How programmatically know if an Update is installed for a particular matlab release?

Hello,

MathWorks proposes some Updates for a given release.

For instance, (at this time writing) there are 4 proposed Updates for R2018b; and 2 ones for R2019a.

I know about this post https://fr.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/102880-how-do-i-check-for-updates-using-matlab

but my question is: does a function such ver or version would explicitely indicate which Update if installed (if any) ?

Regards

Pascal

Answer 1

[Jan]

Yes. See the output of version:

9.6.0.1114505 (R2019a) Update 2

With

ver('Matlab')

you get the version number only. But with

ver

the output of version is displayed.

[James Richard]

Could you do it with windows command line?

On cmd,

matlab -help

has the same output as

ver('Matlab')

but not

ver

Answer 2

[adam honse]

Maybe this helps.

[ver datestr] = version

ver =

'9.9.0.1495850 (R2020b) Update 1'

datestr =

'September 30, 2020'

Answer 3

[Jorik Caljouw]

Another way to get this info is with

vd = version('-description')

If no update is installed you get:

vd =

0×0 empty char array

If an update is installed you get (e.g.):

vd =

'Update 7'