v4.4.0

Updated for Blender 4.4 to better take advantage of new nodes. Addition of new and experimental simulation nodes. A lot of performance improvements and under-the-hood API overhauling to better improve API scripting in the future.

What's Changed

• Bump to setup-blender@v3 in GHA by @BradyAJohnston in #742
• Fixes #746 by @PardhavMaradani in #747
• ignore minor error when initialising selection by @BradyAJohnston in #745
• Update citations.yml by @BradyAJohnston in #743
• Handle IPython not being installed in add-on release by @BradyAJohnston in #749
• str -> Optional[Str] in create_starting_node_tree by @zachcp in #753
• add pytest-xdist to tests install suite by @BradyAJohnston in #754
• Update examples.yml by @BradyAJohnston in #757
• Separate out all UI / add-on related code by @BradyAJohnston in #755
• 20250227 smallfix by @zachcp in #759
• make types consistent for materials udring initial tree creation by @zachcp in #767
• fix databpy imports by @BradyAJohnston in #768
• Fix file handler operator by @BradyAJohnston in #758
• Drop older Blender from tests by @BradyAJohnston in #769
• Collapse classes for Molecule by @BradyAJohnston in #766
• • Update MDAnalysis guesser by @PardhavMaradani in #773
• Consolidate Molecule fn interface by @zachcp in #774
• Ruff Pass by @zachcp in #777
• Fix links to installation page by @BradyAJohnston in #778
• Fix Selection from AtomGroup after refactoring Selection by @yuxuanzhuang in #783
• Update vdw_radii values for elements 47–103 by @Abdulrahman-PROG in #781
• Fix Frame Mapping by @yuxuanzhuang in #785
• Bump bpy version and fix VDB import by @BradyAJohnston in #786
• Molecule Selection API by @zachcp in #760
• bump databpy version by @BradyAJohnston in #789
• API for adding & controlling multiple styles by @BradyAJohnston in #779
• • Set frame_hidden property only when 'Update with Scene' is enabled by @PardhavMaradani in #797
• Allow trajectories with no filepaths (topology and trajectory) by @PardhavMaradani in #800
• Small NodeGroup typing fix by @Andrej730 in #803
• WIP: Materials API by @BradyAJohnston in #775
• Ruff: Rules and Initial Lints by @zachcp in #798
• Rmove old update code by @BradyAJohnston in #806
• add alias to previous installation page by @BradyAJohnston in #807
• Change to Downlder class by @BradyAJohnston in #808
• Enable longer PDB codes via UI by @BradyAJohnston in #809
• Info not error when importing with MN collection disabled by @BradyAJohnston in #811
• Update theme of documentation by @BradyAJohnston in #817
• remove multithreaded test failures by @BradyAJohnston in #822
• • Clamp frame to n_frames to prevent oob errors by @PardhavMaradani in #813
• fix cache location by @BradyAJohnston in #824
• Update node groups by @BradyAJohnston in #818
• add ures_id attribute by @BradyAJohnston in #828
• Add Dihedral Nodes by @BradyAJohnston in #829
• Fix ures_id attribute calculation by @BradyAJohnston in #830
• DOC: Assume quarto installed for GHA by @BradyAJohnston in #831
• improved API for render engines by @BradyAJohnston in #832
• UV Map for Ribbon and Is Hydrogen node group by @BradyAJohnston in #834
• Update citations.yml by @BradyAJohnston in #833
• auto publish on GitHub then Extensions Platform by @BradyAJohnston in #802

New Contributors

• @Abdulrahman-PROG made their first contribution in #781
• @Andrej730 made their first contribution in #803

Full Changelog: v4.2.12...v4.4.0