==================================================================== 5.17.0 (2018-05-21) ==================================================================== STABLE RELEASE * Addition of support for the SBML Render package - Now that the first official version of the specification for the SBML Level 3 Rendering package is available, the libSBML API for 'render' is now included in the stable release of libSBML. This means that all prebuilt binaries for the stable release will include the 'render' package code. The src archive containing libSBML core code will continue to be available, with additional src archives available in the stable branch: one containing libSBML core plus all stable packages and additional archives of the individual package code. NOTE: The libSBML GNU make-based build system has not been updated for packages. Thus, to build from src, it is necessary to use the CMake build system. * New features - The MATLAB language interface function TranslateSBML has been optimized for speed. - The MATLAB interface function OutputSBML can now be called with an output argument and no inputs; doing so will return information about the libSBML version and enabled packages used to build the binary files. - A new function getDefaultSBMLStruct has been added to the MATLAB interface. This function takes a string name of the element with level and version information and returns the relevant MATLAB-SBML structure for the element. Many thanks go to Thomas Pfau for supplying this function. - On occasion, the function getDerivedUnitDefinition that returns calculated units would report incorrect units without flagging any issues. This has been made less ambiguous and a derived UnitDefinition will not contain any units if it cannot be correctly determined. - Unit validation has been optimized and significantly speeded up for larger models. - 'comp' package-specific updates: - The C API for comp has been completed. - 'fbc' package-specific updates: - SourceForge Tracker item #455: Error messages have been improved. - 'multi' package-specific updates: - The C API for multi has been completed. - 'qual' package-specific updates: - SourceForge Tracker item #455: Error messages have been improved. - 'render' package-specific updates: - A full C API for the render package has been added. * Bug fixes - SourceForge Tracker item #459: An error in the function that converts libSBML infix notation to MATLAB infix notation failed when log functions failed. This is fixed. Thanks to Sven Thiele for reporting the issue. - The validation check for duplicate values of the 'metaid' attribute was not being extended to all packages. This has been fixed. - Python examples have been updated to work with Python v3. - 'qual' package-specific bug fixes: - SourceForge Tracker item #457: Validation of rule qual-20311 was producing an error when it should have been a warning. Thanks to Justin McManus for reporting the problem. EXPERIMENTAL RELEASE * New features - 'distrib' package-specific updates: - The 'distrib' package has undergone significant changes. The code has been fully updated to match this. We have also used a Distrib prefix on all classes to prevent clashes with other packages or even other libraries. We welcome feedback on this approach.

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