Key Features
    High-level language for scientific and engineering computing
    Desktop environment tuned for iterative exploration, design, and problem-solving
    Graphics for visualizing data and tools for creating custom plots
    Apps for curve fitting, data classification, signal analysis, and many other domain-specific tasks
    Add-on toolboxes for a wide range of engineering and scientific applications
    Tools for building applications with custom user interfaces
    Interfaces to C/C++, Java®, .NET, Python®, SQL, Hadoop®, and Microsoft® Excel®
    Royalty-free deployment options for sharing MATLAB programs with end users

R2016a: New Features, Bug Fixes, Compatibility Considerations
Desktop
Live Editor: Create and run live scripts with embedded output; add equations and images to enhance the interactive narrative
Toolboxes: Programmatically package and install custom MATLAB toolboxes with matlab.addons.toolbox package
Tab Completion: Complete parameter names and options in select MATLAB function calls
Pause Button: Pause the execution of a program from the Editor and enter debug mode
Toolboxes: Customize additions to MATLAB path upon toolbox installation
Preferences: Migrate preferences from MATLAB versions up to three releases preceding the release starting up
Internationalization: Default encoding scheme on Mac platforms will change in a future release

Language and Programming
datetime Object: Set the default locale and format of datetime objects through the Preference panel
zeros, ones, and eye Functions: Create logical arrays
cellstr, deblank, and strtrim Functions: Keep significant whitespace characters when removing leading or trailing whitespace
rowfun and varfun Functions: Create output table without row names when using the 'GroupingVariables' parameter
Debugging: Set breakpoints while MATLAB is executing
Functionality being removed or changed

Mathematics
Moving Statistics Functions: Calculate moving statistics using the movmean, movsum, movmedian, movmax, movmin, movvar, and movstd functions
datetime and duration Arrays: Compute standard deviations with std
datetime and duration Arrays: Ignore NaNs and NaTs using 'omitnan' or 'omitnat' in the functions mean, median, std, and sum
graph and digraph Classes: Analyze graphs and networks using centrality and nearest nodes functions
svds Function: Compute singular values with improved performance and convergence behavior with a wide variety of matrices
median Function: Compute medians with improved performance
cummin, cummax, cumprod, and cumsum Functions: Compute cumulative minimum, maximum, product, and sum with improved performance
GraphPlot Objects: Interactively inspect graph plots using data cursor and plot selection

Graphics
polarplot Function: Plot data in polar coordinates and modify properties of polar axes
yyaxis Function: Create charts with two y-axes and customize each y-axis individually
Legend Object: Add legend title and create callbacks to highlight plots when clicking legend items
histogram2 Function: Enable data linking and brushing for bivariate histograms
Function Plots: Visualize mathematical expressions as parametric line, surface, and contour plots
Graphics Display: Render plots with large numbers of markers faster
3-D Pan and Zoom: Explore data with improved pan and zoom behavior for axes in a 3-D view
Graphics Drivers: Use latest drivers to avoid instabilities with older NVIDIA Windows drivers
Printed Figure Size: Print or save figures that match size of the figure on the screen by default
print Function: Print figures that fill page using the '-fillpage' and '-bestfit' options
Figure Menu: Save figures that honor the PaperPosition value using File > Save As
Functionality being removed or changed

App Building
App Designer: Build MATLAB apps with line and scatter plots using an enhanced design environment and an expanded UI component set

Data Import and Export
writetable Function: Write to text files significantly faster, especially for large files
readtable Function: Read from Excel files with faster performance
writetable Function: Write to Excel files on Mac and Linux platforms
spreadsheetDatastore Function: Import and process data from a collection of Excel files
datastore Function: Import a TabularTextDatastore object with improved file format detection
ImageDatastore Object: Specify image labels using the Labels property and process with splitEachLabel, countEachLabel, and shuffle functions
fileDatastore Function: Create a custom datastore for a file collection too large to fit in memory
readtable Function: Read text files with automatic detection of delimiters, header lines, and variable names
tabularTextDatastore and imageDatastore Functions: Create objects to import large text and image data collections
writetable Function: Detect text with embedded delimiters automatically and write as quoted text
TabularTextDatastore Objects: Read text files with automatic detection of delimiters, header lines, and variable names
imread Function: Generate C-code using MATLAB Coder
Functionality being removed or changed

Performance
Performance Testing Framework: Measure MATLAB code performance using the unit testing framework
Graphics Display: Render plots with large numbers of markers faster
writetable Function: Write to text files significantly faster, especially for large files
readtable Function: Read from Excel files with faster performance
median Function: Compute medians with improved performance
cummin, cummax, cumprod, and cumsum Functions: Compute cumulative minimum, maximum, product, and sum with improved performance

Hardware Support
Raspberry Pi: Acquire images from USB webcams
Arduino: Build custom add-ons to interface with additional hardware and software libraries

Advanced Software Development
Performance Testing Framework: Measure MATLAB code performance using the unit testing framework
Unit Testing Framework: Quickly create explicit test suites using testsuite function
Unit Testing Framework: Access diagnostic information recorded on test results
Unit Testing Framework: Create temporary working folder using the WorkingFolderFixture
Unit Testing Framework: Test set membership and uniqueness with HasUniqueElements, IsSubsetOf, and IsSupersetOf constraints
Unit Testing Framework: Set up custom fixture to delegate work to another fixture
Unit Testing Framework: Exclude specified fields and properties from constraint comparison
Unit Testing Framework: Customize how the PathFixture fixture adds folders to the path
Property Definition: Restrict the class of property values
Property Definition: Define only one property per line in class definitions
event.hasListener Function: Determine if an event has listeners
event.DynamicPropertyEvent Class: Get dynamic property name from event data
Enumerations: Substitute character arrays using new class methods
waitfor Function: Suspend execution pending operations on any handle object
Source Control Integration: Display relation of local changes to remote branch
Source Control Integration: View summary status icon for folders
MATLAB Engine for Python: Start or connect asynchronously to MATLAB from Python
MATLAB builds with Boost library version 1.56.0
MEX command does not accept .bat or .sh compiler options files
Compiler support changed for building MEX files and standalone MATLAB engine and MAT-file applications
Functionality being removed or changed

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