Scilab news https://www.scilab.org/ en Scilab 2026.1.0 has been released!!! Scilab 2026.1.0 has been released This release brings new features:
  • Automatic expansion in arithmetic operators, No more repmat() or Kronecker product (.*.)
  • Inline documentation with help()
  • Statistics: pdist(), pdist2(), summary() and more...
  • A complete set of native XLSX functions
  • Parquet & Arrow support
Discover more on the announcement post and download it. ]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 15:48:40 +0100 Scilab / Dassault Systèmes 232 Scilab 2026.0.1 - Hotfix release Scilab 2026.0.1 - Hotfix release This release fixes parser and object-related bugs that caused crashes in edge cases.

For enhanced stability and reliability, we strongly recommend upgrading to Scilab 2026.0.1.

Download it and view the changelog. ]]> Thu, 05 February 2026 14:31:00 +0100 Scilab / Dassault Systèmes 231 Classification functions, clustering algorithms
In Scilab 2026.0.0, two widely used clustering algorithms are now built-in:
  • dbscan() for density-based clustering
  • meanshift() for mode-seeking clustering
Discover more on the dedicated post. ]]> Wed, 14 Jan 2026 10:00:25 +0100 Scilab / Dassault Systèmes 230 Objects in Scilab Classes, instantiation, and multiple inheritance In Scilab 2026.0.0, a new object-oriented programming (OOP) paradigm has been introduced using the keyword classdef.
  • Classes with properties, methods and enumeration
  • Constructors for instance initialization
  • Member visibility (public / protected / private)
  • Multiple inheritance (well-defined and documented method resolution)
Discover more on the dedicated post. ]]> Thu, 20 November 2025 14:31:00 +0100 Scilab / Dassault Systèmes 229 Scilab 2026.0.0 has been released!!! Scilab 2026.0.0 has been released This release brings new features: Discover more on the announcement post and download it. ]]> Thu, 16 October 2025 14:31:00 +0100 Scilab / Dassault Systèmes 228 Extension for Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code, commonly named VS Code, is a source-code editor developed by Microsoft for various programming languages, Scilab has its own extension developed by the Numerical Computation Team at Dassault Systèmes.

Install it now and enjoy the features: syntax highlighting, code snippets, completion with help, debugging, etc..

]]> Mon, 10 Feb 2025 11:42:53 +0100 Scilab / Dassault Systèmes 226 Jupyter scilab-kernel 0.10.0 has been released https://scilab.discourse.group/t/jupyter-scilab-kernel-0-10-0-has-been-released/405
New release for Jupyter scilab-kernel is available.
It fixes various issues and works with all recent Scilab versions.

Happy notebook coding!
]]> Thu, 22 Feb 2024 16:19:51 +0100 Scilab / Dassault Systèmes 223 New language feature “arguments” https://scilab.discourse.group/t/new-language-feature-arguments-introduced-in-scilab-2024-0-0/367
This will simplify the writing of input arguments validation, standardize messages and add readability of code by avoiding blocks of checkers.
It might also speed up functions with a lot of checks.
]]> Mon, 29 Jan 2024 10:21:51 +0100 Scilab / Dassault Systèmes 222 Timeseries: Simple Use Case https://scilab.discourse.group/t/timeseries-simple-use-case/253 Have you seen that timeseries have been added in Scilab 2024.0.0? Discover more on our post on Discourse.

]]> Wed, 06 Dec 2023 11:19:41 +0100 Scilab / Dassault Systèmes 220 Web tools in Scilab 6.1 https://www.scilab.org/news/data-import-in-scilab-6.1 Web tools in Scilab Leverage the new functions for server communication, based on the well known web protocol HTTPS:
  • GET to simply get data from remote location.
  • POST to exchange data with the server through the request.
It enables seemless exchanges with remote servers, by connecting to their API (i.e. the interface they provide to the outside). ]]> Sun, 05 Apr 2020 12:00:00 +0000 Scilab / ESI Group 214 Data import in Scilab https://www.scilab.org/news/data-import-in-scilab-6.1 Data import in Scilab A uiimport facilitate the import of data coming from .txt and .csv files. It provides an interface to csvRead function to facilitate the entry of arguments such as separator, decimal, conversion, header. ]]> Tue, 03 Mar 2020 12:00:00 +0000 Scilab / ESI Group 212 Feedbacks on Scilab Conference 2019 https://www.scilab.org/news/feedbacks-scilab-conference-2019 Scilab Conference 2019

Keynote of CNES French Space Agency on the Asteroidlander MASCOT boarding the Hayabusa2 mission in collaboration with the Japanese Space Agency JAXA and the German Aerospace Center DLR.

Discover Scilab usage from Deimos Satellite Systems, Altran, X2C - Linz Center of Mechatronics, Microchip, Ostfalia University of Applied Science, and more...

]]> Tue, 15 Oct 2019 12:00:00 +0000 Scilab / ESI Group 209 Feedbacks on Scilab Conference 2018 https://www.scilab.org/news/feedbacks-scilab-conference-2018

Discover Scilab usage from Fraunhofer IIS, ArcelorMittal, Sanofi, Qualcomm, INRA, and CNES, and more...

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