Thanks for all the suggestions. Here's a second attempt:
The Octave developers are pleased to announce the release of GNU
Octave 3.4.0. This is a major new release containing many new
features, performance enhancements, and bug fixes.
Version 3.4.0 of Octave is available for download at:
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/
Please see http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html for mirror sites around
the world.
Links to binary (executable) versions will be listed at
http://www.octave.org/download.html as they become available.
Please see http://octave.org/NEWS-3.4.html for a list of significant
user-visible changes in this release.
To help improve future versions, please report problems using the
Octave bug tracker at http://bugs.octave.org.
Octave 3.4.1, with corrections for any critical defects reported in
Octave 3.4.0, is expected in April 2011.
As always, many people contributed to this Octave release. A complete
list of contributors may be found in the Octave manual.
GNU Octave is a high-level interpreted language, primarily intended
for numerical computations. It provides capabilities for the numerical
solution of linear and nonlinear problems, and for performing
other numerical experiments. It also provides extensive graphics
capabilities for data visualization and manipulation. Octave is
normally used through its interactive command line interface, but
it can also be used to write non-interactive programs. The Octave
language is quite similar to Matlab so that most programs are easily
portable. A full description of Octave capabilities is available at
http://www.octave.org/doc/interpreter/index.html.
I've also updated the version of the manual on the web so we will be
pointing to something current.
jwe