We have released a shiny new minor version of RAFCON, 0.13.0. The biggest news: You can now use RAFCON with both Python 2 and 3, plus the GUI is now implemented with GTK+3 (instead of GTK+ 2).

Thus, you can now freely choose your preferred Python interpreter. Thanks to the future, all interpreters share the same code base.

With GTK+ 3, styling the GUI is now much easier for us, as we can use SASS and CSS. We used the new freedom to provide you a second theme, namely a light theme (see image below)! Out thanks here also goes to Interaktionswerk, the company that provides the design templates for us. GTK+ 3 allows for better integration with the window manager, as it e.g. offers a HeaderBar and custom window decorations, while still being able to resize the window along the borders. GTK+ 3 uses gobject-introspection, reducing the amount of dependencies. We also decided on dropping the old graphical editor that was using OpenGL.

The new light theme of RAFCON

Of course, there are many more new features. For example, RAFCON now install a *.desktop file, so that it is added to the application menu.

In the RAFCON repository, you can now also find a CITATION.cff file, which provides all the information necessary (including a DOI) to cite our software, e.g. in a paper.

Furthermore, lots of bugs have been fixed!

So do not hesitate and update your RAFCON installation. If you find any bugs, please file them to our issue tracker.