v4.5.0

Overhauled internal and external APIs for importing structures and handling styles. Support for annotations through GPU overlays added among many other improvements by @PardhavMaradani for GSoC 2025.

Scripting and rendering via the API is now much more possible a large amount of examples added to the documentation. There are still many rough edges and design decisions to be worked out but headless rendering is now much more of a reality.

What's Changed

• Fix minor typo in index.qmd by @bionicles in #869
• Add setup_ccd to docs workflow by @BradyAJohnston in #876
• Update citations.yml by @BradyAJohnston in #874
• Run tests against all PRs by @BradyAJohnston in #878
• Fix EEVEE engine selection in Blender 5.0 by @BradyAJohnston in #885
• Add basic trajectory API by @PardhavMaradani in #882
• Add UI for entities in 3D Viewport by @PardhavMaradani in #887
• Add style branches support for Trajectories by @PardhavMaradani in #888
• Update databpy to v0.0.20 by @BradyAJohnston in #894
• Add base framework for annotations by @PardhavMaradani in #891
• Remove micrograph tests by @BradyAJohnston in #897
• update test versions to include 4.5 explicityly by @BradyAJohnston in #898
• Add custom validation support for annotations by @PardhavMaradani in #900
• Annotations draw handler base by @PardhavMaradani in #901
• Update citations.yml by @BradyAJohnston in #904
• Add basic line drawing support for annotations by @PardhavMaradani in #903
• Add support for AtomGroup selections through API interface by @PardhavMaradani in #905
• Add depth support for annotation text by @PardhavMaradani in #906
• Add canonical dihedrals trajectory annotation by @PardhavMaradani in #907
• Rendering support for annotations by @PardhavMaradani in #909
• Trajectory Universe Info, generic 2D and 3D label annotations by @PardhavMaradani in #910
• Use property indexing instead of reference to avoid crashes by @PardhavMaradani in #913
• Density entity - style interface, gui, annotations by @PardhavMaradani in #916
• Use MDAnalysis GridDataFormats for density grids by @PardhavMaradani in #917
• Density Annotations and additions by @PardhavMaradani in #918
• Density ISO Surface Style by @PardhavMaradani in #920
• Add support to override common annotation params by @PardhavMaradani in #929
• Fixes 933 by @BradyAJohnston in #936
• Automatic compositor setup to handle annotations overlay in renders by @PardhavMaradani in #926
• Add rendering animation support to Canvas by @PardhavMaradani in #932
• Fix entity type discrepancies by @PardhavMaradani in #937
• Use pathlib to avoid erros by @BradyAJohnston in #935
• Update citations.yml by @BradyAJohnston in #923
• Add frame view support to Canvas by @PardhavMaradani in #938
• Add MDAnalysisTests dependency to tests and docs by @PardhavMaradani in #940
• Add density examples to docs by @PardhavMaradani in #941
• Add Canvas examples doc by @PardhavMaradani in #942
• Add tutorials and API examples to docs by @PardhavMaradani in #943
• GSoC 2025 by @BradyAJohnston in #875
• Scripting improvements by @BradyAJohnston in #947
• Improvements to style classes for auto-complete by @BradyAJohnston in #948
• Fixes to multiple different nodes by @BradyAJohnston in #950
• Fix for bpy reporting test failures by @BradyAJohnston in #951

New Contributors

• @bionicles made their first contribution in #869

Full Changelog: v4.4.3...v4.5.0