2001-02-25  ========    Release 9   =========
	Release 9 (matcompat-2001.02.25)
2001-02-25 Paul Kienzle
	optim.eg/* removed
	FIXES/mesh{grid,dom}.m: speedups
	plot/quiver.m: compatibility fixes; speedup
	datafun/{gradient,del2}.m: help text fixes; bug fix in gradient
	optim.bs/gs.m -> optim/fminbnd.m
2001-02-24 Paul Kienzle
	datafun/sortrows: return index vector; handle strings
	set/unique: return index vectors; handle strings
	signal/xcorr: remove all but one loop
	fake-sparse/spdiags: remove loops; extend compatibility
2001-02-19 Kai Habel, Paul Kienzle
	datafun/{spline,csape,csapi,fnplt}.m: added/updated
	datafun/trisolve.{cc,m}: added
2001-02-15 Paul Kienzle
	signal/specgram.m: small speedup
	signal/tripuls.m: new
	signal/rectpuls.m: handles matrices as well as vectors
2001-02-11 Paul Kienzle
	datafun/interpft.m: new function
	FIXES/rand.cc: use long period random number generator
2001-02-08 Paul Kienzle
	signal/{filter2,*dct*}.m: replaced with compatible version
2001-02-07 Laurent Mazet
	general/{ctranspose,transpose}.m: added
	comm/{de2bi,bi2de,vec2mat,randint}.m: added
2001-02-06 PAK
	signal/xcorr2.m: use conv2 to compute correlations rather than FFT
	signal/conv2.cc: accept complex inputs
2001-02-05 PAK
        general/fcnchk: added, but faked
	strings/{dec2*,*2dec,strjust}: vectorized and moved to FIXED/
2001-02-02 PAK
	leasqr/*: received permission to change to GPL
	strings/{dec2base,base2dec,strjust}.m: remove for loops
	specfun/ellip{j,ke}.m: vectorized
2001-02-01 David Billinghurst
	specfun/ellip{j,ke}.m: replaced with GPL version
2001-01-30 PAK
	linear-algebra/gsvd.m: removed
	signal/fir2.m: fixed ramping; faster interpolation; more demos
2001-01-29 PAK
	signal/{sgolay,sgolayfilt}.m: replaced with GPL version
2001-01-25 PAK
	signal/interp: remove global variable interp_cutoff_default
	install.sh->octinst.sh
	Makeconf, INSTALL, etc.: use Octave's default paths for install
	Makeconf, plot/Makefile: use XFLAGS=... for X11 programs
2001-01-25 Laurent Mazet
	install.sh: use /bin/sh; remove bash peculiarities
	plot/legend.m: added
2001-01-21  ========    Release 8   =========
	Release 8 (matcompat-2001.01.21)
2001-01-21 PAK
	licenses, makeweb.pl, INSTALL, README: updates
2001-01-19 PAK
	move specfun/complex to general/
	specfun/{perms,nchoosek}
	statistics/nan{max,min,median,mean,sum,std} rewritten without loops
	statistics/{geomean,harmmean,trimmean,zscore,mad,prctile}
2001-01-18 Marc Compere
	ode_v1.10/ -> ode_v1.11/
2001-01-18 PAK
	specfun/cplxpair: code cleanup; correct handling of 0
	signal/zp2tf: test for proper paired complex conjugate values
	move cplxpair and unwrap from specfun/ to datafun/
	move tf2zp and zp2tf from signal/ to FIXES/
2001-01-16 PAK
	plot/fill: fix hold; add unwind_protect; reformatting; vectorize
	plot/patch: add unwind_protect; reformatting; handle 3d
	plot/dhbar: add unwind_protect; reformatting; compatible style names
	plot/pie: add unwind_protect; reformatting; minimal doc
2001-01-16 Cai Jianming
	patches/reduction_dim: sum(x,dim)
	patches/ov-re-tri: chol function
2001-01-16 Laurent Mazet
	signal/cheb1ord.m: 
2001-01-15 PAK
	signal/xcorr2.m: speedup for 'unbiased' correction
	add missing licenses according to the authors wishes.
2001-01-13 Francis Courtois <courtois@ensia.inra.fr>
	leasqr/dfdp.m: fix for x with #columns > #rows
2001-01-12 Marc Compere
	ode/ -> ode_v1.10/
2001-01-12 PAK
	replace [ x (a) ] with [ x(a) ] and [ a b ] with [ a, b ] everywhere
	(flag, hsv, prism, legendre, hsv2rgb interp2 csape, medfilt2, gquad6,
	leasqrdfdp, leasqr, quiver, dec2base, amongst others).
2000-12-16 PAK
        fake-sparse/sparse updated (even more compatible)
2000-12-14 PAK
	datafun/interp1: return NaN for out-of-range x values in 'spline'
2000-12-14 Marc Compere
	ode v1.08
2000-12-02 PAK
	plot/ginput.cc added
2000-12-01 PAK
	fake-sparse/sparse updated (more compatible)
	compat.dat: replaced Matlab categories with my own
	compat.dat: stripped Matlab function descriptions
	copyright added
2000-11-27 ========    Release 7   =========
2000-11-25 PAK
	RESTRICTED/* removed for easy Debian packaging (removes subspace)
	optim.bs/lp.cc added
        minimization/ -> optim.bs/, Ben Sapp's optimization functions
	optim.eg/* added, Etienne Grossman's optimization functions
	strings/strmatch.m added
	optim/fzero.m added
	makeweb.pl: author list added to index.html
	AUTHORS added
	TODO updated
2000-11-19 ========    Release 6   =========
2000-11-19 PAK
	plot/{surf,surfc,meshc}.m added, not tested
	sparse/{full,sparse,issparse,spy,spdiags}.m added (fake sparse)
2000-11-11 PAK
	clean up make process
	image/{medfilt2,ordfilt2} added
	audio/au{load,save}.m added (even though they are not compatible)
2000-11-07 ========    Release 5   =========
2000-11-05 PAK
	funm.m added
	nan aware statistics functions added
2000-10-16 PAK
	rref.m speed ups, and additional compatibility
	mod.m fixed
2000-10-07 PAK
	signal/medfilt1.cc now handles NaN better
2000-09-21 PAK
	README separated from compat.dat compatibility database
	autogenerate web pages with makeweb.pl: index, summary, cat-*
	move extensive notes to separate pages: vararg.html, inline.html
	Windows/image added
	image/{hsv2rgb,mat2gray,imhist}.m fixed
	image/{corr2,grayslice,histeq,mean2,std2}.m added
2000-07-28 ========    Release 3   =========
2000-07-27 PAK
	Compatibility database now includes the following toolboxes:
	    Control Systems, Optimization, Image Processing, Signal Processing
	    API, and a trifling portion of System Identification; should add
	    Statistics since most of the functionality is there, though by
	    different names in most cases.
 	PATCHES/trap-patch added (stop_on_error=1; instead of dbstop if error)
        FIXES/strvcmp.m added
	FIXES/str2mat.m updated
	datafun/{mkpp,unmkpp,ppval}.m added
2000-07-27 Kai Habel
	datafun/interp2.m added
	delaunay.m, griddata.m removed (new versions require qhull)
	image/ functions updated
	bitop/ operations updated
	datafun/{cumtrapz,del2,trapz,gradient,legendre} updated
2000-07-14 PAK
	ifftshift.m added
	interp1.m includes *nearest, *linear, *cubic, *spline; removes poly
	lagrange.m removed
	set functions: change diff(x)==0 to x(1:n-1)==x(2:n)
	strcmpi.m, strncmp.m, strncmpi.m added
	mod.m fixed so mod(x,0)==x; moved from general to specfun
2000-07-11 ========    Release 2   =========
	signal stuff from SignalPAK added
	integration package added
	other details mentioned in release announcement on octave-sources
2000-06-21 ========    Release 1   =========
	non-signal stuff from SignalPAK
	ode package from Marc Compere