{"id":4419,"date":"2013-03-08T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T14:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/?p=4419"},"modified":"2013-03-08T10:07:59","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T15:07:59","slug":"r2013a-is-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2013\/03\/08\/r2013a-is-live\/","title":{"rendered":"R2013a is Live!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns:mwsh=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/namespace\/mcode\/v1\/syntaxhighlight.dtd\" class=\"content\">\r\n   <introduction><\/introduction>\r\n   <p>Today's \"Pick\" is just a quick announcement: R2013a is live, and available for immediate download! You may be aware that we're\r\n      on a twice-yearly release cycle: R2011a, R2011b; R2012a, R2012b... and now, R2013a...live as of Thursday, March 7.\r\n   <\/p>\r\n   <p>With each release, there are numerous reasons to update. R2012b was a major release for us, and in addition to lots of performance\r\n      enhancements and new functions across many of our Toolboxes, we saw a redesign of the MATLAB Desktop.\r\n   <\/p>\r\n   <p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/files\/logo.png\"> <\/p>\r\n   <p>So what can you expect from R2013a? Highlights include:<\/p>\r\n   <div>\r\n      <ul>\r\n         <li>A unit test framework for MATLAB that allows writing and running unit tests and analyzing test results<\/li>\r\n         <li>A new Trading Toolbox for automated and algorithmic trading, strategy development, and more<\/li>\r\n         <li>A new Fixed-Point Designer tool that combines the functionality of Fixed-Point Toolbox and Simulink Fixed Point<\/li>\r\n         <li>Performance improvements for <tt>fft<\/tt> and <tt>permute<\/tt><\/li>\r\n         <li>Support vector machines (SVMs) for binary classification have moved from the Bioinformatics Toolbox to the Statistics Toolbox<\/li>\r\n         <li>Support in the Image Acquisition Toolbox for Kinect for Windows sensors<\/li>\r\n         <li>Search term highlighting and content expansion in the Help browser<\/li>\r\n         <li>Cascade object detector training in the Computer Vision System Toolbox   <i>(shameless plug: watch the File Exchange for my CascadeTrainGUI!)<\/i><\/li>\r\n         <li>The Contents pane is back on our documentation pages <i>(my colleague Sean says   this deserves many exclamation points!)<\/i><\/li>\r\n         <li>Updates and bug fixes to 82 products--too much more to mention here!<\/li>\r\n      <\/ul>\r\n   <\/div>\r\n   <p>You might also notice some design improvements to our blog pages!<\/p>\r\n   <p>Get more details by browsing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/help\/matlab\/release-notes.html\">Release Notes<\/a>, and watch this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/products\/new_products\/latest_features.html?s_tid=hp_spot_r2013a_0213\">quick video<\/a> for an overview.\r\n   <\/p>\r\n   <p>As always, I welcome your <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/?p=4419#respond\">thoughts and comments<\/a>.\r\n   <\/p><script language=\"JavaScript\">\r\n<!--\r\n\r\n    function grabCode_89565d6547144e11b894070cbf1fecde() {\r\n        \/\/ Remember the title so we can use it in the new page\r\n        title = document.title;\r\n\r\n        \/\/ Break up these strings so that their presence\r\n        \/\/ in the Javascript doesn't mess up the search for\r\n        \/\/ the MATLAB code.\r\n        t1='89565d6547144e11b894070cbf1fecde ' + '##### ' + 'SOURCE BEGIN' + ' #####';\r\n        t2='##### ' + 'SOURCE END' + ' #####' + ' 89565d6547144e11b894070cbf1fecde';\r\n    \r\n        b=document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];\r\n        i1=b.innerHTML.indexOf(t1)+t1.length;\r\n        i2=b.innerHTML.indexOf(t2);\r\n \r\n        code_string = b.innerHTML.substring(i1, i2);\r\n        code_string = code_string.replace(\/REPLACE_WITH_DASH_DASH\/g,'--');\r\n\r\n        \/\/ Use \/x3C\/g instead of the less-than character to avoid errors \r\n        \/\/ in the XML parser.\r\n        \/\/ Use '\\x26#60;' instead of '<' so that the XML parser\r\n        \/\/ doesn't go ahead and substitute the less-than character. \r\n        code_string = code_string.replace(\/\\x3C\/g, '\\x26#60;');\r\n\r\n        author = 'Brett Shoelson';\r\n        copyright = 'Copyright 2013 The MathWorks, Inc.';\r\n\r\n        w = window.open();\r\n        d = w.document;\r\n        d.write('<pre>\\n');\r\n        d.write(code_string);\r\n\r\n        \/\/ Add author and copyright lines at the bottom if specified.\r\n        if ((author.length > 0) || (copyright.length > 0)) {\r\n            d.writeln('');\r\n            d.writeln('%%');\r\n            if (author.length > 0) {\r\n                d.writeln('% _' + author + '_');\r\n            }\r\n            if (copyright.length > 0) {\r\n                d.writeln('% _' + copyright + '_');\r\n            }\r\n        }\r\n\r\n        d.write('<\/pre>\\n');\r\n      \r\n      d.title = title + ' (MATLAB code)';\r\n      d.close();\r\n      }   \r\n      \r\n-->\r\n<\/script><p style=\"text-align: right; font-size: xx-small; font-weight:lighter;   font-style: italic; color: gray\"><br><a href=\"javascript:grabCode_89565d6547144e11b894070cbf1fecde()\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;        font-style: italic;\">Get \r\n            the MATLAB code \r\n            <noscript>(requires JavaScript)<\/noscript><\/span><\/a><br><br>\r\n      Published with MATLAB&reg; R2013a<br><\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<!--\r\n89565d6547144e11b894070cbf1fecde ##### SOURCE BEGIN #####\r\n%% R2013a is Live!\r\n\r\n%%\r\n% Today's \"Pick\" is just a quick announcement: R2013a is live, and available for immediate download! 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