DEAP 0.8 released

[Félix-Antoine Fortin]

Dear ECers,

We are proud to annouce the release of DEAP 0.8.
You can download a copy of this release at the following web page.

http://deap.googlecode.com

DEAP (Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms in Python) is a novel evolutionary computation
framework for rapid prototyping and testing of ideas. Its design departs from most other
existing frameworks in that it seeks to make algorithms explicit and data structures
transparent, as opposed to the more common black box type of frameworks. It also incorporates
easy parallelism where users need not concern themselves with gory implementation details like
synchronization and load balancing, only functional decomposition.

This release includes :
- compatibility with Python 3;
- a new algorithm : generate-update
- a lot of new examples;
- a lot of new benchmarks;
- History can now return the genealogy of a single individual;
- C++ version of the NSGA-2 algorithm
- more detailed documentation with new tutorials and examples;
- new theme for the documentation;
- and several other changes.

Users of DEAP 0.7 should be aware that some of the modifications
included with 0.8 will break your code. Be sure to check the this page :
http://code.google.com/p/deap/wiki/Break to find out the minor modifications that
are needed to get your code fully functionnal with 0.8.

We are also proud to announce the creation of the DEAP speed project which aims
at benchmarking on a daily basis the execution time of every examples provided
with DEAP. Details of the project and the results are available at the following
web page.

http://deap.gel.ulaval.ca/speed

Your feedback and comments are welcome at http://goo.gl/2HiO1 or deap-users at googlegroups dot com.
You can also follow us on Twitter @deapdev, and on our blog http://deapdev.wordpress.com/.

Best,

François-Michel De Rainville
Félix-Antoine Fortin
Marc-André Gardner
Christian Gagné
Marc Parizeau

Laboratoire de vision et systèmes numériques
Département de génie électrique et génie informatique
Université Laval
Quebec City (Quebec), Canada