Biodiverse version 5.0 has now been released.
Versions for Windows and Mac are available and can be accessed via https://github.com/shawnlaffan/biodiverse/wiki/Downloads
Installation instructions are at https://github.com/shawnlaffan/biodiverse/wiki/Installation
For the full list of issues and changes leading to the 5.0 release, see https://github.com/shawnlaffan/biodiverse/milestone/18
This version includes a complete rebuild of the plotting engine (the maps, trees and matrices), as well as many computational efficiency improvements. The list of changes is summarised at https://github.com/shawnlaffan/biodiverse/wiki/ReleaseNotes#version-50
Version 5.0 contains 1120 source code commits across 199 files.
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Shawn Laffan
04-Nov-2025
For more details about Biodiverse, see http://shawnlaffan.github.io/biodiverse/
For a list of some of the analyses Biodiverse has been used for, see https://github.com/shawnlaffan/biodiverse/wiki/PublicationsList
You can also join the Biodiverse-users mailing list at https://groups.google.com/group/Biodiverse-users or start a discussion at https://github.com/shawnlaffan/biodiverse/discussions
