Desktop

• Live Editor Tasks: Add tasks to live scripts to explore parameters and automatically generate code
• Live Editor Output: Animate plots to show changes in data over time
• Live Editor Output: Adjust the width of columns in tables
• Live Editor Output: Copy displayed data in cell arrays, object arrays, and struct arrays
• Live Editor Export: Customize figure format as well as document paper size, orientation, and margins when exporting
• Live Editor Internationalization: Add Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters on Windows and macOS platforms
• Add-On Manager: Update MATLAB, hardware support packages, and installed add-ons in one place
• Add-Ons: Programmatically manage add-ons by name
• Settings: Create persistent settings for custom apps, toolboxes, and multiple MATLAB sessions

Graphics

• Chart Container Class: Develop custom charts that behave like built-in MATLAB graphics
• tiledlayout and nexttile Functions: Display multiple plots in a figure with improved spacing, label and annotation management, and reflow behavior
• colororder Function: Control the color of lines in plots
• Data tips: Create data tips programmatically and customize data tips on additional charts
• Axes Interactions: Pin data tips at cursor location
• Axes Toolbar: Save or copy contents of axes as an image
• Geographic Plots: Plot data on basemaps with improved appearance and high zoom-level

App Building

• uitable and uistyle Functions: Sort tables interactively and create styles for rows, columns, or cells in a table UI component
• uihtml Function: Add HTML, JavaScript, or CSS content to apps
• uigridlayout Function: Configure grid rows and columns to automatically adjust their size to fit text across different screen sizes and form factors
• Layout Managers: Add a grid layout manager to existing App Designer apps and/or convert them into apps with auto-reflow

Mathematics

• makima Function: Perform modified Akima cubic Hermite interpolation

Data Import and Export

• table and timetable Data Types: Read and write tabular data that has variable names containing any characters, including spaces and non-ASCII characters
• sheetnames Function: Get names of worksheets from spreadsheet files
• VideoReader Object: Read or seek frames in videos using frame index or time interchangeably
• VideoReader Object: Improved performance in generated code with row-major layout
• High Performance Serial Interface: Stream serial data up to four times faster than the legacy serial interface
• Bluetooth Low Energy Interface: Read from and write to BLE devices

Language and Computing

• Function input arguments: Declare function input arguments to simplify input error checking
• Hexadecimal and Binary Numbers: Specify numbers using hexadecimal and binary literals
• Indexing: Use dot indexing into function calls
• Cloud Data Access: Support for Amazon S3 and Azure Blob Storage with delete, dir, isfile, isfolder, and what functions
• error Function: Added support for customizable "Did you mean:" corrections for uncaught exceptions

Software Development

• Python interface: Execute Python functions out-of-process to avoid library conflicts between MATLAB and Python
• Unit Testing Framework: Run tests in parallel with custom plugins
• Unit Testing Framework: Visually compare two TimeResult arrays to identify performance changes over time
• Compare Git Branches: Show difference between selection and save copies
• HTTP Web Services: Server authentication support for NTLM and Kerberos protocols

Hardware Support

• Bluetooth Low Energy Interface: Read from and write to BLE devices
• Parrot Drones: Stream video images from the FPV camera of a Parrot drone
• Parrot Drones: Support for Parrot Bebop 2 drone
• Arduino: Build standalone applications for communicating with Arduino hardware from a desktop computer

Data Analysis

• Live Editor Tasks: Use tasks to interactively preprocess data and automatically generate MATLAB code
• groupfilter Function: Filter data in a table, timetable, or matrix by group
• table and timetable Data Types: Variable names can have any characters, including spaces and non-ASCII characters
• tall Arrays: Operate on tall arrays with more functions, including setdiff and xcorr, and with full support for innerjoin and outerjoin
• tall Arrays: Tall arrays not initially backed by a datastore can grow out of memory

Performance

• Data Type Indexing: Improved performance when assigning elements by subscripting into large table, datetime, duration, and calendarDuration arrays
• uitable Function: Faster performance when data type is numeric, logical, or a cell array of character vectors

See the Release Notes for details.

Desktop

• Projects: Organize, manage, and share your work using projects
• Live Editor Controls: Add check boxes, edit fields, and buttons to control variable values and specify what code will run when a value changes
• Live Editor: Hide code when sharing and exporting live scripts
• Live Editor: Automatically refactor selected code into a function
• Live Editor Export: Save live scripts and functions as Microsoft Word documents
• Live Editor Output: Enable animations in plots to show changes in data over time
• Live Editor Output: Clean categorical data, filter datetimes, and change variable data types in table output interactively
• MATLAB Online: Share folders with a view-only link or invite individuals with view-only or edit permissions
• Toolbox Packaging: Install required add-ons with custom toolboxes

Graphics

• parallelplot Function: Visualize tabular or matrix data with multiple columns by using a parallel coordinates plot
• Data Tips: Pin and customize data tips in charts
• Axes Interactions: Customize chart interaction gestures such as dragging to pan, or scrolling to zoom
• Axes Interactions: Pan data by dragging the x, y or z axis without having to use the pan tool
• Property Inspector: Control visibility of graphics objects interactively
• Graphics Export: Export axes with tighter cropping using the axes toolbar

App Building

• App Designer: Create two and three panel apps that automatically resize and reflow contebased on device size
• App Designer: Add and configure a grid layout manager on the App Designer canvas
• uiimage Function: Display an icon, logo, or image in apps and on the App Designer canvas
• uitable Function: Use table arrays for faster rendering of data and to sort tables interactively
• Auto Resize: Automatically resize components when an app is made smaller than its default size.
• Graphics Support: Explore data using axes toolbar and data tips in apps created with the uifigure function
• MATLAB Online: Create and edit App Designer apps using MATLAB Online

Data Import and Export

• Datatype I/O: Use dedicated functions for reading and writing matrices, cell arrays, and timetables
• Parquet file support: Read and write single or large collections of Parquet files
• FileDatastore Object: Read large files by importing the file in smaller portions
• Custom Datastore: Read from Hadoop based databases using the custom datastore framework
• Datastores: Manage read errors when importing data from large collections of files
• Datastores: Combine and transform datastores
• thingSpeakRead and thingSpeakWrite Functions: Read or write data to the ThingSpeak IoT platform
• writetable and imwrite Functions: Write to web-based storage services like Amazon S3 and Azure Blob Storage

Hardware

• MATLAB Support Package for Parrot Drones: Control Parrot Mambo FPV drones and acquire sensor and image data
• Android Sensors: Acquire images from your mobile device camera in MATLAB Mobile
• Raspberry Pi: Build standalone applications for communicating with Raspberry Pi hardware from a desktop computer

Data Analysis

• xcorr and xcov Functions: Compute cross-correlation and cross-covariance
• detrend Function: Remove piecewise polynomial trends, set continuity requirements, and specify sample points
• groupcounts Function: Count the number of group elements for arrays, tables, and timetables
• grouptransform Function: Transform array data by group
• tall Arrays: Write custom sliding window algorithms to operate on tall arrays
• tall Arrays: Operate on tall arrays with more functions, including groupcounts, intersect, and svd
• filloutliers, isoutlier, and rmoutliers Functions: Detect outliers using percentiles

Performance

• sortrows Function: Sort rows of large matrices faster

Advanced Software Development

• C++ interface: Use classes and functions from C++ libraries in MATLAB
• C++ MEX: Execute MEX function out-of-process
• MException class: Provide a suggested fix for an uncaught exception
• Unit Testing Framework: Display code coverage metrics in HTML format

See the Release Notes for details.

Desktop

• Live Editor: Organize live scripts using additional subheading styles
• Live Editor: Navigate within a live script using internal hyperlinks
• Live Editor: Filter table output interactively, and then add the generated code to the live script
• Live Editor: Create new and open existing live scripts faster
• Comparison Tool: Merge two versions of a live script or function
• Add-On Manager: Install and manage multiple versions of a custom toolbox

Language and Programming

• string Arrays: Use string arrays in MATLAB, Simulink, and Stateflow
• Enumerations: Improved performance of set operations with enumerations

Mathematics

• boundaryshape Function: Create a polyshape object from a 2-D triangulation
• polyshape Objects: Specify when to keep collinear points when creating a polyshape
• RandStream Objects: Generate random numbers using Threefry and Philox algorithms
• GraphPlot Object: Customize node and edge labels with font properties

Graphics

• Axes Interactions: Explore data with panning, zooming, data tips, and 3-D rotation enabled by default
• Axes Toolbar: Access and customize a data exploration toolbar for each Axes object
• Geographic Plots: Create line, scatter, and point density plots on interactive maps and control properties of a geographic axes
• stackedplot Function: Plot variables of a table or timetable for comparison using a common x-axis
• scatterhistogram Function: Visualize grouped data as a scatter plot with marginal histograms
• sgtitle Function: Create a title for a grid of subplots
• xline and yline Functions: Add vertical or horizontal lines to a plot

Data Import and Export

• Import Tool: Generate improved code when importing from spreadsheets
• Web-Based Data: Read from web-based data sources like Amazon Web Services and Azure Blob Storage using readtable, detectImportOptions, spreadsheetDatastore, imread, and imfinfo
• write Function: Write tall arrays in a variety of formats to local or remote locations
• stlread and stlwrite Functions: Read from and write to STL (Stereolithography) files for triangulations
• TabularTextDatastore Object: Import data containing dates and times from non-English locales

Data Analysis

• grouptransform Function: Transform table or timetable data by groups
• groupsummary Function: Perform group summary computations on matrices
• tall Arrays: Write custom algorithms to operate on tall arrays
• tall Arrays: Operate on tall arrays with more functions, including conv2, wordcloud, and groupsummary
• rmoutliers Function: Remove outliers in an array, table, or timetable
• islocalmin and islocalmax Functions: Specify a range of data for prominence computation
• Table and Timetable Metadata: Store custom metadata for each variable
• timetable Data Type: Save memory when storing row times with regular time steps

App Building

• App Designer: Add and configure date selection components on the App Designer canvas
• uigridlayout Function: Configure app layouts using a grid layout manager
• Scrolling Containers: Enable scrolling for figure, panel, tab, and button group containers
• Figure Interactions: Create apps with custom mouse and keyboard interactions using figures created with the uifigure function
• Tooltips: Create custom tooltips for UI components in apps
• Deployed Web Apps: Access files in deployed web apps using the uigetfile and uiputfile functions

Performance

• Startup: Increased speed of MATLAB startup
• Execution Engine: Index into large arrays with improved performance when using the colon operator
• Execution Engine: Faster calls to built-in functions
• Live Editor: Create new and open existing live scripts faster
• Enumerations: Improved set function performance with enumerations

Hardware Support

• MATLAB Online: Communicate with Raspberry Pi hardware board from MATLAB Online
• iOS and Android Sensors: Acquire sensor data when your device does not have network access
• iOS and Android Sensors: Upload sensor logs from the device to MATLAB Drive

Advanced Software Development

• Python Interface: Pass multidimensional numeric or logical arrays between MATLAB and Python
• C++ MEX API: Call MATLAB asynchronously from within a MEX file using the C++ API
• Unit Testing Framework: Run tests in parallel with more plugins and more intelligent scheduling
• Performance Testing Framework: Measure execution time of fast code more accurately with the TestCase.keepMeasuring method

See the Release Notes for details.

Desktop

• Live Editor: Create live functions with richly formatted documentation, including equations and images
• Live Editor: Debug live functions and scripts
• Live Editor: Add sliders and drop-down lists to control variable values in a live script
• Live Editor: Sort table data interactively
• Live Editor: Create a table of contents and add formatted code examples​
• Live Editor: Select and edit a rectangular area of code
• Add-Ons Explorer: Browse by category to discover convenient, helpful add-ons

Mathematics

• graph and digraph Objects: Work with multigraphs that have multiple edges between two nodes
• GraphPlot Object: Visualize graphs with additional options for 'force', 'force3', and 'circle' layouts
• polyshape Objects: Analyze polygons with turningdist, nearestvertex, and overlaps functions
• polybuffer Function: Create buffer around points or lines

Graphics

• Axes Object: View axes at small size with improved layout, limit selection, and font scaling
• Axes Object: Map data values to colormap using linear or logarithmic scale
• Legend Object: Create legends with multiple columns
• heatmap Function: Zoom and pan data, display data tips, and sort rows and columns interactively
• geobubble Function: Explore with interactive data tips and a scale bar​ ​

Data Import and Export

• readtable Function: Specify the number of rows to read from a text file using import options
• readtable Function: Easily manage prefixes and suffixes from data using import options
• preview Function: Preview first 8 rows of a table in a file without importing the full table
• imageDatastore Function: Work with millions of images with improved memory usage and performance
• VideoReader Function: Read video files faster on all platforms

Data Analysis

• groupsummary Function: Group and discretize data for summary operations on table and timetable variables
• Table and Timetable Variables: Add, delete, and rearrange column-oriented variables with the functions addvars, removevars, movevars, splitvars, mergevars, rows2vars, and inner2outer
• Preallocated Tables and Timetables: Initialize table and timetable variables so that they have specified sizes and data types
• Regular Timetables: Create regularly spaced timetables using a time step or sampling rate
• retime and synchronize Functions: Synchronize timetables to a time step or sampling rate that you specify
• duration Arrays: Create duration arrays from text that represents elapsed times
• normalize Function: Normalize array, table, and timetable data
• tall Arrays: Operate on tall arrays with more functions, including smoothdata, find, and isoutlier

App Building

• App Designer: Create deployed web apps using MATLAB Compiler
• App Designer: Add and configure tree components on the App Designer canvas
• App Testing Framework: Author automated tests for App Designer apps
• Figure Objects: Maximize and minimize figures programmatically
• uitable Function: Specify data as table array
• uidatepicker Function: Add date selection controls to apps
• uiprogressdlg Function: Create modal in-app progress dialog boxes to apps

Performance

• Startup: Increased speed of MATLAB startup time
• Execution Engine: Execute tight loops with scalar math faster
• Execution Engine: Improved performance for common programming patterns

Hardware Support

• Raspberry Pi: Support for Raspberry Pi Zero W board
• MATLAB Online: Acquire live images from USB webcams in MATLAB Online

Advanced Software Development

• Tab Completion: Describe your function syntaxes for custom tab completion and other contextual suggestions
• Unit Testing Framework: Run tests from the MATLAB Editor toolstrip
• App Testing Framework: Author automated tests for App Designer apps
• matlab.net.http Package: Stream data to and from a web service and handle forms and multipart messages
• C++ MEX Interface: Access MATLAB data and objects easier from C++

See the Release Notes for details.

Desktop

• Live Editor: Write MATLAB commands with automated, contextual hints for arguments, property values, and alternative syntaxes​​​​​
• Live Editor: Export live scripts to LaTeX format​​​​​​​​​
• Live Editor: Display high-resolution plots in PDF output​​​
• Live Editor: Horizontally align text, equations, and images​​​​​​​​​​​
• Documentation: Use the Live Editor in a web browser to open, edit, and run MATLAB online documentation examples
• MATLAB Drive: Store, access, and manage your files from anywhere
• Add-On Manager: Customize your MATLAB environment by enabling and disabling add-ons​​​​​​
• Add-On Manager: Find installed add-ons faster using sort and search​​​​​​​​​​
• Toolbox Packaging: Create a Getting Started Guide for your toolbox from a Live Script template​​​​​​​​​​​​​
• Toolbox Packaging: Share your toolbox on File Exchange directly when you package it​​​​

Language and Programming

• Code Compatibility Report: Generate a report that helps the updating of code to a newer MATLAB release​​

Mathematics

• decomposition Object: Solve linear systems repeatedly with improved performance
• lsqminnorm Function: Find minimum-norm solution of underdetermined linear system
• dissect Function: Reorder sparse matrix columns using nested dissection ordering
• vecnorm Function: Compute vector-wise norms of arrays
• polyshape Object: Create, analyze, and visualize 2-D polygons

Graphics

• geobubble Function: Create an interactive map with bubbles whose size and color vary with data values
• wordcloud Function: Display words at different sizes based on frequency or custom size data
• binscatter Function: Visualize data density with dynamic bin size adjustment
• Tall Array Support: Visualize out-of-memory data using plot, scatter, and binscatter
• heatmap Function: Sort rows and columns and use custom labels in a heatmap
• bar Function: Control individual bar colors

Data Import and Export

• Custom Datastore: Build a customized datastore
• datastore Function: Work with data stored in Windows Azure Blob Storage

Data Analysis

• ischange Function: Detect abrupt changes in data
• islocalmin and islocalmax Functions: Detect local minima and maxima in data
• rescale Function: Scale data to a specified range
• tall Arrays: Operate on tall arrays with more functions, including fillmissing, filter, median, polyfit, and synchronize
• timetable Data Container: Specify whether each variable in a timetable contains continuous or discrete data using the VariableContinuity property

App Building

• App Designer: Create apps with a wide variety of 2-D and 3-D plots
• App Designer: Add menus to an app from the Component Library
• App Designer: Specify input arguments when running an app
• App Designer: Add a summary, description, and screenshot for app packaging and compiling
• uitree and uitreenode Functions: Create trees and tree nodes in apps
• uiconfirm Function: Create modal in-app confirmation dialog boxes
• Toolbox Packaging: Add App Designer apps to the Apps Gallery upon toolbox installation
• MATLAB Online: Run App Designer apps in MATLAB Online

Performance

• App Designer: Load apps faster
• Execution Engine: Improved performance for vectorized math on CPUs with AVX2​​​
• Live Editor: Run live scripts with loops faster

Hardware Support

• Arduino: Wirelessly connect to Arduino boards using low-cost Bluetooth adaptors
• Arduino Setup UI: Set up a connection to your Arduino board over USB, Bluetooth, or WiFi
• Arduino Plug-In Detection: Discover available Arduino support and examples when plugging a compatible Arduino board

Advanced Software Development

• MATLAB Engine API for C++: Run MATLAB code from C++ programs with object-oriented programming support and asynchronous execution
• MATLAB Engine API for C++: Pass data between C++ programs and MATLAB using MATLAB Data Array
• Java SE 8: MATLAB support, providing improved security and access to new Java features​​​
• MinGW 5.3: MATLAB support​​​
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2017: MATLAB support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Community, Professional, and Enterprise editions​
• Python Version 3.6: MATLAB support
• MATLAB Handle class method: Add a listener for an event without binding the listener to the source object
• Unit Testing Framework: Provide code coverage reports in the Cobertura format for improved continuous integration workflows​​​

See the Release Notes for details.

Desktop

• Live Editor: Edit a figure interactively including title, labels, legend, and other annotations
• Live Editor: Get suggestions for mistyped commands and variables
• Live Editor: Copy live script outputs to other applications
• Live Editor: Hover over variables to see their current value
• Add-On Explorer: Discover and install File Exchange submissions hosted on GitHub in Add-On Explorer
• MATLAB Online: Access MATLAB through your web browser

Language and Programming

• string Arrays: Create string arrays using double quotes
• missing Function: Assign missing values in core data types, including double, datetime,  and  string arrays
• issortedrows Function: Determine if matrix and table rows are sorted
• sort and sortrows Functions: Specify options for sorting complex numbers and placing missing elements
• issorted Function: Query sort order with monotonic, strictly monotonic, strictly ascending, and strictly descending options

Graphics

• heatmap Function: Visualize table or matrix data as a heatmap
• legend Function: Create legends that update when data is added to or removed from the axes
• Categorical Plotting: Use categorical data in common plotting functions and customize axes with categorical rulers
• histogram Function: Plot histograms of datetime and duration data

Data Import and Export

• datastore and tabularTextDatastore Functions: Automatically detect and return date and time data in text files​
• Import Tool: Import strings and categorical arrays interactively
• detectImportOptions Function: Control import properties of fixed-width text files
• RESTful web services: Support for PUT and DELETE HTTP methods in webread, webwrite, and websave​​​

Data Analysis

• tall Arrays: Operate on tall arrays with more functions, including ismember, sort, conv, and moving statistics functions
• isoutlier and filloutliers Functions: Detect and replace outliers in an array or table
• smoothdata Function: Smooth noisy data in an array or table with filtering or local regression
• summary Function: Calculate summary statistics and variable information in tables and timetables
• movmad and movprod Functions: Compute moving median absolute deviation and moving product of an array
• bounds Function: Simultaneously determine the smallest and largest elements of an array
• fillmissing Function: Replace missing data in an array or table using moving mean or moving median option

App Building

• App Designer: Learn to build apps using an interactive tutorial
• App Designer: Zoom and pan plots
• App Designer: Configure columns of a table to automatically fill the entire width of the table
• App Designer: Manage common design-time settings using the Preferences dialog box

Performance

• Execution Engine: Improved performance for setting MATLAB object properties
• save Function: Save MAT v7.3 files without compression for improved performance on some storage devices
• memoize Function: Cache results of a function to avoid rerunning when called with the same inputs
• Scripts: Improved performance of scripts with lower script overhead
• try, catch Block: Improved performance of try blocks with lower execution overhead

Hardware Support

• Arduino: Read from quadrature encoders
• Arduino: Wirelessly connect to Arduino MKR1000 board over WiFi

Advanced Software Development

• Object Properties: Validate object property values by their type, size, shape, or other parameters​​
• Mocking Framework: Isolate a portion of a system to test by imitating behavior of dependent components
• Unit Testing Framework: Capture screenshots and figures generated during tests using TestReportPlugin​
• Unit Testing Framework: Control runtests function with debug, strict, and verbosity options​
• Performance Testing Framework: View statistics from test measurements with the sampleSummary method

See the Release Notes for details.