There is an updated pull request by tornaria against master on the void-packages repository https://github.com/tornaria/void-packages octave https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/43252 octave: update to 8.1.0. #### Testing the changes - I tested the changes in this PR: **briefly** I did this on top of f #43153 to test the openblas update to 0.3.23. Also included a minor upgrade to GraphicsMagick. I built arpack-ng 3.9.0 and octave seems to work ok with the update. However, this causes a test failure on igraph (see https://github.com/igraph/igraph/issues/2311 and https://github.com/opencollab/arpack-ng/issues/401). This version is masked in gentoo (see https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sci-libs/arpack). A patch file from https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/43252.patch is attached