Desktop
• Toolstrip that replaces menus and toolbars in MATLAB Desktop
• Apps gallery that presents apps from the MATLAB product family
• Single-file application packaging as a MATLAB App Installer file for inclusion in the apps gallery
• Redesigned Help with improved browsing, searching, and filtering
• Viewing of multiple documentation pages simultaneously with tabbed browsing
• Suggested corrections for mistyped functions and variables in the Command Window
• Full-screen view mode on Mac operating systems
• Changes to -nojvm startup option on Mac
• Tabs in MATLAB Web browser
• Direct access to run configurations from the Run button
• Multiple vector creation from single selection in Variables editor
• Language and Programming
• Abstract attribute for declaring MATLAB classes as abstract
• Diagnostic message improvements when attempting to create an instance of an abstract class
• Handle and dynamicprops do not support the empty static method
• Switch uses eq to compare enumerations
• Cannot specify property attributes multiple times
• Discontinued compiler support for building MEX-files
• Jagged array support for .NET
• Java exceptions accessible to MATLAB code
• Ability to add jar files to static Java class path
• Preservation of string functions for backwards compatibility
• Conversion of Error and Warning Message Identifiers
Mathematics
• Performance improvements and multithreading for airy, psi, and Bessel functions
• ddensd function that solves delay differential equations of neutral type with state-dependent delays
• Signed integer support for bit-wise operations
• atan2d function that calculates four-quadrant inverse tangent with result in degrees
• Complex number support for trigonometry degree functions
• Functionality being removed or changed
Data Import and Export
• Data import from delimited and fixed-width text files using Import Tool
• Single-step import of numbers, text, and dates as column vectors from a spreadsheet with Import Tool
• audioread and audioinfo functions for reading MP3, MPEG-4 AAC, WAVE, and other audio files
• audiowrite function for writing MPEG-4 AAC, WAVE, and other audio files
• Reading and writing of BigTIFF image files larger than 4 GB
• Reading of XLSM, XLTX, and XLTM files on all platforms with xlsread function
• xlsread function now supporting named ranges on all platforms
• Multiple delimiter support in textscan function
• Timeout, user agent, and character encoding inputs for urlread and urlwrite functions