BEAST v2.7.8 released

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Remco Bouckaert

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Jun 29, 2025, 3:43:56 PMJun 29
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Dear BEAST user,

We are pleased to announce the release of BEAST v2.7.8. The main changes are:

# BEAST
o fix DeltaExchangeOperator, BactrianDeltaExchangeOperator, for weighted Dirichlet 
o facilitate beast "-validate" option 
o fix for direct simulating from integer distribution 
o make TreeWithMetaDataLogger produce correct nr of commas. 
o make BactrianOperatorSchedule ignore Uniform operators if parameter is not a RealParameter 
o update parameter dimension on -resume 
o deal with spaces in quoted attribute values 
o make Newick parser work for MemoryFriendlyTreeSet. 

# BEAUti
o fix issue with link/unlink parittions in BEAUti. 
o fix renaming id's when cloning site model. 
o replace colons by dashes in IDs named by file name. 
o make alignments non-cloneable for BEAUti link/unlink support 

# TreeAnnotator
o Fixing GUI dropdown not closing on first selection

# Other apps
o add -includeEvery option to LogCombiner 
o add -version_file option to AppLauncher 
o fix threading when running LogAnalyser with threads. 
o make Application validate Inputs after setting Input values. 
o set IDs of parsed trees in tree set 

# Better error messages and improved developer support

More details are available here: https://www.beast2.org/2025/06/29/what-is-new-in-v2.7.8.html

This is a package release only. You can download a previous version of BEAST from here: http://www.beast2.org/ and choose the version for your operating system and update the BEAST.base and BEAST.app packages to v2.7.8.

BEAST core development team

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