v0.8.1

v0.8.1

** 2022 12 22 **

A 🎄 holiday release! Not much has changed in a month, but we'd like to share it all the same. Notably, the Arbor GUI is co-released as of Arbor v0.8, and v0.8.1 will be no different.

Major new features

• Voltage Processes: add the VOLTAGE_PROCESS mechanism kind to modcc, allowing for direct writing to the membrane voltage (#2033)
• Spack gpu option: added conditional variant for cuda builds to enable GPU-based random number generation (#2043)
• SDE Tutorial (#2044)

Breaking changes since v0.7

• None 💃!

Bug fixed

• Fix ornstein_uhlenbeck example on gpu (#2039)
• Setting ARB_MODCC was broken and nunfunctional. Fixed. (#2029)
• The --cxx flag in arbor-build-catalogue is now properly used; falls back to c++. (#2051)

Full commit log

• Post release: add Zenodo entry, add Spack entry, update docs and scripts by @brenthuisman in #2036
• BUGFIX: add ARB_CUDA flag to example catalogue by @boeschf in #2039
• Additional builtin functions to Arbor's NMODL dialect by @boeschf in #2035
• Throw better errors when we cannot look up ion diffusivity by @thorstenhater in #2040
• ⚡ Voltage Processes by @thorstenhater in #2033
• simplify make catalogue by @boeschf in #2042
• spack gpu option by @boeschf in #2043
• Remove deprecated spike_detector. by @thorstenhater in #2041
• make ARB_MODCC functional again by @brenthuisman in #2029
• Yank v0.5 from Spack file, it does not build due to change in setting arch by @brenthuisman in #2037
• Use pugixml instead of libxml2 by @thorstenhater in #2048
• [BUGFIX] a-b-c: actually set compiler, improved default by @brenthuisman in #2051
• Sde Tutorial by @boeschf in #2044
• Set Python to known version for all CI workflows by @brenthuisman in #2058
• consistent mechanism ids by @boeschf in #2057
• Fix docs about exprelr. by @thorstenhater in #2064
• Allow __ in profiler names. by @thorstenhater in #2065
• CI fixes for wheel building, prep for musllinux, Spack by @brenthuisman in #2069

Full Changelog: v0.8...v0.8.1