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What's new in Scilab 5.4.0?

This version introduces Scilab desktop which allows the user to save and restore his Scilab windows configuration. In this context, strong efforts have been carried out on the graphical components:

This release also introduces Scilab preferences management through a unique interface to configure Scilab and its modules.

An internal improvement of Scilab graphics, aiming at fixing graphics card portability issues, provides faster and better 2-D and 3-D plotting. Graphic export features have been improved (portability, offscreen rendering, etc).

A new Scilab file format called Scilab Open Data format (SOD) is now used by save and load functions. SOD format is a documented and fully tested HDF5-based standard.

XML access from Scilab has never been easier thanks to the new dedicated module to read and write XML files.

And also, new "image" and "table" (read-only) uicontrol styles, new eigs function to calculate eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices, including sparse matrices, refactored CSV functions to improve writing/reading performances from a 3x to 200x factor.

Improvements in Scilab documentation: The help pages on graphics now contain a sample image, some chapters are better categorized, etc.

Under Windows, Scilab can now be installed without administration rights.

See all changes in Scilab 5.4.0


Documentations and help

This help is also available on http://help.scilab.org. It provides some advanced features like comments, favorites, search engine, etc.

If you are new to Scilab, you can have a look to the Scilab's keyword help pages.

Scilab Enterprises provides some documentations and tutorials.

Many other documentations are also available through the Scilab website.


Other resources

Scilab Home page - Consult Scilab official website

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Mailing lists - Communicate and exchange with the community

ATOMS - Browse Scilab packaged modules

File exchange - Exchange your scripts, results and files.

Scilab Enterprises - Professional services, developments and supports on Scilab.