Avogadro 0.9.8#

Avogadro 0.9.8 was released on 9 September 2009. This is the ninth 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 0.9.7](Avogadro 0.9.7 “wikilink”). This is a bug fix release with some feature enhancements since our last release.

Updated user interface and icons.
Introduced a menu option to reset display types.
Updated translations, fixed encoding issues that affected some translations on Windows.
Avogadro will now run correctly from the build directory on the Mac too.
Fixes to display type labels.
Improved recent file list handling.
Fixes to dipole moment reading and display.
Fixes to file saving, marking of modified windows.
More bugs found and fixed.

Rendering#

Speed and efficiency enhancements for single colored meshes.

Tools#

Various draw tool bugs fixed.
Aesthetic fixes to the autorotate slider – easier to see central position.

Extensions#

New Chemical Identifier Resolver extension – type in a chemical name and search http://cactus.nci.nih.gov/chemical/structure for structures.

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