maint: merge stable to default

Author: jweaton

.hgtags

@@ -144,3 +144,4 @@ d0c18b1446dfce3dd2c9953fb8d51341b680f384 release-9-1-0
 75ef583dd829d9190a90295b7e530364c3ff0ed7 rc-9-1-90
 f7f956555e4ab8a05d52a9be4c24209670b870d2 release-9-2-0
 5854a65df8f59c0071eea5c51ed386ab779729bc release-9-3-0
+df465cbba05afa74d56e66204badaff3c50fd503 release-9-4-0

CITATION

@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
 To cite GNU Octave in publications use:
 
   John W. Eaton, David Bateman, Søren Hauberg, Rik Wehbring (2024).
-  GNU Octave version 9.3.0 manual: a high-level interactive language for
+  GNU Octave version 9.4.0 manual: a high-level interactive language for
   numerical computations.
-  URL https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/v9.3.0/
+  URL https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/v9.4.0/
 
 A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is:
 
   @manual{,
-    title     = {{GNU Octave} version 9.3.0 manual: a high-level interactive language for numerical computations},
+    title     = {{GNU Octave} version 9.4.0 manual: a high-level interactive language for numerical computations},
     author    = {John W. Eaton and David Bateman and S{\o}ren Hauberg and Rik Wehbring},
     year      = {2024},
-    url       = {https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/v9.3.0/},
+    url       = {https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/v9.4.0/},
   }
 
 We have invested a lot of time and effort in creating GNU Octave, please

configure.ac

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ OCTAVE_VERSION="$PACKAGE_VERSION"
 
 OCTAVE_COPYRIGHT="Copyright (C) 1993-2024 The Octave Project Developers."
 
-OCTAVE_RELEASE_DATE="2024-06-01"
+OCTAVE_RELEASE_DATE="2025-02-05"
 
 ## The "API version" is used as a way of checking that interfaces in the
 ## liboctave and libinterp libraries haven't changed in a backwardly

etc/NEWS.9.md

@@ -1,6 +1,18 @@
 For (bug #XXXXX) see https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?XXXXX
 
-Summary of bugs fixed for version 9.4.0 (tbd):
+Summary of bugs fixed for version 9.5.0 (tbd):
+-----------------------------------------------------
+
+### Improvements and fixes
+
+### GUI
+
+### Build system / Tests
+
+### Documentation
+
+
+Summary of bugs fixed for version 9.4.0 (2025-02-05):
 -----------------------------------------------------
 
 ### Improvements and fixes

etc/icons/org.octave.Octave.metainfo.xml

@@ -198,6 +198,7 @@ along with Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, see
   </developer>
   <content_rating type="oars-1.0"/>
   <releases>
+    <release date="2025-02-05" version="9.4.0"/>
     <release date="2024-12-12" version="9.3.0"/>
     <release date="2024-06-01" version="9.2.0"/>
     <release date="2024-03-14" version="9.1.0"/>