This page lists changes introduced in MATLAB versions that are the most relevant to Dynare development. This information mostly comes from the MATLAB Release Notes.

MATLAB 9.10 (R2021a)

• New name=value syntax for passing name-value arguments
• format function can now get and set display format
• fillmissing function now accepts a custom method
• normalize is now able to normalize multiple data sets with same parameters
• XML support in readtable, readtimetable, writetable, writetimetable, detectImportOptions
• Read over HTTP or HTTPS support for readtable, readtimetable, readvars, readstruct, readmatrix, readcell, readlines, detectImportOptions and others
• New PrettyPrint option to jsonencode for adding indentation

MATLAB 9.9 (R2020b)

• New pattern and extract functions for string manipulation
• New mustBe* functions for input validation
• New height and width functions
• New readstruct and writestruct functions for reading/writing structured data in XML files
• New readlines function to read a whole text file as a string array
• New pagemtimes function for batch matrix multiplication
• New svdsketch function for computing SVD factors of low-rank matrix sketch
• C Matrix API mxCreateString function now accepts UTF-8 encoded data
• C MEX API mexPrintf, mexEvalString, mexEvalStringWithTrap, mexErrMsgIdAndTxt and mexWarnMsgIdAndTxt functions now accept UTF-8 encoded data

MATLAB 9.8 (R2020a)

• Support for sparse complex arrays

MATLAB 9.7 (R2019b)

MATLAB 9.6 (R2019a)

MATLAB 9.5 (R2018b)

MATLAB 9.4 (R2018a)

• New interleaved complex ABI for MEX files
• New C++ MEX interface
• readwrite and writetable are now able to manipulate Excel files on Windows without launching Microsoft Excel
• New normalize function

MATLAB 9.3 (R2017b)

• New isfile function

MATLAB 9.2 (R2017a)

• String arrays can now be constructed using double quotes

MATLAB 9.1 (R2016b)

• Adds “automatic broadcasting”, also known as “implicit expansion” (bsxfun becomes therefore essentially useless)
• New contains function
• New splitlines function
• New jsondecode and jsonencode functions
• Introduces string arrays (with function string)
• New fillmissing function

MATLAB 9.0 (R2016a)

• No more 32-bit support
• writetable is now able to write Excel files on GNU/Linux and macOS

MATLAB 8.6 (R2015b)

MATLAB 8.5 (R2015a)

• New webwrite function
• First version to officially support Windows 10, see https://fr.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/223444-is-matlab-compatible-with-windows-10
• The mean function now accepts the omitnan option

MATLAB 8.4 (R2014b)

• New webread function

MATLAB 8.3 (R2014a)

• Support for new Ethernet interface naming under GNU/Linux (older versions are difficult to install on modern GNU/Linux systems), see https://fr.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/73938-activating-on-linux-without-eth0
• New isdiag, isbanded, issymmetric, ishermitian, istril, istriu, and bandwidth functions for testing matrix structure
• New sylvester function for solving the Sylvester equation

MATLAB 8.2 (R2013b)

• New readtable and writetable function (the latter not yet capable of writing Excel files on GNU/Linux and macOS, and needing Microsoft Excel installed on Windows)

MATLAB 8.1 (R2013a)

• New option stable to intersect and other set manipulation functions
• New strsplit and strjoin functions

MATLAB 8.0 (R2012b)

• Syntax for abstract classes

MATLAB 7.14 (R2012a)

• xlsread now natively supports .xlsx files on all platforms (no need to have Microsoft Office installed)

MATLAB 7.13 (R2011b)

• New narginchk function

MATLAB 7.12 (R2011a)

• New random number generators interface (rng, getGlobalStream and setGlobalStream functions)
• New ichol function

MATLAB 7.11 (R2010b)

• New isrow, iscolumn and ismatrix functions

MATLAB 7.10 (R2010a)

• Ships with MKL 10.2, which fixes a nasty bug in dgges (for which a workaround has been implemented in the mjdgges MEX)