Reading of XLSM, XLTX, and XLTM files on all platforms with xlsread function

See the Release Notes for details.

Development Environment

• Sorting and transposing matrices and selecting noncontiguous parts of a matrix in the Variable Editor (2:17)
• Text markup option to enable syntax highlighting (2:05) for commented MATLAB code in published scripts
• Improved rendering of HTML in the MATLAB Web Browser, especially on 64-bit Windows

Language and Programming

• List of allowed classes to control access to class properties, methods, and events
• List of allowed classes to control subclassing of a class using the AllowedSubClasses attribute

Mathematics

• Numerical integration functions (integral, integral2, integral3) with additional algorithms, options, and improper integrals
• Improved performance of arithmetic operators and other basic math functions for integer, single, and double data types
• Improved performance of interpolation functions: interp2, interp3, and intern

File I/O and External Interfacing

• Reading of Excel^® .xlsx files on Mac^® and Linux^® with xlsread, including the ability to specify sheet and range
• Creation of MPEG-4 H.264 files for Web video publishing with VideoWriter on Windows 7
• fitswrite function for writing FITS files
• Access to remote netCDF files with the OPenDAP protocol

See the Release Notes for details.

Development Environment

• Startup Accelerator for faster MATLAB startup on Windows, especially on Windows XP, and for network installations
• Spreadsheet Import Tool (6:50) that provides more options for selecting and loading mixed textual and numeric data
• Readability and navigation improvements to warning and error messages in the MATLAB command window
• Automatic variable and function renaming (6:50) in the MATLAB Editor

Performance and Large Data Set Handling

• Increased performance in the MATLAB class system, especially for complex data structures
• matfile function (6:50) to load or save portions of an array in a MAT-file

Mathematics

• griddedInterpolant object for more control, better performance, and memory efficiency in interpolation for gridded data

File I/O and External Interfacing

• MPEG-4 and MOV file support in VideoReader on Microsoft® Windows 7
• NetCDF 4.1.2 support that provides cache size control for increased performance with large chunked NetCDF files
• Exchange of multidimensional arrays and cell arrays directly between MATLAB and Microsoft .NET

See the Release Notes for details.

Development Environment

• Startup Accelerator for faster MATLAB startup on Windows, especially on Windows XP, and for network installations
• Spreadsheet Import Tool that provides more options for selecting and loading mixed textual and numeric data
• Readability and navigation improvements to warning and error messages in the MATLAB command window
• Automatic variable and function renaming in the MATLAB Editor

Performance and Large Data Set Handling

• Increased performance in the MATLAB class system, especially for complex data structures
• matfile function to load or save portions of an array in a MAT-file

Mathematics

• griddedInterpolant object for more control, better performance, and memory efficiency in interpolation for gridded data

File I/O and External Interfacing

• MPEG-4 and MOV file support in VideoReader on Microsoft® Windows 7
• NetCDF 4.1.2 support that provides cache size control for increased performance with large chunked NetCDF files
• Exchange of multidimensional arrays and cell arrays directly between MATLAB and Microsoft .NET

See the Release Notes for details.

Development Environment

• Improvements to Mac^® platform look and feel, including placement of the MATLAB menu bar at the top of the screen
• Redesigned Plot Catalog (4:13) that makes it easier to browse and discover both relevant and available plots, including toolbox plots
• Submission of support requests (2:05) to MathWorks Technical Support from within MATLAB
• Comparison Tool that highlights and merges differences in MAT-file variable values and excludes specified files, folders, and unchanged text

Language and Programming

• Custom creation of MATLAB classes whose objects can be combined into heterogeneous arrays
• New copyable class, providing default copy behavior for custom handle classes

Mathematics

• Performance improvements for matrix transpose, element-wise single precision functions, sparse matrix indexed assignment, and many linear algebra functions
• rng function (5:50) for controlling random number generation
• ichol function for incomplete Cholesky factorization

File I/O and External Interfacing

• New functions for reading and writing NetCDF and HDF5 files

See the Release Notes for details.

Development Environment

• Editor highlighting enhanced (4:21) to show all uses of a variable or subfunction and identify shared variables
• Ability to manage ZIP files as folders (2:13) in the Current Folder Browser
• File previews in Current Folder Browser (1:18) that show image file contents and unsaved content in MATLAB files
• Access to additional toolbox plots in the Plot Selector, including plots for System Identification, Mapping, and Bioinformatics Toolboxes
• Comparison Tool enhanced, allowing comparison among ZIP files, folders, and Simulink manifests, and improving MAT-file comparisons

Language and Programming

• Ability to define custom enumerated data types (7:33) with sets of named values

Mathematics

• Support for arithmetic on 64-bit integer types

File I/O and External Interfacing

• New VideoWriter object (3:17) for creating Motion JPEG and uncompressed AVI files larger than 2 GB
• netCDF 4.0.1 support, enabling use of HDF5 as the data storage layer for the netCDF API
• Enhanced interface to Microsoft^® .NET framework, supporting delegates and interaction with Microsoft Office products

See the Release Notes for details.

Development Environment (5:02)

• Ability to zip and unzip files and folders in the Current Folder browser to simplify sharing of files
• New visual cues in the Current Folder browser to show directories on the MATLAB path
• Enhanced tab completion in the MATLAB Editor with support for local variables, subfunctions, and nested functions
• Expanded access in the plot selector to plots from the Curve Fitting, Filter Design, Image Processing, and Signal Processing Toolboxes
• Enhanced File and Folder Comparison Tool, highlighting changes within lines in file comparisons, and sorting results by name, type, size, or timestamp in folder comparisons

Performance and Large Data Set Handling

• Multithreaded computation support for long vector fft, conv2, integer conversion, and integer arithmetic functions
• Performance improvements for mrdivide, convn, histc, sortrows, and sparse matrix indexed assignment

See the Release Notes for details.

Development Environment

• New File Exchange desktop tool (4:51) , providing direct access to user-contributed files on MATLAB Central
• Enhanced Plot Selector in the Workspace browser (3:23) , providing access to additional plot types and customization of plot favorites
• Enhanced Current Folder browser (2:17) , providing improved navigation, display, and searching for files
• Customizable keyboard shortcuts (4:15) , including consistent defaults for the MATLAB Editor and Command Window
• Enhanced Help browser (1:21) , providing more detailed search results with grouping by product and result type
• Expanded MATLAB file publishing (4:51) , providing support for PDF as an output file format

Language and Programming (2:49)

• Ability to specify unused input and output arguments (2:49) to a function with the tilde (~) character

File I/O and External Interfacing

• mmreader function expanded to support Motion JPEG 2000 files
• New Tiff object to write tiled images and a broad set of metadata within TIFF files
• Expanded low-level HDF5 file access to support H5L, H5O, and H5DS interfaces
• Support for MATLAB scalar indexing into Microsoft .NET Framework arrays

Performance and Large Data Set Handling

• Ability to perform FFTs on vectors larger than 2 GB
• Multithreaded computation support for sort, filter, bsxfun, sparse matrix QR decomposition, gamma functions, and error functions
• Sparse matrix performance improvements for basic math, binary and relational operators, and exponential functions

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Development Environment (1:32)

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

Mathematics (7:50)

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

File I/O and External Interfacing (8:39)

• 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

Platform, Performance, and Large Data Set Handling

• Multithreaded computation support for fft, sum, prod,:and max

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Development Environment (5:25)

• 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

Language and Programming (7:28)

• 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

Mathematics (7:50)

• 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

File I/O and External Interfacing

• Support for new file formats, including NetCDF (reading and writing) and JPEG2000 (reading)

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Object Orientated Programming (11:11)

• 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

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Other Languages and Programming (4:56)

• 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

Development Environment (6:56)

• 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

Mathematics

• Ability to insert custom FFTW and LAPACK libraries
• New algorithms for ldl, logm, and funm based on recent numerical methods Research

Graphics and GUI Building (9:32)

• 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

File I/O and External Interfacing

• MEX support for Microsoft^® Visual Studio^® 2008, OpenWATCOM 1.7, and Intel^® FORTRAN 10.1 software
• mmreader multimedia reader expanded to support QuickTime video on the Apple^® Macintosh^® platform (previously released on Microsoft^® Windows^® platforms)

Performance and Large Data Set Handling

• New memory function providing memory information such as largest block available, providing diagnostics of memory problems on Windowsplatforms
• JIT/Accelerator support enhanced to statements executed at the MATLAB command line and in cell mode in the editor, providing improved performance in these environments
• Automatic multithreaded computation providing improved performance of supported functions on computers with multiple processors
• Significant speed improvement in multiplication of sparse matrices

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Performance and Large Data Set Handling (4:57)

• 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)

Development Environment (3:39)

• 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

Language and Programming (2:09)

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

Mathematics (1:06)

• 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

File I/O and External interfacing (3:02)

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

Graphics and GUI Building (2:47)

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

Embedded MATLAB™

• Note Generating compiled MEX-files from Embedded MATLAB™ functions requires Simulink^® or Fixed-Point Toolbox. Generating C code requires Simulink and Real-Time Workshop^®, and generating HDL code requires Simulink and Simulink^® HDL Coder. Embedded MATLAB is also supported by Stateflow^® and SimEvents™.
• Support for algorithms that span multiple M-files, improving algorithm reuse and maintenance
• Support for calling external C functions
• Data type override, facilitating fixed-point design and enabling a single source for fixed- and floating-point code generation
• Expanded Embedded MATLAB runtime library with 13 new functions, including fixed-point bitwise operators such as bitsliceget, bitconcat, and bitandreduce

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Development Environment

• Enhanced delimiter matching in the Editor includes language constructs such as for, if, and switch
• Ability to automatically fix a subset of M-Lint warning messages in the Editor
• Desktop tool management enhancements on Windows and Linux platforms, including the ability to maximize and hide tools
• Support for undo and redo in the Array Editor for instant correction of interactive operations
• Ability to publish M-code functions when not evaluating code
• Ability to open MATLAB files from the Windows Explorer into an already running MATLAB
• Help browser search results now include examples

Language and Programming

• New inputParser class, making it easier to parse and validate M-file function input arguments
• New assert function that throws an error if a condition is not true, enabling built-in testing of code
• New verLessThan function that checks the version of MATLAB, making it easier to write code that runs across multiple releases
• Numbered arguments to formatted string functions (e.g., sprintf), avoiding the need for parameter reordering in applications such as translation

Mathematics

• New bsxfun function, enabling simpler coding and improved performance for binary operations requiring singleton expansion
• New ilu function for performing incomplete LU factorization to be used as a preconditioner for sparse iterative methods

File I/O and External Interfacing

• New CollectOutput option for the textscan function to automatically collect values of the same data type into a single array
• Ability to programmatically connect to an instance of a COM Automation server, to create an Automation server using a custom interface, and to take full advantage of event interfaces

Performance and Large Data Set Handling

• Multithreaded computation support for many linear algebra and element-wise numeric operations, allowing performance improvement on multicore and multiprocessor systems
• Upgraded versions of optimized Basic Linear Algebra Subprogram (BLAS) libraries on all platforms
• Improved performance of the Windows XP 64-bit platform
• 64-bit MATLAB support for Solaris, allowing the handling of much larger data sets

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