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 -- 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<mailto:hans.ekkehard.plesser@nmbu.no> Home http://arken.nmbu.no/~plesser