Simile verion 5.7 was released on 17th August 2010. We have made Simile more beautiful in a number of ways, but there are serious improvements to functionality too...

Simile v5.6 was released on 22nd December 2009. This release fixes a few problems that have come up as Simile starts to be used on machines using a wide variety of international character sets, particularly on the newer versions of Windows where these characters are more likely to occur in installatio directory names. We urge everyone who has had problems in the past with special characters to try installing the new version.

Simile version 5.5 was released on 21st August 2009. It is essentially a maintenance release, but incorporates some new features...

New constraint checking
 

Simile v5.5 contains some new checks that are applied when running a model to make sure it is consistent. These include:

The initial version of the Plant Systems-biology Modelling (PlaSMo) website is now online.  The website provides introductory information about the project.

What's new in Simile v5.4?

Simile v5.4 represents around eight months' worth of enhancements and bug fixes since the previous release.

Further refine the B-LINE 2 model of nitrous oxide emissions from fertilised grassland (developed in earlier joint projects between the University of Edinburgh and Simulistics Ltd.) to allow it to be applied to the emission of nitrous oxide from the very wet soils of riparian buffer strips that receive high inputs of nitrate in farm drainage waters – one of the manipulations within the Grassland part of NitroEurope Component 2 – using, as previously, the Simile visual modelling environment developed by Simulistics Ltd.

Simulistics Ltd was contracted by University of Wales, Aberystwyth in July 2008 to provide expertise in the declarative modelling of plant systems.

What's new in Simile v5.3?

Simile 5.3 is a maintenance release.

What's new in Simile v5.2?

Simile 5.2 is a maintenance release, which has been brought out early in order to make available some important fixes prior to some major work on loading and saving model data. Here is a list of some of the more significant improvements that have been made over Simile v5.1:

What's new in Simile v5.1?

Simile 5.1 is a maintenance release, fixing problems that emerged after the major change to Version 5, and also those arising on the increasingly popular Macintosh platform. Here is a list of some of the more significant improvements that have been made over Simile v5.0: