Since the last release, 139 commits have been added. Full list of changes from v2.5.0 to v2.6.0.

New features

Generalised smart Monte Carlo move with support for regions (#405)
Quadratic charge move (#406)
Debye screening length can be deduced for complex salts
MPL is used for all MPI calls (#398)
Faster, internal SASA hamiltonian with support for periodic boundary conditions (#397)
Separate density analysis for atoms and groups
Reduce parallel summation memory requirement by a factor of two
Patchy sphero-cylinders (PSCs) are back! (#408)
- PSC trajectory format
- VMD visualiation
- Ancients tests are back
Enhanced translational displacement analysis for Dynamic MC (experimental)
Ability to save penalty function tables to disk during simulation

Compatibility

Compilation defaults to C++20 standard meaning that a pretty modern compiler is needed.
A scripts/Dockerfile is provided for creating containers with JupyterLab and Faunus preinstalled.

Refactoring of speciation move to allow for future expansion (#410)
Fix dirrot mass center error (bf088b4)
Update manual for units on angles (dprot)
Fix potential harmonic bond breaking (#403)
Fix time stamp in output (#395)
Fix ion-ion Ewald energy (28f0c41)
Enable C++20 mode compilation (a975438)
Correctly handle inactive particles when using group output with xtc files (#402)
Fix 'constraint' energy when loading state (0d27a68)
Safer xtc file handling