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Summary of important user-visible changes for communications 1.1.1:
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 ** The function `marcumq' has been moved to the signal package

 ** communications is no longer dependent on the image package

 ** The following functions are new:

      convenc

 ** The following functions have improved Matlab compatibility and tests:
      bi2de
      de2bi
      oct2dec

 ** The function `reedmullerdec' had a bug fix introduced on the
    previous release

 ** The function `huffmandeco' has been rewritten and made more
    efficient and should perform faster

 ** Fixed bug in `glu' which made it unusable

 ** Use of deprecated functions has been removed

 ** Package is no longer automatically loaded.