Octave 3.01 out and runs a lot faster on Vista
Just a quickie, and something I missed so excuse the old new by a few weeks but the folks over at Octave have released a primarily bug fix release.
Download here - http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/download.html
Note: if you open Octave and then close the command line console that octave is open in using the window close icon the application will crash every time (or at least on Vista), to stop this you need to explicitly quit the application using the quit or exit command before closing the window.