Cyclus 1.3 Release Notes

The Cyclus core team is excited to announce the latest stable version of the
cyclus ecosystem!

Major features

~3x speedups for recipe-based simulations
Basic inventory policies added
Support for recursive containers in archetypes
Many new recursive containers added to sqlite backend
Regression tests run on macs!
A MockSim interface for full simulation testing without input files
Added customizeable TimeSeries output for recording archetype-specific time
series
Added json-to-xml conversion capability
Added new ResMap container
Decay added (via Pyne)! An input file flag can be set to
- never: never decay
- manual: archetypes must call the decay API manually
- lazy: materials are decayed as needed when their Material::comp function is
  called

First release for a new analysis and visualization tool for Cyclus simulation output
Command line tool and Python interface
Calculates metrics of user interest from a Cyclus database
- Writes metrics back to database
- Simple for users to extend the suite of metrics
  - Designed so calculations can be based on dependencies (other metrics or root metrics)
  - Uses pandas data types
- Uses PyNE for nuclear data
Visualization available from the command line via matplotlib

Since v1.2.0,

Cyclus: 409 commits resulting in 113 files changed, 8466 insertions(+), 1760 deletions(-)
Cycamore: 353 commits resulting in 79 files changed, 7466 insertions(+), 6830 deletions(-)
Cymetric: 366 commits resulting in 49 files changed, 5978 insertions(+), 266 deletions(-)

The following people contributed to this release of Cyclus. A "*" by their
name indicates a first time contributor. Names follow alphabetically,