May 31, 2005:    version 1.4 released

This is a major release (released under GNU General public license).

New Features

• multi-band display of Fermi surfaces in one widget (read more)
• visualization of vector-fields with arrows (read more)
• added support for PWscf v2.1 and later (read more)
• added support for CRYSTAL03
• more configurable options for the display of force arrows (color, thickness, aspect) (read more)
• the color of the "Coordinate system" is configurable (read more)
• automatic labeling of k-points for k-path selection (thanks to Peter Blaha) (read more)
• Stereo display mode (thanks to Gerardo Ballabio)
• Anaglyph display mode, i.e. fake stereo, requires red-blue glasses (thanks to Eric Verfaillie)
• improved EPS printing (also PDF printing) thanks to new gl2ps-1.2.4. The vectorial EPS printing of Lighting-On display mode is finally good enough.
• comments added to the XSF format; comment-lines start with the "#" (read more)
• dummy "X" (atomic number 0) atoms do not have bonds anymore
• updated Documentation

Bug fixes

• a few Bug fixes in visualization of Fermi surfaces (thanks to Pablo de la Mora)
• in some cases the coordinates from the PWscf input file were wrongly extracted
• bug fix in the variable-cell XSF parser
• printing the Fermi surfaces in vectorial EPS did not work
• and more ...

Mar 01, 2004:    version Beta-1.0 released

This is a major release (released under GNU General public license).

New Features

• Visualization of H-bonds.
• Update of the PWscf IO filters (compatible with PWscf v.2.0)
• Simple bond editing: the covalent-radius item ( Modify-->Atomic Radius menu ) has been split into covalent- and display-radius items. By changing the covalent radii of given atomic types the display of bonds can be altered.
• Improved Save Current State and Structure mechanism.
• XCrySDen can be embedded in an another aplication's window by using --use option, i.e., xcrysden --use window-id.
• Reduce -r option added: it reduces the dimensionality of the structure (works for XSF file only): xcrysden -r 2 --xsf file.xsf will display the structure from file.xsf as slab (dim=2) even if it was specified as crystal (dim=3) in file.xsf
• Visualization of Fermi surfaces a bit improved

Bug fixes

Several bugs were fixes and, unfortunately, I don't have a record of all of them. Here are some of them:

• visualization of zero force fixed
• fixing "zooming" bug: sometimes the structure has disappeared when zoomed too much
• fixing bug for transformation of selected k-points to WIEN2k format (fixed by Florent Boucher). BEWARE: it seems that transformation to format suitable for WIEN2k remains buggy. Use at your own risk, and please, check carefully every time the resultant klist file: XCrySDen prints some useful supporting information during the transformation to WIEN2k format.

May 19, 2003:    version 0.9.3 released

This is a minor release, mainly bug fixes.

Bug fixes:

Bug Description	Reported by	Status
Problems in AXSF parser.	Carlo Sbraccia	Fixed
Custom round* functions caused compilation problems.	Moritz Hoesch	Fixed
Memory overflow in routine fsReadBand due to a small-typo.	tone, Neme Nnolim	Fixed
The "specular light" didn't work in 3D-box selection mode.	tone	Fixed
Problem in loading atomic-symbols from XSF definition in *.xcrysden files.	Kunihiro Mitsutake	Fixed
The "state mechanism" for "Save Current State and Structure" File-menu item was missing.	tone	Fixed
Small bug in xcConfigure_definitions.sh	tone	Fixed

April 19, 2003:    version 0.9.1 released

This is a minor release (bug fix)

Bug fixes:

Bug Description	Reported by	Status
Problem with viewing crystal structures from w2web GUI.	Mahmoud Payami	Fixed

April 18, 2003:    version 0.9.0 released

New:

• The version 0.9 represents a significant improvement over the old 0.3 version. Many new features have been added, and large numbers of BUGS have been resolved. Read more ...
   
• The establishment of XCrySDen's Version and Bug History page.
   

Jan 31, 2003:    version 0.7 released
 
2000 - 2002:    versions from 0.3 to 0.6 released
 
1999:    versions 0.1 and 0.2 released

New:

• The first version of XCrySDen (i.e. version <0.3) has been made available.