What’s new in NEST 3.4

This page contains a summary of important breaking and non-breaking changes from NEST 3.3 to NEST 3.4. In addition to the release notes on GitHub, this page also contains transition information that helps you to update your simulation scripts when you come from an older version of NEST.

If you transition from a version earlier than 3.3, please see our extensive transition guide from NEST 2.x to 3.0 or release updates for previous releases in 3.x.

Documentation restructuring and new theme

NEST has a new theme! We did a major overhaul of the layout and structure of the documentation. The changes aim to improve findability and access of content. With a more modern layout, our wide range of docs can be discovered more easily. The table of contents is simplified and the content is grouped based on topic (neurons, synapses etc) rather than type of documentation (e.g., ‘guides’).

Renaming calibrate to pre_run_hook

The function calibrate(), used in many models, is now renamed to pre_run_hook() to better describe what the function does.