Some potentially useful new features in Matlab 2014b:

  • graphics | n
    ew default colors, fonts, and styles; anti-aliased fonts and lines; simple syntax for changing graphics objects;
    new animated line function; improved histogram function;

  • [source control integration](

http://www.mathworks.co.uk/help/matlab/source-control.html

) |

Git and Subversion source control system integration through Current Folder browser, including syncing from Web-hosted repositories such as those on GitHub

  • datastore |
    object useful for reading collections of data that are too large to fit in memory

  • [imageSet class](

http://www.mathworks.co.uk/help/vision/ref/imageset-class.html
) | o
bject for storing image collection

  • [imregdemons](

http://www.mathworks.co.uk/help/images/ref/imregdemons.html
) and imwarp |
perform nonrigid image registration and image

warping using displacement fields

  • py package | access a
    ccess Python functionality from MATLAB

  • [MATLAB engine for Python](

http://www.mathworks.co.uk/help/matlab/matlab-engine-for-python.html
) | c
all MATLAB functions from Python

  • [toolbox distribution](

http://www.mathworks.co.uk/help/matlab/creating-help.html
) | create and share toolboxes

Utility of these remains to be determined, but many could be quite powerful.