While it’s not strictly the end of 2024, I wanted to draft this early.
Obviously a highlight is the release of 1.99 in time for Ubuntu LTS (24.04) … a summer of great coding / rendering, leading to the upcoming 1.100 and hopefully a final, polished 2.0.
I speak for everyone in the project that we greatly appreciate comments, suggestions, bug reports, complaints, … every little bit helps!
In other words, the year-in-review is focusing on community contributions.
Translations:
- We now have 17 languages with >50% translation. Considering many strings are rarely user-visible, this is fantastic. Languages include: Chinese, Croatian, English, Esperanto, French, Georgian, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Spanish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian
- Several languages have translations in the 30-40% range, including Basque, Dutch, Indonesian, Italian, Russian.
- Another seven languages are in the starting stages (>20%) including: Catalan, Galician, Greek, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Slovenian, Vietnamese
- Please help out: Get involved in Avogadro! @ Hosted Weblate
- I’d love to see at least 20 languages >50% for the 2.0 release
Community stats:
- The forum has been very active this year, which is fantastic
- Over 244 topics this year (almost one per day!) and >50% more posts than 2023
- 109 new contributors
Plugins:
Already 15 plugins, and more to come (I have 4 on my list once 1.100 is released) including a very popular xtb
plugin from @matterhorn103
Improvements:
- improved template tool for inserting fragments or inorganic complexes
- new optimization framework
- spectra plots including IR, Raman, UV/Vis, CD, and NMR
- new rendering options, including depth-of-field blur and fog
- translucent balls-and-sticks and van der Waals spheres
- brought back the molecular orbital table
- faster orbital generation
- faster surface generation
- improved molecular properties window
- conformer properties window
- better options for Python plugins
- improved
xtb
plugin from @matterhorn103 - improved Flatpak package from @matterhorn103 including support for ARM
- code signing on Windows thanks to SignPath
- many, many more features and over 75 bug fixes!
Almost everything derives from community suggestions, feedback, bug reports, ideas, and hard work. Thanks and best wishes for a fantastic 2025