Editing Bug Fix List - 5.0 Release

The following bugs must be fixed prior to the next release.  See also the [[5.0.0 Release Checklist]].

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== Bugs marked as Crash ==

* Owner: ??? {{bug|55647}} crash, hang, error or corrupted output when printing some demos to EPS

* WON'T FIX <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|55630}} macOS GUI freezes on launch </strike>

* WON'T FIX <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|55547}} libstdc++ assertion failure when built with -D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS=1 </strike>

* WON'T FIX <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|55523}} segfault when default argument of anonymous/nested function is the same name as argument </strike>

* WON'T FIX <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|55492}} "make check" crashes with jit (llvm 4.0.1) </strike>

* WON'T FIX <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|55469}} JIT crash related to use of ranges and complex numbers </strike>

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|55432}} clang w/ ASAN: stack-use-after-scope (starting octave) </strike>

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|55397}} test imwrite error with address sanitizer </strike>

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|55375}} [MXE Octave] crash after plot </strike>

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|55287}} Memory leak in graphics subsystem </strike>

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|55258}} Recursion in a script file causes a segmentation fault </strike>

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|55254}} clear all crashes when variable from oct file class is displayed in workspace </strike>

* <strike>Owner: ??? {{bug|55139}} m-editor locale failure caused crash</strike>

* Owner: ??? {{bug|55053}} GUI hanging when editing and saving function file during debugging

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|55047}} Running the test suite causes Octave to segfault on Windows </strike>

* <strike>Owner: ??? {{bug|55028}} plots executed from script containing many plots seg fault</strike>

* Owner: ??? {{bug|54708}} Segfault closing plot fig on precompiled octave on Mojave

* Owner: ??? {{bug|54507}} Segfault in QT5 when resizing window during initialization

* Owner: ??? {{bug|54431}} GUI crashes on workspace refresh while executing script

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|54187}} fail to close a busy figure and crash octave </strike>

* WON'T FIX <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|54169}} Plotting with graphics toolkit fltk crashes on Mac with GUI </strike>

* Owner: ??? {{bug|53858}} Octave crashes when expanding an array of a sub-structure viewed by Variable Editor

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|53802}} octave deadlocks with deletefcn callback that calls graphical function </strike>

* Owner: ??? {{bug|53733}} Panic/segfault when calling Java method after forge:im[read|write]

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|53342}} Figure property IntegerHandle does not work fully with Qt toolkit </strike>

* Owner: ??? {{bug|53207}} crash when Octave starts on Windows after removing external 4K display

* Owner: ??? {{bug|53115}} "octave exited with signal 6" on attempt to stop debugging

* Owner: ??? {{bug|53054}} Variable Editor: crash when trying to edit specific empty struct cells

* Owner: ??? {{bug|52996}} calling audiodevinfo() results in a segfault on exit when JACK sound server is running

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|52274}} Segfault when calling previously used oct-file from deleted directory </strike>

* Owner: ??? {{bug|52123}} Indirect memory leak in cdef_manager::initialize ()

* WON'T FIX <strike>Owner: ??? {{bug|51950}} sparse qr may return a malformed sparse matrix R with out of bounds entries </strike>

* Owner: ??? {{bug|50974}} SEGFAULT with constructed cmdline_options

* Owner: ??? {{bug|50430}} plot function causes crash/termination of Octave (Windows)

* Owner: ??? {{bug|50025}} Octave window freezes when I quit Octave GUI

* Owner: ??? {{bug|49758}} octave-cli crashes when closing fullscreen plot

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|49736}} GUI: Crash when attempting to use the editor after too many files are opened </strike>

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|49702}} CTRL+C crashes Octave CLI in Homebrew </strike>

* Owner: ??? {{bug|49109}} child process started by fork crashes or hangs with octave-gui

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|48709}} GUI Command prompt showing no text </strike>

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|48519}} Segfault with Qt plotting when running demos </strike>

* Owner: ??? {{bug|47958}} GUI freezes when starting debug with a partly drawn Qt figure

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|47445}} Setting colors for too many plots causes Segmentation violation </strike>

* Owner: ??? {{bug|54170}} java.lang.String.toCharArray result incorrect conversion to char matrix

== Bugs marked Configuration and Build System ==

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|55545}} [MXE Octave] Update mesa to 18.2.8 </strike>

* Owner: ??? {{bug|55538}} logspace BIST tests fail when Octave built with LLVM libc++

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|55447}} mkoctfile: wrong LFLAGS warning, resets LDFLAGS </strike>

* WON'T FIX <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|55371}} Add configure flag to specify makeinfo path </strike>

* WON'T FIX <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|55363}} Global variable in a MEX file </strike>

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|55307}} qthelp-installdir error on cygwin </strike>

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|55281}} [MXE Octave] Cannot strip script files </strike>

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|55273}} mkfifo returns "Function not implemented" error </strike>

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|55262}} [MXE Octave] could not build stable Octave </strike>

* Owner: ??? {{bug|55187}} build: fails to work with Qt 5.12, qcollectiongenerator no longer exists

* <strike> Owner: Ben {{bug|55033}} mkoctfile link failure on macos </strike>

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|54939}} Getting error while performing installation of octave 4.4.1 in linux </strike>

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|54216}} Additional items for .hgignore </strike>

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|53627}} build: oct files should not need to link with -loctinterp -loctave </strike>

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|53153}} MXE octave crash after introduction of QOpenGLWidget </strike>

* Owner: ??? {{bug|53099}} mkoctfile confused by unknown options followed by source file arguments

* Owner: ??? {{bug|53070}} Empty search path when starting Octave from TCC/LE (alternative Windows command prompt)

* Owner: ??? {{bug|52369}} proxy settings do not work at Windows 10

* Owner: ??? {{bug|51684}} Request for Windows Portable zip version without absolute paths & system hooks

* WON'T FIX <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|50266}} [mxe-octave] incremental builds fail and require "make clean" </strike>

* Owner: ??? {{bug|49707}} Windows 10 won't associate .m files with Octave after re-install

* WON'T FIX <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|49653}} Build failure with ImageMagick </strike>

* Owner: ??? {{bug|49503}} [mxe-octave] cross-building packages with configure script calling octave itself have issues

* WON'T FIX <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|48710}} normalize core and package architecture-dependent installation directories </strike>

* <strike> Owner: rik {{bug|48678}} mkoctfile returns linker flags on LFLAGS instead of LDFLAGS </strike>

* Owner: ??? {{bug|45188}} MXE: problems installing same version number of Octave into different directories

== Bugs marked as Build Failure ==

* Owner: ??? {{bug|55641}} mxe-octave: build error of-general w. Octave-6.0.0

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|55613}} Build failure with bison 3.3.1 </strike>

* Owner: ??? {{bug|55608}} [MXE Octave] lib vs lib64

* WON'T FIX <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|55367}} Linking fails on cygwin </strike>

* WON'T FIX <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|55282}} QT_CPPFLAGS and QT_LDFLAGS command-line / environment vars ignored by configure </strike>

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|55277}} some public Octave header files are missing type includes or forward decls </strike>

* Owner: ??? {{bug|55268}} macos: images fail to build for docs

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|54939}} Getting error while performing installation of octave 4.4.1 in linux </strike>

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|53889}} dev fails to compile with Qt 4.6.2 </strike>

* WON'T FIX <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|53430}} Octave user manual is not installed at all on systems with older Texinfo </strike>

* WON'T FIX <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|52414}} llvm 4.0.1 fails on ./configure --enable-jit </strike>

* WON'T FIX <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|49653}} Build failure with ImageMagick </strike>

* Owner: ??? {{bug|49503}} [mxe-octave] cross-building packages with configure script calling octave itself have issues

* Owner: ??? {{bug|47405}} pkg update errors out of one package sees dependency error

* WON'T FIX <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|45578}} build libgnu using non-recursive automake rules </strike>

* Owner: ??? {{bug|45188}} MXE: problems installing same version number of Octave into different directories

* WON'T FIX <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|45082}} [mxe-octave] Windows native build fails at gmp </strike>

* WON'T FIX <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|41061}} building with --enable-jit with libllvm 3.5 fails to compile </strike>

== Bugs with severity >= 4 ==

* Owner: ??? {{bug|55501}} subsequent calls to "help @sym/beta" gives "help beta" text

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|55347}} PVS studio static analysis report </strike>

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|55266}} deprecation warning about octave::eval_string just for including parse.h </strike>

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|54920}} AutoScale in xscale = log mode may lead to an unexpected error </strike>

* WON'T FIX <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|54028}} copy of non-handle class instance is not deep </strike>

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|53506}} qp uses fix tolerance: ignores sqp tolerance argument </strike>

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|52823}} Review files which lack GPL license header </strike>

* WON'T FIX <strike> * Owner: ??? {{bug|51779}} bsxfun unit tests occasionally fail on certain random inputs </strike>

* WON'T FIX <strike> * Owner: ??? {{bug|51709}} Creating function handle to static methods </strike>

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|43571}} 'pkg build ...' with dependencies </strike>

* WON'T FIX <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|42118}} COW memory issues when extracting small slices from large arrays </strike>

* WON'T FIX <strike> Owner: jwe {{bug|39257}} handles to nested functions are not yet supported </strike>

== Bugs marked as regressions ==

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|55648}} [MXE-Octave] cannot print with gnuplot graphics toolkit </strike>

* Owner: ??? {{bug|55622}} for loop does not run over a matrix with colums but no row

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|55529}} [MXE Octave] running compare_plot_demos ("toolkits", "qt") hangs Octave </strike>

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|55528}} [MXE-Octave] graphics_toolkit gnuplot does not work </strike>

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|55501}} subsequent calls to "help @sym/beta" gives "help beta" text </strike>

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|55485}} Printing rotated text only works for 90 degree increments with qt toolkit (regression) </strike>

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|55484}} Dashed line printing is too small with qt toolkit (regression) </strike>

* Owner: ??? {{bug|55437}} Files in editor are reported as modified while heavily parsing date strings with datenum()

* WON'T FIX <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|55418}} Speed issue with uicontrols </strike>

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|55381}} mkoctfile --link-stand-alone no longer links with liboctinterp </strike>

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|55368}} warning: popupmenu value not within valid display range </strike>

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|55349}} Building with --enable-jit fails with LLVM 3.8.x </strike>

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|55329}} history_timestamp_format_string is not initialized anymore </strike>

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|55328}} loglog plots have clipped exponents for labels of x and y axes </strike>

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|55273}} mkfifo returns "Function not implemented" error </strike>

* WON'T FIX <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|55195}} "help" for core functions contains odd symbols for non-ASCII characters </strike>

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|55133}} Sidebar File Browser Not Rendered Correctly </strike>

* Owner: ??? {{bug|55029}} pause causes hang

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|54995}} Removal of called_from_builtin </strike>

* Owner: ??? {{bug|54953}} Possible to create uncloseable figures when using --no-gui-libs option

* WON'T FIX <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|54832}} __run_test_suite__ fails with nested directories </strike>
 
* Owner: ??? {{bug|54789}} 'keyboard' in function inside script file no longer gives debugging console

* Owner: ??? {{bug|54554}} When plotting large arrays, some graphic elements are not visible (llvmpipe Windows)

* Owner: ??? {{bug|54444}} Octave-4.4.X CLI doesn't terminate at sigterm until <ENTER> pressed at prompt

* WON'T FIX <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|54342}} rand() produces different results on octave 4.4.0 compared to earlier versions </strike>

* WON'T FIX <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|54028}} copy of non-handle class instance is not deep </strike>

* Owner: ??? {{bug|53683}} numerical output format for float values with magnitude greater than precision is wrong

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|53468}} Octave 4.3.0+ can't load figures saved with previous versions </strike> 

* Owner: ??? {{bug|53456}} output_precision: Cannot set precision higher than 16
	
* Owner: ??? {{bug|53283}} Variable Editor: floated variable panels disappear with loss of V.E. focus

* Owner: ??? {{bug|53189}} Truncated initial message in Command Window on Windows

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|53153}} MXE octave crash after introduction of QOpenGLWidget </strike>

* Owner: ??? {{bug|53099}} mkoctfile confused by unknown options followed by source file arguments

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|53091}} [MXE-Octave] new warning from gnuplot </strike>

* WON'T FIX <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|52851}} parse error at command line or in scripts "duplicate subfunction or nested function name" </strike>

* Owner: ??? {{bug|52840}} GUI hangs on use of uigetfile/uiputfile

* WON'T FIX <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|52765}} FreeSans default font is non portable in svg printout </strike>

* <strike> Owner: ??? {{bug|49612}} QT: uicontrol checkboxes and radiobuttons have wrong sizes </strike>

== Other Bugs ==

== Potentially excluded bugs ==
These bugs have been provisionally decided not to be blockers for 5.0.0.  That doesn't mean they can't be fixed, if someone wants to fix them.