MATLAB is a high-level language and interactive environment that enables you to perform computationally intensive tasks faster than with traditional programming languages such as C, C++, and Fortran.

Note: The quoted download size is an installer; the download of the application is 684 MB.

Desktop

• Documentation: Integrate documentation for custom toolboxes into the MATLAB Help Browser
• Documentation: Determine when feature introduced
• Array Size Limit: Limit maximum array size to prevent unintended creation of very large matrices
• Tab Completion: Complete class properties and methods while editing class definition files
• User Interface Preferences: Control user interface language

Language and Programming

• repelem Function: Repeat copies of array elements to create a larger array
• sort Function: Now preserves shape of cell array of string inputs
• isenum Function: Determine if variable is enumeration
• milliseconds Function: Convert duration to number of milliseconds
• Publishing Markup: Include external file content
• fullfile Function: Maintain all double-dot symbols
• Python Objects: Indexing Support
• Python Version 3.4: MATLAB Support
• MATLAB Engine for Python: Support for startup options
• MATLAB Engine for Python: Support for Unicode in Python 2.7
• Conversion of Character Arrays to Java Strings: Preserve null characters
• WSDL Web Services Documents: Limitations
• Unit Testing Framework: Tag tests for categorization and selection
• Unit Testing Framework: Run tests in parallel
• Unit Testing Framework: Share variables between tests in scripts
• Unit Testing Framework: Use prebuilt test fixtures
• Unit Testing Framework: Compare objects using isequaln
• Unit Testing Framework: Use homogeneous expected causes with Throws constraint
• Git Source Control Integration: View branch details and delete branches
• C Matrix Library: New functions
• Functionality removed or changed

Mathematics

• discretize Function: Group numeric data into bins or categories
• Descriptive Statistics: Omit NaN values in basic statistical calculations, including max, min, mean, median, sum, var, std, and cov
• ismembertol and uniquetol Functions: Perform set comparisons using a tolerance
• Random Numbers: Generate random numbers using the double-precision, SIMD-oriented Fast Mersenne Twister (dSFMT) algorithm
• nearestNeighbor Function: Determine nearest alphaShape boundary point
• Functionality removed or changed

Data Import and Export

• Datastore: Read one complete file with 'file' option for ReadSize property
• Datastore: Read data in parallel from a datastore with partition function using Parallel Computing Toolbox
• webwrite Function: Send data to RESTful Web services using HTTP POST method
• webread and websave Functions: Request data from RESTful Web services using HTTP POST method
• xlsread and readtable Functions: Read larger spreadsheet files from Excel software
• textscan and readtable Functions: Return consistent results when reading quoted strings
• Scientific File Format Libraries: Upgrades
• Functionality removed or changed

Graphics

• drawnow Function: Improve performance in animation loops with new option
• Functionality removed or changed

Performance

• MapReduce: Run mapreduce algorithms on any computer cluster that supports parallel pools using MATLAB Distributed Computing Server
• Interpolation Functions: Execute faster with multithreaded calculations
• Hardware Support
• IP camera: Acquire video directly from Internet Protocol cameras
• BeagleBone Black Hardware: Access BeagleBone Black hardware with the MATLAB Support Package for BeagleBone Black Hardware
• Arduino Hardware: Access to Arduino Leonardo and other boards with the MATLAB Support Package for Arduino Hardware
• Arduino Hardware: New configurePin function
• Functionality removed or changed