Developments

Information about current developments and future versions is presented. Also problems and useful extensions reported by users are listed here. In particular, updated and new components can be downloaded here.

Changes in McStas version 1.5 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 1.8 | 1.9 | 1.10 | 1.11 | 1.12

Bugs:

• Current problems
  
• Problems in McStas versions prior to 1.4

Next version

Current version is 1.12, which was released May 8th, 2008.
A new version 2.0 will come up in spring 2009, but a bug fix release may appear during fall/winter 2008.
As explained in the manual, a change in the major release number should only occur in case of loss of backward compatibility. The main areas where this will happen is:

• Component parameter naming convention. We have defined a common nomemclature for similar components, easing the process of interchanging components.
• Polarisation. We are making serious progress in polarisation support, meaing that we will merge the existing STATE PARAMETERS (x,y,z,vx,vy,vz,t,s1,s2,p) and POLARISATION PARAMETERS (sx, sy, sz) to a new STATE PARAMETERS (x,y,z,vx,vy,vz,t,sx,sy,sz,p)

Since we have now defined that the next version will break (some) backward compatibilty, this list might extend slightly.

In the mean time, you may access our CVS server to get the bleeding edge development version (may contain bugs/incomplete implementations).

Please have a look at the FAQ if you need quick answers to common questions

Platform list

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Last Modified: Tuesday, 14-Oct-2008 15:55:05 CEST