Surprice "gift" inside the Octave package

Today I noticed that my Octave packages got upgraded to Octave 3.2 (from 3.1). I don't know when that happened, but I immediately typed news to see what's new. I was expecting a few bug fixes, one or two new features and some code rewrites. I was wonderfully surprised by the large number of major changes that come with 3.2.
The full list is available on http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/NEWS-3.2.html, but just to mention a few:

• Many optimizations: sorting and searching, matrix transposition, array indexing, logical operators, etc.
  
• Block comments: this will allow me to easily comment large chunks of code
  
• Object Oriented Programming: I'm not sure how soon I'll get to use that, but it's nice to know it is there.