ANNOUNCE

On behalf of the cclib development team, we are pleased to announce the release of cclib 1.8, which is now available for download from https://cclib.github.io. This is a major update that includes Julia bindings (https://github.com/cclib/Cclib.jl), two new parsers (NBO and GAMESS dat files), several new attributes and multiple other improvements and fixes.

cclib is an open source library, written in Python, for parsing and interpreting the results of computational chemistry packages. It currently parses output files from 16 different programs: ADF, DALTON, Firefly, GAMESS (US), GAMESS-UK, Gaussian, Jaguar, Molpro, MOLCAS, MOPAC, NBO, NWChem, ORCA, Psi4, QChem and Turbomole.

Among other data, cclib extracts:

    * results of SCF, post-Hartree-Fock, TD-DFT and other calculations
    * coordinates, energies and geometry optimization data
    * information about atomic and molecular orbitals
    * vibrational modes, excited states and transitions
    * charges, electrostatic moments and polarizabilities
(For a complete list see https://cclib.github.io/data.html).
cclib also provides some calculation methods for interpreting the electronic properties of molecules such as:
    * Mulliken, Lowdin, Stockholder type, Bader and other population analyses
    * Overlap population analysis
    * Mayer's bond orders
(For a complete list see https://cclib.github.io/methods.html).
For information on how to use cclib, see our documentation at https://cclib.github.io.
If you need help, find a bug, want new features or have any questions, please send an email to our mailing list:
    https://groups.google.com/g/cclib
If your published work uses cclib, please support its development by citing the following article:
    N. M. O'Boyle, A. L. Tenderholt, K. M. Langner, cclib: a library for package-independent computational chemistry algorithms, J. Comp. Chem. 29 (5), 839-845 (2008)
You can also specifically reference this version of cclib as:
    Eric Berquist, Amanda Dumi, Geoffrey Hutchison, Karol M. Langner, Oliver S. Lee, Noel M. O'Boyle, Felipe S. S. Schneider, Adam L. Tenderholt, Shiv Upadhyay. Release of cclib version 1.8. 2023. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8280878
Regards,
The cclib development team
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Summary of changes since last version:
* Added Julia language bindings
* Added parsers for NBO and GAMESS *.dat files
* New attribute: nmrcouplingtensors for NMR spin-spin couplings
* New attribute: rotconsts for rotational constants
* New method: CM5 charges
* Many improvements and fixes - see CHANGELOG for details