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Jean-Noël Grad edited this page Apr 10, 2026 · 2 revisions

These are the draft release notes for ESPResSo 5.1 (milestone).

ESPResSo 5.1

This is a feature release. New functionality is added to ESPResSo.

Added functionality

The Lees-Edwards oscillatory shear protocol was extended to support exponential decay (#4966).

Changed requirements

OpenMP support is now mandatory (#5276). The Kokkos and Cabana libraries have become hard dependencies. The CMake option ESPRESSO_BUILD_WITH_SHARED_MEMORY_PARALLELISM introduced in 5.0.0 to enable OpenMP support at the user's discretion was removed.

Improved documentation

Interface changes

Removed functionality

Performance enhancements

The bond force calculation now leverages shared-memory parallelization (#5244).

Bug fixes

Under the hood changes