New release of Octave Forge

[Søren Hauberg]

Hi All,
  I've just released a new version of the Octave Forge packages. This is
a fairly large release with many new exiting features, and many bugs
fixed. A brief summary of the changes is:

      * ann: New package for Octave bindings to the ANN library for
        nearest neighbor calculation.
      * database: New package to allow postgres, mysql, sqlite, and
        standard ODBC database commands from within Octave.
      * video: New package with bindings to ffmpeg to add handling of
        video files from within Octave.
      * bioinfo: New package for Bioinformatics manipulation.
      * data-smoothing: New package with algorithms for smoothing noisy
        data.
      * ga: New package with basic genetic algorithm optimization
        functions.
      * missing-functions: New package to identify functions that are
        missing from Octave relative to the latest verson of Matlab.
      * ftp: New package to ftp from within Octave
      * ocs: A new package for circuit simulation.
      * fixed: Build fix for Unix, cygwin and mingw platforms.
      * plot: Remove old plot code based on Xlib and replace with gtext,
        ginput and waitforbuttonpress functions that use gnuplot
        directly to obtan the required information. Add colstyle
        function.
      * signal: Add the window and buffer functions.
      * mapping: Add the km2deg and reckon functions.
      * image: Add the imcomplement and rgbplot functions. Support for
        bilateral filtering. Build fixes for new versions of
        ImageMagick.
      * miscellaneous: Add the hex2num and num2hex functions.
      * odepkg: Added ddaskr based solver.
      * splines: Add the catmullrom interpolation function.
      * financial: Add the rsindex function.
      * time: Add the thirdwednesday function.
      * general: Add the saveprod function.

But other things have changed as well. Get the latest packages from the
usual place: http://octave.sf.net

Hope you enjoy it,
Søren