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The following bugs must be fixed prior to the next release.  See also the [[Roadmap]] .
The following bugs must be fixed prior to release.  See also the [[Release 3.8]] goals.


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== Bugs marked Configuration and Build System ==
== Bugs marked Configuration and Build System ==


* <strike> Owner: jwe {{bug|40422}} build and cli-version of octave not working with LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.UTF-8 </strike>
* Owner: jwe {{bug|40381}} MXE / MinGW - setenv does not work correctly
* <strike> Owner: rik {{bug|40366}} defaults for JIT </strike>
* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|40358}} Octave Java classes missing on 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04 </strike>
* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|40356}} Please ship an AppData file upstream </strike>
* <strike> Owner: jwe {{bug|40321}} MXE / MinGW - mkoctfile fails (& doesn't pick up compile flags) </strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|40273}} 'sed' is used even if a different value for 'SED' is specified during configure  
* Owner: ??? {{bug|40273}} 'sed' is used even if a different value for 'SED' is specified during configure  
* Owner: ??? {{bug|40252}} Make GUI compatible with both Qt4 and Qt5  
* Owner: ??? {{bug|40252}} Make GUI compatible with both Qt4 and Qt5  
* Owner: ??? {{bug|40111}} Support runtime selection of Java version on Linux and Unix systems  
* Owner: ??? {{bug|40111}} Support runtime selection of Java version on Linux and Unix systems  
* Owner: ??? {{bug|39856}} Cannot compile an Oct-File in Windows 7 64 or Vista 64 oct file
* Owner: ??? {{bug|39856}} Cannot compile an Oct-File in Windows 7 64 or Vista 64 oct file
* Owner: ??? {{bug|39446}} MXE-Octave: LAPACK build mixes MinGW and MSVC
* <strike> Owner: rik {{bug|39465}} configure needs jvm.dll for Windows builds </strike>
* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|39454}} Fix building core Java support for MinGW builds </strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|39446}} MXE-Octave: LAPACK build mixes MinGW and MSVC  
* Owner: ??? {{bug|38928}} confugure -> hdf5 doesn't handle path through
* Owner: ??? {{bug|38776}} Tests in private functions cannot be tested directly  
* Owner: ??? {{bug|38776}} Tests in private functions cannot be tested directly  
* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|38351}} mkoctfile -p returns wrong flags on mingw. </strike>
* WON'T FIX FOR 3.8 <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|36943}} documentation not built without gnuplot </strike>
* WON'T FIX FOR 3.8 <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|36943}} documentation not built without gnuplot </strike>
* WON'T FIX FOR 3.8 <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|36524}} Upgrade defun macro to accept non-double-quoted string for DOCSTRING </strike>
* WON'T FIX FOR 3.8 <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|36524}} Upgrade defun macro to accept non-double-quoted string for DOCSTRING </strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|36477}} use XDG dirs instead of HOME
* Owner: ??? {{bug|36477}} use XDG dirs instead of HOME  
* <strike> Owner: rik {{bug|36064}} MAGICK_X extra flags are shadowed by system CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS </strike>
* <strike> Owner: rik {{bug|35207}} add gl2ps to the configure script </strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|34301}} Can't compile oct files using gcc -fvisibility=hidden option  
* Owner: ??? {{bug|34301}} Can't compile oct files using gcc -fvisibility=hidden option  
* Owner: ??? {{bug|34169}} Support -f compiler flags in mkoctfile
* Owner: ??? {{bug|34169}} Support -f compiler flags in mkoctfile
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== Bugs with severity >= 4 ==
== Bugs with severity >= 4 ==


* Owner:??? {{bug|40545}} Opening preferences causes the GUI to hang forever on OSX 10.9
* Owner:??? {{bug|40498}} opening or saving files crashes the GUI on OSX
* Owner:??? {{bug|40498}} opening or saving files crashes the GUI on OSX
* WON'T FIX for 3.8 <strike> Owner:??? {{bug|40242}} FLTK + GUI = crash on MacOSX </strike>
* <strike> Owner:jwe {{bug|40436}} median no longer passes make check </strike>
* Owner:jwe {{bug|40365}} Community news web access should be a user preference
* <strike> Owner:??? {{bug|40350}} pager does not work on MacOSX </strike>
* <strike> Owner:??? {{bug|40312}} GUI asks to reload a saved file </strike>
* Owner:??? {{bug|40242}} FLTK + GUI = crash on MacOSX
* <strike> Owner:rik {{bug|40246}} OpenGL should test data and abort plot if range > float range </strike>
* Owner:jwe {{bug|37672}} GUI doesn't react to CTRL+C
* Owner:jwe {{bug|37672}} GUI doesn't react to CTRL+C
* <strike> Owner:jwe {{bug|33304}} power operator precedence and direction </strike>


== Bugs marked as regressions ==
== Bugs marked as regressions ==


* Owner:??? {{bug|40333}} print with legend modifies axis position (Not fixed, but temporary workaround in place for generation of images for 3.8.0 manual)
* Owner:??? {{bug|40536}} qp failure
* <strike> Owner:??? {{bug|40470}} display routine for variables doesn't detect need for scientific format </strike>
* <strike> Owner:jwe {{bug|40397}} Scope is not changed with dbup / dbdown in debug mode </strike>
* <strike> Owner:??? {{bug|40347}} figure () fails when called from script file </strike>
* <strike> Owner:jwe {{bug|40342}} help "FolderName" to print Contents.m files does not work properly. </strike>
* <strike> Owner:??? {{bug|40333}} print with legend modifies axis position (Not fixed, but temporary workaround in place for generation of images for 3.8.0 manual) </strike> 
* <strike> Owner:??? {{bug|40301}} MinGW/MXE - urlwrite won't load, but urlread does. </strike>
* <strike> Owner:rik {{bug|40260}} edit_history doing run_history instead </strike>
* <strike> Owner:??? {{bug|40256}} set (gca, 'xticklabel') command not working properly (gnuplot) </strike>
* <strike> Owner:rik {{bug|39925}} imagesc crash Plotting with OpenGL </strike>
* <strike> Owner:??? {{bug|39524}} m-file profiler returning inaccurate first line </strike>
* Owner:??? {{bug|38236}} invoking script in demo block to define variables causes errors
* Owner:??? {{bug|38236}} invoking script in demo block to define variables causes errors
* Owner:jwe {{bug|31287}} Certain assignments of empty arrays give errors (Matlab incompatibility)
* <strike> Owner:rik {{bug|37410}} image.m has a wrong check for linearly-spaced x and y </strike>
* <strike> Owner:jwe {{bug|31287}} Certain assignments of empty arrays give errors (Matlab incompatibility) </strike>


== Bugs marked as Crash ==
== Bugs marked as Crash ==
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It would be nice to fix these, but they don't require resolution before the release.
It would be nice to fix these, but they don't require resolution before the release.


* Owner:??? {{bug|40469}} crash on graphics operation (clf only ?)
* Owner:??? {{bug|40423}} crash after "Can't open display:" message
* <strike> Owner:rik {{bug|40308}} segfault on plot with colorbar </strike>
* <strike> Owner:dbateman {{bug|40305}} real (sparse (2i)) creates bad internally formatted sparse matrix </strike>
* <strike> Owner:carandrag {{bug|40267}} imread ('default.img') causes segfault </strike>
* Owner:??? {{bug|40121}} Using dbquit from within a callback causes a segfault
* Owner:??? {{bug|40121}} Using dbquit from within a callback causes a segfault
* <strike> Owner:??? {{bug|40068}} Crashing when calling imread </strike>
* Owner:??? {{bug|40044}} *** glibc detected *** gnuplot: double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x08d72878 ***
* Owner:??? {{bug|40044}} *** glibc detected *** gnuplot: double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x08d72878 ***
* Owner:??? {{bug|39587}} Assertion failure with profexplore after profile erroneous use: Assertion `active_fcn != call_tree' failed.
* Owner:??? {{bug|39586}} Assertion failure with profexplore valid use: Assertion `fcn_id == fcn' failed.
* Owner:??? {{bug|39273}} lu SIGSEGV when used with 2 output variables with --enable-64
* <strike> Owner:mappel {{bug|38789}} segfault on exit after failing to load HDF5 file </strike>
* <strike> Owner:??? {{bug|38616}} memory leak in regexprep </strike>
* Owner:??? {{bug|38584}} setting linestyle to "none" for fill object causes error (gnuplot)
* Owner:??? {{bug|38584}} setting linestyle to "none" for fill object causes error (gnuplot)
* Owner:??? {{bug|38305}} file dialog causes crash
* Owner:??? {{bug|38305}} file dialog causes crash
* Owner:??? {{bug|38280}} imfinfo() crashes on 64 bit, but not 32 bit builds
* Owner:??? {{bug|38280}} imfinfo() crashes on 64 bit, but not 32 bit builds
* <strike> Owner:??? {{bug|37928}} GUI crashes with french locale </strike>
* <strike> Owner:rik {{bug|37927}} set (gcf, "parent", gcf) -> seg-fault </strike>
* <strike> Owner:rik {{bug|37750}} segfault with 'set(gca, "parent", gca)' </strike>
* Owner:??? {{bug|37344}} GUI Octave freezes when plotting is used with OpenBLAS
* Owner:??? {{bug|37205}} running JIT tests with valgrind: possible memory issues and segfault
* Owner:??? {{bug|37205}} running JIT tests with valgrind: possible memory issues and segfault
* Owner:??? {{bug|36067}} bug in exist() when checking for a faulty mex/oct file
* Owner:??? {{bug|36067}} bug in exist() when checking for a faulty mex/oct file
 
* <strike> Owner:rik {{bug|35687}} crash with axes("position", []) </strike>
[[Category:Releases]]
* Owner:??? {{bug|33296}} calling "keyboard" function through "builtin" function appears to enter in an infinite loop
* <strike> Owner:mtm {{bug|32176}} infinite loop if PS1 contains deleted current directory </strike>
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