MATLAB R2024b

What's new in this version:

Environment:
- Help Center: View documentation in your system web browser
- help Function: Get updated help text for functions, methods, and classes
- Live Editor Fonts: Customize font, size, color, and formatting of text and code styles
- Live Editor Controls: Add range sliders to live scripts
- Live Editor Controls: Populate drop-down list items using additional variable types
- Live Editor Controls: Restore default values for all controls
- New Desktop for MATLAB (Beta): Try new features including dark theme, an updated layout, and expanded search capabilities

Language and Programming:
- MATLAB Package Manager: Organize and distribute code using packages
- dbstop Function: Pause execution when unsuppressed output is returned
- matlab.lang.obfuscateNames Function: Obfuscate names of local variables, local functions, and nested functions
- MATLAB Vault: Access and identify existing MATLAB secrets in parallel environments
- Error Messages: Display enhancement
- Handle Objects: Define weak references for handle objects
- Object Serialization: Customize how objects are serialized and deserialized
- matlab.codeanalysis.validateConfiguration function: Output includes Severity column
- typecast Function: Data type conversion using "like" syntax and support for logical, character vector, and complex inputs
- Functionality being removed or changed

Data Analysis:
- summary Function: Summarize array data and configure summary contents
- isbetween Function: Specify numeric, nonnumeric, or tabular input data
- rmmissing and rmoutliers Functions: Define locations of missing entries or outliers using array or table
- Clean Outlier Data Live Editor Task and Data Cleaner App: Define outliers using range or workspace variable
- Experiment Manager: Set up experiment and analyze results more efficiently
- Variables Editor MATLAB Online: Variables have enhanced readability
- table and timetable Data Types: Return the data types of table and timetable variables
- timeseries2timetable Function: Convert events associated with timeseries objects to an event table associated with a timetable
- Functionality being removed or changed

Data Import and Export:
- Reading Online Data: Read remote data over HTTP and HTTPS using additional functions
- JSON: Read and write dictionaries in JSON files
- Parquet: Import Parquet MAP data
- ZIP Files: Compress and extract password-protected files
- Symbolic Links: Create and use symbolic links to manipulate files and folders
- Spreadsheet Files: Specify how to read merged cells from spreadsheets
- Image Files: Automatically orient JPEG and TIFF images
- FTP and SFTP: Specify timeout values for connections and transfers
- FTP: Enable TLS when connecting to FTP servers
- SFTP: Connect to servers requiring passphrases or certificates
- sonify Function: Convert numeric data to sound
- VideoReader Object: Read remotely stored video files
- HDF5 Interface: Use SZIP filter to read and write compressed datasets

Mathematics:
- Solve ODE Live Editor Task: Interactively solve systems of ordinary differential equations
- ode Object: Specify ODE as implicit
- ode Object: Detect stiffness to change solver after creating ode object
- Ordinary Differential Equations: Set minimum step size for several ODE solvers
- lsqminnorm Function: Apply Tikhonov regularization to least-squares solution
- isapprox Function: Determine approximate equality of elements in two arrays
- layoutcoords Function: Calculate node and edge coordinates for the layout of a graph or digraph
- polyshape Object: Control whether subtract and xor methods simplify output
- Functionality being removed or changed

Graphics:
- violinplot Function: Visualize grouped numeric data by using violin plots
- compassplot Function: Create one or more compass plots in polar axes
- constantplane Function: Create infinite planes
- Legends: Control width of icons
- Pie Charts and Donut Charts: Control slice order and number of slices
- Bar Charts: Add labels to ends of bars
- ConstantLine Object: Control text label color
- tiledlayout Function: Create layouts without specifying the dimensions or tile arrangement argument
- savefig Function: Specify MAT-file version
- Name-Value Arguments: Specify name-value arguments when you call pcolor, sphere, cylinder, and other plotting functions
- Graphics in MATLAB Online: Copy plots to the clipboard
- Functionality being removed or changed

App Building:
- uibutton and uitogglebutton Functions: Specify HTML markup and display equations in button text
- App Designer: Add UI components that span multiple grid cells more easily
- App Designer: View errors directly in Code View when debugging an app
- App Designer: Convert between text edit fields and numeric edit fields
- App Testing Framework: Programmatically interact with alert and confirmation dialog boxes
- App Testing Framework: Specify location of gesture on figures that use nonpixel units
- Functionality being removed or changed

Performance:
- datetime Format Parsing: Improved performance when parsing common formats that include localized names or time zone offsets
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The approximate execution times are:
- R2024a: 6.35 s
- R2024b: 1.10 s
- In both cases, the code was timed on a Windows® 11, AMD EPYC™ 74F3 24-Core Processor @ 3.19 GHz test system using the timeit function.
- timeit(@timingTest)
- median Function: Improved performance when computing weighted median
- fillmissing Function: Improved performance when filling numeric entries with corresponding values from nearest neighbor rows
- isprime Function: Improved performance when determining which array elements are prime

Software Development Tools:
- Project API: Specify dependency analysis scope
- Project API: Label multiple project files at once
- Dependency Analyzer: Find required packages and missing package dependencies
- Source Control Examples: Use Git hooks in MATLAB
- Build Automation: Create and run group of tasks
- Build Automation: Specify task names more flexibly
- Build Automation: Produce code coverage results using coverage formats
- Build Automation: Specify build file and verbosity level
- Build Automation: Load plan from folder into workspace
- Build Automation: Delete additional task outputs
- Unit Testing Framework: Run function in environment provided by fixtures
- Unit Testing Framework: Add tests from currently open test file or clear test results using Test Browser
- Unit Testing Framework: Control test runner verbosity using testrunner function
- App Testing Framework: Programmatically interact with alert and confirmation dialog boxes
- App Testing Framework: Specify location of gesture on figures that use nonpixel units
- Functionality being removed or changed

External Language Interfaces:
- REST Function Service: Automatic restart after MathWorks Service Host update
- Java: Support for OpenJDK 21 Java
- Python: Support for version 3.12
- Python Interface: Follow Python type hints when passing data from MATLAB
- Python Engine: Convert between Python and MATLAB dictionaries
- .NET: Support for .NET 8
- MATLAB Data API: Create MATLAB data arrays from user-managed buffers
- MATLAB Data API: Create matlab::data::CharArray from UTF8 input
- Compilers: Support for Intel C++ icx and Fortran ifx

Hardware Support:
- Arduino Hardware: Support for Arduino UNO R4 WiFi and Minima boards
- Functionality being removed or changed