
1 Release N otes for R2008a
Highlights of R2008a
In this section...
“What’s New in Release 2008a” on page 1-2
“New Capabilities for the M ATLAB
®
Product Family” on page 1-2
“New Capabilities for the Simulink
®
Product Family” on page 1-3
“New Products” on page 1-3
“Renamed Products” on page 1-3
“Summary of Changes to Each Product” on page 1-4
What’s New in Release 2008a
Release 2008a includes new features in MATLAB
®
and Simulink
®
,twonew
products, and updates and bug fixes to 81 other products. Subscribers to
MathWorks™ Software Maintenance Service can download product updates.
Beginning with R2008a, the MATLAB and Simulink product families will
require activation. R2008a will also introduce the License C enter, a new
online tool that addresses common license administration needs.
New Capabilities for the MATLAB
®
Product Family
• State-of-the-art object-oriented programming in MATLAB, including full
support for classes and objects, inheritance, methods, properties, events
and packages
• Interior point solver and parallel computing support for large-scale
optimization problems in Optimization Toolbox™
• Linear Complementarity Program (LCP) for mean-variance p ortfolio
optimization in Financial Toolbox™
• Full support for P BS Pro
®
and T ORQUE schedulers with Parallel
Comp uting Toolbox™
• Cross validation, feature selection, quasi-random numbers, and partial
least squares in Statistics Toolbox™
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