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2015-07-06: Release of NaN-tb v2.8.1

- fix nantest to avoid crashing octave 4.0.0 on windows

2015-06-24: Release of NaN-tb v2.8.0

- fix Makefile for Octave4 on windows
  (fixes #45363 and #44859)

- check for sparse input matrices and
  convert to full when needed

2015-06-01: Release of NaN v.2.7.6

- improve accuracy of normcdf (bug #38170) 

2015-04-23: Release of NaN v2.7.5

- fix compiler issue with __isnan
- do not display diagnostic messages

2015-04-12

- upgrade to libsvm-3.12
- fix multi-threaded build (make -j) 
- improve some tests


2015-03-31: Release of NaN 2.7.2

- bug fix in nanstd.m 
- cross-compiler issues in histo_mex
- fix Makefile for use with Matlab
- address compatibility issue on debian/jessie
- minor issues (some compiler warnings are addressed)


2015-01-24: Release of NaN 2.7.1

- support for MacOSX added
  (tested on Homebrew Octave)


2015-01-17: Release of NaN 2.7.0

Fix compatibility issues with core functions in Matlab and Octave
- zscore: order of input output argument
- mahal gives now same result than matlab
- sumskipnan allows DIM argument larger than ndims
- a few minor issues

For changes of previous releases see: 
  http://pub.ist.ac.at/~schloegl/matlab/NaN/CHANGELOG