Biodiverse 5.99_002 development release

 A new development release of Biodiverse (version 5.99_002) is now available.  

This is the second 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 a few minor stability updates, bug fixes and performance improvements when compared with 5.99_001.  Basedatas with groups defined using a single text axis are also plotted as a grid, greatly improving visualisations in the GUI.

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

A set of links to the new documentation system is at https://biogeospatial.github.io/ 

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Shawn Laffan

30-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