MATLAB-Versions.md

@@ -2,6 +2,32 @@ 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](https://fr.mathworks.com/help/matlab/release-notes.html).
 
+# MATLAB 24.1 (R2024a)
+
+- Local functions can now be defined anywhere in scripts
+- Packages (“+” folders) are now called “namespaces” (this is only a change in
+  terminology, not in functionality)
+- New `createArray` function for generating arrays of specified class and size
+- New `islocalmin2` and `islocalmax2` for finding local extrema in 2 dimensions
+- New `clip` function for clipping values to a specific range
+- New `Weights` parameter to the `mean` and `median` functions
+- The `iqr` function can now return the first and third quartiles of the input
+  data by using a 2nd output argument
+- New `openedFiles` function that returns the file identifiers of all open
+  files as a row vector
+- New `pagelsqminnorm` that calculate minimum-norm least-squares solutions to
+  systems of linear equations in N-D arrays
+- New `pagepinv` function that calculates Moore-Penrose pseudoinverses of pages
+  of N-D array
+- The `spdiags` function now supports implicit expansion for the diagonal
+  elements argument Bin. You can specify the diagonal elements as a matrix,
+  vector, or scalar, and the function expands the values if the argument is
+  specified as a vector or scalar.
+- New `fpolarplot` function for plotting mathematical expressions in polar
+  coordinates
+- The Python Interface now converts between MATLAB and Python dictionaries, and
+  between MATLAB tables and Python Pandas DataFrames
+
 # MATLAB 23.2 (R2023b)
 
 - New dictionary functions: `configureDictionary`, `lookup`, `insert`, `remove`