What's New in MATLAB
New tools for preprocessing and analyzing data, writing scripts and algorithms, building apps, and team-based software development.
And by the way, MATLAB is faster than ever. Take a closer look.
NEW Editor: Use new capabilities for code refactoring and block editing, and improved code suggestions, code completion, and debugging (R2021b)
NEW Live Editor Controls: Set default values for sliders, drop-down lists, check boxes, and edit fields (R2021b)
- Create dynamic controls in live scripts by linking variables to drop-down items and slider values (R2021a)
NEW Live Editor Animations: Use interactive interface to control animations (R2021a) and export them to movies or animated GIFs (R2021b)
Live Editor Fonts: Change the name, style, size, and color of fonts programmatically using settings (R2021a)
Live Editor Bookmarks: Navigate quickly between lines (R2021a)
Live Editor on iOS: Create, edit, and run live scripts in MATLAB Mobile on iPhones and iPads (R2020b)
Live Editor Tasks: Explore parameters, see results, and automatically generate code (R2020a, R2019b)
App Building
App Designer lets you create professional apps without having to be a professional software developer.
NEW Run Code in the Background: Use parallel language to create more responsive apps (R2021b)
NEW addStyle Function: Add styles to nodes and levels in a tree UI component (R2021b)
NEW App Designer: Use tools and shortcuts from Live Editor in Code View (R2021b)
- Zoom and pan in the Design View canvas (R2021a)
uihyperlink Function: Add and configure clickable links in apps and on the App Designer canvas (R2021a)
uitree Function: Add and configure check box trees in apps and on the App Designer canvas (R2021a)
scroll Function: Scroll to a location within a table UI component programmatically (R2021a)
Icon Property: Specify custom icons for UI figure windows and toolbar push and toggle tools (R2020b)
Comparison Tool: Use diff and merge App Designer apps (R2020b)
Custom UI Components: Create your own class to make composite UI components that encapsulate algorithms, as well as graphics and UI objects (R2020b)
exportapp and getframe Functions: Capture and save an image of an app (R2020b)
NEW File I/O: Read and write XML, HTML, and Microsoft Word files directly into table, timetable and structs (R2021b, R2021a, R2020b)
NEW sftp Function: Connect and read data securely from SFTP servers (R2021b)
NEW Live Editor Tasks: Interactively summarize, transform, and filter groups of data (Compute by Group); center and scale data (Normalize) (R2021b)
- Manipulate tables and timetables with tasks that automatically generate MATLAB code (R2020a)
- Interactively preprocess data (R2019b)
NEW trenddecomp Function: Find long-term and seasonal trends in data (R2021b)
NEW timeseries2timetable Function: Convert timeseries objects to timetables (R2021b)
NEW HDF5: Support for HDF5 version 1.10, including Single-Writer/Multiple-Reader (SWMR), Virtual Dataset (VDS), and Metadata Cache Fine-Tuning (R2021b)
NEW NetCDF: Support for NetCDF version 4.7.4, including reading and writing NC_STRING data (R2021b)
MATLAB API for Advanced XML Processing: Create, transform, and query XML files using MATLAB API for XML Processing (R2021a)
NEW Create Plot Live Editor Task: Add visualizations to generated plots (R2021b)
- Create plots interactively and generate code (R2021a)
NEW Plotting Table Data: Create scatter plots, bubble charts, and swarm charts by passing tables directly to plotting functions (R2021b)
NEW exportgraphics Function: Capture and append graphics to existing PDFs (R2021b)
bubblecloud Function: Visualize part-to-whole relationships (R2021a)
bubblechart, bubblechart3, and polarbubblechart Functions: Create bubble charts in 2D, 3D, and polar coordinates (R2020b)
swarmchart Function: Visualize distributions of discrete data (R2020b)
exportgraphics and copygraphics Functions: Save and copy graphics with improved support for publishing workflows (R2020a)
tiledlayout Function: Position, nest, and change the grid size of layouts (R2020a)
NEW Datastore Performance: Specify FileSet object in datastores for increased performance (R2021b)
Datastores: Read all data from a datastore using parallel processing (R2021a); combine and transform datastores (R2019a)
Datastore Write: Write large collections of data in datastores out to disk for data engineering and file-based workflows (R2020a)
tall Arrays: Operate on tall arrays with more functions, including:
groupfilterandmatches(2020a)setdiff, xcorr,andouterjoin(2019b)groupcounts, intersect,andsvd(2019a)
Custom Datastore: Read from Hadoop-based databases using the custom datastore framework (R2019a)
FileDatastore Object: Read large custom files by importing the file in smaller portions (R2019a)
NEW backgroundPool: Execute a function asynchronously without blocking the command prompt from MATLAB (R2021b)
NEW pyrun and pyrunfile Functions: Run Python commands and scripts from MATLAB (R2021b)
NEW Modular Indexing: Customize class indexing operations individually using new superclasses (R2021b)
name=value syntax: Use name=value syntax for any function using name-value arguments (R2021a)
Class Diagram Viewer: Create graphical class diagrams to explore class details and share designs (R2021a)
pattern Object: Create patterns for text searching in strings (R2020b)
Function Input Argument Validation: Declare function input arguments to simplify input error checking (R2020b, R2019b)
NEW table Indexing: Improved performance when assigning elements by subscripting with curly braces (R2021b)
NEW qrinsert and qrdelete Functions: Improved performance modifying QR factorizations (R2021b)
NEW Plots in Apps: Improved performance for creating plots in uifigure (R2021b)
Sparse Matrix Multiplication: Improved performance multiplying large sparse matrices (R2021a)
Sparse Linear Systems: Improved performance solving sparse linear systems A*X = B with multicolumn B (R2021a)
spdiags Function: Improved performance constructing sparse banded matrices (R2020b)
uitree Function: Improved performance when creating many nodes in a tree (R2020b)
Profiler: Investigate and improve the execution performance of your code visually using flame graphs (R2020a)
Live Editor: Improved performance in loops and animated plots (R2020a)
NEW MATLAB Online: Collaborate using projects and Git in MATLAB Online (R2021b)
NEW Unit Testing Framework: Use the TestCase class template to create tests more quickly and accurately (R2021b)
- Run tests in parallel on clusters and clouds (R2020b)
Out-of-Process Python Execution: Execute Python functions out-of-process to avoid library conflicts (R2019b)
Projects: Organize your work, automate tasks and processes, and collaborate with your team (R2019a)
C++ Interface: Call C++ library functions from MATLAB (R2019a)
Jenkins Plugin for MATLAB: Run MATLAB tests and generate test reports in formats such as JUnit, TAP, and Cobertura code coverage reports
New Reference Architectures: Deploy and run MATLAB on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure
NEW Arduino: Connect and Control Arduino board using the Arduino Explorer app (R2021b)
- Use Nano 33 BLE Sense board (R2021a)
- Use Arduino Engineering Kit examples included in Arduino support package (R2021a)
NEW Sensor Support: Read data from APDS9960 sensor connected to Arduino (R2021b)
- Use LSM and MPU sensors with Raspberry Pi unified server (R2021a)
NEW Raspberry Pi: Support for CAN shields (R2021b)
- Deploy with unified server (R2021a)
- Deploy MATLAB function on hardware from MATLAB Online (R2020b)
Acquire Webcam Image Live Editor Task: Interactively capture webcam images (R2020b)
Understand sensor measurements with the Arduino Explorer app.
