Hi all,
As you can see in the attachment, Octave 4.0 has been released.
It comes with two major improvements: an official graphical user interface, and an official Windows installer.
With these improvements, I think that Octave can now become a first-class alternative to MATLAB for Dynare users.
I have started working on Octave 4.0 support for Dynare (in both 4.4 and master branches). It works well on some example MOD-files. The next step would be to run the whole testsuite. I hope to find some time to work on this, but don't hesitate to work on this too if I am not reactive enough.
Note that the current Windows installers of Dynare are probably not compatible with the Octave 4.0 installer (because of DLL incompatibilities). We could probably switch now the unstable snapshot to use Octave 4.0 (but this requires work on karaba, so ultimately this is your call). And then the next official release of Dynare could be with Octave 4.0 support.
For Debian users: Octave 4.0 should be available in experimental in a hopefully not too distant future (but I cannot tell when, because it depends on the action of some external team, which seems overloaded); in the meantime, I can send you binary packages if you are interested.
Best,