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