After the 1.103 release in February, things are moving quickly for a 2.0 release, hopefully on 1 April 2026.
Of course a lot of the development is on the new plugin framework, so I’ve separated that out into a new section.
Features
- Add support for removing old plugins on first launch by ghutchis · Pull Request #775 · OpenChemistry/avogadroapp · GitHub
- Move autoopt and forcefield optimizations off the main GUI thread by ghutchis · Pull Request #2700 · OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs · GitHub
- Update the binary protocol for energy+grad and Hessian by ghutchis · Pull Request #2699 · OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs · GitHub
- Updated "manage plugins" interface by ghutchis · Pull Request #2646 · OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs · GitHub
- fix: add label font scale setting for display customization by newtontech · Pull Request #2662 · OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs · GitHub
Bug Fixes:
- Fix molden parsing for uppercase angular momentum and harden against extra spacing by brockdyer03 · Pull Request #2707 · OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs · GitHub
- Ensure dialogs activate / raise - sometimes this would fail on mac by ghutchis · Pull Request #2702 · OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs · GitHub
- [skip ci] Fix tooltip strings for packagemanager by ghutchis · Pull Request #2686 · OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs · GitHub
- Fix some bugs uncovered with calculating charges with AIMNet2 plugin by ghutchis · Pull Request #2683 · OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs · GitHub
- Switch Turbomole export to default to using Bohr coords by ghutchis · Pull Request #2664 · OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs · GitHub
- Change occupancy guess for unrestricted jobs by jcerezochem · Pull Request #2658 · OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs · GitHub
- Return with an unknown error if a local socket exists on UNIX by ghutchis · Pull Request #772 · OpenChemistry/avogadroapp · GitHub
- Don't install plugins (e.g., generators) if in a read-only dir by ghutchis · Pull Request #758 · OpenChemistry/avogadroapp · GitHub
- Add code to make sure the window is restored to an active screen by ghutchis · Pull Request #750 · OpenChemistry/avogadroapp · GitHub
- Fix a bug with the xtb plugin loading orbitals by ghutchis · Pull Request #2655 · OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs · GitHub
- [skip ci] Fix units in vibrational table by ghutchis · Pull Request #2656 · OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs · GitHub
Plugins:
- Change the way in which tabs are specified in user options by matterhorn103 · Pull Request #2714 · OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs · GitHub
- Allow user-options metadata to be "dynamic" and call the script by ghutchis · Pull Request #2703 · OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs · GitHub
- Add support for reading from a filename (e.g., hd5 file) by ghutchis · Pull Request #2695 · OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs · GitHub
- Fix local packages by ghutchis · Pull Request #2690 · OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs · GitHub
- Adjust format of command script menu paths by matterhorn103 · Pull Request #2682 · OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs · GitHub
- Add support for reading from a filename (e.g., hd5 file) by ghutchis · Pull Request #2695 · OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs · GitHub
- Fix plugin installation directory and change name to more clear `plugins` by brockdyer03 · Pull Request #2661 · OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs · GitHub
- Update the energy-model (scriptenergy.cpp) to allow user-options by ghutchis · Pull Request #2660 · OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs · GitHub
- For bundled plugins, recursively copy and install by ghutchis · Pull Request #760 · OpenChemistry/avogadroapp · GitHub
Build Updates: