Release Schedule.

Next minor release, 4.82, is likely shortly after MUG. This will be a patch release to 4.81, with a few new features.

4.82 Details:

• Bug fixes.
  • Transform tmap problem.
  • Better spiro handling of stereo.
  • Buffer overflow in licensing.
  • Xvmerlin dblist bug.
  • Documentation cleanups.
  • 64-bit toolkit memalign issue.

• New:

  • Property calculation package.
  • http toolkit-based smi2gif.
  • 2D coordinate handling in xvthor/xvmerlin.

4.8x+ Ideas:

• General:
  • Daliserver (serve network addresses; floating licensing)
  • Additional daycgi replacements.
    • General Thor query/viewer
    • General Merlin query/viewer
    • Replacement db-specific applications (acd, wdi, medchem).

• Oracle:
  • Optimizer; support for CLOB, better statistics, user-tuneable?
  • Unified database model for commercial databases in Oracle.
  • Distribution of commercial databases in Oracle.
  • Partitioned tables, indexes.

• Toolkits:
  • PC Toolkit / Daycart for Windows2K, XP.
  • Conversion toolkit.
  • Multithreading in toolkits, merlinserver.
  • SMILES/SMARTS/SMIRKS unification.
    • Hydrogen handling
    • Stereochemistries
  • Depictions

Other areas to Discuss:

• Contrib:

  Contrib is an area that we want to address. It's gotten more complex and cumbersome over time. We will be reorganizing it; hopefully to simplify it's use and make the code more accessible.

  • Tutorial programs and examples,
  • Useful utilities and cool functionality not appropriate for toolkit layer,
  • User contributed code.

• Discontinuing support for some tools:

  Remote toolkit, Monomer toolkit and tools.

• New platforms??

  Where is the industry going, anyway?