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Release of Scilab 5.4.0

Scilab Enterprises is glad to announce that Scilab 5.4.0 is now available for download. Scilab 5.4.0 adopts a new environment and thus provides Scilab users greater ease of use. The discovery of new functionalities and navigation become intuitive. Help pages are enriched with examples of use which are directly executable in Scilab and Xcos, graphics rendering, etc., and are available in more languages. For Windows users, there is no more need to be the machine administrator to install Scilab.

Scilab at CAE conference

A dedicated session on Scilab will be held at International CAE Conference on numerical analysis Organized by EnginSoft on 22 and 23 of October in Pacengo - Italy, The International CAE Conference is a major annual event in Italy and a leading conference at the European level with two days of conferences, Users' Meetings and exhibition. Claude Gomez, CEO of Scilab Enterprises will open the first session of Scilab users organized under CAE on October 22 at 2 P.M. His presentation entitled "What's new with Scilab" will discuss the open source model for Scilab, the future of Scilab software bo

Scilab, calculator for aerospace

To read Air&Cosmos article online French magazine Air&Cosmos has published in #2324 issue of August 31 an article untitled "Scilab, calculette au service de l'aérospatial" (Scilab, calculator for aerospace). For everyone who could not read the article, you can download it here: Scilab_AirCosmos.pdf 1.50 MB We thank Air & Cosmos for giving us permission to put this article online. This issue of Air & Cosmos is available for purchase onli

Scilab 5.4.0 beta Versions

Under Windows, a bug can prevent those versions to work properly Due to a severe bug, Scilab 5.4.0-beta versions can quit unexpectedly after a few minutes without any error message under Windows platforms. This bug has been fixed. In the meantime Scilab 5.4.0 final version is released, you can still use Scilab 5.3.3 or the nightly build versions which have been generated since 09/11/2012. 

Scilab at French mathematics summer university

Back to the workshop "Dynamical systems, modeling and simulation - Resolution with Scilab" Part of the program of the mathematics summer university which took place from August 27 to 30 at Sourdun (France), two sessions of a Scilab workshop were offered to the participants. Led by Claude Gomez, CEO of Scilab Enterprises and Christine Gomez, mathematics teacher at Antony high school, you can download their presentation materials (in French only). More about the French mathematics summer university

Scilab in Air & Cosmos

An article on Scilab is available in #2324 of French magazine Air & Cosmos published on August 31 Following the last edition of ScilabTEC and the participation of leading figures in the field aerospace, Air & Cosmos publishes an article on Scilab. Discover how Scilab is used by the fields of aerospace on pages 32-33 in the last issue of Air & Cosmos. More about Air & Cosmos

Release of Scilab 5.4.0 beta-3

Scilab 5.4.0-beta 3 is the latest test version provided to the community before the stable version release. Several improvements in terms of stability have been conducted between beta 2 and 3, as well as bug fixes. Test it... This version is provided "as is" and may or may not be suitable for production use. If you find a bug, please report it to Scilab bug tracking system.

Release of Scilab 5.4.0 beta-2

Scilab 5.4.0-beta 2 is a test version provided to the community. This version includes: New eigs function added: calculates eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices (including sparse matrices). Improvements in Scilab documentation: The help pages on graphics now contain a sample image, some chapters are better categorized, etc. Test it… This version is provided "as is" and may or may not be suitable for production use. If you find a bug, please report it to Scilab bug tracking system.

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Release of Scilab 5.4.0 beta-1

Scilab 5.4.0-beta 1 is a test version provided to the community. This version includes: Scilab Desktop which allows the user to save and restore his Scilab windows configuration, XML file reading and writing functionalities, Internal improvement of Scilab graphics, aiming at fixing graphics card portability issues, which provides faster and better 2-D and 3-D plotting and improved export features, Scilab preferences (unique interface to configure Scilab and its modules) New Scilab file format called Scilab Open Data format (SOD) Test it… This version is provided "as is" and may or m