The MathWorks, provider of MATLAB software, has announced the release of its latest version of Matlab - R2016a. This release includes new releases of MATLAB and Simulink as well as updates and bug fixes to all other products.

Millions of engineers and scientists worldwide use MATLAB to analyze and design the systems and products transforming our world. MATLAB is in automobile active safety systems, interplanetary spacecraft, health monitoring devices, smart power grids, and LTE cellular networks. It is used for machine learning, signal processing, image processing, computer vision, communications, computational finance, control design, robotics, and much more. 

What's New in MathWorks MATLAB R2016a

Desktop
- Live Editor: Create and run live scripts with embedded output; add equations and images to enhance the interactive narrative
- Toolboxes: Programmatically package and install custom MATLAB toolboxes with matlab.addons.toolbox package
- Tab Completion: Complete parameter names and options in select MATLAB function calls
- Pause Button: Pause the execution of a program from the Editor and enter debug mode
- Toolboxes: Customize additions to MATLAB path upon toolbox installation
- Preferences: Migrate preferences from MATLAB versions up to three releases preceding the release starting up
- verLessThan Function: Compares releases
- Internationalization: Default encoding scheme on Mac platforms will change in a future release
Language and Programming
- datetime Object: Set the default locale and format of datetime objects through the Preference panel
- zeros, ones, and eye Functions: Create logical arrays
- cellstr, deblank, and strtrim Functions: Keep significant whitespace characters when removing leading or trailing whitespace
- rowfun and varfun Functions: Create output table without row names when using the 'GroupingVariables' parameter
- Debugging: Set breakpoints while MATLAB is executing
- Functionality being removed or changed
Mathematics
- Moving Statistics Functions: Calculate moving statistics using the movmean, movsum, movmedian, movmax, movmin, movvar, and movstd functions
- datetime and duration Arrays: Compute standard deviations with std
- datetime and duration Arrays: Ignore NaNs and NaTs using 'omitnan' or 'omitnat' in the functions mean, median, std, and sum
- graph and digraph Classes: Analyze graphs and networks using centrality and nearest nodes functions
- svds Function: Compute singular values with improved performance and convergence behavior with a wide variety of matrices
- median Function: Compute medians with improved performance
- cummin, cummax, cumprod, and cumsum Functions: Compute cumulative minimum, maximum, product, and sum with improved performance
- GraphPlot Objects: Interactively inspect graph plots using data cursor and plot selection