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