What’s new in NEURON 7.8

• Easier installation on macOS and Linux; just use: “pip3 install neuron”

• More reaction-diffusion integration: PlotShape.plot support, h.distance, node in sec

• Increased support for Python graphics packages

  • PlotShape.plot and RangeVarPlot.plot both gained support for plotly; RangeVarPlot.plot also gained support for plotnine

• New, optional mechanism syntax and introspection; mechanism descriptions now displayed in ModelView

  • h.hh.insert(h.allsec()) and soma.insert(h.hh)

  • h.hh.code, h.hh.file, help(h.hh)

  • If the nmodl module is installed: h.hh.ontology_ids, h.hh.ast, h.hh.ions

• Cleaner mod-file pointer setting syntax

• Gui redirect support for routing legacy graphics to an interviews alternative

• Support for cmake compilation in addition to autotools

• Compilation flag for using 2019 SI unit values (off by default)

• Miscellaneous bug fixes and optimizations

Possibly breaking change (but very rare in practice):

• SectionList iteration does not change the currently accessed section; use section methods or sec= instead