GCAM v6.0 has been released!

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New features include:

• A new residential floorspace expansion model.
• Bio-energy updates: additional limits to "unsustainable" deployment
• Default hotelling rate for climate stabilization scenarios is now 3%.
• Split out 6 detailed industrial sectors from the aggregate industry sector.
• Updated Hydrogen production, distribution, and end-use technologies.
• A new protected lands definition.
• Expanded crop commodities.
• Use spatially explicit soil and vegetation carbon data from Moirai.
• HFC MAC curve fixes.
• New pollutant emissions controls.
• Add direct air capture as a mitigation option in GCAM-USA.
• Gross electricity trade in GCAM-USA.
• Add GHGs to GCAM-USA.
• Add pollutant emissions to GCAM-USA.
• Solution improvements, particularly related to water markets.
• Change the XML parser library to RapidXML.
• Add the ability to exit the model early due to solution failure.
• Reduce memory usage (offsets additional memory from expanded crop commodities).
• gcamdata: Renv and user modification chunks.