Desktop Tools and Development Environment

See the Compatibility Considerations subheading for each of these new features or changes:

• New System Browser Preference Instead of docopt.m for MATLAB on UNIX Platforms

• Help Browser No Longer Reopens at Startup

• Block Indenting Option No Longer Provided

Math

See the Compatibility Considerations subheading for each of these new features or changes:

• Changes To conv2 and convn

• nextpow2 Changing to Element-By-Element Calculation in a Future Release

• Function finite Being Removed

• 64-bit Support in LAPACK and BLAS

Data Analysis

See the Compatibility Considerations subheading for each of these new features or changes:

• Data Brushing for Graphs and Linked Variables — refers to features introduced in Version 7.6 (R2008a)

Programming

See the Compatibility Considerations subheading for each of these new features or changes:

• Setting the Number of Threads Removed from Preferences Panel

• Timer Objects Saved in New Format

• MATLAB Upgrades Support for HDF5 to Version 1.8.1

• Indirect Calls to Superclass Constructors Now Errors

Graphics and 3-D Visualization

See the Compatibility Considerations subheading for each of these new features or changes:

• Certain Printer Formats and Drivers Now Warn When Used

Creating GUIs

None

External Interfaces

See the Compatibility Considerations subheading for each of these new features or changes:

• Discontinued Compiler Support

• Do Not Use mxFree to Destroy mxArrays

• Cannot Build MEX-Files Using MATLAB Version 5 API

• MEX-Files Calling BLAS or LAPACK Functions Must Be Updated On 64-Bit Platforms

• Improved Robustness of Web Services Functions