BEAST v2.6.1 released

[Remco Bouckaert]

Dear BEAST user,

We are pleased to announce the release of BEAST v2.6.1. This is just a small patch release mainly for fixing a problem in BEAUti not recognising some templates. More details are available here: http://www.beast2.org/2019/08/08/what-is-new-in-v2.6.1.html

To install, make sure you have BEAST v2.6.0 installed, then just start BEAUti and you will be prompted to upgrade to v2.6.1.

See the above link for alternative ways to install.

Note that BEAST 2 requires Java 8 or better, which can be downloaded for example from https://adoptopenjdk.net/

BEAST core development team

[Remco Bouckaert]

Dear BEAST user,

We are pleased to announce the release of BEAST v2.6.2. The main improvements are

    Allow operator schedule changes in BEAUti

    Add batch file for Windows command line usage

    Fix quantile parameterisation of relaxed clocks

    Improve error messages

    Provide better access in API for developers

More details are available here: http://www.beast2.org/2020/03/02/what-is-new-in-v2.6.2.html

You can download this version via the BEAST 2 site (http://www.beast2.org/) or if you already have BEAST v2.6.x installed, just start BEAUti and you will be prompted to upgrade to v2.6.2. See the above link to the post for alternative ways to install.

[Remco Bouckaert]

Dear BEAST user,

We are pleased to announce the release of BEAST v2.6.3. The main improvements are

    Robustify resume
    RandomTree deals with calibrations in date-forward mode
    BEAST new `-DF` and `-DFout` options
    Default values for user defined values
    LogAnalyser new `-tag` option
    Let `Input.setValue()` ignore empty lists (instead of throwing exception)
    User data type lengths are not required to be equal any more
    Robustify RPN calculator

More details are available here: http://www.beast2.org/2020/07/22/what-is-new-in-v2.6.3.html

You can download this version via the BEAST 2 site (http://www.beast2.org/) or if you already have BEAST v2.6.x installed, just start BEAUti and you will be prompted to upgrade to v2.6.3. See the above link to the post for alternative ways to install.

Note that BEAST 2 requires Java 8 or better, which can be downloaded for example from https://adoptopenjdk.net/ or use the version with Java included available for Windows and Linux (not for Mac just yet).

BEAST core development team

[Remco Bouckaert]

Dear BEAST user,

We are pleased to announce the release of BEAST v2.6.4. The main improvements are

Applauncher picks up BEAGLE
Less clutter on screen output
Bayesian skyline plot has a proper prior alternative for the first element of the popSizes parameter
Fix DensiTree launcher for Windows & OS X
LogCombiner can now write to stdout
FilteredAlignment can deal with missing and ambiguous values
Node now recognises age trait
Allow packages to be released in github release area again
Add differentRandomIndex to UpDownOperator
Checksum support for developers chasing incorrectly calculated likelihoods

More details are available here: http://www.beast2.org/2021/05/10/what-is-new-in-v2.6.4.html

You can download this version via the BEAST 2 site (http://www.beast2.org/) or if you already have BEAST v2.6.x installed, just start BEAUti and you will be prompted to upgrade to v2.6.4. See the above link to the post for alternative ways to install.

[Remco Bouckaert]

Dear BEAST user,

We are pleased to announce the release of BEAST v2.6.5, which fixes a bug in the LogCombiner GUI version, but is otherwise identical to v2.6.4.

To install this version, you already must have BEAST v2.6.x installed. Just start BEAUti and you will be prompted to upgrade to v2.6.5.