v0.4

Cyclus 0.4 Release Notes

Author:	Cyclus Developers
Website:	http://fuelcycle.org/
Contact:	https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/cyclus-dev

The Cyclus core team is excited to announce the latest stable version of the cyclus ecosystem! This includes over 415 commits by 6 developers. Major features include,

• Brand new Dynamic Resource Exchange Procedure, removed the previous notion of markets, CEP18
• Continuous integration for all pull requests now occurs via BaTLab though polyphemus.
• Cleaned up API for agent instantiation and deallocation. Users no longer should worry about memory management of their agents.
• Added regression tests to the test suite.
• Many bug and testing issues were fixed.

Since v0.3, 207 files have changed encompassing a net 9173 line insertions(+) and 5043 deletions(-).

Changes from 0.3 to 0.4

New features

• added more detail about context agent ownership and stack agents are bad. (7682c6c)
• changed clone methods to use context-arg constructor (eaede68)
• changed xml Init[Core/Module]Member fan methods to be InitFrom chain. Gave agent class a default val for spec_ to facilitate testing of xml init methods. (3efb2b6)
• renamed InitCoreMembers to InitFrom (f6e0add)
• fixed deploy self as parent bug in xmlfileloader. Agent class removes 'this' from context agent_list_ in destructor to prevent some segfaults when agents are allocated on the stack causing a double delete (one by runtime and one by context). Put guard on context::DelAgent to only delete if the agent is in the agent_list_ (53ec514)
• made context agent management more universal. Made agent_list_ a std::set. added doc comment about context agent management. minor tweaks (45efa47)
• removed agent_list getters from context class. agent list is now entirely context-private (4b18f0d)
• updated exclusivity adjustment. this bug wasn't evident (or testable) because capacity-constraints will cause tomatch < remain which then will by definition be tomatch < excl_val of arc. all tests pass and alls well. (0ee97f2)
• made greedy algorithm a little simpler for exclusive arcs (deb90a0)
• added a namespace specifically for solver testing (9eaa900)
• exclusive bids now supported and tested (a098999)
• smaller hdf5 table chunk size and turn compression on (a3c4e98)
• trimmed fat from cyclus.rng.in and finished rng cleanup. (e1928dd)
• added authorship file (f021d01)
• moved test objects off the heap, fixes the building manager tests (d6d60e9)
• renamed timeagent ta vars to timelistener tl vars (3728fa0)
• removed boost date stuff from timer (60df1c9)
• renamed timeagent to timelistener and methods to just tick/tock. removed daily tasks (4b07b64)
• renamed EventManager to Recorder and renamed Event to Datum and EventBackend to RecBackend (8d2b9a6)
• initialized more members of the exchange node struct (3193d72)
• updated the initfrom interface to be easier to use/more intuitive (b2ba4e1)
• made context more resource generic (ed39a0d)
• buffers default to having a capacity (8497bf5)
• added a context helper for a facility with many input and output recipes and commodities (13cffc7)
• added a hook for the context to register a facility (136d13a)
• added a resource exchange class (4a810d9)
• added request portfolios and associated tests. required notion of equality of capacity constraints and requests and required notion of ordering of capacity constraints for use as a map key, so I added an id member and associated < operator. (f464cb8)
• added request class and associated tests for materials (202048c)

Known bugs

N/A

Contributors

The following people contributed to this release of Cyclus. A "*" by their name indicates a first time contributor. Names follow alphabetically,

• Robert Carlsen
• Royal Elmore
• Matthew Gidden
• Katy Huff
• Olzhas Rakhimov
• Anthony Scopatz
• Zach Welch
• Paul Wilson