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From: =?UTF-8?q?S=C3=A9bastien=20Villemot?= <sebastien@dynare.org>
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2021 12:05:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Manual: update platform requirements
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– Windows 11 is supported
– macOS versions older than 11 are no longer supported
– Octave versions older than 6.2.0 are no longer supported
– do not claim compatibility with future (unknown) versions of MATLAB and Octave
---
 .../source/installation-and-configuration.rst   | 17 ++++++++---------
 windows/README.txt                              |  5 ++---
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/manual/source/installation-and-configuration.rst b/doc/manual/source/installation-and-configuration.rst
index 0de229401d..bb06d491be 100644
--- a/doc/manual/source/installation-and-configuration.rst
+++ b/doc/manual/source/installation-and-configuration.rst
@@ -7,18 +7,17 @@ Installation and configuration
 Software requirements
 =====================
 
-Packaged versions of Dynare are available for Windows (7, 8.1, 10), several GNU/Linux
-distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Arch Linux) and macOS
-10.11 or later. Dynare should work on other systems, but some compilation steps
-are necessary in that case.
+Packaged versions of Dynare are available for Windows (7, 8.1, 10 and 11),
+several GNU/Linux distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Arch Linux) and
+macOS (11). Dynare should work on other systems, but some compilation steps are
+necessary in that case.
 
 In order to run Dynare, you need one of the following:
 
-* MATLAB version 8.3 (R2014a) or above;
-* GNU Octave version 4.4 or above, with the statistics package from
-  `Octave-Forge`_. Note however that the Dynare installers for Windows and
-  macOS require a more specific version of Octave, as indicated on the download
-  page.
+* MATLAB, any version ranging from 8.3 (R2014a) to 9.11 (R2021b);
+* GNU Octave version 6.2.0 or 6.3.0, with the statistics package from
+  `Octave-Forge`_. Note however that the Dynare installer for Windows requires
+  a more specific version of Octave, as indicated on the download page.
 
 The following optional extensions are also useful to benefit from
 extra features, but are in no way required:
diff --git a/windows/README.txt b/windows/README.txt
index 5e51ac554d..33f3e7a76b 100644
--- a/windows/README.txt
+++ b/windows/README.txt
@@ -21,9 +21,8 @@ Note: Dynare comes with an automated uninstaller, which you can run from the
 Using Dynare with MATLAB®
 ─────────────────────────
 
-Dynare requires MATLAB® version 8.3 (R2014a) or above. With older versions of
-MATLAB®, it may fail or give unexpected results. Only 64-bit versions are
-supported.
+Dynare requires MATLAB®, any version ranging from 8.3 (R2014a) to 9.11
+(R2021b). Only 64-bit versions are supported.
 
 To use Dynare, you just have to add the ‘matlab’ subdirectory of your Dynare
 installation to MATLAB® path. You have two options for doing that:
-- 
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