Working on generating the first candidate for the 3.8.2 release.

The Octave 3.8.1 source release is available now: ftpmirror.gnu.org/octave/oct…

Octave will be a mentoring organization in the Google Summer of Code this year: google-melange.com/gsoc/org/…

One step closer to 4.0! The Initial QtHandles patch is now in the Octave gui-release branch (and merged to default): hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/oc…

Happy birthday to Octave. 22 years today.

Most of the failures appear to be due to building with --disable-docs. Things are looking better than I thought. So Yay, progress, right?

Now I'm seeing 130+ failures in the test suite on Windows with --enable-64 but at least the test suite doesn't crash Octave...

Ah, compiling SuiteSparse with the right LONGBLAS settings makes a big difference...

I just asked for advice about the upcoming 3.8.1 release on the mailing list. Cue the peanut gallery comments in 3, 2, 1...

One step closer to "one-button" cross compiling of Octave for Windows, including all Octave run-time dependencies: hg.octave.org/mxe-octave/rev…

Integrating QtHandles with Octave. One step closer to 4.0 and having the GUI enabled by default.

Why "theoctaveguy"? When I tell people I work on Octave and they realize I that STARTED the project, they say, "Oh, YOU'RE the Octave guy!"

With this change, hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/oc…, getting closer to running cvxr.com/cvx in Octave.

@brett_t_stewart I don't think twitter is a good place for bug reports. Or would you like to see tweets about fixed bugs?

Octave 3.8.0 has been out for a week now. The new (still experimental) GUI seems to have stirred up a lot of activity.

I'll be using this account to post updates and musing about GNU Octave. octave.org.