Octave-Forge is a central location for the collaborative development of packages for GNU Octave.

The Octave Forge packages contains the source for all the functions and are designed to work with the Octave package system. In general the packages are designed to work with the latest development version of Octave, but it should be possible to use most packages with earlier versions.

Installing packages

You can find the list of packages by clicking on the Packages link at the top. To install a package, use the pkg command from the Octave prompt by typing:

pkg install -forge package_name

where package_name is the name of the package you want to install.

While GNU Octave and Octave Forge are separate projects, their communities are the same. See Octave's support page for help with Octave Forge.

If you have new code to contribute, submit it to the patch tracker. If you want to report a bug, use the bug tracker instead.

For convenience Octave-Forge supplies pre-built installers for Octave:

Windows: installers
Mac OSX: install instructions

Recent News

This is a short abbreviated list of the changes that were introduced in recent versions of octave-forge. For a full list of changes please see the News Archive.

May 21, 2013

IO-1.2.2 released

May 20, 2013

database-2.2.0 released

May 4, 2013

octcdf-1.1.6 released

April 28, 2013

nurbs-1.3.7 released

April 9, 2013

splines-1.2.0 released

April 8, 2013

geometry-1.7.0 released
instrument-control-0.2.0 released

March 25, 2013

signal-1.2.2 released

March 18, 2013

database-2.1.1 released

March 17, 2013

signal-1.2.1 released

March 2, 2013

database-2.1.0 released
io-1.2.1 released
windows-1.2.1 released

February 23, 2013

windows-1.2.0 released

February 22, 2013

optiminterp-0.3.4 released
odepkg-0.8.4 released

February 19, 2013

database-2.0.1 released

February 17, 2013

control-2.4.2 released
econometrics-1.1.1 released

February 6, 2013

econometrics-1.1.0 released

February 5, 2013

queueing-1.2.1 released

February 3, 2013

database-2.0.0 released

January 28, 2013

spline-gcvspl package has been removed from Octave Forge

January 14, 2013

statistics-1.2.0 released

December 27, 2012

io-1.2.0 released

November 28, 2012

splines-1.1.2 released

November 26, 2012

splines-1.1.1 released

November 20, 2012

cgi-0.1.0 released

November 8, 2012

image-2.0.0 released

November 5, 2012

queueing-1.2.0 released
optim-1.2.2 released

November 1, 2012

control-2.4.1 released
fpl-1.3.3 released

October 26, 2012

bim-1.1.1 released
msh-1.0.6 released

October 25, 2012

quaternion-2.0.2 released

October 21, 2012

bim-1.1.0 released
msh-1.0.5 released

October 16, 2012

miscellaneous-1.2.0 released
combinatorics-2.0.0 released
physicalconstants-1.0.0 released

October 14, 2012

quaternion-2.0.1 released

October 12, 2012

generate_html-0.1.5 released
geometry-1.6.0 released

October 3, 2012

fuzzy-logic-toolkit-0.4.2 released
octclip-1.0.3 released
octproj-1.1.2 released

October 2, 2012

instrument-control-0.1.0 released

September 26, 2012

control-2.4.0 released

September 21, 2012

signal-1.2.0 released

September 15, 2012

control-2.3.54 released
optim-1.2.1 released

September 13, 2012

fpl-1.3.2 released

September 8, 2012

queueing-1.1.1 released

September 7, 2012

io-1.0.20 released

August 29, 2012

mechanics-1.3.1 released
openmpi_ext-1.1.0 released

August 27, 2012

control-2.3.53 released

August 26, 2012

fuzzy-logic-toolkit-0.4.1 released

August 24, 2012

mechanics-1.3.0 released

August 17, 2012

lssa-0.1.2 released

August 14, 2012

lssa-0.1.1 released

August 10, 2012

fpl-1.3.1 released

August 8, 2012

fpl-1.3.0 released

August 3, 2012

general-1.3.2 released

July 25, 2012

fits-1.0.2 released
java-1.2.9 released

July 24, 2012

splines-1.1.0 released

July 18, 2012

ncArray-1.0.0 released

July 10, 2012

fuzzy-logic-toolkit-0.4.0 released

July 3, 2012

octcdf-1.1.5 released

June 25, 2012

control-2.3.52 released

June 21, 2012

sockets-1.0.8 released

June 18, 2012

vrml-1.0.13 released

June 12, 2012

optim-1.2.0 released

June 8, 2012

io-1.0.19 released

June 5, 2012

geometry-1.5.0 released