date for release of Matlab 2012b general release

when will the new version be out (2012b) - NOT pre-release, but general release

Answer 1

[Teja Muppirala]

There you go:

http://www.mathworks.com/index.html

http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/whatsnew.html

[Walter Roberson]

Huh! I checked less than 15 minutes before your Answer and it hadn't been released yet!

[Matt Tearle]

Membership has its privileges :)

Answer 2

[Sean de Wolski]

It will be available when it is available :)

[Walter Roberson]

Mathworks rarely says more than two days ahead of time.

Answer 3

[Walter Roberson]

Related note: when I bought R2012a about a week ago, early August 2012, the "one year" software support subscription that was provided extended to at least the end of September 2013, so I should receive R2012a, R2012b and R2013a and R2013b all with the one purchase.

[Aurelien Queffurust]

+1 it is the tip of the day !!

Answer 4

[Daniel Shub]

About 6 months ago, the identical question about the R2012a release date was asked. I looked at Wikipedia and concluded that you can expect releases the first couple of days of March/September, but if it doesn't come by that first week it could be a while.

Answer 5

[Razvan]

My guess: tomorrow, Sep. 4, 2012...

[Jan]

Failed prediction.

Answer 6

[Image Analyst]

By the way, they're calling R2012b "Version 8.0". I guess they think it's a more substantial change than the prior 14 versions of version 7. Actually I wish they'd just drop that number version and just go with the year version numbers. I never know what people are talking about when they say "I'm using version 7.5" but it's clear when they say R2010b or whatever.

[Walter Roberson]

Interesting. I wonder if this means it has "Handle Graphics 2" ?

[Jan]

The numerical version number is important to check for the existence of features:

V = [100, 1] * sscanf(version, '%d.', 2);
if V >= 705, ...

Trying this with an automatic conversion of "R2009b Servicepack 1" is cruel.

There is a Release<>Version table on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATLAB. I've printed it on paper and stick it to the wall beside the monitor. Btw, you'd find my personal reputation list there also: User name versus number of hours or minutes or seconds I'm wanting to invest in the creation of answers.

Answer 7

[Rolfe Dlugy-Hegwer]

You can download R2012b at http://www.mathworks.com/products/new_products/latest_features.html?s_tid=hp_spot_r2012b_0912