First GitHub Release Notes
This is the first version release created and tagged on GitHub, corresponding to a second PyPI release after v0.10.0; although the SIPFENN software has been developed since 2019 by researchers at Penn State. It had 8 internal releases followed by the public release of v0.9.0 along with 2022 paper titled [***Extensible Structure-Informed Prediction of Formation Energy with improved accuracy and usability employing neural networks*** (10.1016/j.commatsci.2022.111254)](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.commatsci.2022.111254) published in Computational Materials Science.
Major Changes:
The v0.10.0 has brought many changes, including:
- Translation of all code into pure Python, including structure featurization code.
- PyPI packaging
- New featurization code (KS2022) with up to x10 speed improvement; especially useful for ordered compounds.
- New featurization code (KS2022_dilute) working only on dilute structures (both pure elements and compounds) with up to x50 speed improvement.
- General improvements in the handling of models and data
- Many more in 70+ commits
**Full Changelog from v0.9 to 0.10 Only**: https://github.com/PhasesResearchLab/pySIPFENN/commits/v0.10.1
These changes will be described in a journal article in the near future, which will appear in the **README.md** after its publication.