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@wangenau wangenau released this 07 Aug 15:24
· 546 commits to main since this release
  • New features
    • Complete rewrite of the Atoms and SCF classes
      • Easily allow systems with different charge or multiplicity
      • Document all public properties
      • Use properties when parsing input arguments
      • Allow direct setting of attributes
      • Better input handling
      • Use an Occupations object to store electronic states information in Atoms
      • Use a GTH object to store GTH data in SCF
      • Add some properties to the objects, e.g., the volume element dV in Atoms
      • Indicate non-input arguments and non-results as private or read-only
      • Breaking:
        • Use unrestricted instead of Nspin
        • Use spin and charge instead of Nstate and f
        • Remove f and s as keyword arguments, can be set after initialization
        • Remove cgform as a keyword argument, use the run function to pass it to minimizers
        • Rename min keyword to opt
        • Merge symmetric with guess
    • Add DFT-D3 dispersion correction as an extra
  • Updated docs
    • Add a theory introduction page
    • Add documentation to module data/constants
    • Add a list of all packages and their respective licenses
    • Re-add documentation of operators to Atoms
    • Add a custom functional example
    • Improve the geometry optimization example
    • Add PNGs to the downloads section
    • Sort attributes groupwise
    • Fix a lot of typos
  • Coding style
    • Type check with mypy
    • Fix a lot of type warnings from mypy
    • Add type hints to scripts in docs and setup.py
    • Rename some arguments to not shadow builtins
  • Miscellaneous
    • Create the eminus-benchmarks repository
      • Move the SimpleDFT example to said repository
    • Small performance improvements, mostly for meta-GGAs
    • Add an error message when attempting to use operators of an unbuilt Atoms object
    • Add Matplotlib to the viewer setup to generate images in the examples
    • More tests, e.g, for different spin and charge states
    • Add a small demo function