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


* <strike>Owner: jwe {{bug|48574}} With GCC 6.x, an error in an onCleanup function causes Octave to crash</strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|45366}} Two objects not cleaning dynamically allocated widgets leading to crash at exit -- patch supplied


* <strike>Owner: ??? {{bug|45366}} Two objects not cleaning dynamically allocated widgets leading to crash at exit -- patch supplied</strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|47837}} Segmentation fault with missing warning state "all" -- patch supplied


* <strike>Owner: ??? {{bug|47837}} Segmentation fault with missing warning state "all"</strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|47927}} Ctrl+C crashes Octave on MacOS


* Owner: ??? {{bug|47927}} Ctrl+C crashes Octave on MacOS
* Owner: ??? {{bug|44470}} Pause does not detect Ctrl+C keystroke in Windows GUI


* Owner: ??? {{bug|47914}} segfault with OpenGL patches and address sanitizer
* Owner: ??? {{bug|47914}} segfault with OpenGL patches and address sanitizer


* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|47650}} octave crashed while plotting many functions </strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|47650}} octave crashed while plotting many functions


* <strike> {{bug|46501}} Crash running uimenu code under Qt </strike>
* Owner: Lachlan (review needed) {{bug|46501}} Crash running uimenu code under Qt


* Owner: ??? {{bug|46349}} dblquad/triplequad - periodic functions over the whole period [hang, not crash]
* Owner: ??? {{bug|46349}} dblquad/triplequad - periodic functions over the whole period [hang, not crash]


* <strike> {{bug|46315}} Assertion Failed - profiler crash on every 2nd time execution halts </strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|46315}} Assertion Failed - profiler crash on every 2nd time execution halts


* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|45863}} Octave crashes when clicking on polar plot using OpenGL </strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|45863}} Octave crashes when clicking on polar plot using OpenGL


* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|45577}}  Solving systems using complex NaN causes crash </strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|44823}} Segfault when using HD Graphics 6000 on Fedora 21 [maybe...]
 
* WON'T FIX <strike>Owner: ??? {{bug|44823}} Segfault when using HD Graphics 6000 on Fedora 21</strike>


=== Windows ===
=== Windows ===


* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|39000}} Can't override BLAS XERBLA handler on Windows </strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|39000}} Can't override BLAS XERBLA handler on Windows


* Owner: ??? {{bug|44470}} Pause does not detect Ctrl+C keystroke in Windows GUI
* Owner: ??? {{bug|47840}} exec segfaults on Windows


* Owner: ??? {{bug|45860}} Many stacked uipanels crashes the qt gui in Windows 8
* Owner: ??? {{bug|45860}} Many stacked uipanels crashes the qt gui in Windows 8


* WON'T FIX <strike>Owner: ??? {{bug|47840}} exec segfaults on Windows</strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|46476}} Octave 4.0.0 crashes on plot


* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|46476}} Octave 4.0.0 crashes on plot </strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|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.)


* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|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.) </strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|47445}} Settng colours for too many plots causes Segmentation violation (Anyone with Win 8 to reproduce this?  If not, skip it.)


* WON'T FIX <strike>Owner: ??? {{bug|47445}} Settng colours for too many plots causes Segmentation violation (Anyone with Win 8 to reproduce this?  If not, skip it.)</strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|45634}} Octave 4.0.0 GUI crashes on first-time use


* <strike>Owner: ??? {{bug|45634}} Octave 4.0.0 GUI crashes on first-time use</strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|45604}} Windows XP Octave 4.0.0 plot crashes


* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|45604}} Windows XP Octave 4.0.0 plot crashes </strike>
=== Other bugs marked as crash in Savannah ===
* Owner: ??? {{bug|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


== Bugs marked Configuration and Build System ==
* Owner: ??? {{bug|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: ??? {{bug|48380}} Binary versions of several Octave-Forge packages fail to build with MXE
* Owner: ??? {{bug|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: ??? {{bug|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: ??? {{bug|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: ??? {{bug|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: ??? {{bug|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: ??? {{bug|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: ??? {{bug|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: ??? {{bug|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: ??? {{bug|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: ??? {{bug|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: ??? {{bug|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: ??? {{bug|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: ??? {{bug|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: ??? {{bug|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


* NEED INFO {{bug|41574}} Current build approach causes mkoctfile to link to too many libraries on the Mac -- patch posted
== Bugs marked Configuration and Build System ==


* Owner: ??? {{bug|44979}} check for osmesa is done at runtime and not configure -- Someone should check if this is easy
* Owner: ??? {{bug|47971}} "make clean; make" fails on missing oct-conf-post.h


* <strike> Owner: jwe {{bug|48139}} New warnings about deprecated functions when building liboctave -- minor but should be easy to fix </strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|47576}} mxe-octave: octave-4.0.1-installer.exe (32bit) does not install on Windows 10 -- ready for test


* <strike>Owner: ??? {{bug|45399}} build failure with multiple flex source files using gcc Link Time Optimization (LTO) -- patch submitted. Marked "minor", but easy fix. </strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|41574}} Current build approach causes mkoctfile to link to too many libraries on the Mac -- patch posted


* <strike>Owner: ??? {{bug|47971}} "make clean; make" fails on missing oct-conf-post.h</strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|47858}} Building with hdf5-1.10 fails due to changed variable type -- patch posted


* <strike>Owner: ??? {{bug|47576}} mxe-octave: octave-4.0.1-installer.exe (32bit) does not install on Windows 10 -- ready for test </strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|48319}} Development source build failure related to LONG_DOUBLE_ROUNDING in oct-inttypes.cc


* <strike>Owner: ??? {{bug|47858}} Building with hdf5-1.10 fails due to changed variable type -- patch posted</strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|48319}} long double declaration error in i386 architecture (?)


* <strike>Owner: JWE {{bug|48319}} Development source build failure related to LONG_DOUBLE_ROUNDING in oct-inttypes.cc</strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|46063}} Build system re-makes certain files 2 or even 3 times


* <strike>Owner: ??? {{bug|46063}} Build system re-makes certain files 2 or even 3 times</strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|46758}} mxe-octave: octave-logo.ico is cropped not scaled due to rsvg-convert bug


* WON'T FIX <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|46758}} mxe-octave: octave-logo.ico is cropped not scaled due to rsvg-convert bug </strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|45646}} files in source distribution should not be deleted on "clean" or "distclean" -- is marked as "minor", but sounds important for a release


* <strike>Owner: ??? {{bug|45646}} files in source distribution should not be deleted on "clean" or "distclean" -- is marked as "minor", but sounds important for a release</strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|44979}} check for osmesa is done at runtime and not configure -- Someone should check if this is easy
 
* <strike>Owner: ??? {{bug|47617}} mxe-octave: instrument-control package not installed correctly in official release -- this looks simple; is it?</strike>
 
* <strike>Owner: ??? {{bug|48340}} parallel package fails to build with dev octave</strike>


== Bugs with severity >= 4 ==
* Owner: ??? {{bug|48139}} New warnings about deprecated functions when building liboctave -- minor but should be easy to fix
* POSTPONED <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|44916}} --softwareopengl option for performance </strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|37672}} CTRL+C interrupt processing causes segfaults -- patch posted
* Owner: ??? {{bug|47400}} panic on Ctrl+c with multithreaded ATLAS or OpenBLAS -- patch posted
* <strike> {{bug|41567}} error in qr -- patch posted </strike>
* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|43098}} "if (array)" should raise a warning, and give the same result for dense and sparse -- patch posted </strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|47676}} Cannot apply computed assignment to a variable defined after the code was parsed (e.g., in a script) -- workaround patch posted
* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|39000}} Can't override BLAS XERBLA handler on Windows </strike>
* POSTPONED {{bug|42469}} GUI crashes on international character after autocompletion -- upstream scintilla bug.  Can we work around it?
* <strike> {{bug|44335}} Use consistent wording for "contribute" vs "donate" -- patch posted </strike>
* <strike> Owner: [[User:siko1056]] {{bug|46330}} segfault with matrices containing Inf & NaN -- patch posted </strike>
* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|47543}} segfault with warnings disabled in subfunction when all warnings disabled globally -- patch posted </strike>


== Bugs marked as regressions ==
* Owner: ??? {{bug|45399}} build failure with multiple flex source files using gcc Link Time Optimization (LTO) -- patch submitted. Marked "minor", but easy fix.
* owner (???) {{bug|41574}} Current build approach causes mkoctfile to link to too many libraries on the Mac -- patch posted


* owner (???) {{bug|44498}} isvector: Always returns true for objects from user defined classes -- patch submitted
* Owner: ??? {{bug|47617}} mxe-octave: instrument-control package not installed correctly in official release -- this looks simple; is it?


* owner (???) {{bug|47337}} [Windows] fltk toolkt: infinite loop "GL2PS warning: Unknown token in buffer" when printing -- infinite loop is almost as bad as a crash
=== Other bugs marked configuration and build system in Savannah ===
 
* <strike> owner (???) {{bug|47756}} [ode suit] integrate_adaptive fails with vertical tspan -- patch posted </strike>
 
* owner (???) {{bug|44152}} print("plot_file.pdf") generates warning message -- trivial fix
 
* owner (???) {{bug|36743}} Octave:language-extension warning warns about Octave's own files -- old bug, but the inability to warn of automatic broadcast is a regression.
 
* <strike>owner (???) {{bug|45507}} acos returns different results on big input values on gcc 4.8</strike>
 
* <strike>owner (???) {{bug|43559}} "hold on" causes "plot" to use incorrect series colouring -- patch posted</strike>
 
* <strike>owner (???) {{bug|46522}} clear all does not fix shadowed "help"</strike> -- (Three of us can no longer reproduce this.)
 
* <strike> owner (???) {{bug|48296}} demo hangs with subplot and pager -- patch posted </strike>
 
* <strike>owner (???) {{bug|47571}} Problem with umlaut in command line</strike> -- I think no code change is needed; just compiling Windows binary of 4.2.0 in a UTF-8 environment
 
* WONT'T FIX <strike> owner (???) {{bug|46645}} Can't load struct variables that use arbitrary fieldnames -- may be too hard </strike>
 
== Bugs marked GUI ==
 
== Bugs related to Windows OS ==
* Owner: ??? {{bug|42036}} Files and directories with non-ASCII characters not handled correctly on Windows
* Owner: ??? {{bug|43099}} utf-8 files: editor, command windows issues, workspace pane shows correctly
 
== Other Bugs with Patches ==
 
=== Patches reviewed by "non-committing" developers ===
* Reviewer: Lachlan {{bug|39014}} Wrong determinant for some (large) matrices
* Reviewer: Lachlan {{bug|32756}} Ignore unknown datatypes in HDF5 files but load remainder of file correctly
* Reviewer: Lachlan {{bug|45972}} Anonymous function handles with varargin are not correctly saved.
* <strike>Reviewer: Lachlan {{bug|37613}} Octave precision/accuracy is much lower for quadgk</strike>
* Reviewer: Lachlan {{bug|40904}} WHAT function should return all available results for MATLAB compatibility
 
=== Unreviewed patches that seem (to LA) worth reviewing ===
* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|46136}} error messages for stacks of anonymous functions not informative enough </strike>
* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|47756}} [ode suit] integrate_adaptive fails with vertical tspan -- One-line patch.  Who knows the ode suite? </strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|46008}} Help function fails to return help header for subfunctions and nested functions
* Owner: ??? {{bug|36646}} Statistics tests produce errors and warnings when var(sample) == 0  -- patch only fixes some functions, but better than none.
* Owner: ??? {{bug|46852}} smarter diagnostic message when a user variable shadows a function definition
* <strike> {{bug|46912}} qr not working as described && related {{bug|41567}} qr fails with two matrix inputs </strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|45969}} Inner scopes of nested anonymous function definitions are not saved.
* Owner: ??? {{bug|45903}} pkg rebuild -global fails if package directory does not exist
* Owner: ??? {{bug|42561}} gnuplot error on "demo trimesh"
* Owner: ??? {{bug|41742}} The rand function occasionally returns unexpected results.
* Owner: ??? {{bug|39036}} line(X, Y) draws no lines
* Owner: ??? {{bug|38483}} qp() fails with empty inequality constraints
* POSTPONED <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|46236}} GUI Workspace - use same column headings as Matlab '''Reviewed by: jwe''' </strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|47800}} gammainc(x,a,"upper") rounds down to zero if output is below eps
* Owner: ??? {{bug|42671}} [PATCH] corr() does not have p-values output, returns 1.0 with one observation.
 
=== Feature requests ===
 
* Owner: ??? {{bug|45497}} missing function: repelem && dependent patch {{bug|46385}} Can't Repmat Structure Arrays  -- The second bug could be fixed without the first, but the proposed patch uses repelem.
* Owner: Lachlan {{bug|41215}} Request for a "pkg test" feature && related {{bug|41298}} pkg install: automatically extract %!tests and install both extracted and fixed test files
* Owner: ??? {{bug|47824}} No Matlab-compatible corrcoef
* Owner: ??? {{bug|36372}} Improved ranks.m included
 
=== Lachlan's patches -- someone impartial can triage these :) ===
* <strike>Owner: ??? {{bug|46458}} tab completion does not work for the elements of a struct when that struct is a cell of a cell array</strike>
* <strike>Owner: ??? {{bug|48317}} tab autocomplete doesn't complete local functions</strike>
* <strike>Owner: ??? {{bug|47950}} glob and dir functions are unable to escape square bracket characters in Windows</strike>
* <strike>Owner: ??? {{bug|47414}} Folding editor text breaks cursor movement</strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|46859}} floating point error in range results in non-integer value -- patch warns of error, rather than fixing it.
* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|48315}} cov.m: Incorrect result </strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|46660}} object array writing into class member alters another class member
* <strike>Owner: ??? {{bug|48044}} Searching for markers does not wrap</strike>
* <strike>Owner: ??? {{bug|48292}} dbstop marker obscures bookmarks</strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|47173}} mtimes allows arguments with >= 3 dimensions -- a patch deep in core, so it needs careful review.
* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|39349}} funny output from help .' </strike>
* <strike> {{bug|46632}} Breakpoints and program counter arrow aren't cleared in some cases </strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|43925}} isscalar behaves incorrectly for some user-defined classes
* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|36015}} unexpected sqp error </strike>
 
=== Other bug reports tagged as "patch submitted"  ===
* Owner: ??? {{bug|40095}} Clearvar function not implemented (LA vote: unsure)
* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|44336}} warning ("error", "all") changes "matlab-compatible" warnings if there's an "all" status before </strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|32839}} pkg build/install does not work with directories
* Owner: ??? {{bug|32008}} sqp: Don't set upper/lower bound unless specified -- clarification requested
* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|44727}} editor: breakpoints are confused after file is changed -- will be fixed by patch for {{bug|46332}}. </strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|45542}} griddatan unable to perform 4-dimensional interpolation. -- diff requested
* Owner: ??? {{bug|44503}} 'set (gca, camera.......)' doesn't update 3D plots
 
== Other Bugs ==
 
 
 
== Potentially excluded bugs ==
These bugs have been provisionally decided not to be blockers for 4.2.0.  That doesn't mean they can't be fixed, if someone wants to fix them.
 
=== Bugs marked as Crash ===
 
=== Other bugs marked as crash in Savannah ===
* POSTPONED <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|47958}} GUI freezes when starting debug with a partly drawn Qt figure (LA vote: unsure) </strike>
* WON'T FIX <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|42118}} COW memory issues when extracting small slices from large arrays (LA vote: unsure) </strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|40044}} *** glibc detected *** gnuplot: double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x08d72878 *** (LA vote: not necessary)
* WON'T FIX <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|40608}} MinGW: crashes with JIT (LA vote: not necessary) </strike>
* POSTPONED <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|41213}} JIT segfaults on non-x86 processors (LA vote: not necessary) </strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|42429}} @ftp/dir crashes Octave (LA vote: not necessary)
* Owner: ??? {{bug|44478}} test __osmesa_print__.cc-tst crashes with Nvidia drivers (LA vote: not necessary)
* POSTPONED <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|46192}} JIT compiler fails in jit.tst and aborts Octave (LA vote: not necessary) </strike>
* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|46926}} saveas() crashes Octave  (LA vote: not necessary) </strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|47620}} segfault when using eval and anoymous function (LA vote: not necessary)
* WON'T FIX <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|47827}} "Ctrl+1" shortcut crashes the GUI (LA vote: not necessary) </strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|48078}} signal package: crash in remez with close frequency band values + differentiator (LA vote: not necessary)
* WON'T FIX <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|48219}} Crash at end of execution of openEMS script (LA vote: not necessary) </strike>
* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|48284}} Can't make the graphics work on new installation </strike>
* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|48323}} interval package: segmentation fault in qr function (LA vote: not necessary) </strike>
* POSTPONED <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|41652}} Octave builds but crashes when trying to use gcj for java support (LA vote: not necessary) </strike>
 
=== Bugs marked configuration and build system in Savannah ===


'''The following three bugs are minor, but closely related and two go back to 2012'''
'''The following three bugs are minor, but closely related and two go back to 2012'''
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* Owner: ??? {{bug|36477}} use XDG dirs instead of HOME (LA vote: not necessary, but desirable)
* Owner: ??? {{bug|36477}} use XDG dirs instead of HOME (LA vote: not necessary, but desirable)
* Owner: ??? {{bug|40444}} On Windows, config & history files etc. should go to %APPDATA% (LA vote: not necessary, but desirable)
* Owner: ??? {{bug|40444}} On Windows, config & history files etc. should go to %APPDATA% (LA vote: not necessary, but desirable)
* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|47886}} Do not link against libraries without OpenGL (LA vote: unsure) </strike>
 
* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|41027}} config.h is too generic (LA vote: up to JWE) </strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|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: ??? {{bug|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: ??? {{bug|38776}} Tests in private functions cannot be tested directly (LA vote: unnecessary)
* Owner: ??? {{bug|38776}} Tests in private functions cannot be tested directly (LA vote: unnecessary)
3 - Normal None None
philipnienhuis
* Owner: ??? {{bug|41298}} pkg install: automatically extract %!tests and install both extracted and fixed test files (LA vote: unnecessary; useful for development, not release)
* Owner: ??? {{bug|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: ??? {{bug|43298}} llvm libc++ 3.5 fails to resolve the pow(octave_int<int>, octave_Int<int>) function overload (LA vote: unnecessary; old compiler)
* Owner: ??? {{bug|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: ??? {{bug|43908}} Some OF packages won't install with 64-bit indexing Octave (unnecessary -- bugs are in Forge, not core)
* Owner: ??? {{bug|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: ??? {{bug|45082}} mxe native build fails at gmp (LA vote: unnecessary)
* Owner: ??? {{bug|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: ??? {{bug|45188}} MXE: problems installing different Octave versions side by side (LA vote: unnecessary)
* Owner: ??? {{bug|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: ??? {{bug|45578}} build failure due to no dependency on libgnu (LA vote: unnecessary)
* Owner: ??? {{bug|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: ??? {{bug|45644}} Build system distributes .cc files in include/octave directory (LA vote: relevant to release, but low priority)
* Owner: ??? {{bug|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: ??? {{bug|46863}} mxe-octave: build_packages.m not up to date (LA vote: not necessary)
* Owner: ??? {{bug|46863}} mxe-octave: build_packages.m not up to date (LA vote: not necessary)
* <strike>Owner: ??? {{bug|47817}} mxe-octave: error while building documentation of dev Octave (not necessary, as docs are pre-built)</strike>
3 - Normal Need Info None None Sun 10 Jan 2016 03:36:38 AM GMT
* <strike>Owner: ??? {{bug|48172}} doc build fails with texi2dvi/texi2pdf errors on Ubuntu 14.04 (not necessary, as docs are pre-built) </strike>
 
* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|39446}} MXE-Octave: LAPACK build mixes MinGW and MSVC (LA vote: not necessary) </strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|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: ??? {{bug|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: ??? {{bug|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: ??? {{bug|40111}} Support runtime selection of Java version on Linux and Unix systems (LA vote: not necessary)
* Owner: ??? {{bug|40111}} Support runtime selection of Java version on Linux and Unix systems (LA vote: not necessary)
* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|40252}} Make GUI compatible with both Qt4 and Qt5 (LA vote: not necessary) </strike>
2 - Minor None
jwe
mtmiller
Thu 26 Sep 2013 01:07:40 PM GMT
* Owner: ??? {{bug|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: ??? {{bug|41652}} Octave builds but crashes when trying to use gcj for java support (LA vote: not necessary)
* Owner: ??? {{bug|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: ??? {{bug|44359}} Save and restore user FFLAGS, add additional options to AM_FFLAGS (LA vote: not necessary)
* Owner: ??? {{bug|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: ??? {{bug|34301}} Can't compile oct files using gcc -fvisibility=hidden option (LA vote: not necessary)
* Owner: ??? {{bug|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: ??? {{bug|41061}} building with --enable-jit with libllvm 3.5 fails to compile (LA vote: not necessary)
* Owner: ??? {{bug|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: ??? {{bug|43343}} Associate .m files to open in Octave editor in macOS (LA vote: not necessary)
* Owner: ??? {{bug|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: ??? {{bug|47831}} mercurial build writes files to source tree doc/{interpreter,liboctave} (LA vote: not necessary)
* Owner: ??? {{bug|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: ??? {{bug|44916}} Printing Qt-drawn figures produces faulty files
* Owner: ??? {{bug|37672}} CTRL+C interrupt processing causes segfaults
* Owner: ??? {{bug|47400}} panic on Ctrl+c with multithreaded ATLAS or OpenBLAS
* Owner: ??? {{bug|41567}} error in qr -- patch posted
* Owner: ??? {{bug|43098}} "if (array)" should raise a warning, and give the same result for dense and sparse -- patch posted
* Owner: ??? {{bug|47676}} Cannot apply computed assignment to a variable defined after the code was parsed (e.g., in a script) -- workaround patch posted
* Owner: ??? {{bug|39000}} Can't override BLAS XERBLA handler on Windows
* Owner: ??? {{bug|42469}} GUI crashes on international character after autocompletion -- upstream scintilla bug.  Can we work around it?
* Owner: ??? {{bug|44335}} Use consistent wording for "contribute" vs "donate" -- patch posted
* Owner: ??? {{bug|46330}} segfault with matrices containing Inf & NaN -- patch posted
* Owner: ??? {{bug|47543}} segfault with warnings disabled in subfunction when all warnings disabled globally -- patch posted
== Bugs marked as regressions ==
* owner (???) {{bug|41574}} Current build approach causes mkoctfile to link to too many libraries on the Mac -- patch posted
* owner (???) {{bug|44498}} isvector: Always returns true for objects from user defined classes
* owner (???) {{bug|45507}} acos returns different results on big input values on gcc 4.8 -- just need to replace "test" by "xtest"
* owner (???) {{bug|43559}} "hold on" causes "plot" to use incorrect series colouring -- patch posted
* owner (???) {{bug|46522}} clear all does not fix shadowed "help" -- (works for me -- LA)
* owner (???) {{bug|47337}} [Windows] fltk toolkt: infinite loop "GL2PS warning: Unknown token in buffer" when printing -- infinite loop is almost as bad as a crash
* owner (???) {{bug|48296}} demo hangs with subplot and pager -- patch posted
* owner (???) {{bug|47756}} [ode suit] integrate_adaptive fails with vertical tspan -- patch posted


=== Bugs marked as regression in Savannah ===
* owner (???) {{bug|44152}} print("plot_file.pdf") generates warning message -- trivial fix
 
* <strike>owner (???) {{bug|47571}} Problem with umlaut in command line</strike> -- I think no code change is needed; just compiling Windows binary of 4.2.0 in a UTF-8 environment
 
* owner (???) {{bug|46645}} Can't load struct variables that use arbitrary fieldnames -- may be too hard
 
=== Other bugs marked as regression in Savannah ===
* owner (???) {{bug|46047}} Large number of axes ticks for big logarithmic plots (LA vote: unsure)
* owner (???) {{bug|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 (???) {{bug|43585}} rectangle wrong axis calculation (LA vote: unsure)
* owner (???) {{bug|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 (???) {{bug|38236}} invoking script in demo block to define variables causes errors (LA vote: not necessary)
* owner (???) {{bug|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 (???) {{bug|40333}} print with legend modifies axis position (LA vote: not necessary -- didn't block 4.0)
* owner (???) {{bug|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 (???) {{bug|44245}} need configurable warning when sprintf format contains integer code, but value is real number (LA vote: not necessary)
* owner (???) {{bug|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 (???) {{bug|44829}} Multiple legends not working anymore with plotyy (LA vote: not necessary)
* owner (???) {{bug|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 (???) {{bug|45494}} A recent change has broken hist (randn (10000, 1), 30); (LA vote: not necessary)
* owner (???) {{bug|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 (???) {{bug|45710}} grid minor and axis tight fail to plot all minor grid lines (LA vote: not necessary)
* owner (???) {{bug|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 (???) {{bug|45823}} Empty plot after figure command (FLTK only) (LA vote: not necessary)
* owner (???) {{bug|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 (???) {{bug|46011}} Can't warn of automatic broadcasting without triggering {{bug|36743}} (LA vote: not necessary)
* owner (???) {{bug|46011}} Can't warn of automatic broadcasting without triggering {{bug|36743}} (LA vote: not necessary)
* <strike>owner (???) {{bug|46496}} Problems with legend background and labels spacing</strike>
Interpreter 3 - Normal In Progress None
lachlan
Mon 21 Sep 2015 12:49:59 AM GMT
* owner (???) {{bug|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 (???) {{bug|46516}} Qt plotting, plot overlay ignores plot order -- Windows only (LA vote: not necessary)
* owner (???) {{bug|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 (???) {{bug|47415}} out of memory negating a permutation matrix (LA vote: not necessary)
* owner (???) {{bug|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 (???) {{bug|47755}} Access to object arrays (LA vote: not necessary -- not sure it is a regression)
* owner (???) {{bug|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 (???) {{bug|44934}} classdef parser prints extra newline when failing to parse bad classdef file (LA vote: not necessary)
* owner (???) {{bug|44934}} classdef parser prints extra newline when failing to parse bad classdef file (LA vote: not necessary)
Interpreter 2 - Minor None None
rik5


=== Patch submitted ===
== Bugs marked GUI ==
* Owner: ??? {{bug|41028}} warning off shouldn't affect lastwarn -- (LA vote: not necessary)
* Owner: ??? {{bug|31626}} lsode: patch to make Jacobian types of dlsode.f accessible -- (LA vote: not necessary)
* Owner: ??? {{bug|48095}} GUI configuration files are undocumented (LA vote: not necessary)
* Owner: ??? {{bug|41428}} Add an &~ binary operator (LA vote: note necessary)
* Owner: ??? {{bug|47919}} Error messages for mismatched struct fields is not informative (LA vote: not necessary)
* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|41088}} add a splash screen (loading is non-instantaneous) (LA vote: not necessary) </strike>
* Owner: ??? {{bug|41818}} Fixed up "find" function with templates and fourth parameter (LA vote: not necessary)


== Patches from Savannah patch collection ==
== Bugs related to Windows OS ==
* Owner: ??? {{patch|9026}} Automatically close if, for, while etc.
* Owner: ??? {{bug|42036}} Files and directories with non-ASCII characters not handled correctly on Windows
* Owner: ??? {{patch|9023}} Tell user about misaligned if/end pairs when an end-related error occurs
* Owner: ??? {{bug|43099}} utf-8 files: editor, command windows issues, workspace pane shows correctly
* WON'T FIX <strike>Owner: ??? {{patch|9022}} Allow paging of some but not all commands</strike>
* <strike> Owner: ??? {{patch|8956}} F3 for "Find Next", shift+F3 for "Find Prev" </strike>
* Owner: ??? {{patch|8656}} Variable Editor (expanded from Patch {{patch|8316}})
* Owner: ??? {{patch|9011}} Tests for corefcn/sparse.cc
* Owner: ??? {{patch|8801}} add support for the histogram and histcounts functions -- useful as Matlab is deprecating hist


* Owner: ??? {{patch|8696}} Use unicode utf-8 rather than Symbol font for gnuplot when possible -- Check, because printing non-ASCII with gnuplot is a known bug
== Other Bugs ==
* Owner: ??? {{patch|8367}} Doxygen comments for input.h and cleanup of input.cc
* Owner: ??? {{patch|8303}} vectorized parcellfun and pararrayfun
* Owner: ??? {{patch|8913}} remove zlib from public API
* Owner: ??? {{patch|8491}} Make pkg handle and display (in textmode) package documentation in info format
* Owner: ??? {{patch|8640}} Comments for translators
* Owner: ??? {{patch|8073}} Remove redundant function calls in sqp
* Owner: ??? {{patch|8077}} Alter colloc to handle Laguerre polynomials (see Numerical, items 5,6 on Projects page)
* Owner: ??? {{patch|8607}} New module h5read to read/write HDF5 files
* Owner: Carlo {{patch|8979}} Add two functions to check and set ODE options
 
=== Matlab functions, by regular devs ===
* <strike>Owner: ??? {{patch|9048}} Matlab compatible publish function</strike>
* <strike> Owner: ??? {{patch|9014}} Add "camlight" function </strike>
* <strike> Owner: ??? {{patch|9013}} New function "material" </strike>
* <strike> Owner: ??? {{patch|9040}} Add function "lighting" </strike>
* <strike> Owner: ??? {{patch|8856}} add function reducevolume </strike>
* <strike> Owner: ??? {{patch|8872}} add isocaps </strike>
* <strike> Owner: ??? {{patch|8864}} add smooth3 </strike>
* Owner: ??? {{patch|7924}} Added two functions: locale() and setlocale()
* <strike> Owner: ??? {{patch|8912}} add function reducepatch </strike>
 
=== Matlab functions, needing major work ===
* Owner: ??? {{patch|8962}} Working version of expmv
* Owner: ??? {{patch|8541}} isdiag, istriu, istril, isbanded, and bandwidth functions
 
=== Other open patches from Savannah ===
* Owner: ??? {{patch|9027}} Allow evalin for arbitrary contexts
* Owner: ??? {{patch|9025}} Concise output of filenames
* Owner: ??? {{patch|9024}} Colour-coded output text
* Owner: ??? {{patch|9012}} Abbreviations as Location input for the legend() command -- patch requested.
* Owner: ??? {{patch|8988}} Adding to index.html of manual, installation/loading commands
* Owner: ??? {{patch|8986}} CDF plot implementation
* Owner: ??? {{patch|8974}} GSOC16 - Improve iterative methods for sparse linear systems
* <strike>Owner: ??? {{patch|8943}} object class "light" for lighting effects on patches and surfaces</strike>
* Owner: ??? {{patch|8824}} added affine2d class
* Owner: ??? {{patch|8722}} For image() and imagesc(), added value readout in status bar when mousing over a figure
* Owner: ??? {{patch|8693}} Reimplement operator * (const SparseMatrix& m, const SparseMatrix& a) to use SuiteSparse
* Owner: ??? {{patch|8690}} Alternative implementation of tcdf
* <strike>Owner: ??? {{patch|8526}} avoid conflict with gnu99 stdbool.h -- JWE is cleaning the API.  Is this worth it?</strike>
* Owner: ??? {{patch|8417}} Consolidate large conditional type decisions -- needs comments
* Owner: ??? {{patch|8314}} Patch to build system to use @rpath for Mac liboctave/libinterp
* Owner: ??? {{patch|8308}} Adds --minimal-dependencies flag to mkoctfile for more portable mex/oct files
* Owner: ??? {{patch|7976}} Make PPKG_ADD and PKG_DEL see both m-file and oct-file directories of a package (2nd post)


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