GNU Octave 4.0.0 Released

GNU Octave, which is ahigh-level programming language for numerical computations that is largelycompatible with MATLAB, has made its 4.0 release. There are lots of newfeatures in this major release, which are described in the release notes.Some of those features include defaulting to the graphical user interfaceinstead of the command-line interface, OpenGL graphics and Qt widgets bydefault, a new syntax for object-oriented programming usingclassdef, audio functions, better MATLAB compatibility, and more.