On Jan 6, 2012, at 4:02 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> A new snapshot of Octave is now available from
alpha.gnu.org in the
> directory /gnu/octave:
>
> 48481042bdd5f924ccfc983916cd1e16 octave-3.5.92.tar.gz
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 3003 3002 17958889 Jan 06 20:55 octave-3.5.92.tar.gz
>
> The snapshot is tagged in the usual way (ss-3-5-92) in the Mercurial
> archive.
>
> Please remember that these snapshots are provided for testing
> purposes. I do not consider them to be Octave releases. If people
> think there will be confusion because of the version number, then we
> can add a notice to the Octave startup message.
>
> Unless there are some serious problems with this snapshot, I would
> like to release it (or something very close to it) as 3.6.0 in the
> next few days. Even if you have been building Octave regularly from
> the Mercurial archive, it would help if you could build from the
> snapshot and report any problems.
>
> jwe