Dear NEST Users,
It is a great pleasure to annouce the release of NEST 3.9 which brings numerous improvements contributed by 24 developers through over 1200 commits to the NEST code base. Key enhancements include
* Enhanced e-prop plasticity with biologically inspired featureshttps://github.com/nest/nest-simulator/pull/3207 * Re-organised tripartite connectivity generation to support multiple primary connection ruleshttps://github.com/nest/nest-simulator/pull/3204 * Windows docker instructions for installationhttps://github.com/nest/nest-simulator/pull/3521 * Updates built-in timer documentationhttps://github.com/nest/nest-simulator/pull/3490 * Extended detailed neuron documentationhttps://github.com/nest/nest-simulator/pull/3448 * Enhanced gunicorn options in NEST Serverhttps://github.com/nest/nest-simulator/pull/3380 * Support for per-thread timers and timing MPI synchronizationhttps://github.com/nest/nest-simulator/pull/3378 * A logger for nest-server-mpihttps://github.com/nest/nest-simulator/pull/3365
and many bug fixes and code maintenance.
I’d like to thank all who have contributed to making NEST 3.9 possible, in particular Jessica Mitchell who joined Dennis Terhorst in our release team and saw the completion of NEST 3.9—thanks a lot!
Enjoy NEST 3.9! Hans Ekkehard
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Prof. Dr. Hans Ekkehard Plesser Research Committee Chair, Faculty of Science and Technology Head, Department of Data Science
Department of Data Science Faculty of Science and Technology Norwegian University of Life Sciences PO Box 5003, 1432 Aas, Norway
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