Re: Octave 3.8.1 Released

[Sergei Steshenko]

>________________________________
> From: John W. Eaton <address@hidden>
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>Sent: Friday, March 7, 2014 7:11 PM
>Subject: Octave 3.8.1 Released
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>
>The Octave developers are pleased to announce the release of
>GNU Octave, version 3.8.1.
>
>Version 3.8.1 is a bug fixing release.
>
>One of the biggest new features for the Octave 3.8.x release series is
>a graphical user interface. It is the one thing that users have
>requested most often over the last few years and now it is almost
>ready. But because it is not quite as polished as we would like, we
>have decided to wait until the 4.0.x release series before making the
>GUI the default interface (until then, you can use the --force-gui
>option to start the GUI).
>
>Given the length of time and the number of bug fixes and improvements
>since the last major release Octave, we also decided against delaying
>the release any longer. So please enjoy the 3.8.1 release of Octave and
>the preview of the new GUI. We believe it is working reasonably well,
>but we also know that there are some obvious rough spots and many
>things that could be improved.
>
>Please see http://octave.org/NEWS-3.8.html for a more complete list of
>significant user-visible changes in this release.
>
>WE ALSO NEED YOUR HELP to fix the remaining problems, complete the
>GUI, and improve the overall user experience for both novices and
>experts alike:
>
>    * If you are a skilled software developer, you can help by
>      contributing your time to help with Octave's development.
>      See http://octave.org/get-involved.html for more info.
>
>    * If Octave does not work properly, you are encouraged to report the
>      problems you find.  Bug reporting guidelines are available at
>      http://octave.org/bugs.html
>
>    * Whether you are a user or developer, you can help to fund the
>      project.  Octave development takes a lot of time and expertise.
>      Your contributions help Octave continue to improve.  The Free
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>
>We hope you find Octave to be useful. Please help us make it even
>better for the future!
>
>
>The source code for Octave 3.8.1 is available for download at:
>
>    http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave
>    ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave
>
>Please see http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html for mirror sites around
>the world.  Or you may use http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/octave, which will
>redirect automatically to a nearby mirror.
>
>Links to binary (executable) versions for various systems will be
>listed at http://octave.org/download.html as they become
>available.
>
>As always, many people contributed to this Octave release.  A complete
>list of contributors may be found in the Octave manual.
>
>
>About Octave:
>
>GNU Octave is a high-level interpreted language, primarily intended
>for numerical computations.  It provides capabilities for the
>numerical solution of linear and nonlinear problems and for
>performing other numerical experiments.  It also provides extensive
>graphics capabilities for data visualization and manipulation.  Octave
>is normally used through its interactive command line interface, but
>it can also be used to write non-interactive programs.  The Octave
>language is quite similar to Matlab so that most programs are easily
>portable.  A full description of Octave capabilities is available at
>http://octave.org/doc/interpreter/index.html.
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Unfortunately the above is a copy-pasted message from previous release - only 
3.8.0 was replaced with 3.8.1 ? 


Or am I missing something ?

Why won't you post the list of changes between 3.8.0 and 3.8.1 in the release 
note ?

Thanks,
  Sergei.