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SUMMARY: New matlab available for testing

We have installed a new version of Matlab (R2011b) on our Linux (32-bit and 64-bit) machines. A few people have been testing it for a couple of weeks and none have reported any problems so far.

Mathworks have dropped support for MacOSX versions less than 10.6.7 so since we don't have any machines running anything so recent we can't install it for MacOSX at the moment.

This version has all the same toolboxes as r2010b with the addition of the mapping toolbox - a group paid for a pair of licences for this a few months ago.

The NAg toolbox is the same one we installed for r2010b which claims to support only r2010b/2011a but a trivial test shows that it will (at least) let us run such NAg routines as a00aa() to report the NAg library version.

Please test your code with this new version especially if you use the Matlab compiler.

Assuming that no major problems are found, it will become the default matlab in a couple of weeks. Some really old versions of matlab may be removed at the same time.

The command to start the new version is:

     matlab-r2011b

Here is some trivial test output (from console session on 64-bit linux):

     $ matlab-r2011b -nosplash -nodesktop
     
                                < M A T L A B (R) >
                      Copyright 1984-2011 The MathWorks, Inc.
                        R2011b (7.13.0.564) 64-bit (glnxa64)
                                  August 13, 2011
     
     To get started, type one of these: helpwin, helpdesk, or demo.
     For product information, visit www.mathworks.com.
     
     >> ver
     -----------------------------------------------------------------------
     MATLAB Version 7.13.0.564 (R2011b)
     MATLAB License Number: 666637
     Operating System: Linux 2.6.18-274.12.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Nov 29 11:14:39 EST 2011 x86_64
     Java VM Version: Java 1.6.0_30-b12 with Sun Microsystems Inc. Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM mixed mode
     -----------------------------------------------------------------------
     MATLAB                                  Version 7.13  (R2011b)
     Simulink                                Version 7.8   (R2011b)
     Bioinformatics Toolbox                  Version 4.0   (R2011b)
     Control System Toolbox                  Version 9.2   (R2011b)
     Curve Fitting Toolbox                   Version 3.2   (R2011b)
     DSP System Toolbox                      Version 8.1   (R2011b)
     Fixed-Point Toolbox                     Version 3.4   (R2011b)
     Image Processing Toolbox                Version 7.3   (R2011b)
     Instrument Control Toolbox              Version 3.0   (R2011b)
     MATLAB Compiler                         Version 4.16  (R2011b)
     Mapping Toolbox                         Version 3.4   (R2011b)
     NAG Toolbox                             Version 22    Release 1 (64 bit)
     Optimization Toolbox                    Version 6.1   (R2011b)
     Parallel Computing Toolbox              Version 5.2   (R2011b)
     Partial Differential Equation Toolbox   Version 1.0.19 (R2011b)
     Signal Processing Toolbox               Version 6.16  (R2011b)
     SimMechanics                            Version 3.2.3 (R2011b)
     Simscape                                Version 3.6   (R2011b)
     Stateflow                               Version 7.8   (R2011b)
     Statistics Toolbox                      Version 7.6   (R2011b)
     Symbolic Math Toolbox                   Version 5.7   (R2011b)
     >>

and you should get similar things on 32-bit linux.

Note that Mathworks say that they plan to drop support for 32-bit linux in 2012, so this may be the last version we install to support that. http://www.mathworks.co.uk/support/sysreq/roadmap.html