Re: draft release announcement

[Michael Creel]

One change between 3.2.x and 3.4.0 that I have noticed is that mean(a)
no longer works if a is a vector of booleans. sum(a) continues to
work, however. Might be worth a mention unless the change is not
intentional.
Michael


On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:16 AM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> I plan to post the following message to announce the release.
> Comments or suggestions?
>
>
>
>  The Octave developers are pleased to announce the release of GNU
>  Octave 3.4.0.  This is a major new release containing many new
>  features, performance enhancements, and bug fixes.
>
>  Please see http://octave.org/NEWS-3.4.html for a list of significant
>  user-visible changes in this release.
>
>  Octave 3.4.1, with corrections for any critical defects reported in
>  Octave 3.4.0, is expected in April 2011.
>
>  As always, many people contributed to this Octave release.  A complete
>  list of contributors may be found in the Octave manual.
>
>  GNU Octave is a high-level interpreted language, primarily intended
>  for numerical computations.  It provides a convenient command line
>  interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and
>  for performing other numerical experiments using a language that is
>  mostly compatible with Matlab.  It may also be used as a
>  batch-oriented language.
>
>  --
>  John W. Eaton
> address@hidden
>