Changelog for octave-forge-io-2.4.8-1.1.x86_64.rpm :

* Thu Nov 09 2017 badshah400AATTgmail.com- Update to version 2.4.8:
* csv2cell(): Improve ignoring CR (char (13)) in csv files (bugs [#50979] and #50297)
* OCT interface: - More robust identification of worksheets (spreadsheets written with POI interface were misinterpreted) - Overhauled reading .xlsx files; catches more types: inlineString, Boolean, ...
* read_namelist.m: improve reading when ending char is not fist on line (bug #52242)
* Replace utf82unicode with native2unicode v.v. in Octave 4.4+
* If no filename extension is given, default to .xlsx rather than .xls
* xlsread.m and odsread.m now accept a function handle, an output options struct and interface as arguments after the third (range) argument, in any order.
* all spreadsheet I/O functions now accept an empty string as worksheet name, implying the first worksheet.
* Thu Nov 24 2016 dmitry_rAATTopensuse.org- Update to version 2.4.5
* New functions.
* Bug fixes.
* Sat Sep 17 2016 dmitry_rAATTopensuse.org- Update to version 2.4.3
* io_xls_testscript.m, io_ods_testscript.m: return results rather than bail out when hitting errors
* cell2csv: increase precision hen writing double values
* Bug fixes
* Fri Jul 08 2016 dmitry_rAATTopensuse.org- Update to version 2.4.2
* Changed several calls to (now deprecated) octave_config_info into calls to __have_feature__.m
* Add support for complex numbers in read_namelist.m and write_namelist.m
* Bug fixes
* Fri Jun 10 2016 dmitry_rAATTopensuse.org- Update to version 2.4.1 - xmlread.m and xmlwrite.m as replacement of the undocumented, unsupported and unusable binary code. - New function tidyxml.m: simply strips characters < 32 or > 126 from character arrays or cell arrays (including mixed cell arrays). - test_spsh.m now shows a nice summary of test results for each interface.
* Thu Oct 22 2015 dmitry_rAATTopensuse.org- Update to version 2.2.11
* Bug fixes
* Mon Sep 28 2015 dmitry_rAATTopensuse.org- Update to version 2.2.10
* Support for Named Ranges
* Bug fixes
* Tue Jul 14 2015 dmitry_rAATTopensuse.org- Update to version 2.2.9
* Bug fixes
* Mon Jun 22 2015 dmitry_rAATTopensuse.org- Update to version 2.2.8
* Bug fixes
* Sun Mar 08 2015 dmitry_rAATTopensuse.org- Update to version 2.2.7
* Bug fixes
* Thu Feb 26 2015 dmitry_rAATTopensuse.org- Split from octave-forge package, version 2.2.6