Dear NEST Users!

It is a great pleasure to inform you that we have released NEST 3.6 which brings a number of exciting enhancements in particular

• Support for astrocytes and a first astrocyte model
• A new glif_psc_double_alpha model
• Much improved performance, especially for highly threaded simulations
• Improved security for NEST Server
• Minor changes to the volume transmitter syntax and to rarely used kernel attributes
• Many tests ported to pytest and modernized
• Lots of minor improvements and bug fixes

For more information, see

- https://nest-simulator.readthedocs.io/en/v3.6/whats_new/v3.6/index.html

- https://github.com/nest/nest-simulator/releases/tag/v3.6

I would like to thank all NEST developers who contributed to this release and the NEST release team, especially Dennis, for making this release a reality.

Best wishes straight from the Bernstein Conference in Berlin,

Hans Ekkehard

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Prof. Dr. Hans Ekkehard Plesser

Department of Data Science

Faculty of Science and Technology

Norwegian University of Life Sciences

PO Box 5003, 1432 Aas, Norway

Phone +47 6723 1560

Email hans.ekkehard.plesser@nmbu.no

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