DAMTP Computing News

Those feeling brave might want to try the recently installed new version of matlab, which can be run as:

     matlab-r143

It is available for Linux (x86), Solaris (sparc), and OSX (ppc).

Note that this naming is somewhat different that previous versions, which were always based on the matlab version (6.5, 7.0.1 etc). The r143 indicates that it is from the "R14 Service-Pack 3" release, and actually includes matlab 7.1 which I thought was probably too easy to confuse with 7.0.1 (R14 SP1).

The new version seems to work in our tests though some aspects may be missing (only 1/3 of the doc appears to be on the CD sets). Hopefully we will find the missing pieces soon.

Assuming that no major problems are found with this version, it will become the default matlab in a couple of weeks.