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# Index

# Gnuplot 6.0 NewFeatures

Version 6 is the latest major release in a history of gnuplot development dating back to 1986. It follows major version 5 (2015) and subsequent minor version releases 5.2 (2017) and 5.4 (2020). Development continues in a separate unreleased branch in the project git repository on SourceForge.

Some features described in this document are present only if chosen and configured at the time gnuplot is compiled from source. To determine what configuration options were used to build the particular copy of gnuplot you are running, type show version long.

Subtopics

- Function blocks and scoped variables
- Special and complex-valued functions
- New plot styles
- Hulls, masks, and smoothing
- Named palettes

- New data formats
- New built-in functions and array operations
- Program control flow
- Multiplots
- New terminals and terminal options

- Watchpoints
- Week-date time support
- Other new features
- Brief summary of features introduced in version 5