About Octave Forge

Octave-Forge is a central location for the collaborative development of packages for GNU Octave.

The Octave-Forge packages expand Octave's core functionality by providing field specific features via Octave's package system. For example, image and signal processing, fuzzy logic, instrument control, and statistics packages are examples of individual Octave-Forge packages (browse the full list of packages).

Installation

Refer to the GNU Octave web site for information about how to install GNU Octave itsef on your specific OS.

Installing packages

You can find the list of packages by clicking on the Packages link at the top. To install a package, use the pkg command from the Octave prompt by typing:

pkg install -forge package_name

where package_name is the name of the package you want to install.

Getting in touch with the Octave Forge community

While GNU Octave and Octave Forge are separate projects, their communities are the same. See Octave's support page for help with Octave Forge.

If you have new code to contribute, submit it to the patch tracker. If you want to report a bug, use the bug tracker instead.

Recent News

This is a short abbreviated list of the changes that were introduced in recent versions of octave-forge. For a full list of changes please see the News Archive.

September 10, 2017: An example package is provided.
August 13, 2017: New lists of requested general contributions and of packages with new mainainers sought.
December 28, 2017: doctest-0.6.0 released
December 21, 2017: interval-3.1.0 released
November 10, 2017: image-2.6.2 released
October 21, 2017: io-2.4.8 released
August 24, 2017: dataframe-1.2.0 released
August 23, 2017: nan-3.1.4 released
August 22, 2017: interval-3.0.0 released
August 20, 2017: gsl-2.1.0 released