octave (4.0.0~rc3-1) experimental; urgency=low A graphical user interface is now the default when running Octave interactively. The start-up option --no-gui will run the familiar command line interface, and still allows use of the GUI dialogs and qt plotting toolkit. The option --no-gui-libs runs a minimalist command line interface that does not link with the Qt libraries and uses the fltk toolkit for plotting. Starting with this release, the Octave add-ons packaged in Debian will no longer autoload by default. You may need to adapt existing scripts, by adding "pkg load " statements. -- Sébastien Villemot Fri, 24 Apr 2015 15:32:45 +0200 octave (3.8.1-2) unstable; urgency=medium The just-it-time (JIT) compiler has been disabled in this version, because it creates problems with the Gallium llvmpipe Mesa driver. Since the JIT is currently very basic, it is not worth the trouble. It may be re-enabled later when the benefits outweigh the costs. See #743260 for more details. -- Sébastien Villemot Wed, 30 Apr 2014 10:46:37 +0200 octave (3.8.0~rc1-1) experimental; urgency=medium Starting with this version, the octave package now contains an experimental graphical user interface (GUI) based on the Qt toolkit. That GUI can be started by giving the `--force-gui' option to the octave binary. For those who want to keep the lower memory footprint of a pure text interface, there is the `octave-cli' executable which is not linked against Qt. Starting with this version, Octave incorporates a just-in-time (JIT) compiler, which can offer performance improvements in some situations. Since it is still experimental, the JIT is disabled by default, but you can activate it with the `jit_enable' command. -- Sébastien Villemot Fri, 20 Dec 2013 20:47:36 +0100