Release notes for 2.8.x releases

• July 04th 2001 Marvin 2.8.7. Bugfix: NullPointerException in MViewPane.setM.
• June 29. Marvin 2.8.6. Cut & Paste from/to ISISDraw works. Corina (non-standard) SDfiles can be imported. Table/Options related bugs fixed.
• June 26th 2001 Marvin 2.8.5. Bugs fixed: MolConverter, setBackground call in beans.
• June 25th 2001 Marvin 2.8.4. BeanInfo and serialization fixes. Table/Options in MarvinView improved. Improved SDF to SMILES conversion with MolConverter.
• June 22nd 2001 Marvin 2.8.3. Copied molecules can be pasted as images into other programs (applications and beans, Java 1.4 and Windows only). Table menu in MarvinView (application). Initialization file improvements in Marvin Beans.
• June 18th 2001 Marvin 2.8.1. Improved sticks. Optional ball radius and stick diameter. Molecules can be converted to Image objects. API for import module creation.
• June 12th 2001 Marvin 2.8
  • 3D Sticks.
  • Aromatization and dearomatization.
  • Bonds can be regenerated from atomic coordinates, with user specified cut-off length.
  • Workaround for interpreting SMILES string of biphenyl-type molecules specified without an explicit single bond.
  • Other improvements since version 2.7.6:
    • "Ball & Stick" rendering style.
    • Antialiasing (Java 2 only).
    • JPEG, PNG, PPM: image and animation saving (applications and beans), command line image creation (MolConverter).
    • Text component for tables.
    • Applets can preload and cache molecule files.
    • GZIP compressed molecule file creation with MolConverter.