Biodiverse 5.99_001 development release

A new development release of Biodiverse (version 5.99_001) is now available.  

This is the first development release leading to version 6.  

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

This version includes the ability to visualise label and tree branch ranges as polygons, as well as many computational efficiency improvements and GUI updates.  The list of changes is summarised at https://github.com/shawnlaffan/biodiverse/wiki/ReleaseNotes#version-5xx

For the full list of issues and changes leading to the 6.0 release, see https://github.com/shawnlaffan/biodiverse/milestone/23

Much of the documentation has now also been ported to a quarto book system.  This is much more readable than the wiki system that was previously used.  

A set of links is at https://biogeospatial.github.io/ 

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Shawn Laffan

19-Jun-2026 

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://biogeospatial.github.io/biodiverse-publication-list/ 

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