Avogadro 0.9.6

Avogadro 0.9.6 was released on 5 June 2009. This is the seventh of our final beta series before Avogadro 1.0.0 is released. Please help us by providing feedback. New beta releases are expected roughly once per month until the 1.0.0 release. You can download this release here.

What’s New

The following list includes some of the changes since [Avogadro 0.9.5](Avogadro 0.9.5 “wikilink”). This is a bug fix release, primarily to address a change in behavior of the Qt library. [Avogadro 0.9.5](Avogadro 0.9.5 “wikilink”) suffered from a bug that caused data loss on all platforms using Qt 4.5.0 or earlier. This bug did not affect Avogadro users linking to Qt 4.5.1, and so the Mac binary package was not affected.

• Fixed bug causing data loss on file saves when using Qt 4.5.0 or earlier.

• Windows release now handles chemical files with Unix and Windows line endings.

• More bugs found and fixed.

Known Issues & Limitations

This release is a beta release and is intended to gain feedback and interest in the project.

The code currently expects to be editing one 3D molecule per file with one coordinate set. This means:

• Editing a multi-molecule file will only edit the first molecule. Saving will overwrite all records except the first.

• Saving to a 2D format will not necessarily produce correct 2D stereochemistry.

• Several builder features are not implemented, including:

  • Crystal structure builder

  • Carbon Nanotube builder

  • Z-matrix editor (early version committed - needs more work)

• Views cannot yet be removed into separate windows. In future releases, you will be able to have separate views of the same molecule in separate windows. Early support is in but disabled.

• Export graphics will only save the current resolution in the window in bitmap form.