Mathworks Matlab R2017b R2017b New Features, Bug Fixes, Compatibility Considerations expand all Desktop Live Editor: Write MATLAB commands with automated, contextual hints for arguments, property values, and alternative syntaxes​​​​​ Live Editor: Export live scripts to LaTeX format​​​​​​​​​ Live Editor: Display high-resolution plots in PDF output​​​ Live Editor: Horizontally align text, equations, and images​​​​​​​​​​​ Live Editor: Automatically match delimiters and wrap comments while editing code​​ Live Editor: View and scroll through table data, including variable and row names​​​​​​​​ Live Editor: Check code for errors and warnings using the message bar and message indicator Documentation: Use the Live Editor in a web browser to open, edit, and run MATLAB online documentation examples MATLAB Drive: Store, access, and manage your files from anywhere Add-On Manager: Customize your MATLAB environment by enabling and disabling add-ons​​​​​​ Add-On Manager: Find installed add-ons faster using sort and search​​​​​​​​​​ Toolbox Packaging: Create a Getting Started Guide for your toolbox from a Live Script template​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Toolbox Packaging: Share your toolbox on File Exchange directly when you package it​​​​ Command Window: View updated display for cell arrays Language and Programming Code Compatibility Report: Generate a report that helps the updating of code to a newer MATLAB release​​ isStringScalar Function: Determine whether input is a string array with one element convertStringsToChars and convertCharsToStrings Functions: Enable your code to accept all text types as inputs without otherwise altering your code arrayfun, cellfun, and structfun Functions: Return object arrays as output arguments Scripts: Run sections in scripts containing local functions isfile and isfolder Functions: Determine if input is a file or a folder Functionality being removed or changed Mathematics decomposition Object: Solve linear systems repeatedly with improved performance lsqminnorm Function: Find minimum-norm solution of underdetermined linear system dissect Function: Reorder sparse matrix columns using nested dissection ordering vecnorm Function: Compute vector-wise norms of arrays polyshape Object: Create, analyze, and visualize 2-D polygons eigs Function: Improved algorithm and new options svds Function: Set options with name-value pairs Interpolation Functions: Method for modified Akima cubic Hermite interpolation convn Function: Compute convolutions on multidimensional arrays with improved performance subgraph and highlight Functions: Specify graph nodes with logical vector Functionality being removed or changed Graphics geobubble Function: Create an interactive map with bubbles whose size and color vary with data values wordcloud Function: Display words at different sizes based on frequency or custom size data binscatter Function: Visualize data density with dynamic bin size adjustment Tall Array Support: Visualize out-of-memory data using plot, scatter, and binscatter heatmap Function: Sort rows and columns and use custom labels in a heatmap bar Function: Control individual bar colors Chart Colors: Create bar and area charts with new default colors Axes Object: Specify the target axes for more functions Functionality being removed or changed Data Import and Export Custom Datastore: Build a customized datastore datastore Function: Work with data stored in Windows Azure Blob Storage datastore Function: Access Hadoop HDFS data more easily FileDatastore Object: Create uniform output from datastore HDF5 Functions: Create datasets, groups, attributes, links, and named datatypes using non-ASCII characters Web services: Skip server name verification in certificates jsonencode Function: Encode NaN and Inf as null Functionality being removed or changed Data Analysis ischange Function: Detect abrupt changes in data islocalmin and islocalmax Functions: Detect local minima and maxima in data rescale Function: Scale data to a specified range tall Arrays: Operate on tall arrays with more functions, including fillmissing, filter, median, polyfit, and synchronize tall Array Indexing: Use subscripted assignment with tall arrays tallrng Function: Control random number generator used by tall arrays timetable Data Container: Specify whether each variable in a timetable contains continuous or discrete data using the VariableContinuity property mink and maxk Functions: Find the k smallest or largest elements in an array topkrows Function: Find the k top rows in sorted order for numeric arrays, tables, and timetables App Building App Designer: Create apps with a wide variety of 2-D and 3-D plots App Designer: Add menus to an app from the Component Library App Designer: Specify input arguments when running an app App Designer: Add a summary, description, and screenshot for app packaging and compiling App Designer: Improved component Properties pane in Code View App Designer: Edit tick labels for gauges, knobs, and sliders directly in the canvas uitree and uitreenode Functions: Create trees and tree nodes in apps uiconfirm Function: Create modal in-app confirmation dialog boxes Toolbox Packaging: Add App Designer apps to the Apps Gallery upon toolbox installation MATLAB Online: Run App Designer apps in MATLAB Online