From a58bc5a23272f06283c88a4fb46463fc2b134544 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Groth <christoph.groth@cea.fr> Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 23:19:12 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] insert real 1.3 announcement --- content/index.rst | 3 --- posts/2017/release-of-kwant-13.rst | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----- 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/index.rst b/content/index.rst index 7a5471c..d9e1314 100644 --- a/content/index.rst +++ b/content/index.rst @@ -1,4 +1,3 @@ - Quantum transport simulations made easy ======================================= @@ -42,5 +41,3 @@ models with a strong focus on quantum transport. <a href="/doc/1/tutorial/spectrum#band-structure-calculations"> Explore band structure </a> </li> </div> - - diff --git a/posts/2017/release-of-kwant-13.rst b/posts/2017/release-of-kwant-13.rst index c92cbb6..d83ea4e 100644 --- a/posts/2017/release-of-kwant-13.rst +++ b/posts/2017/release-of-kwant-13.rst @@ -1,13 +1,37 @@ .. title: Release of Kwant 1.3 .. slug: release-of-kwant-13 -.. date: 2017-05-18 11:29:43 UTC +.. date: 2017-05-24 21:17:10 UTC .. category: release-announcement .. type: text -Today we are happy to annouce the release of Kwant 1.3. +After more than one year of development, we are extremely pleased to announce the release of Kwant 1.3. .. TEASER_END -This release has been a while in the making, but contains a lot of useful new -functionality. You can check out the page `what's new in Kwant 1.3 </doc/1/pre/whatsnew/1.3>`_ -for more details +Kwant 1.3 supports + +* discretizing of continuum Hamiltonians, +* calculating and displaying local densities and currents, +* declaring and using symmetries and conservation laws, +* calculating bulk properties using the kernel polynomial method, +* finalizing builders with multiple translational symmetries, + +and has many other improvements that are detailed in the `what's new in Kwant 1.3 </doc/1/pre/whatsnew/1.3>`_ document. + +The `installation instructions </install.html>`_ have been updated to explain how to install Kwant 1.3 on computers running GNU/Linux, Mac OS, and Windows. Note that thanks to the package manager Conda it is now much easier to install Kwant under Mac OS and on Unix accounts without root privileges. + +The new version is practically 100% backwards-compatible with scripts written for previous versions of Kwant 1.x. + +The Kwant team is happy to welcome Joseph Weston as a member. We are also grateful to the many contributors without whom this release would not be nearly as good: + +* Jörg Behrmann +* Bas Nijholt +* Michał Nowak +* Viacheslav Ostroukh +* Pablo Pérez Piskunow +* Tómas Örn Rosdahl +* Sebastian Rubbert +* Rafał Skolasiński +* Adrien Sorgniard + +We would like to hear your feedback at kwant-discuss@kwant-project.org. -- GitLab