This release delivers a major update for interactive usage (Dashboard/GUI), more robust SMILES handling for coordination chemistry, and improved GUPPY sampling
workflows.
Highlights
Dashboard / GUI
- Expanded Dashboard documentation, including Voila usage.
- Improved GUI workflows across Submit/Calculations/Archive.
- Clear SMILES actions in the Dashboard:
CONVERT SMILESQUICK CONVERT SMILESCONVERT SMILES + UFF
SMILES & Isomer Enumeration
- Improved isomer/conformer generation for metal complexes.
- Workflow-specific diversity behavior:
- Dashboard and GUPPY now preserve broader labeled isomer variants
- less aggressive label collapsing in these interactive/sampling paths
GUPPY
- Added quick-conversion structure as an additional start geometry.
- Added topology validation after XTB optimization.
- Improved structural diversity for more robust sampling runs.
Recalc / Stability / HPC
- Smart recalc improvements and more reliable skip behavior.
- Better robustness in file propagation/copy-back/cleanup paths.
- Reduced I/O overhead for HPC environments.
Documentation & Metadata
- README substantially updated (GUI/Voila, companion CLIs, SMILES/GUPPY details).
- Changelog updated.
- Project metadata bumped to
1.1.0. - Methodology docs updated and aligned with ORCA 6.1.1.
Compatibility
- Python 3.10 / 3.11
- ORCA 6.1.1 (recommended)