MATLAB R2021a

What's new in this version:

Environment:
- Live Editor Controls: Create dynamic controls in live scripts by linking variables to drop-down items and slider values
- Live Editor Fonts: Change the name, style, size, and color of fonts programmatically using settings
- Live Editor Display: Specify where to display output by default
- Live Editor Functions: Run live functions interactively using the Run button in MATLAB Online
- Live Editor Bookmarks: Navigate quickly between lines
- Live Editor Animation Playback Controls: Interactive interface to control animations
- Live Editor Performance: Improved performance when saving large live scripts or functions
- Help Browser: View web documentation by default
- Documentation: View MATLAB documentation in French, Italian, and German
- MATLAB Drive: Get the location of your MATLAB Drive root folder programmatically
- Functionality being removed or changed

Language and Programming:
- Name=Value Syntax: Use name=value syntax for passing name-value arguments
- Class Diagram Viewer: Create graphical class diagrams to explore class details and share designs
- Enumeration Comparisons: Use isequal to compare enumeration members with text data types
- Capturing disp Output: Use the formattedDisplayText function to store disp output as a string
- Retrieving Display Format: format function can get and set display format
- Function Argument Validation: Debugger and profiler is now supported
- Virtual File Storage: mkdir and rmdir will now be able to create and remove files from VFS directories
- Functionality being removed or changed

Data Analysis:
- Data Preprocessing Live Editor Tasks: Operate on multiple table variables and specify output format for table input
- Clean Outlier Data Live Editor Task: Visualize results with a histogram
- fillmissing Function: Specify custom fill method
- normalize Function: Normalize multiple data sets with same parameters
- groupcounts Function: Display percentages of group counts
- ts2timetable Function: Convert timeseries objects to timetables
- table and timetable Functions: Specify dimension names using the 'DimensionNames' name-value argument
- Functionality being removed or changed

Data Import and Export:
- XML Files: Read, write, and import XML files using readtable, readtimetable, and other functions
- MATLAB API for Advanced XML Processing: Create, read, write, transform, and query XML
- XML Files: Register XML namespace prefixes for evaluating XPath expressions using readtable,readstruct, and other functions
- Low-level file I/O functions and remote data: Perform read and write operations on remotely stored files
- save and load functions and remote data: Save, load, and append data to remotely stored v7.3 MAT-files
- Reading Online Data: Read files over HTTP and HTTPS using readtable, audioread, and other reading functions
- Parquet Data Format: Use categorical data in parquet data format
- Datastores: Read all data from a datastore using parallel processing
- Data Compression Functions: Improved functionality in zip/unzip and tar/untar
- imfinfo function: Get information about all Adobe Digital Negative (DNG) file tags
- jsonencode: Add indentation to JSON text
- Functionality being removed or changed

Mathematics:
- Graph Algorithms: Compute all paths, all cycles, and cycle basis
- griddedInterpolant Object: Use multivalued interpolation to interpolate multiple data sets simultaneously
- eig Function: Improved algorithm for skew-Hermitian matrices
- cdf2rdf Function: Improved algorithm for all inputs
- Functionality being removed or changed

Graphics:
- Create Plot Live Editor Task: Create plots interactively and generate code
- bubblecloud Function: Visualize part-to-whole relationships
- tiledlayout Function: Control the tile indexing scheme
- PolarAxes Objects: Use the CurrentPoint property or call ginput to get the cursor location within polar axes
- Scatter Plots and Constant Lines: Create multiple scatter plots or constant lines at once
- Axis Limits: Define LimitsChangedFcn callback that executes when the limits of an axis change
- Axis Limits: Control axis limits
- exportgraphics and copygraphics Functions: Specify RGB, CMYK, or grayscale output
- colororder Function: Control colors in stacked plots
- Tick Labels: Automatically rotate tick labels
- patch and errorbar Functions: Expanded data type support
- Geographic Plots: Access basemaps using additional proxy server authentication types
- Functionality being removed or changed
- App Building:
- uihyperlink Function: Add and configure clickable links in apps and on the App Designer canvas
- uitree Function: Add and configure check box trees in apps and on the App Designer canvas
- Interpreter Property: Style text and display equations in labels with HTML and LaTeX markup
- WindowStyle Property: Create UI figures that remain in the foreground
- scroll Function: Scroll to a location within a table UI component programmatically
- UI Component Accessibility: Select ListBox items, Table cells, ColorPicker colors, and DatePicker menus using the keyboard
- App Designer: Use custom UI components in App Designer
- App Designer: Zoom and pan in the canvas, and zoom in the Code View editor
- App Designer: Control color and tab settings in Code View using MATLAB preferences
- App Designer: Customize split-screen layouts in the App Designer editor
- App Testing Framework: Perform gestures on panels and tables
- App Testing Framework: Close alert dialog box in front of figure window
- Web Apps and Standalone Applications: Datatips supported in graphics
- Functionality Being Removed or Changed

Performance:
- Sparse Matrix Multiplication: Improved performance multiplying large sparse matrices
- Sparse Linear Systems: Improved performance solving sparse linear systems A*X = B with multicolumn B
- vecnorm Function: Improved performance operating on data with multiple columns
- ismember Function: Improved performance for cell inputs
- unique Function: Improved performance for numeric, logical, char, and cell inputs
- Graph Functions: Improved performance modifying node and edge lists
- Axes Toolbar: Appears without delay when axes are ready
- Rearranging UI Components: Improved performance when rearranging UI components in a UI figure
- UI Figure Interactions: Faster responses to scroll, pointer movement, and resize interactions in UI figures
- Plots in Apps: Improved performance for polar plots, volume visualizations, plots with more than 16 axes, and older systems
- Plots in Apps: Improved performance for plots with large numbers of markers
- Live Editor: Improved performance when saving large live scripts or functions

Software Development Tools:
- Projects: List all referenced projects of the current project
- Projects: List impacted project files
- Dependency Analyzer: Find required add-ons
- Unit Testing Framework: Create test runners using alternative syntax
- Unit Testing Framework: Initialize parameterization properties at suite creation time
- Unit Testing Framework: Run tests in parallel on thread-based pool
- Unit Testing Framework: Run tests in MATLAB Online interactively
- App Testing Framework: Perform gestures on panels and tables
- App Testing Framework: Close alert dialog box in front of figure window
- Functionality being removed or changed

External Language Interfaces:
- C++ Interface: Support for C++ language features
- C++ Interface: Publisher options and analysis
- Java Packages to be removed
- Java Engine: MATLAB value object support
- Python Interface and Engine: Version 3.6 support discontinued
- Perl 5.32.0: MATLAB support on Windows

Hardware Support:
- Support added for IMU sensors
- New functionalities added to Raspberry Pi Resource Monitor app