Milestone 1.3

Approximate Schedule

• September 15 - November 1, 2021: First release candidate
• November 2021: Fixing bugs in release candidates, until 2 weeks with no new fixes.
• November 29, 2021: Production release.

New Features

Selection Inspector

copy/combine structure models

Loop modeling

Render By Attribute

Auto-notification of new production releases, include UUID for grant reporting

Toolbar customization - making new tabs

• use bundle_info.xml for new tabs
• allow users to create new tabs (besides customizing Home)

Mechanism for Toolshed bundles to provide their own documentation.

• integrated command and tools documentation
• integrated file format documentation
• API documentation

AlphaFold search and predict tools

Scale Bar command and gui (#4306)

Documentation

Two new tutorials - what topics?

All new tools and commands documented.

Infrastructure

Update Python 3.8 to 3.9 (#4661)

Update all PyPi and other third party packages to latest releases.

macOS 12 (Monterey) build

Updates to ChimeraX Download page (#5247)

Move blastprotein service from Opal to REST

Rewrite blastprotein GUI in Qt (#5194)

Move alphafold BLAT service from cgi script to REST (#5223)

Check RBVI server for ChimeraX updates