Sockets Toolkit - News

Summary of important user-visible changes for sockets 1.4.1
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 ** Minor documentation updates

Summary of important user-visible changes for sockets 1.4.0
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 ** Socket constants that are OS dependant will show an error if not 
    available instead of not existing. (Bug #51273)

 ** Added new functions: select, shutdown

 ** Added constants: SHUT_RD, SHUT_RDWR, SHUT_WR

 ** Added qt5 documentation

 ** Install .cc tests

Summary of important user-visible changes for sockets 1.3.0:
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 ** added new functions: sendto, recvfrom, getsockopt, setsockopt

 ** added constants SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, SO_KEEPALIVE,
    SO_DONTROUTE, SO_BROADCAST

 ** added initial user manual 

Summary of important user-visible changes for sockets 1.2.1:
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 ** Updates for Octave 6 compatability

 ** Change minimum Octave version to 3.6

Summary of important user-visible changes for sockets 1.2.0:
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 ** Sockets are now represented with ordinary numbers, not a
    custom socket type. If you relied on checks like
    isa(s,'octave_socket') you will need to update your code.

 ** Functions are cleaned on package unload (requires Octave >= 3.8)
    using the PKG_DEL directive.

 ** The sockets package is now dependent on Octave versions >= 3.2.0

 ** Functions now perform better input check to prevent accidental segfaults.

Summary of important user-visible changes for sockets 1.0.8:
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 ** updated function documentation with more details