Changelog for octave-forge-strings-1.2.0-bp154.1.37.x86_64.rpm :

* Thu Mar 07 2019 Stefan Brüns - Fix build with current octave versions: Substitute gripes.h -> errwarn.h, functions gripe_
* -> err_
*
* Tue Jun 09 2015 dmitry_rAATTopensuse.org- Update to version 1.2.0
* The following functions have been removed since they are part of Octave core since 3.8: strjoin, strsort (use sort)
* The function editdistance has been almost rewritten and will perform much faster.
* Compatibility with Octave 4.0.0.
* Thu Feb 26 2015 dmitry_rAATTopensuse.org- Split from octave-forge package, version 1.1.0