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What's New in Release 2008a

2008a版本的更新

Release 2008a includes new features in MATLAB and Simulink, two new products, and updates and bug fixes to 82 other products.

2008a版本对MATLBA和Simulink这两个产品大类增加了一些新特性，另外增加两个新的产品，还对其他82个产品进行了更新和故障修正。

Subscribers to MathWorks™ Software Maintenance Service can download product updates.

订阅 MathWorks™ 软件维护服务的客户可以下载产品更新。

Beginning with R2008a, the MATLAB and Simulink product families require activation.

从R2008a版本开始，MATLAB和Simulink产品家族将需要激活。

R2008a also introduces the License Center, an online tool that addresses common license administration needs.

R2008a版本也增加了“许可证中心”，这是一个为了满足普通的许可证管理需要的在线工具。

New capabilities for the MATLAB^® product family include:

MATLAB^® 产品家族包含的新特性:

                          State-of-the-art object-oriented programming in MATLAB, including full support for classes and objects, inheritance, methods, properties, events, and packages

                          在新版本的MATLAB中，增加了优异的面向对象编程支持，这包括对类和对象、继承、方法、属性、事件和封装的完全支持。

                          Interior point solver and parallel computing support for large-scale optimization problems in Optimization Toolbox

                          在优化工具箱中，增加了针对大规模优化问题的内点算法求解器和并行计算支持。

                          Linear Complementarity Program (LCP) for mean-variance portfolio optimization in Financial Toolbox

                          在金融工具箱中，增加了针对均值-方差模型下的投资组合优化问题求解的线性互补程序（LCP）。

                          Full support for PBS Pro® and TORQUE schedulers with Parallel Computing Toolbox

                          并行计算工具箱增加了对PBS Pro® 和 TORQUE 调度程序的完全支持。

                          Cross validation, feature selection, quasi-random numbers, and partial least squares in Statistics Toolbox

                          在统计工具箱中，增加了交叉验证，特征选择，拟随机数和偏最小二乘法。