Thank you for installing GNU Octave!
Octave 6.2 is a minor release which mainly fixes bugs and regressions found since the release of version 6.1.
A full list of changes can be found in the Release Notes from the News menu.
Since version 6.1, Octave installs to the system wide default program
installation location (likely inside C:\Program Files\GNU Octave)
by default.
It is a known issue that some operations might fail if Octave is installed in
a location containing spaces if short file names have been disabled for the file
system of the installation folder. Some systems seem to have disabled that
feature for some partitions (e.g., on D:). If you are unsure
whether your file system supports short file names, chose an installation folder
that doesn't contain spaces.
It is now also possible to install Octave without administrative privileges.
In that case (or if an admin choses to install for the "local user" only),
the default installation location is inside
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\GNU Octave.
During the installation, a default BLAS library was selected. The installer contains two BLAS implementations, the NetLib reference BLAS and OpenBLAS.
The used implementation can be changed after installation with the "BLAS Switcher" in the Start menu.
A number of Octave-Forge packages has been included with Octave for Windows. However, the packages must be loaded in order to use them.
pkg list command.pkg load PACKAGENAME command.Other packages are available from Octave-Forge.
Octave has a community that lives from its users. You are welcome to share with that community.
For help and support, visit the Octave Discourse forum.
Please, report any problems with Octave on the Octave website.