Notable new features in this release are:
- many small bugfixes and small cleanups
- improved formatting of the PDF manual. corrected links in USER-ATC documentation
- improved performance when setting up simulations with a large number of MPI ranks
- new USER-UEF package for simulating extensional flow
- new USER-MOFF package with metal oxide force field
- new LATTE package for coupling to LATTE tight-binding code
- new USER-MESO package
- new registry-dependent inter-layer potentials for graphitic and equivalent systems
- important bugfix for
reax/cand its accelerated version for specific systems like BaTiO3 - updates for KOKKOS, KIM, USER-INTEL, USER-COLVARS, USER-CGDNA, USER-REAXC, and USER-OMP packages
- dump style xdr made independent of deprecated RPC header files
- consistency check on atom IDs for bonds/angles/dihedrals/impropers. No definition may contain the same atom ID twice.
- improved error messages when using variables
- new ExTeP and UFM pair styles, new Gromos bond style
- performance improvement for certain manybody GPU styles through a short range neighbor list
- new temper/npt command