[gmx-developers] in preparation for 4.5.5 and 4.6 releases

[Rossen Apostolov]

Hi,

Just a note - we are planning to have 4.5.5 out in two weeks (around 
Aug. 15th) time when we'll fork-off the 4.6 branch for adding new 
functionality.

Cheers,
Rossen

On 6/22/11 1:10 PM, Rossen Apostolov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are preparing for a new maintenance release 4.5.5. It will fix 
> critical open issues with previous releases, so please file your 
> reports in redmine.gromacs.org by the end of June.
>
> After the 4.5.5 release, the stable branch will be frozen for bugfixes 
> only, and new functionality will be added to a new release-4-6-patches 
> branch, a fork of release-4-5-patches right after 4.5.5.
>
> Currently the plan is to have in 4.6:
>
>   * faster native GPU implementation supporting most of current
>     Gromacs features
>   * collective I/O
>   * lambda dynamics and other free energy extensions
>   * AdResS (http://www.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/~poma/multiscale/adress.php)
>   * advanced rotational pulling
>   * file history
>   * several new tools
>   * autoconf removed - support for building only with CMake
>
> Code from contributors will be considered for inclusion also but it's 
> necessary that
>
>   * comes with support for the code in future releases, e.g. port it
>     to the completely new C++ structure in the 5.0 release and
>     maintain it after
>   * builds against 4.5.5
>   * produces scientifically reliable results
>   * works in parallel and doesn't affect the performance
>   * comes with regression test sets for the new features
>   * has the necessary documentation for usage
>
> After 4.5.5 bug fixes need to be applied as:
>
>   * bugs in 4.5.5:
>       o fix in 4.5.5 -> fix in 4.6 -> fix in master
>   * bugs in the new features introduced in 4.6:
>       o  fix in 4.6   -> fix in master
>
>
> The plan is to have 4.5.5 around end of July, and 4.6-gamma a month later.
>
> Rossen
>
>

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