News

2019

2019-02-08 Version 8.4 released.

2018

2018-11-13 Version 8.3 released.

2018-08-08 Version 8.2 released.

2018-07-06 Version 8.1 released.

2018-06-15 Version 8.0 released.

2018-03-24 Version 7.3 released.

2018-01-15 Version 7.2 released.

2017

2017-06-09 Version 7.1 released.

2017-06-06 Version 7.0 released.

2016

2016-11-16 Octopus migrated to Git on gitlab.com

2016-09-05 Version 6.0 (stable) released.

2016-04-21 Released libxc 2.1.3, libxc 2.2.3, and libxc 3.0.0

2016-01-11 Version 5.0.1 released.

2015

2015-10-07 Version 5.0.0 released.

2015-02-19 Released libxc 2.1.2 and libxc 2.2.2

2014

2014-10-30 Released libxc 2.1.1 and libxc 2.2.1

2014-02-18 Released libxc 2.1.0 and libxc 2.2.0

2014-02-18 Released libxc 2.0.3

2013

2013-07-10 Released libxc 2.0.2

2013-06-12 Version 4.1.0 released.

2013-01-21 Released libxc 2.0.1

2012

2012-11-28 Released libxc 2.0.0

2012-03-23 Released libxc 1.2.0

2012-02-03 Version 4.0.1 released.

2011

2011-06-19 Version 4.0.0 released.

2011-05-12 Released libxc 1.1.0

2010

2010-07-09 Released libxc 1.0.0

2010-03-30 Released CMSP-2.0.5

2009

2009-11-24 Version 3.2.0 released.

2009-11-04 Version 3.1.1 released.

2009-04-14 Version 3.1.0 released.

2009-03-31 Released libxc-1.0-alpha

2008

2008-05-08 Version 3.0.1 released.

2008-02-19 Version 3.0.0 released.

2007

2007-11-23 Released new version of the xyz-tools. Now it includes scripts to generate nanotubes, and some funny fullerene-like structures

2007-06-05 Version 2.1.0 released.

2007-03-27 Version 2.0.1rc2 (unstable) released.

2007-02-03 Released CMSP-2.0.4

2007-01-24 Released CMSP-2.0.3

2007-01-19 Wiki is now the main page of octopus

2006

2006-08-23 Version 2.0rc1 (unstable) released.

2006-05-04 The octopus development has been switched from cvs to subversion/trac.

2006-03-23 Version 2.0.1 released.

2006-02-17 Version 2.0 released.

2005

2005-12-16 A lot of the stuff in the web page was passed to the wiki.

2005-12-12 Version 2.0rc1 (unstable) released.

2005-01-27 New version of the chemistry package for OpenDX (CMSP_Linux-2.0.tar.gz).

2005-01-17 Added RPM for x84_64 (opteron) architecture.

2004

2004-11-09 Octopus-1.4 released, and a small reorganization of the web page.

2004-03-29 Added the "Octopus Analyzer Tool" to the docs page.

2004-03-01 Some goodies added to the download page.

2004-02-11 Added the chemistry package for openDX in the download section. I forgot to mention that you can now download .rpm and .tar.gz for octopus-1.3.

2003

2003-11-04 Added a new section in the download page for projects associated to octopus. For now there is the octopus parser, and a fun tight-binding code for carbon.

2003-08-05 I tagged in the cvs version 1.2 of octopus. This version doesn't have any added features, but does have a couple of bugs fixed. The reason for this release is that we will start developing the next 2.0 version soon, so the cvs tree will likely be broken in the near future.

2003-03-17 octopus 1.1 released.

2003-03-07 Sorry, I am a bit sloppy with the news. By now also .debs, two new releases, etc. And, by the way, the expected release date for octopus 1.1 is March 17th. We made a list of things for the 1.2 release. They include:

• Comment code a bit better, maybe using robodoc, or something similar. Some of the developers oppose robodoc due to the explosion of the size of the source files. Maybe keeping the documentation in separate files would be better. I'll see if I find a night to write the 200 lines of perl to do that.
• Clean the pseudopotential part (Alberto)
• Clean LCAO (Hyllios)
• Clean xc (Hyllios)
• Paralelization of the ground-state diagonalizer (Alberto)
• Extension to 1D periodic systems (polymers, Carlo Andrea)
• Current density functional theory (Hyllios)
• Optimum control with more than one particle, and with ions moving (Hyllios)
• Implement Klaus Capelle new variational principle (Hyllios)
• Extend LCAO, and maybe make octopus do TD-LCAO (??)

If you have more suggestions, or if you are willing to help in any of these points

just contact the octopus team.

2002

2002-09-29 RPMs are now available.

2002-07-10 octopus 1.0 is born.

2002-03-12 Created mailing lists and updated page with a list of references. Let's see if anyone will subscribe ;)

2002-02-24 TDDFT is dead. Long live octopus.