Bug Fix List - 4.2.0 Release

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The following bugs must be fixed prior to the next release. See also the 4.2 Release Checklist .

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Bugs marked as Crash

  • Owner: ??? #39000 Can't override BLAS XERBLA handler on Windows

All bugs marked as crash in Savannah, except with severity >= 4

  • Owner: ??? #38159 dicom package: crash on calling dicomwrite function

Octave Forge Package 3 - Normal Confirmed None None Thu 24 Jan 2013 04:21:33 AM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #39100 tsa MEX: "invalid image"

Octave Forge Package 3 - Normal None None None Tue 28 May 2013 05:06:58 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #40044 *** glibc detected *** gnuplot: double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x08d72878 ***

Plotting with gnuplot 3 - Normal Confirmed None None Mon 16 Sep 2013 05:10:27 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #40608 MinGW: crashes with JIT

Libraries 3 - Normal Postponed None philipnienhuis Sun 17 Nov 2013 12:00:13 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #41213 JIT segfaults on non-x86 processors

Interpreter 3 - Normal Postponed None mtmiller Sun 12 Jan 2014 09:52:33 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #42118 COW memory issues when extracting small slices from large arrays

Octave Function 3 - Normal Confirmed jwe

derjan Mon 14 Apr 2014 04:49:55 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #42429 @ftp/dir crashes Octave

Octave Function 3 - Normal Confirmed mtmiller

allanjacobs Mon 26 May 2014 03:54:56 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #42672 Agora webpage throws an error when trying to comment.

Agora website 3 - Normal None None edu159 Thu 03 Jul 2014 01:58:26 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #44470 Pause does not detect Ctrl+C keystroke in Windows GUI

Interpreter 3 - Normal Confirmed None jsh Sat 07 Mar 2015 02:23:45 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #44478 test __osmesa_print__.cc-tst crashes with Nvidia drivers

Plotting with OpenGL 3 - Normal Confirmed None tmacchant Sat 07 Mar 2015 10:56:37 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #44643 classdef handle object can go into an recursive loop with isequal(obj,obj)

Interpreter 3 - Normal Confirmed None jsh Fri 27 Mar 2015 07:50:45 AM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #44823 Segfault when using HD Graphics 6000 on Fedora 21

Plotting with OpenGL 3 - Normal None None godfrey Mon 13 Apr 2015 02:37:16 AM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #45297 GUI crash when calling scatter (x, y, [], color) with Windows 8.1

Plotting with OpenGL 3 - Normal Need Info None None Wed 10 Jun 2015 07:14:18 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #45366 Two objects not cleaning dynamically allocated widgets leading to crash at exit

GUI 3 - Normal Patch Submitted None sebald Sun 21 Jun 2015 06:57:15 AM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #45604 Windows XP Octave 4.0.0 plot crashes

Plotting 3 - Normal None None khb Wed 22 Jul 2015 07:50:22 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #45634 Octave 4.0.0 GUI crashes on first-time use

GUI 3 - Normal None None None Mon 27 Jul 2015 04:15:44 AM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #45860 Many stacked uipanels crashes the qt gui in Windows 8

GUI 3 - Normal Confirmed None jsh Tue 01 Sep 2015 11:00:55 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #45863 Octave crashes when clicking on polar plot using OpenGL

Plotting with OpenGL 3 - Normal Need Info None None Wed 02 Sep 2015 12:41:17 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #46192 JIT compiler fails in jit.tst and aborts Octave

Interpreter 3 - Normal Postponed None rik5 Mon 12 Oct 2015 11:22:38 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #46315 Assertion Failed - profiler crash on every 2nd time execution halts

Octave Function 3 - Normal Confirmed None nrjank Wed 28 Oct 2015 04:07:17 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #46349 dblquad/triplequad - periodic functions over the whole period

Octave Function 3 - Normal Confirmed None None Sat 31 Oct 2015 06:19:16 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #46476 Octave 4.0.0 crashes on plot

Plotting with OpenGL 3 - Normal Need Info None None Thu 19 Nov 2015 03:43:25 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #46501 Crash running uimenu code under Qt

Plotting with OpenGL 3 - Normal Confirmed None rik5 Mon 23 Nov 2015 05:39:14 AM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #46910 Octave hangs on extremely slow ghostscript on Windows when printing figures

Plotting with OpenGL 3 - Normal Need Info None theillusiveman Fri 15 Jan 2016 07:49:00 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #46926 saveas() crashes Octave

Plotting with OpenGL 3 - Normal Need Info None None Mon 18 Jan 2016 08:14:04 AM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #47445 Settng colours for too many plots causes Segmentation violation

Plotting with OpenGL 3 - Normal Need Info None unknownscribe Thu 17 Mar 2016 06:53:10 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #47620 segfault when using eval and anoymous function

Interpreter 3 - Normal Confirmed None None Mon 04 Apr 2016 03:13:40 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #47650 octave crashed while plotting many functions

Plotting with OpenGL 3 - Normal Need Info None None Fri 08 Apr 2016 03:41:01 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #47827 "Ctrl+1" shortcut crashes the GUI

GUI 3 - Normal Works For Me None None Mon 02 May 2016 03:24:58 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #47837 Segmentation fault with missing warning state "all"

Octave Function 3 - Normal Patch Submitted lachlan

gyom Tue 03 May 2016 03:01:18 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #47840 exec segfaults on Windows

Interpreter 3 - Normal None None tmacchant Tue 03 May 2016 11:01:38 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #47914 segfault with OpenGL patches and address sanitizer

Plotting with OpenGL 3 - Normal Confirmed None rik5 Fri 13 May 2016 05:43:26 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #47927 Ctrl+C crashes Octave on MacOS

Interpreter 3 - Normal None None bpabbott Mon 16 May 2016 12:11:44 AM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #47958 GUI freezes when starting debug with a partly drawn Qt figure

Plotting with OpenGL 3 - Normal None None lachlan Thu 19 May 2016 11:24:20 AM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #48078 signal package: crash in remez with close frequency band values + differentiator

Octave Forge Package 3 - Normal Confirmed None None Wed 01 Jun 2016 03:17:04 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #48219 Crash at end of execution of openEMS script

None 3 - Normal Need Info None jcoppens Tue 14 Jun 2016 03:42:36 AM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #48284 Can't make the graphics work on new installation

Plotting with OpenGL 3 - Normal Need Info None None Tue 21 Jun 2016 11:06:31 AM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #48323 interval package: segmentation fault in qr function

Octave Forge Package 3 - Normal Works For Me None oheim Mon 27 Jun 2016 05:45:02 AM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #41652 Octave builds but crashes when trying to use gcj for java support

Configuration and Build System 2 - Minor Postponed None mtmiller

Bugs marked Configuration and Build System

  • Owner: ??? #48319 long double declaration error in i386 architecture (?)

All bugs marked configuration and build system in Savannah

  • Owner: ??? #38776 Tests in private functions cannot be tested directly

Configuration and Build System 3 - Normal None None philipnienhuis Fri 19 Apr 2013 11:01:56 AM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #41027 config.h is too generic

Configuration and Build System 3 - Normal Confirmed None opoplawski Sun 29 Dec 2013 03:43:39 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #41298 pkg install: automatically extract %!tests and install both extracted and fixed test files

Configuration and Build System 3 - Normal None None mtmiller Wed 22 Jan 2014 06:14:57 AM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #41574 Current build approach causes mkoctfile to link to too many libraries on the Mac (patch supplied)

Configuration and Build System 3 - Normal Patch Submitted None mcgrant Thu 13 Feb 2014 12:07:22 AM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #43298 llvm libc++ 3.5 fails to resolve the pow(octave_int<int>, octave_Int<int>) function overload

Configuration and Build System 3 - Normal Postponed None None Thu 25 Sep 2014 03:31:54 AM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #43908 Some OF packages won't install with 64-bit indexing Octave

Configuration and Build System 3 - Normal Postponed None philipnienhuis Tue 30 Dec 2014 11:41:15 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #44979 check for osmesa is done at runtime and not configure

Configuration and Build System 3 - Normal None None carandraug Fri 01 May 2015 12:40:30 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #45082 mxe native build fails at gmp

Configuration and Build System 3 - Normal None None tmacchant Tue 12 May 2015 08:46:55 AM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #45188 MXE: problems installing different Octave versions side by side

Configuration and Build System 3 - Normal None None philipnienhuis Mon 25 May 2015 09:29:07 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #45578 build failure due to no dependency on libgnu

Configuration and Build System 3 - Normal Confirmed None lostbard Sun 19 Jul 2015 02:10:47 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #45644 Build system distributes .cc files in include/octave directory

Configuration and Build System 3 - Normal None None rik5 Tue 28 Jul 2015 05:13:17 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #46063 Build system re-makes certain files 2 or even 3 times

Configuration and Build System 3 - Normal Confirmed None rik5 Sun 27 Sep 2015 07:35:53 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #46758 mxe-octave: octave-logo.ico is cropped not scaled due to rsvg-convert bug

Configuration and Build System 3 - Normal Confirmed None oheim Fri 25 Dec 2015 10:58:44 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #46863 mxe-octave: build_packages.m not up to date

Configuration and Build System 3 - Normal Need Info None None Sun 10 Jan 2016 03:36:38 AM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #47494 mxe-octave: OF mapping package shadows rad2deg & deg2rad in dev octave

Configuration and Build System 3 - Normal None None philipnienhuis Tue 22 Mar 2016 07:49:14 AM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #47576 mxe-octave: octave-4.0.1-installer.exe (32bit) does not install on Windows 10

Configuration and Build System 3 - Normal Ready For Test None nagashi Wed 30 Mar 2016 08:05:23 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #47617 mxe-octave: instrument-control package not installed correctly in official release

Configuration and Build System 3 - Normal Confirmed None None Mon 04 Apr 2016 01:18:01 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #47817 mxe-octave: error while building documentation of dev Octave

Configuration and Build System 3 - Normal Confirmed None philipnienhuis Sun 01 May 2016 05:53:33 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #47858 Building with hdf5-1.10 fails due to changed variable type

Configuration and Build System 3 - Normal Confirmed None stefanm Thu 05 May 2016 06:43:05 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #47886 Do not link against libraries without OpenGL

Configuration and Build System 3 - Normal Confirmed None None Tue 10 May 2016 01:19:47 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #47971 "make clean; make" fails on missing oct-conf-post.h

Configuration and Build System 3 - Normal None jwe

rik5 Sun 22 May 2016 02:22:50 AM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #48172 doc build fails with texi2dvi/texi2pdf errors on Ubuntu 14.04

Configuration and Build System 3 - Normal Confirmed None muhali Wed 08 Jun 2016 10:52:51 AM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #48319 Development source build failure related to LONG_DOUBLE_ROUNDING in oct-inttypes.cc

Configuration and Build System 3 - Normal None None nir_krakauer Sun 26 Jun 2016 07:55:19 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #36524 Upgrade defun macro to accept non-double-quoted string for DOCSTRING

Configuration and Build System 2 - Minor Ready For Test None rik5 Tue 22 May 2012 04:12:32 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #39446 MXE-Octave: LAPACK build mixes MinGW and MSVC

Configuration and Build System 2 - Minor Postponed None philipnienhuis Tue 09 Jul 2013 12:38:27 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #40111 Support runtime selection of Java version on Linux and Unix systems

Configuration and Build System 2 - Minor None jwe

mtmiller Thu 26 Sep 2013 01:07:40 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #40252 Make GUI compatible with both Qt4 and Qt5

Configuration and Build System 2 - Minor Postponed None mtmiller Sat 12 Oct 2013 07:40:35 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #41652 Octave builds but crashes when trying to use gcj for java support

Configuration and Build System 2 - Minor Postponed None mtmiller Fri 21 Feb 2014 02:01:41 AM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #44359 Save and restore user FFLAGS, add additional options to AM_FFLAGS

Configuration and Build System 2 - Minor Postponed None mtmiller Tue 24 Feb 2015 03:09:49 AM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #45399 build failure with multiple flex source files using gcc Link Time Optimization (LTO)

Configuration and Build System 2 - Minor Postponed None atcl Wed 24 Jun 2015 08:43:01 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #45646 files in source distribution should not be deleted on "clean" or "distclean"

Configuration and Build System 2 - Minor Confirmed mtmiller

mtmiller Wed 29 Jul 2015 12:41:16 AM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #48139 New warnings about deprecated functions when building liboctave

Configuration and Build System 2 - Minor None jwe

rik5 Mon 06 Jun 2016 01:00:38 AM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #34301 Can't compile oct files using gcc -fvisibility=hidden option

Configuration and Build System 1 - Wish Need Info None None Thu 15 Sep 2011 09:19:46 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #35392 /etc/octaverc

Configuration and Build System 1 - Wish Need Info None manday Sat 28 Jan 2012 09:27:27 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #36477 use XDG dirs instead of HOME

Configuration and Build System 1 - Wish Confirmed None mccann Wed 16 May 2012 03:20:01 AM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #40444 On Windows, config & history files etc. should go to %APPDATA%

Configuration and Build System 1 - Wish Postponed None philipnienhuis Fri 01 Nov 2013 04:46:11 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #41061 building with --enable-jit with libllvm 3.5 fails to compile

Configuration and Build System 1 - Wish Postponed None aaahaaah Wed 01 Jan 2014 10:28:03 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #43343 Associate .m files to open in Octave editor in macOS

Configuration and Build System 1 - Wish Need Info cdf

sattath Wed 01 Oct 2014 05:33:07 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #47831 mercurial build writes files to source tree doc/{interpreter,liboctave}

Configuration and Build System 1 - Wish Postponed None sebald

Bugs with severity >= 4

(Some of these may also be marked as Crash, Regression, Configure and Build System.

  • Owner: ??? #41567 error in qr -- patch posted
  • Owner: ??? #37672 CTRL+C interrupt processing causes segfaults

GUI 5 - Blocker Confirmed None thorsten Tue 06 Nov 2012 09:03:06 AM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #44916 Printing Qt-drawn figures produces faulty files

Plotting with OpenGL 5 - Blocker None None mkunz Fri 24 Apr 2015 10:51:58 AM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #39000 Can't override BLAS XERBLA handler on Windows

Libraries 4 - Important Confirmed None drizzd Wed 15 May 2013 04:07:23 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #41567 qr fails with two matrix inputs

Octave Function 4 - Important Patch Submitted None nir_krakauer Wed 12 Feb 2014 01:45:41 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #42469 GUI crashes on international character after autocompletion

GUI 4 - Important Postponed None None Fri 30 May 2014 07:19:25 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #43098 "if (array)" should raise a warning, and give the same result for dense and sparse

Libraries 4 - Important Patch Submitted lachlan

cbm Thu 28 Aug 2014 09:32:19 AM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #44335 Use consistent wording for "contribute" vs "donate"

GUI 4 - Important Patch Submitted None mtmiller Sat 21 Feb 2015 03:28:24 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #46330 segfault with matrices containing Inf & NaN

Libraries 4 - Important Patch Submitted None paramaniac Fri 30 Oct 2015 04:30:53 AM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #47400 panic on Ctrl+c with multithreaded ATLAS or OpenBLAS

Interpreter 4 - Important Need Info None None Sun 13 Mar 2016 06:57:30 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #47543 segfault with warnings disabled in subfunction when all warnings disabled globally

Interpreter 4 - Important Patch Submitted None opoplawski Sat 26 Mar 2016 05:00:37 PM GMT

  • Owner: ??? #47676 Cannot apply computed assignment to a variable defined after the code was parsed (e.g., in a script)

Interpreter 4 - Important Patch Submitted None cdf

Bugs marked as regressions

All bugs marked as regression in Savannah, except with severity >= 4

  • owner (???) #38236 invoking script in demo block to define variables causes errors

Interpreter 3 - Normal None None cdf Sat 02 Feb 2013 04:09:00 PM GMT

  • owner (???) #40333 print with legend modifies axis position

Plotting 3 - Normal Confirmed None dac922 Mon 21 Oct 2013 07:10:28 PM GMT

  • owner (???) #41574 Current build approach causes mkoctfile to link to too many libraries on the Mac (patch supplied)

Configuration and Build System 3 - Normal Patch Submitted None mcgrant Thu 13 Feb 2014 12:07:22 AM GMT

  • owner (???) #41794 [FUZZY-LOGIC] renamed function not propagated to code

Octave Forge Package 3 - Normal None None juanpi Thu 06 Mar 2014 06:46:14 PM GMT

  • owner (???) #43559 "hold on" causes "plot" to use incorrect series colouring

Plotting 3 - Normal Confirmed None None Fri 07 Nov 2014 12:11:20 PM GMT

  • owner (???) #43585 rectangle wrong axis calculation

Octave Function 3 - Normal Confirmed None andy1978 Wed 12 Nov 2014 10:38:07 AM GMT

  • owner (???) #44245 need configurable warning when sprintf format contains integer code, but value is real number

Octave Function 3 - Normal Confirmed jwe

rik5 Fri 13 Feb 2015 11:18:34 PM GMT

  • owner (???) #44498 isvector: Always returns true for objects from user defined classes

Octave Function 3 - Normal None None oheim Tue 10 Mar 2015 06:58:06 AM GMT

  • owner (???) #44829 Multiple legends not working anymore with plotyy

Plotting 3 - Normal Confirmed None linde Tue 14 Apr 2015 08:15:11 AM GMT

  • owner (???) #45055 splines: bin_value unit test fails

Octave Forge Package 3 - Normal None None rlaboiss Fri 08 May 2015 01:16:28 PM GMT

  • owner (???) #45494 A recent change has broken hist (randn (10000, 1), 30);

Plotting with OpenGL 3 - Normal None None godfrey Wed 08 Jul 2015 10:42:49 AM GMT

  • owner (???) #45507 acos returns different results on big input values on gcc 4.8

Octave Function 3 - Normal In Progress None hardy Thu 09 Jul 2015 06:53:00 PM GMT

  • owner (???) #45710 grid minor and axis tight fail to plot all minor grid lines

Plotting with OpenGL 3 - Normal Confirmed None godfrey Fri 07 Aug 2015 01:09:52 AM GMT

  • owner (???) #45823 Empty plot after figure command (FLTK only)

Plotting with OpenGL 3 - Normal Confirmed None caliari Tue 25 Aug 2015 02:54:30 PM GMT

  • owner (???) #46011 Can't warn of automatic broadcasting without triggering #36743

Interpreter 3 - Normal In Progress None lachlan Mon 21 Sep 2015 12:49:59 AM GMT

  • owner (???) #46047 Large number of axes ticks for big logarithmic plots

Plotting 3 - Normal Confirmed None caliari Thu 24 Sep 2015 11:52:16 AM GMT

  • owner (???) #46496 Problems with legend background and labels spacing

Plotting with gnuplot 3 - Normal None None msantos Sun 22 Nov 2015 02:21:46 PM GMT

  • owner (???) #46516 Qt plotting, plot overlay ignores plot order

Plotting with OpenGL 3 - Normal Need Info None nrjank Tue 24 Nov 2015 04:19:06 PM GMT

  • owner (???) #46522 clear all does not fix shadowed "help"

Interpreter 3 - Normal Confirmed None juanpi Wed 25 Nov 2015 02:27:14 AM GMT

  • owner (???) #46597 control package 3.0.0: impulse function yields incorrect result

Octave Forge Package 3 - Normal Confirmed None None Thu 03 Dec 2015 11:52:28 AM GMT

  • owner (???) #46645 Can't load struct variables that use arbitrary fieldnames

Interpreter 3 - Normal Confirmed None rik5 Wed 09 Dec 2015 07:38:00 PM GMT

  • owner (???) #46758 mxe-octave: octave-logo.ico is cropped not scaled due to rsvg-convert bug

Configuration and Build System 3 - Normal Confirmed None oheim Fri 25 Dec 2015 10:58:44 PM GMT

  • owner (???) #47337 [Windows] fltk toolkt: infinite loop "GL2PS warning: Unknown token in buffer" when printing

Plotting with OpenGL 3 - Normal In Progress None philipnienhuis Fri 04 Mar 2016 11:23:33 AM GMT

  • owner (???) #47415 out of memory negating a permutation matrix

Octave Function 3 - Normal None None cdf Tue 15 Mar 2016 09:23:46 AM GMT

  • owner (???) #47571 Problem with umlaut in command line

GUI 3 - Normal Need Info None None Wed 30 Mar 2016 09:47:56 AM GMT

  • owner (???) #47680 classdef @ operator to overrided superclass methods

Interpreter 3 - Normal None None icouckuy Tue 12 Apr 2016 05:57:49 PM GMT

  • owner (???) #47755 Access to object arrays

Interpreter 3 - Normal Confirmed None gyom Thu 21 Apr 2016 04:26:34 PM GMT

  • owner (???) #47756 [ode suit] integrate_adaptive fails with vertical tspan

Octave Function 3 - Normal None None juanpi Thu 21 Apr 2016 07:12:39 PM GMT

  • owner (???) #48296 demo hangs with subplot and pager

Plotting with OpenGL 3 - Normal Patch Submitted None mmuetzel Wed 22 Jun 2016 07:32:02 PM GMT

  • owner (???) #44152 print("plot_file.pdf") generates warning message

Plotting with OpenGL 2 - Minor None None godfrey Sun 01 Feb 2015 05:35:00 PM GMT

  • owner (???) #44934 classdef parser prints extra newline when failing to parse bad classdef file

Interpreter 2 - Minor None None rik5

Bugs marked GUI

Bugs related to Windows OS

  • Owner: ??? #42036 Files and directories with non-ASCII characters not handled correctly on Windows
  • Owner: ??? #43099 utf-8 files: editor, command windows issues, workspace pane shows correctly

Other Bugs

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