Dear DIRAC users,
We are happy to announce the release of DIRAC22,
the latest version of the DIRAC code for 2- and 4-component relativistic molecular electronic structure calculations.
A full list of features, enhancements, optimizations, and bug fixes of DIRAC22
compared to DIRAC21 is found here :
http://diracprogram.org/doku.php?id=features
Our documentation pages
http://diracprogram.org/doc/release-22/
contain a number of new tutorials and are continuously updated.
This is the first open source DIRAC release where we distribute the code
under the GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 to simplify
and encourage sharing and publishing of derivative works :
https://gitlab.com/dirac/dirac/
You can download a tarball of the code directly from the Zenodo web site :
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6010449
Users are encouraged to join the user’s mailing list :
http://groups.google.com/group/dirac-users
For proper citation of DIRAC22, please consult
http://www.diracprogram.org/doku.php?id=citation
Please note that we recommend citing the particular version of DIRAC that you are using,
as well as the general paper https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0004844
On behalf of the DIRAC team,
Hans Jørgen Aagaard Jensen
Radovan Bast
André Gomes
Trond Saue
Lucas Visscher