Release 2008a includes new features in MATLAB and Simulink, two new products, and updates and bug fixes to 82 other products. Subscribers to MathWorks™ Software Maintenance Service can download product updates.
New capabilities for the MATLAB® product family include:
* 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 in Optimization Toolbox
* Linear Complementarity Program (LCP) for mean-variance portfolio optimization in Financial Toolbox
* Full support for PBS Pro® and TORQUE schedulers with Parallel Computing Toolbox
* Cross validation, feature selection, quasi-random numbers, and partial least squares in Statistics Toolbox
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