Bug Fix List - 4.2.0 Release

The following bugs must be fixed prior to the next release. See also the 4.2.0 Release Checklist .

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Bugs marked as Crash

(Some of these crashes seem to appear only on a few systems. Please check which your system(s) can reproduce.)

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

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

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

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

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

• Owner: Lachlan (review needed) #46501 Crash running uimenu code under Qt

• Owner: ??? #46349 dblquad/triplequad - periodic functions over the whole period [hang, not crash]

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

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

• Owner: ??? #44823 Segfault when using HD Graphics 6000 on Fedora 21 [maybe...]

Windows

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

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

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

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

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

• Owner: ??? #45297 GUI crash when calling scatter (x, y, [], color) with Windows 8.1 (Anyone with Win 8.1 to reproduce this? If not, skip it.)

• Owner: ??? #47445 Settng colours for too many plots causes Segmentation violation (Anyone with Win 8 to reproduce this? If not, skip it.)

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

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

Other bugs marked as crash in Savannah

• Owner: ??? #47958 GUI freezes when starting debug with a partly drawn Qt figure (LA vote: unsure)

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

• Owner: ??? #42118 COW memory issues when extracting small slices from large arrays (LA vote: unsure)

Octave Function 3 - Normal Confirmed jwe derjan Mon 14 Apr 2014 04:49:55 PM GMT

• Owner: ??? #40044 *** glibc detected *** gnuplot: double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x08d72878 *** (LA vote: not necessary)

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

• Owner: ??? #40608 MinGW: crashes with JIT (LA vote: not necessary)

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

• Owner: ??? #41213 JIT segfaults on non-x86 processors (LA vote: not necessary)

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

• Owner: ??? #42429 @ftp/dir crashes Octave (LA vote: not necessary)

Octave Function 3 - Normal Confirmed mtmiller

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

• Owner: ??? #44478 test __osmesa_print__.cc-tst crashes with Nvidia drivers (LA vote: not necessary)

Plotting with OpenGL 3 - Normal Confirmed None tmacchant Sat 07 Mar 2015 10:56:37 PM GMT Fri 27 Mar 2015 07:50:45 AM GMT

• Owner: ??? #46192 JIT compiler fails in jit.tst and aborts Octave (LA vote: not necessary)

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

• Owner: ??? #46926 saveas() crashes Octave (LA vote: not necessary)

Plotting with OpenGL 3 - Normal Need Info None None Mon 18 Jan 2016 08:14:04 AM GMT Thu 17 Mar 2016 06:53:10 PM GMT

• Owner: ??? #47620 segfault when using eval and anoymous function (LA vote: not necessary)

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

• Owner: ??? #47827 "Ctrl+1" shortcut crashes the GUI (LA vote: not necessary)

GUI 3 - Normal Works For Me None None Mon 02 May 2016 03:24:58 PM GMT Tue 03 May 2016 03:01:18 PM GMT

• Owner: ??? #48078 signal package: crash in remez with close frequency band values + differentiator (LA vote: not necessary)

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 (LA vote: not necessary)

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 (LA vote: not necessary)

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 (LA vote: not necessary)

Configuration and Build System 2 - Minor Postponed None mtmiller

Bugs marked Configuration and Build System

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Owner: ??? #45646 files in source distribution should not be deleted on "clean" or "distclean" -- is marked as "minor", but sounds important for a release

• Owner: ??? #44979 check for osmesa is done at runtime and not configure -- Someone should check if this is easy

• Owner: ??? #48139 New warnings about deprecated functions when building liboctave -- minor but should be easy to fix

• Owner: ??? #45399 build failure with multiple flex source files using gcc Link Time Optimization (LTO) -- patch submitted. Marked "minor", but easy fix.

• Owner: ??? #47617 mxe-octave: instrument-control package not installed correctly in official release -- this looks simple; is it?

Other bugs marked configuration and build system in Savannah

The following three bugs are minor, but closely related and two go back to 2012

• Owner: ??? #35392 /etc/octaverc (LA vote: not necessary, but desirable)
• Owner: ??? #36477 use XDG dirs instead of HOME (LA vote: not necessary, but desirable)
• Owner: ??? #40444 On Windows, config & history files etc. should go to %APPDATA% (LA vote: not necessary, but desirable)

• Owner: ??? #47886 Do not link against libraries without OpenGL (LA vote: unsure)

3 - Normal Confirmed None None Tue 10 May 2016 01:19:47 PM GMT

Fri 19 Apr 2013 11:01:56 AM GMT

• Owner: ??? #41027 config.h is too generic (LA vote: up to JWE)

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

• Owner: ??? #38776 Tests in private functions cannot be tested directly (LA vote: unnecessary)

3 - Normal None None philipnienhuis

• Owner: ??? #41298 pkg install: automatically extract %!tests and install both extracted and fixed test files (LA vote: unnecessary; useful for development, not release)

3 - Normal None None mtmiller Wed 22 Jan 2014 06:14:57 AM GMT

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

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 (unnecessary -- bugs are in Forge, not core)

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

• Owner: ??? #45082 mxe native build fails at gmp (LA vote: unnecessary)

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 (LA vote: unnecessary)

3 - Normal None None philipnienhuis Mon 25 May 2015 09:29:07 PM GMT

• Owner: ??? #45578 build failure due to no dependency on libgnu (LA vote: unnecessary)

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 (LA vote: relevant to release, but low priority)

3 - Normal None None rik5 Tue 28 Jul 2015 05:13:17 PM GMT

• Owner: ??? #46863 mxe-octave: build_packages.m not up to date (LA vote: not necessary)

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

• Owner: ??? #47817 mxe-octave: error while building documentation of dev Octave (not necessary, as docs are pre-built)

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

• Owner: ??? #48172 doc build fails with texi2dvi/texi2pdf errors on Ubuntu 14.04 (not necessary, as docs are pre-built)

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

• Owner: ??? #39446 MXE-Octave: LAPACK build mixes MinGW and MSVC (LA vote: not necessary)

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 (LA vote: not necessary)

2 - Minor None jwe

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

• Owner: ??? #40252 Make GUI compatible with both Qt4 and Qt5 (LA vote: not necessary)

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 (LA vote: not necessary)

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 (LA vote: not necessary)

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

• Owner: ??? #34301 Can't compile oct files using gcc -fvisibility=hidden option (LA vote: not necessary)

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

• Owner: ??? #41061 building with --enable-jit with libllvm 3.5 fails to compile (LA vote: not necessary)

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 (LA vote: not necessary)

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} (LA vote: not necessary)

1 - Wish Postponed None sebald

Bugs with severity >= 4

• Owner: ??? #44916 Printing Qt-drawn figures produces faulty files
• Owner: ??? #37672 CTRL+C interrupt processing causes segfaults
• Owner: ??? #47400 panic on Ctrl+c with multithreaded ATLAS or OpenBLAS
• Owner: ??? #41567 error in qr -- patch posted
• Owner: ??? #43098 "if (array)" should raise a warning, and give the same result for dense and sparse -- patch posted
• Owner: ??? #47676 Cannot apply computed assignment to a variable defined after the code was parsed (e.g., in a script) -- workaround patch posted
• Owner: ??? #39000 Can't override BLAS XERBLA handler on Windows
• Owner: ??? #42469 GUI crashes on international character after autocompletion -- upstream scintilla bug. Can we work around it?
• Owner: ??? #44335 Use consistent wording for "contribute" vs "donate" -- patch posted
• Owner: ??? #46330 segfault with matrices containing Inf & NaN -- patch posted
• Owner: ??? #47543 segfault with warnings disabled in subfunction when all warnings disabled globally -- patch posted

Bugs marked as regressions

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

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

• owner (???) #45507 acos returns different results on big input values on gcc 4.8 -- just need to replace "test" by "xtest"

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

• owner (???) #46522 clear all does not fix shadowed "help" -- (Three of us can no longer reproduce this.)

• owner (???) #47337 [Windows] fltk toolkt: infinite loop "GL2PS warning: Unknown token in buffer" when printing -- infinite loop is almost as bad as a crash

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

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

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

• owner (???) #47571 Problem with umlaut in command line -- I think no code change is needed; just compiling Windows binary of 4.2.0 in a UTF-8 environment

• owner (???) #46645 Can't load struct variables that use arbitrary fieldnames -- may be too hard

Other bugs marked as regression in Savannah

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

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

• owner (???) #43585 rectangle wrong axis calculation (LA vote: unsure)

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

• owner (???) #38236 invoking script in demo block to define variables causes errors (LA vote: not necessary)

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

• owner (???) #40333 print with legend modifies axis position (LA vote: not necessary -- didn't block 4.0)

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

• owner (???) #44245 need configurable warning when sprintf format contains integer code, but value is real number (LA vote: not necessary)

Octave Function 3 - Normal Confirmed jwe rik5 Fri 13 Feb 2015 11:18:34 PM GMT

• owner (???) #44829 Multiple legends not working anymore with plotyy (LA vote: not necessary)

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

• owner (???) #45494 A recent change has broken hist (randn (10000, 1), 30); (LA vote: not necessary)

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

• owner (???) #45710 grid minor and axis tight fail to plot all minor grid lines (LA vote: not necessary)

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) (LA vote: not necessary)

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 (LA vote: not necessary)

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

• owner (???) #46496 Problems with legend background and labels spacing (LA vote: not necessary)

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 -- Windows only (LA vote: not necessary)

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

• owner (???) #47415 out of memory negating a permutation matrix (LA vote: not necessary)

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

• owner (???) #47755 Access to object arrays (LA vote: not necessary -- not sure it is a regression)

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

• owner (???) #44934 classdef parser prints extra newline when failing to parse bad classdef file (LA vote: not necessary)

Interpreter 2 - Minor None None rik5

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