LAMMPS stable release 31 Mar 2017

Notable new features in this release are:

• refactoring of the neighbor list construction to be more modular and extensible from packages. active neighbor list modules are reported in the output
• updates, performance improvements and new styles for the KOKKOS and USER-INTEL packages
• bugfixes and refactoring of parts of AIREBO and AIREBO-M addressing some of the occasionally observed instabilities with the LAMMPS implementation
• new interface to Multi-Scale Coarse-Graining tools of the Voth group via new MSCG package with fix mscg
• new pair styles lj/charmmfsw/coul/charmmfsh and lj/charmmfsw/coul/long and dihedral style charmmfsh for improved compatibility with the CHARMM code using recent versions of the CHARMM force field
• several new styles in the USER-MISC package
• improved compatibility with Python 3 (now only the PYTHON package is still Python 2 only), improvements to PyLammps and its documentation
• various updates and performance improvements for USER-DPD package
• updates and bugfixes to USER-COLVARS
• new package USER-CGDNA for coarse grained DNA simulations
• new support for generalized replica exchange (gREM) via temper/grem and fix grem commands
• support for treating spherical particles as 2d discs
• improvements for load balancing via recursive bisectioning
• new SNAP potential for tungsten and tungsten/helium systems
• updated version of the bundled moltemplate tool
• updated tutorial for submitting additions and changes to LAMMPS via GitHub
• improvements to the documentation build tools
• ambiguous hyperlinks in documentation are made unique
• spellchecked documentation and comments
• removed the obsolete xmovie software
• many little cleanups, bug fixes and removal of dead or obsolete code, including in the tools folder