• XMDS version 1.5.3 was released on 19/09/2006
• XMDS version 1.5.2 was released on 27/05/2005
• XMDS version 1.5-1 was released on 05/07/2005. (News item added 10/08/2005)
• XMDS version 1.4-1 has been released. Several new features have been added, see the changelog for details. The documentation has also been updated. (News item added 14/03/2005)
• XMDS version 1.3-5 has been released. This is essentially a bugfix release of xmds. Many bugs found over the last little while have been fixed, including a misformed xml tag when producing binary output, and the number of samples can safely be zero without causing potential conflicts with Fourier transforms. Many other tidying tasks have been done and the configuration has been improved a bit. As many system() calls have been removed from xmds as possible to make it more platform independent. Also fixed issues found by using the -ansi and -pedantic flags to gcc. (19/07/2004)
• The documentation has been updated to the current version of xmds (version 1.3-4). This includes mention of the new noise sources and how to specify them using the 'kind' attribute of the <noises> tag, and how to generate a new simulation script by using the --template flag to xmds. Other general textual improvements have been made as well. (17/06/2004)
• XMDS version 1.3-4 has been released. Release 4 of xmds-1.3 fixes a parsing bug found when using the <noises> tag. It also adds some functionality in terms of command line option parsing of both xmds and the xsil2graphics utility program; see xmds --help and xsil2graphics --help for more information, or the man pages or the pdf version of the documentation. There are now man pages available for xmds, xsil2graphics and the loadxsil.m utility script, which are installed when one does a 'make install'. The loadxsil.m script is also now installed when a 'make install' is performed. Three more example simulations have been added; two from biology, and one from electronics. (17/06/2004)
• XMDS version 1.3-3 has been released. This release has added new noise sources, specifically a faster gaussian noise routine (temporarily called gaussFast, it is set to replace the current routine), a poissonian noise routine, and a uniform noise routine. These noise routines are specified in the tag via the type attribute. e.g 2 . A problem with loadxsil.m's parsing of .xsil files has been fixed. The parsing was broken when the and tags were deprecated. The problem has now been rectified, and the script seems to work properly. Two new examples have been added. A van der Pol oscillator (electrical circuits) and the Lane-Emden equation from astrophysics. (31/05/2004)
• XMDS version 1.3-2 has been released. This release gives more informative output when running xmds on a script file. More examples have been added, and the current examples improved. An option to output a template when xmds is called with the -t flag has been added and should help those writing a simulation from scratch. (12/05/2004)
• XMDS version 1.3-1 has been released. This is to formalise the new features added and the bug fixed. Also to advertise that xmds works in Cygwin on Windows and that more examples have been added and commented better and the API documentation has been improved. (23/12/2003)
• XMDS can now be used on Windows. If you have a Windows computer and wish to use xmds you can install the Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com) environment, and xmds can be installed and used within this environment in exactly the same way it is used on Unix and Linux. At this stage it would be best to install Ocatave (http://www.octave.org) first into Cygwin (but NOT using the pre-prepared binary, you have to build it yourself) and then you can be sure that everything is set up so that you can build xmds. (22/12/2003)
• New features added. Preferences, binary input, and a fix of an xsil2graphics bug. See the xmds-devel update for more details. (17/12/2003)
• XMDS version 1.2-2 has been released. This is a bugfix release of xmds-1.2. We found problems with hostname and home directory determination with mpi, and the way that the tag was implemented, these of course have been fixed. Grab xmds-1.2-2 from the downloads page, or from sourceforge.net. (7/12/2003)
• XMDS version 1.2 has been released! Grab it from the downloads page, or from sourceforge.net. (25/11/2003)
• Pre-release 1 is now available. Download xmds-1.2-pre1 from the downloads page. (07/11/2003)
• We aren't far away now! There don't seem to be any bugs, so we should be able to do a pre-release soon. Check out more of what's been happening in the XMDS update 2003-11-06. (06/11/2003)
• XMDS-1.2 is not far from release. No more features are being added, and we are currently bug stomping. More info is available in the XMDS update 2003-11-04. (04/11/2003)
• The MAPLE Stochastic Package in Germany have even found out about XMDS. (30/10/2003)
• XMDS mentioned on the Scientific.ru discussion forum in Russia! (19/10/2003)
• Further development has been happening, see the XMDS update 2003-08-08 for more. (08/08/2003)
• XMDS has some new features added, see the XMDS update 2003-07-27 for details. (27/07/2003)
• Version 1.1 of XMDS released - get it from the downloads page. Several bugs fixed, and now has the ability to use MPI for deterministic problems. A supercomputer (NOT a cluster) is recommended for problems that require this feature! (16/06/03)
• Even biologists seem interested! XMDS gets a mention on cellml.org, see it here (25/03/2002)
• XMDS now has mailing lists you can subscribe to at SourceForge. There are three lists:
  • xmds-users : for asking questions about using XMDS.
  • xmds-announce : to keep up to date with the latest releases, bug fixes, etc.
  • xmds-devel : for people interested in the XMDS code.
  Click here to subscribe via a web interface (14/03/2003).
• XMDS is now a SourceForge project. For the development version please visit here (05/02/2003).
• Minor bugs fixed, download updated version 1.0-2 here (05/02/2003).
• Version 1.0-1 released (29/08/2002).
• XMDS appears on xml.com. See the article here (07/02/2002)