[PyMOL] PyMOL 1.7.6 released

[Thomas H. <tho...@sc...>]

Greetings,

We are happy to announce the release of PyMOL v1.7.6.0! Official PyMOL sponsors can download ready-to-use installers from http://pymol.org/download . The open-source code has been pushed to sourceforge svn (revision 4121). This release is mostly a code refactoring release, fixes bugs and memory leaks, and adds some graphics features to Incentive PyMOL.

Open Source and Incentive PyMOL
- Warn user if setting a setting on the wrong level
- Better shader support with Intel graphics chips
- Complete port of scenes from Python to C++. Improves scene recall performance.
- Adaptive cartoon quality and sampling, depending on number of atoms
- Reduced memory footprint and session file size of atom data
- Expose “reps” to iterate/alter
- Expose “protons” to iterate/alter
- New setting "pse_export_version"
- Changed default of "pdb_conect_nodup" setting
- Removed unused or obsolete settings:
    use_display_lists
    simplify_display_lists
    excl_display_lists_shaders
    cylinder_shader_ff_workaround
    cylinders_shader_filter_faces
    gl_ambient

Incentive PyMOL only
- Order independent transparency for real-time rendering (transparency_mode=3)
- ChromaDepth: Rainbow coloring by depth (setting: chromadepth)
- Experimental Retina resolution support in MacPyMOL (Display > Retina Resolution)
- Major reorganisation of shader management

Find the complete release notes on:
http://pymol.org/d/media:new176

We welcome any feedback and bug reports.

Cheers,
- The PyMOL Team at Schrödinger

-- 
Thomas Holder
PyMOL Principal Developer
Schrödinger, Inc.