8.4.0 alpha2
Pre-release
Early prerelease for Octave.app 8.4.0. Minor update of 8.4.0 alpha1, mostly about minor packaging cleanup, and picking up new versions of dependencies, including suite-sparse.
Special Installation Instructions
TL;DR: Use xattr -c to un-quarantine the DMG before opening it.
After downloading the DMG, before opening it (double-clicking it) to do the installation, you must first "un-quarantine" it. Open Terminal and run xattr -c ~/Downloads/Octave-8.*.dmg. Then you can double-click the DMG file and proceed to install it as usual. If you don't do this extra xattr -c step, it will probably just give you an "app is damaged" error instead of launching when you try to run it from /Applications. Sorry; working on fixing this. See #244.
Requirements and Targets
This prelease has both an Apple Silicon and Intel build. They're distinguished by the file names for the DMG: an "Intel" suffix for the Intel one; no suffix for the Apple Silicon one, since Apple Silicon is basically the standard/default for Macs now.
This was built on macOS 14. Probably works on macOS 12 and 13, but will kick out a bunch of error messages during the test suite (if you do __run_test_suite__).