2024 Year-In-Review

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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.

:speech_balloon: 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

:snake: 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

:hammer_and_wrench: 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 :tada::confetti_ball:

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