Release of OpenCOR 0.8.3

[Alan Garny]

Dear all,

We are happy to announce the release of OpenCOR 0.8.3 and its Docker container.

You can see what is new here. As you can see, it improves user experience (truth be told, it fixes a crash that sometimes occurred when reloading a changed CellML file).

I really want to think that this is the final version of OpenCOR as we know it, i.e. a Qt-based application with Python support tightly linked to OpenCOR. As a reminder, going forward:

• OpenCOR's backend is being moved to libOpenCOR, which is a pure C++ library with both JavaScript and Python bindings. For Python, this means that you will be able to install libOpenCOR using pip install libopencor (once it will be available on PyPi or you can already install it from source using pip install git+https://github.com/opencor/libopencor.git).

• OpenCOR's frontend is being rewritten using Web-based technologies. This allows us to use OpenCOR both as a standalone application (on Windows, Linux, and macOS; see here for the official version) and on the Web (see https://opencor.ws/app for the official version and https://opencor.ws/appdev for the development version). Note that this is still very much work in progress, so don't expect much at this stage.

Best regards, Alan.