Bug Fix List - 4.0 Release

The following bugs must be fixed prior to the next release. See also the 4.0 Release Checklist .

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Bugs marked GUI

• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #44217 Make name column in the workspace table sortable
• Owner: ??? #44216 Bind <RETURN> to double-click in File Browser
• Owner: ??? #44204 Ctrl+C won't interrupt running scripts if Copy shortcut has been changed
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #44202 Some documentation items are accessible using "doc" in cli but not in GUI
• Owner: ttl #44196 Crash after pressing "apply" when changing shortcuts in the preference dialog
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #44174 Remote X-Window display: command window blank, all other windows fine
• Owner: ??? #44163 [GUI] Ghost breakpoints in editor
• Owner: jwe #44156 Don't update GUI Variable Browser Window unless at top-level for performance
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #44132 GUI history pane does not sync with history when using history_control("erasedups")
• Owner: ??? #44123 In the command window within the GUI, the cursor lags the of any typed command
• Owner: ttl #44103 Can't open a folder that contains special characters
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #44056 Add more columns to the workspace table
• Owner: ??? #44040 GUI: horizontal scroll bar in editor missing
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #43922 Renaming/deleting a file within the Octave GUI shouldn't trigger the "file has been deleted or renamed"-dialog
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #43838 Object browser in debugger
• Owner: ??? #43822 debugger path conflicts with search path
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #43549 Matlab-style "Set path" menu option in Octave GUI
• Owner: ??? #43520 Command window hangs
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #43467 Retinize the Script Editor in Octave Mac 3.8.2
• Owner: ??? #43297 Preferences:Editor:Fonts
• Owner: ??? #43172 Octave GUI can't close with Exit
• Owner: ??? #43099 utf-8 files: editor, command windows issues, workspace pane shows correctly
• Owner: ??? #43096 GUI workspace pane shows dimension 1x1 for my class
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #43079 GUI display at high resolution
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #43076 CoreText performance note re Postcript font names.
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #43058 Workspace display related fix requested
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #42980 GUI: when undocking editor, focus is in documentation rather than terminal
• Owner: ??? #42708 Breakpoints should be removed from files when changes are saved
• Owner: ??? #42705 Commands continue to be sent to the terminal if breakpoint hit
• Owner: ??? #42681 Freeze on Ctrl+s in Console
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #42603 GUI: allow opening an m-file in the editor of a running instance
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #42602 GUI Editor could sort tabs alphabetically
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #42569 Glitch in code folding
• Owner: ttl #42307 Play button does not run script if name contains hyphen
• Owner: ttl #42306 Requests for GUI
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #42242 Octave does not always execute most recently saved file in an NFS directory
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #42136 Unicode box drawing chars in GUI don't line up very well
• Owner: ??? #41938 Fonts do not scale properly with 3200x1800 monitors
• Owner: ??? #41896 Octave GUI does not exit normally while the pager "less" is active.
• Owner: ??? #41893 Display issues with the command window after resizing the Editor window
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #41844 GUI Debug Menu could offer "Stop If..."
• Owner: ??? #41842 GUI Command Window should show horizontal scroll bar if necessary
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #41817 UI crash adding a comment line to an Octave .m file.
• Owner: ??? #41798 GUI Command Window should scroll contents upon mouse selection hitting bottom or top limits
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #41555 GUI Editor could offer line wrapping of comment blocks
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #41554 GUI Editor could offer auto/smart indentation
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #41544 command window could support PgUp/PgDown to look around buffer
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #41542 GUI crashes while repositioning dock widgets
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #41530 Editor debug mode could show a dbup/dbdown GUI component
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #41514 GUI editor can't set breakpoint on class methods
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #41472 command window prompt could allow text selection via keyboard
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #41471 offer search in command window
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #41470 offer editor preference "highlight current word"
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #41443 support drag & drop
• Owner: ??? #41347 GUI editor code completion popup blocks keyboard input on RHEL 6
• Owner: ??? #41282 GUI Editor: File > New Function shouldn't automatically save function
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #41276 Allow opening files when the function name is displayed in the command window
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #41224 GUI Editor should syntax-highlight test cases
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #41199 GUI Editor could support code sections or cells
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #41195 GUI Editor should highlight invalid characters
• Owner: ??? #41088 add a splash screen (loading is non-instantaneous)
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #41076 support HTML links in terminal display
• Owner: ??? #41074 MinGW: avoid showing terminal window while GUI is loading
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #41073 GUI should show HTML docs not info docs
• Owner: ??? #41072 GUI: improved locale detection
• Owner: ??? #40633 menus not accessible after changing language settings
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #40551 Support user-configurable template files for new function and oct files
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #40343 Suggestion: Add XInitThreads() call before starting the QT based GUI.
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #39935 dialog button order incorrectly changes depending on CLI or GUI
• Owner: ??? #39646 intermediate workspace display overload when executing 'test'
• Owner: ??? #39179 Warn or fall back to external editor if built without QScintilla
• Owner: ??? #38305 Conflicts between octave's SIGCHLD handler and qt process handling
• Owner: ??? #37401 Multi-line command recall is weird in GUI editor; non-GUI is OK.
• Owner: ??? #37354 Add support for multiple octave interpreters in one gui window
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #35619 Link error in 'Terminal' tab with the corresponding m-file

Bugs related to Windows OS

• Owner: ??? #44206 test complex.tst fails in MXE-octave
• Owner: rik #44125 mxe-octave: fltk printing displays line dropouts in dev version
• Owner: ??? #44118 imwrite saves wrong pixel values into jpg file
• Owner: ??? #44075 buid mxe-octave fails "Failed to build package nsis"
• Owner: ??? #43979 test unpack fails in MXE-Octave ver 4.1.0+
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #43651 special character (diameter sign) in plot produces warning or doesn't show up
• Owner: ??? #43525 mxe-octave: compile with OpenBLAS with OMP enabled
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #43318 [MinGW] "unknown type name 'int64_t'" with --enable-64 when compiling some OF packages
• Owner: ??? #43036 popen2 on Windows fails quietly if command writes to stderr
• Owner: ??? #42534 No lines when printing fltk plot with Intel graphics on Windows
• Owner: ??? #42036 Files and directories with non-ASCII characters not handled correctly on Windows
• Owner: ??? #41998 File association causes GUI issue
• Owner: ??? #41924 build_packages - probelms with path
• Owner: ??? #41395 Octave crashes without error message on this script
• Owner: ??? #41140 print fails to find ghostscript if it is located in a directory with spaces in the name
• Owner: ??? #41131 Attempt to wite to different history_file location (while instaling OF package)
• Owner: ??? #41129 similar warnings repeated over and over while loading OF pkgs
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #40726 <Tab> complete uses incorrect file separator on Windows
• Owner: ??? #40444 On Windows, config & history files etc. should go to %APPDATA%
• Owner: ??? #40443 MinGW: Octave crashes on exit after GraphicsMagick tests
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #39856 Cannot compile an Oct-File in Windows 7 64 or Vista 64 oct file
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #39004 GUI: limitations of selecting text in terminal widget in Windows
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #37053 Saveas & Print error when saving as .emf
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #36677 make_absolute_filename: extend to work with Windows drive letters

Bugs marked Configuration and Build System

• Owner: lostbard #44146 MXE octave - Fix version in default-octave.mk
• Owner: lostbard #44145 MXE-octave - cannot download gmp lib
• Owner: ??? #44060: audiodevinfo fails to build on updated fedora 20
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #43908 Some OF packages won't install with 64-bit indexing Octave
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #43562 Compilation failed on Mac OS X Yosemite
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #43505 build gm with quantum-depth=16 in mxe octave
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #43298 LLVM 3.5.0 cannot resolve the pow(octave_int<int>, octave_Int<int>) function overload
• Owner: mtm #43279 Please install the supplied AppData file
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #43250 Octave fails to build with Intel Compiler
• Owner: mtm #43087 improve support for reproducible builds
• Owner: mtm #43063 Suitesparse 4.3.x has changed APIs, no longer builds with Octave
• Owner: ??? #43003 polyfit error.... 64 bit problem?
• Owner: ??? #42995 building Octave with SGI MipsPro 7.3 CC
• Owner: mtm #42176 Octave built without OpenMP crashes when unloading OpenMP-enabled oct-files
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #42057 qMin compilation error with --enable-64
• Owner: rik #41665 'qt' is default graphics toolkit even when it is not available
• Owner: rik #41636 mkoctfile doesn't accept -std=c++11 option
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #41298 pkg install: automatically extract %!tests and install both extracted and fixed test files
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #41155 Java does not work with binary installer for Mac OS
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #41102 mxe-octave: path inconsistency when building in a symlinked path
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #41061 Octave fails to build with LLVM 3.4 and 3.5-pre-release
• Owner: ??? #41027 config.h is too generic
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #40273 'sed' is used even if a different value for 'SED' is specified during configure
• Owner: mtm #40252 Make GUI compatible with both Qt4 and Qt5
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #40111 Support runtime selection of Java version on Linux and Unix systems
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #39446 MXE-Octave: LAPACK build mixes MinGW and MSVC
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #38776 Tests in private functions cannot be tested directly
• Owner: mtm #37062 hi-res icon
• Owner: ??? #36943 documentation not built without gnuplot
• WON'T FIX Owner: rik #36524 Upgrade defun macro to accept non-double-quoted string for DOCSTRING
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #36477 use XDG dirs instead of HOME
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #34301 Can't compile oct files using gcc -fvisibility=hidden option
• Owner: rik #34169 Support -f compiler flags in mkoctfile

Bugs with severity >= 4

• Owner: ??? #44296 Windows segmentation fault with dl.exe
• Owner: ??? #44292 Frequent crashes when printing to eps on Windows platform
• Owner: lostbard #44215 README.html for NSIS install needs update

• Owner: ??? #44186 print command gives incorrect postscript file
• Owner: jwe #44015 GUI crashes after clear all in right click menu
• Owner: ??? #43769 error: invalid meta.package indexing when using strfind function
• Owner: ??? #43741 different results from power operator in mxe-octave GUI/CLI
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #42596 OpenGL toolkits for the GUI on MacOS X
• Owner: jwe #42537 print backend needed for qt toolkit
• Owner: ??? #42469 GUI crashes on international character after autocompletion
• Owner: jwe #41977 '__qt_ginput__' not found
• Owner: ??? #41699 imformats causes a segmentation fault on Windows when Octave exits
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #40545 Opening preferences causes the GUI to hang forever on OSX 10.9
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #40498 opening or saving files crashes the GUI on OSX
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #40242 FLTK + GUI = crash on MacOSX
• Owner: ??? #39000 Can't override BLAS XERBLA handler on Windows
• Owner: ??? #37672 GUI doesn't react to CTRL+C
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #35857 Octave crashes when plotting with units = normalized

Bugs marked as regressions

• Owner: jwe #44245 sprintf ("%0X", 15.2) prints floating point number 15.2 rather than 'F'
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #44195 segfault with dbstatus
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #44152 print("plot_file.pdf") generates warning message
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #43585 rectangle wrong axis calculation
• Owner: ??? #43559 "hold on" causes "plot" to use incorrect series colouring
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #43511 null array retained when cellstr is used to build vector through concatenation
• Owner: ??? #43064 Missing subplot in legend demo 29-33
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #42825 Memory corruption in sparse matrix operation
• Owner: ??? #42716 Transpose multiply not detected
• Owner: ??? #42612 clf after subplot with "outside" legend gives "error: invalid handle"
• Owner: ??? #42474 saving jpg images with imwrite changes image
• Owner: ??? #42314 Matrix transpose multiply performance regression
• Owner: ??? #42248 echo_executing_commands does not echo when executing from stdin
• Owner: jwe #42235 "invalid conversion from string to real scalar" with %c, %d, %f, etc.
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #41574 Current build approach causes mkoctfile to link to too many libraries on the Mac (patch supplied)
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #41512 max() of sparse logical matrix fails
• Owner: ??? #41312 latest Jit patch causes test jit failures
• Owner: pantxo #41128 In fltk backend, subplot(M,N,n) does not work in condition 4<M.
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #40333 print with legend modifies axis position (gnuplot)
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #38236 invoking script in demo block to define variables causes errors
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #31287 Certain assignments of empty arrays give errors (Matlab incompatibility)

Bugs marked as Crash

It would be nice to fix these, but they don't require resolution before the release.

• Owner: ??? #44089 octave uses complete RAM on print command
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #43968 print / save FLTK figure crashes Octave
• Owner: ??? #43941 Crashes immediately on startup
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #43740 GUI + FLTK + MacOSX -> Crash / Signal 11
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #42850 Reshape on sparse matrix leads to segfault
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #42429 @ftp/dir crashes Octave
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #42424 crash when "find" on sparse matrices is given at least 6 return-values
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #42118 COW memory issues when extracting small slices from large arrays
• Owner: ??? #42017 Plot command fails after exiting gnuplot
• Owner: ??? #41925 Qt terminal communication error: select() error 9 Bad file descriptor
• Owner: ??? #41652 Octave builds but crashes when trying to use gcj for java support
• Owner: ??? #41213 JIT segfaults on non-x86 processors
• Owner: ??? #40924 MSVC Octave crashes inverting complex matrix with OpenBLAS
• Owner: ??? #40608 MinGW: crashes with JIT
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #40362 chi2cdf/gamcdf/gammainc bug
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #40121 Using dbquit from within a callback causes a segfault
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #40044 *** glibc detected *** gnuplot: double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x08d72878 ***
• Owner: ??? #38280 imfinfo() crashes on 64 bit, but not 32 bit builds
• Owner: ??? #37205 running JIT tests with valgrind: possible memory issues and segfault
• WON'T FIX Owner: ??? #36067 bug in exist() when checking for a faulty mex/oct file