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### What's new in Scilab 5.5.0?

GUI creation capabilities have been refactored:

- Improvements on figure creation functions with new properties.
- New uicontrol styles: tab, layer, spinner.
- New uicontrol properties.
- Uicontrol positionning and resizing can be managed using layouts.

This release also includes new sets of functions:

- HDF5 module allowing to read/write HDF5 files and datasets.
- Java external objects interface to interact directly with Java objects from Scilab. For more information, see the tutorial.
- Function getURL to retrieve/read remote files through ftp:// or http:// protocols.
- Possibility to translate Scilab external modules.
- MPI capabilities available in Scilab source tree (not activated by default).
- New erfi and dawson special functions.
- New daskr solver in Scilab and Xcos.

New graphics features aiming at improving Scilab usability and capabilities have been integrated:

- Improvements of Matplot function capabilities in order to display images in true colors.
- Management of lighting on 3-D graphics.
- New interactions on graphics enabling to edit graphics handles directly on figures using the mouse.
- Datatips features rewritten as native Java code.
- Customization capabilities on axes and ticks with dedicated properties.

Scilab switched to the version 2.1 of CeCILL license.

Many bug fixes and documentation improvements are also available in this release.

See Scilab 5.5.0 release notes.

### Documentations and help

This help is also available on http://help.scilab.org. It provides some advanced features like comments, favorites, search engine, etc.

If you are new to Scilab, you can have a look to the Scilab's keyword help pages.

Scilab Enterprises provides some documentations and tutorials.

Many other documentations are also available through the Scilab website.

### Other resources

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Scilab Enterprises - Professional services, developments and supports on Scilab.