Octave 2.1.55 available for ftp

[John W. Eaton]

Octave 2.1.55 is now available for ftp from ftp.octave.org in the
directory /pub/octave/bleeding-edge:

  -rw-r--r--  1 103  5323000 Feb 20 21:21 octave-2.1.55.tar.gz
  -rw-r--r--  1 103  4197965 Feb 20 21:21 octave-2.1.55.tar.bz2
  -rw-r--r--  1 103    23802 Feb 20 21:43 octave-2.1.54-2.1.55.patch.gz
  -rw-r--r--  1 103    22930 Feb 20 21:43 octave-2.1.54-2.1.55.patch.bz2

This version should fix most of the bugs reported since 2.1.54.

There are still some significant features related to N-d arrays that
need to be implemented, but this version does provide a cat function
and also allows you to use the [] to concatenate N-d numeric arrays.
This still needs to be extended to handle cell and structure arrays
and user-defined types.  We hope to fix this for 2.1.56.  Indexing and
indexed assignment for N-d arrays should also be much better in
2.1.55.  If you find that another of your favorite N-d array
operations doesn't work, please mention it so we can have some idea of
what features are missed the most.  Patches are also welcome.

As always, if your favorite bug is still not fixed, please report it.

Also, 2.1.50 is still the recommended version, but 2.1.55 should be an
improvement over 2.1.54.  If there are no serious problems reported
during the next few weeks for for anything that should have worked
with 2.1.50, then 2.1.55 will probably be promoted to the recommended
version.

Thanks,

jwe