Thank you for installing GNU Octave!
Octave 6.1 is a major release with many new features and improvements. Among other things, it brings updates for Matlab compatibility, better graphics, and many general improvements since version 5.2.
A full list of changes can be found in the Release Notes from the News menu.
By default, Octave now installs to the system wide default program installation
location (likely inside C:\Program Files\GNU Octave).
It is now also possible to install Octave without administrative privileges.
In that case (or if an admin choses to install for the "local user" only),
the default installation location is inside
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\GNU Octave.
During the installation, a default BLAS library was selected. The installer contains two BLAS implementations, the NetLib reference BLAS and OpenBLAS.
The used implementation can be changed after installation with the "BLAS Switcher" in the Start menu.
A number of Octave-Forge packages has been included with Octave for Windows. However, the packages must be loaded in order to use them.
pkg list command.pkg load PACKAGENAME command.Other packages are available from Octave-Forge.
Octave has a community that lives from its users. You are welcome to share with that community.
For help and support, visit the Octave Discourse forum.
Please, report any problems with Octave on the Octave website.